We regularly update this page with available funding from Idox-Grantfinder and other sources we think might interest the organisations we support.

Please see funding opportunities with deadlines below:   

The Elephant Trust

Has small grants available to artists, small organisations and galleries to enable artists and those presenting their work to undertake and complete projects where they are frustrated by a lack of funds. The grants are usually up to £2,000 but are occasionally up to £5,000.

Priority is given to artists in the fine arts and small organisations and galleries who submit well argued, imaginative proposals for making or producing new work or exhibitions.  

Previously successful applicants should leave a minimum of two years before reapplying for help with a new project. Deadline 19 October 2025.

Loved and Wanted Fund

The Mayor of London is offering grants of up to £60,000 for venue-based not-for-profit organisations across London to develop and deliver a programme of work to engage with local communities and promote social cohesion as part of the Loved and Wanted campaign.

The Loved and Wated Fund aims to create a London-wide network of community spaces that offer activities that:

• Build relationships among Londoners from different community and faith backgrounds.
• Increase the number and visibility of spaces where Londoners can go to feel more loved and wanted.
• Help every Londoner to participate fully in community life.
• Better identify and address pressures within communities, particularly where those relate to social justice and community participation.
• Strengthen regional interfaith cooperation and engagement on community-building.

To apply, groups should be constituted, have been operating in the same local area for the past five years, have an annual turnover of between £100,000 and £10 million, and work with or within different communities impacted by financial hardship, social exclusion, or structural inequalities.

Funding can be used to cover direct project costs such as volunteer expenses, professional fees, and marketing, as well as a contribution towards organisational overheads (up to 30%).

There is a two-stage application process. Groups must first submit an online expression of interest before being shortlisted to complete a full application. Deadline 19 October 2025.

The Linnean Society

Is offering grants for community organisations linked with young people to deliver projects and activities that engage young people with local nature and natural spaces and improve their understanding of local biodiversity.

Community groups and other organisations working directly with children and young people aged 16 and under can apply for funding for a variety of activities, such as:

• Running a school festival about nature.
• Painting community murals showcasing biodiversity in the area.
• Building or restoring a community garden.
• Creating a nature walk.
• Hiring a speaker to come and talk about local foraging.

The maximum award amount is £1,000. However, groups are encouraged to apply for significantly lower amounts.

Grants can be used for materials, room hire, publicity, speakers, trainers, freelancers, project-specific staff costs, audio-visual equipment hire, reasonable volunteer expenses, transportation, or other costs associated with activities or events. Deadline 25 October 2025.

Edgar E Lawley Foundation

Has small grants available for general charitable purposes within the categories of Hospices, Children & Young People, Elderly, Community, Disabled and Medical Research/Other. Its area of benefit is to any charity or not for profit organisation within the United Kingdom.

The Foundation’s preference is to award unrestricted grants to smaller charities and not for profit organisations.

In a normal year they can fund around 100 to 125. Their 2025/2026 grants programme will amount to £150,000- £200,000, with a typical grant being in the region of £2,000 per successful applicant.

Successful applicants will be advised in November or December 2025 and grants made no later than March 2026. Deadline 31 October 2025.

Home Instead

Has Small Grants available for Winter Activities to Help Reduce Social Isolation for Older People (UK).  The UK’s leading provider of home care, Home Instead Charities’ mission is to end loneliness for ageing adults. The organisation exists to bring happiness and joy into the lives of Britain’s ageing population so that ageing adults are thriving, not just surviving.

To this end, they offer funding to support local community events that enhance and enrich the lives of people over the age of 55 to combat loneliness and sometimes isolation ensuring they stay fit, active, healthy and connected and contributing to their local communities.

There are two levels of funding:

• Grants of up to £500 for small grass roots organisations.
• Grants of up to £1,500 for small local registered charities. Larger grants can be considered for exceptional projects.

The funder will only fully fund a grant request where the applicant holds no more than three months operating costs in reserve. For organisations that have more than this, up to 50% of the project costs will be funded.

