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:

Asda Foundation’s Local Community Spaces Fund

Is inviting local grassroots community organisations with an income of less than £250,000 to apply to their new £1.25 million fund. Grants of between £10,000 and £20,000 are available for projects within the UK that meet at least one of the following objectives: Carry out essential repairs to enable the space to continue to function; Renovate an existing space to accommodate more users/activities; Create a new community space where groups can meet and undertake activities; Improve accessibility to, or within, a community building.

The funding can support a range of costs including but not limited to:

  • Kitchen and bathroom refurbishments.

  • Creation of a new permanent space.

  • Roof and floor repairs.

  • Building extensions.

  • Disabled access ramps to a community building Upgrades and replacements to windows and doors.

  • Boilers and heating.

  • Essential building security upgrades.

  • Transformation of a disused space into a functional space.

  • Removable items.

The Foundation must contribute at least 50% of the total project cost (up to £20,000) and can fund up to 90% of the total project cost. Projects must not start before September 2025 and must be completed by December 2026. Groups that have previously received an Asda Foundation Investing in Spaces and Places grant may not apply to this fund. Deadline 28 May 2025.

Lloyds Bank Foundation

Is offering 41 unrestricted grants of £75,000 over three years (£25,000 per year) with tailored development support to registered charities and community interest companies which are led by and working with people who are experiencing economic inequity because of the race or ethnicity.
The 2025 programme is open to small, local and specialist registered charities, charitable incorporated organisations (CIOs) and community interest companies (CICs) registered in England and Wales. Deadline 29 May 2025.

Metropolitan Public Gardens Association

Community organisations and schools in London can apply for small gardening grants. This charity preserves and improves gardens, neglected sites and green public open spaces in all 33 London Boroughs. Grants of up to £1,500 can be used for various projects, including planting, equipment purchase, benches, churchyard refurbishments, etc. In the past, grants have been awarded to Libraries, Churchyards, Parks and Gardens, Street Scenes, Hospitals and Hospices, Allotments, Community Gardens, Museums, Schools and Community Centres, many of which benefit the disadvantaged. Meetings of the Executive Committee occur four times a year when the applications are considered.  Deadline 31 May 2025.

Thames 21 Empower

Is offering Community groups and small charities in Greater London the opportunity to apply for grants of up to £20,000 to support volunteer-led river restoration projects and water quality monitoring initiatives. Eligible projects include small-scale river restoration activities such as creating berms, adding large wood habitats, removing toe-boards, and managing invasive species. Additionally, the grant supports water quality monitoring efforts, enabling citizen scientists to gather crucial data to identify pollution sources and inform remediation strategies. Deadline 2 June 2025.

Armed Forces Fund - Early Years Programme

Is offering grants of between £5,000 and £80,000 for projects which help enhance early childhood education and childcare settings of young children from armed forces families. Deadline 4 June 2025.

SPAR’s £100,000 Community Cashback Campaign 2025 Invites UK Entries

For a fourth year in a row, SPAR shoppers can apply for a grant of up to £10,000 for a local voluntary or community organisation or charity they feel deserves funding. Applicants for grants are open to UK residents (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland mainland only) aged 16 years or over.All applicants need to do is share the exceptional contribution that a local organisation has made to their local community and what the grant would be used for. The grants will be given based on the strength of the applicant’s story, the recipient’s levels of dedication to their community and the credibility of what the grant would be spent on and its impact for the local community. The following are not eligible for funding:

  • Individuals
  • Community Interest Companies with shares (CICs).
  • Community Interest Companies with guarantee that are less than two years old.
  • Profit-making organisations.

The short application form and Terms and Conditions can be found on SPAR’s website.  Once the closing date of 4 June 2025 has passed, SPAR will carry out a shortlisting process, where the successful organisations will be selected by SPAR, at SPAR’s discretion and so as to provide a broad representation across Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The proportion of the grant being allocated to each region shall be decided by SPAR once the successful applicants have been chosen. Deadline 4 June 2025.

The Hedley Foundation

Has grants available to smaller charities operating across the spectrum of social need in the UK. Deadline 4 June 2025.

The Mayor of London Shared Endeavour Fund

Groundwork London, in partnership with the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC), is accepting applications from registered charities, constituted community groups, and other not-for-profit organisations for the Sixth call of the Shared Endeavour Fund, to support innovative work in countering racism, hate, intolerance, extremism, and radicalisation.

In Call Six, a total of £875,000 is available across the following tiers:

  • Tier 1 (projects that take place in at least one London borough) - Grants from £10,000 to £30,000.
  • Tier 2 (projects that take place in three or more London boroughs) - Grants of £30,001 to £50,000.
  • Tier 3 (projects that take place in eight or more London boroughs) - Grants of £50,001 to £100,000.

Proposed projects should address at least one of the following priorities:

  • Help Londoners recognise and critically assess intolerant, hateful, and extremist messages, empowering them to reject harmful ideologies.
  • Support at-risk individuals in strengthening their psychosocial resilience against radicalisation.
  • Equip Londoners with the confidence and skills to safely challenge intolerance, hate, and extremism.
  • Provide training and support for educators, social workers, and other frontline practitioners to prevent intolerance, hate, and extremism.

Projects can tackle a broad array of ideological issues, including but not limited to far-right extremism (including White Supremacist and Neo-Nazi ideologies), so-called Islamist extremism (including DAESH and Al Qaeda inspired ideologies), and mixed, unclear and unstable extremism. Projects can work across the multiple harms driven by extremist ideologies, including, but not limited to, antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-minority hate, anti-LGBTQ+ hate, sectarianism, supremacy, and extreme misogyny.

Applicants for Tier 3 Grants must provide at least 50% match funding of the requested amount. Proposed projects should be completed by the end of March 2026.  Deadline 6 June 2025.

The Baring Foundation

Has grants of up to £90,000 available to support legal actions addressing racial injustice in the UK criminal justice system. The funding, provided by the Baring Foundation, targets projects that challenge discriminatory legislation, address police harm in schools, and counter the criminalisation of activism. Eligible organisations must be UK-based anti-racist entities with an annual income under £1 million, at least one year of accounts, and a history or plans for legal action. Grants can fund projects lasting up to 18 months (£50,000) or three years (£90,000) but exclude direct service delivery. Interested applicants must arrange an eligibility discussion by the 30th May 2025, before submitting their application by 11 June 2025.

The Energy Saving Trust

The Ofgem Energy Industry Voluntary Redress Scheme, known as the Energy Redress Scheme, is funded through payments from energy companies that may have breached rules. The Energy Saving Trust has been appointed by Ofgem to distribute the funding to charities. The grants can be used for capital or revenue funding and can provide up to 100% of the project cost.

Examples of the kind of activities that can be funded include: Engaging vulnerable consumers with energy issues and delivering energy advice and support that does not duplicate existing services; Installation of energy saving or renewable energy measures that cannot be funded from other sources; Training and education on energy issues that are targeted at supporting vulnerable consumers; Crisis support, linked to energy bills or the energy efficiency of a property, only as part of a wider energy advice project aimed at providing sustainable change for a client; Monitoring and evaluation projects. Deadline 11 June 2025.

Co-op Foundation’s Future Communities Fund 2025 to Open 15 May

Unrestricted grants are available to support not-for-profit organisations that are helping young people with experience of the youth justice system to re-build their lives and settle back into their communities within the UK. A total of £1.75 million is available for this round. Grants of up to £30,000 per year for five years (a maximum value of £150,000 over the five years) are available. It is anticipated that around 10 organisations will receive a grant. Deadline 12 June 2025.

Sovereign Network Group

Is offering grants of up to £10,000 for charitable organisations, housing associations, and local-level public bodies to upskill young people aged between 10 and 20 to become Wellbeing Champions and facilitate youth-led social action projects and activities addressing mental health and wellbeing in SNG communities across London and South England. In the third round of the SNG #iwill Fund 2.0 Wellbeing Champions Grants Programme, a total of £150,000 is available to upskill young people to improve their mental health and act as a mentor and support for others, including signposting, reducing negative stigma, and campaigning for mental health awareness. They will then lead the planning and delivery of at least one social action project to support mental health and wellbeing in local communities. Deadline 12 June 2025.