The grants can be used for:

• Regular weekly or monthly events and activities such as weekly cinema club, weekly knit and natter or Thursday lunch club.
• One off activities such as a day trip or a Christmas lunch.
• Activities such as yoga or a guest speaker for the group such as a local historian.                                Deadline 31 October 2025.

Skipton Charitable Foundation

Is offering grants of up to £10,000 to support UK registered charities from across the UK who are serving people in the top 50% of the UK Index of Multiple Deprivation.

The funding is to help people experiencing hardship and/or underserved groups to:

• Access a place to call home with the following target outcomes:
  • Access and support into a safe and secure permanent place to call home – supporting charities that enable people most in need to live independently.
  • Access and support into a safe and secure temporary home in times of crisis. Enabling people into temporary accommodation in emergency situations such as homelessness, palliative or end of life, or for those experiencing domestic abuse.
• Improve financial wellbeing with the following target outcomes:
  • The support needed to prevent and/or address financial difficulty. Support for charities who provide help and guidance on how to manage money and improve financial wellbeing.
  • Access to financial education. Support for charities whose work will support financial independence and education.

The Foundation will consider funding core costs, project costs, and small capital contributions. Deadline 31 October 2025.

Edge Fund

Is offering grants of £1,000 to support grassroots communities and campaign groups working to create long-term change in society by addressing the causes of injustice and inequality.

In the current Roots Funding round, a total of £50,000 is available for grassroots groups with an annual income of less than £5,000 working to address Islamophobia, Afriphobia, racial injustice, and the legacies of British colonialism in the UK and Ireland. 

Priority will be given to:

• Work with the primary objective of creating long-term change in society by addressing the causes of injustice and inequality.
• Addressing issues facing a particular community and groups that are led by that community.
• Small groups with a small annual income that struggle to get funding elsewhere, particularly if other funders might consider them to be too radical. 

In this round, the fund will only receive 100 applications and will close early if this amount is reached before the deadline. Deadline 2 November 2025.

The Leeds Building Society Foundation

Is offering grants to UK registered charities for projects which address one or more of the following themes:

• Financial stress - projects that help with bills or debt stress.
• Security and refuge - projects that support emergency accommodation.
• Quality and suitability of housing.
• Health and wellbeing support for those experiencing homelessness if it is part of wraparound support and the application also meets at least one of the other themes.

Applications are welcome from those who take a Housing First and/or relationship-based approach. Applications should show evidence of:

• Strength-based practice
• Trauma-informed care
• Psychologically informed environments.

UK registered charities with a turnover of less than £1 million based anywhere in the UK can apply for small grants of between £250 and £1,000.

The funding is to be used for projects that support those in need of a safe and secure home. Grants are only for capital expenditure (that is, to purchase items used to directly help those in need).

Applications will be considered at the early December meeting. Deadline 3 November 2025.

Warburtons

Through its Community Grants programme, the family run bakery business Warburtons provides a limited number of grants of up to £400 four times a year. Applications are currently being accepted for projects starting in Winter 2026.

Not-for-profit organisations with charitable purposes that are based and working in England, Scotland or Wales can apply as long as their projects are addressing one of Warburtons' priority areas:

• Health - supporting families to care for each other and lead healthier lives:
  • Improving physical health
  • Improving wellbeing
• Place - supporting families to flourish in communities that are safer, greener and more inclusive:
  • Making spaces safe and inclusive
  • Connecting communities with the environment
• Skills - supporting families to gain useful skills for life and work:
  • Developing useful life skills
  • Developing useful skills for employment.

Grants can be used to cover specific costs that will benefit the cause (eg, purchasing equipment to support an employability project). Deadline 4 November 2025.

Social Investment Business

With funding from the UK Government, is offering grants of between £5,000 and £100,000 (per site) for youth organisations to improve youth facilities in priority areas across England.

In this round, funding is for capital equipment to help youth organisations better support the young people they work with. The project must meet at least one of the fund objectives:  

• Improving the reach of activities provided.  
• Improving the safety of existing youth facilities.  
• Improve the youth sector’s capacity and quality to deliver a range of enrichment activities.  
• Improving the financial sustainability of youth facilities.

Capital equipment, including vehicles, that is not routine maintenance, repair, or like-for-like replacement, is eligible for funding. Eligible costs include:

• The equipment purchase cost.
• All costs necessary to bring the equipment to working condition for its intended use, which can include delivery and handling, site preparation, installation, and related professional fees for architects and engineers.

Individual items of equipment must be £2,000 or greater in value. Multiples of identical items with a cumulative value of £2,000 or greater purchased in a single transaction are also eligible. Different items can be grouped to meet the £2,000 threshold if they are interdependent. Deadline 6 November 2025.

The Common Ground Resilience Fund 

Was recently launched to support local places, and a key part of this is promoting the important role of the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector.

The UK government’s Common Ground Award will invest capital funding into VCSE sector organisations that are bringing people together from different backgrounds, supporting the cost of constructing or renovating facilities, or the purchasing of equipment to deliver services.

Type of grant: Competed

Who can apply: The grant is open to applications from VCSE organisations with a base and operating in England, with charitable, benevolent or philanthropic purposes.

Funding available: Up to £1.7 million capital funding within the 2025/2026 financial year, distributed in payments of up to £10,000 per successful applicant. Applicants will be able to set out how capital investment could be scaled up beyond £10,000, which may be considered in exceptional cases - where there is a clearly demonstrated need, supported by a strong application. Deadline 21 November 2025.

Ockenden International Prize 2026

Ockenden International is a UK based charity that has been helping refugees and displaced people across the globe for more than 70 years. It launched its International Prize in 2012.

The 2026 competition offers five awards of £25,000 each to registered charities with existing projects/programmes that have been successful in improving the lives of refugees and/or internally displaced people. Four awards are for projects taking place anywhere in the world. The fifth award is for projects within the UK.

The judges are looking for projects primarily from small-to-medium-scale organisations that promote self-reliance among refugees and/or internally displaced people.

These may be projects that are led by or have a high level of participation from displaced people themselves; projects providing education, legal assistance and/or livelihood assistance; or any other projects that help refugees and/or displaced people build stable, independent lives.

Entries for the UK Prize, a new prize introduced in 2025, must be projects operational on the ground in the UK with the primary focus of the project entered demonstrably advancing the self-reliance of refugees and/or asylum-seekers living in the UK. Last year, the Happy Baby Community 'Starting Well' was awarded the first UK Prize.

The project or programme entered must have been established and operational for a minimum of six months (ie, before 1 March 2025) to be eligible for the 2026 Prizes.

The prize money can be used to help refugees and/or displaced persons and/or asylum-seekers in need as well as core funding such as administrative overheads supporting such projects. It is anticipated that, in general, prize money will be used to continue, extend and/or support the project referred to in the entry or for a similar future project run by the organisation. Deadline 30 November 2025.

The Hospice UK’s Dying Matters Community Grants Programme, supported by Dignity Funerals

Offers grants to UK hospices for innovative and creative arts and culture projects, events and activities that focus on opening up conversations about dying, death and grieving with communities across the UK who are traditionally less likely to be reached by hospice care and the Dying Matters campaign.

This year’s funding aims to support hospices to build new partnerships, particularly with arts and cultural organisations to reach new and diverse audiences.

Applications should be made by hospices in partnership with local groups/community organisations who can help the hospice to reach one of the following groups who the hospice has traditionally struggled to support:

• Ethnic minorities.
• People experiencing homelessness.
• Imprisoned people.
• LGBT+ people.
• People living in remote and rural areas.
• People living in poverty, deprivation and with lower socioeconomic status.
• People living with learning disabilities.

Proposed projects should approach the subject of death in an innovate and culturally relevant way through arts and culture. There is a total budget of £40,000 with project grants of between £5,000 and £10,000 (an increase of £2,000 from the previous round). The grants can help cover project costs, including, for example:

• Artist fees
• Exhibition / Installation costs
• Materials
• Facilitator costs
• Translation & Marketing
• Refreshments
• Craft materials
• Sound and Light
• Venue Hire

The lead applicant must be a hospice based in the UK and a member of Hospice UK. This includes adult hospices and children’s hospices. Deadline 5 December 2025.

Help the Homeless Accepting Applications for Winter Grants

This small grant maker provides grants of up to £5,000 for capital projects that help homeless people return to the community and rebuild their lives. Funding is targeted at projects to find practical ways to help disadvantaged individuals return to the community through training or residential facility provision, rather than merely providing short term shelter.

The reasons for being homeless vary enormously, but may include ill-health, those who are discharged offenders, addictions, family breakdown or other adverse circumstances.  Homelessness is not just about the people that the public sees and thinks about – principally “rough sleepers” living on the streets – but a whole range of people who lack a stable home.

The scheme will only fund capital costs. It will not fund core and running costs, computers or IT equipment. UK registered charities with an annual turnover of under £500,000 can apply. Deadline 15 December 2025.

National Lottery Awards for All England - Environment

The National Lottery Community Fund (NLCF) is inviting applications to its new National Lottery Awards for All England – Environment fund from 25 June 2025. Not-for-profit organisations can apply for grants of between £300 and £20,000 for up to two years.

The funding is for projects that meet one or both of these aims:

• Help people connect with and care for nature in their area. (Projects that help people engage with good-quality, accessible nature close to home.)
• Make a positive difference to the environment. (Projects that help care for the environment and respond to climate challenges.)

The funding can be used to:

• Start a new activity or continue an existing one.
• Help organisations adapt to new challenges.
• Run one-off events that have a clear environmental benefit.

All projects must benefit the local community and involve local people from the start.

The funding can support a variety of costs to help the project succeed. These include:

• Running costs for the organisation
• Help from a nature organisation
• Equipment
• One-off events with a clear environmental impact
• Staff and training costs
• Transport and utilities
• Volunteer expenses
• Small land or refurbishment projects

Deadline 17 December 2025.

Sovereign Network Group (SNG)

Is offering grants of between £1,000 and £7,500 for groups operating in SNG communities across South England to create sustainable, inclusive communities that people are proud to live in. The Strengthening Place Grants Programme will support projects and activities that align with the following priorities:

Community Safety:

• Innovative approaches to tackling anti-social behaviour.
• Crime reduction.
• Safer neighbourhoods.

Environment and Sustainability:

• Driving local, long-term environmental improvements.
• Supporting local nature recovery.
• Promoting community-led climate action and enhancing biodiversity.

Health, well-being, and social inclusion:

• Creating healthier, more inclusive communities.
• Supporting intergenerational connections.
• Encouraging young people to achieve their goals and plan for the future.
• Promoting mental and emotional well-being (including creative and holistic approaches).
• Encouraging healthy lifestyles through sport and physical exercise.

This fund is part of SNG’s Thriving Communities Fund, which aims to support not-for-profit groups and organisations to deliver cohesive, sustainable, and resilient communities.

The deadline for applications is 30 January 2026 or until all funding is fully allocated. 

Heritage Revival Fund

Is currently accepting applications for projects that will help to rescue and repurpose neglected historic buildings, like theatres, department stores and former banks. It will do this by supporting community organisations, charities and social enterprises to take ownership of these sites, transforming them into vibrant spaces that meet local needs. The programme will be delivered by the Architectural Heritage Fund and will be open to charities and social enterprises in England seeking to take ownership of and adapt historic buildings for community uses. The Heritage Revival Fund will offer advice and grants to charities and social enterprises, supporting projects from the earliest stages through to capital works, with funding available for feasibility studies, development of business plans and drawings for architectural adaptations, as well as the costs of acquiring and renovating buildings. Deadline 31 March 2026.

Grocer's Charity Grant

Has one-off grants available to small UK registered charities for work in the specific areas of: relief of poverty, disability and inclusion, the elderly, health, military, environment and conservation, and the arts and heritage. Deadline 01 September 2026.