Wellbeing of Women

In partnership with Holland & Barrett, is offering grants of up to £5,000 to small, grassroots organisations and community groups to deliver health information and support to women, girls and people from underrepresented groups in the UK.  

Activities must focus on women’s health in one of the following areas: Periods; Menstrual health; Perimenopause and menopause.  Deadline 15 June 2025.

Quaker Housing Trust

Offers advice, support, grants and interest-free loans to small registered charities in England, Scotland and Wales to help them provide safe, decent and affordable homes for people of all ages who are ‘often in desperate need’ of housing.

The Trust currently offers two separate restricted funding programmes:

  • ‍Best practice grants of up to £6,000 for early in the development of a project to ensure the project reaches the highest possible standards. The grant is to pay for professional fees associated either with an environmental assessment or testing the feasibility of specific proposals to improve, expand or create new genuinely affordable rented housing.
  • ‍The Main Grants and Loans Programme to fund projects which create homes. Grants of up to £20,000 are available for capital projects for people with No Recourse to Public Funds. Loans of up to £30,000 (no grants) are for capital projects generating income from their tenants. Awards over £20,000 will require security against the loan.   Deadline 19 June 2025.
Barclays Community Sport Fund

Aims to reduce inequalities in sport – with a focus on football, tennis, and cricket. It replaces the Barclays Community Football Fund which closed to applications last year. The funding supports community groups and grassroots sports organisations who are working within the most deprived areas of the UK and are making sport more accessible to women and girls, as well as engaging people from other under-represented groups including people with disabilities, from racially diverse communities and from the LGBTQ+ community. Applications will be accepted from not-for-profit organisations including community groups, youth groups and traditional sports clubs. To be eligible, applicants must: Deliver football, cricket, or tennis activities for women and girls – or are applying for funding to start. Operate in an area of high deprivation. Only organisations located in or supporting people from IMD areas 1-3 are eligible to apply. Disability applications from groups that sit outside of IMD areas 1-3 will be considered as long as they groups offer activities for women and girls.The following funding is available:

  • Grants of £1,000 which can be split across football, tennis or cricket activities.
  • Female Coaches for Girls Grants (Football - £160 grant; Tennis - £200 grant; Cricket - £200 grant) to support coaching courses to help increase the number of female coaches delivering sport to girls.   Deadline 22 June 2025.
The 2025 Rosa Rise Fund

Is providing organisational development funding for Black and racially minoritised-led women’s and girls’ organisations across the UK. The Rise Fund was last available three years ago.
The funding will support organisational development work relating to areas such as strategy, governance, leadership, alliances and partnerships, funding, demonstrating impact and systems and processes. Two-year grants of between £10,000 (£5,000 per year) and £40,000 (£20,000 per year) are available.

Rosa will be hosting two ‘How to Apply’ webinars to help groups develop their applications:

  • 5 June (12:00 to 13:00)
  • 10 June (16:30 to 17:30)

The registration links can be found on Rosa's website.

Deadline 23 June 2025.

Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust

Is providing grants of up to £100,000 for projects that address the unique challenges UK servicewomen face. To be eligible, projects must meet one of the four following outcomes: Serving women – either as a preventative measure or at times of crisis – can choose activities and/or find advice that reduces risk and negative impact to their wellbeing; Physical health support for servicewomen is enhanced through comprehensive initiatives that address their unique needs and are complementary to statutory services.; Mental health and wellbeing support for servicewomen is strengthened through targeted initiatives that address their unique needs and are complementary to statutory services; Provision of comprehensive education on servicewomen’s health challenges – to inform accessible, effective, and long-term solutions.  Deadline 25 June 2025.

Cycling UK

Is offering voluntary groups and not-for-profit organisations across England grants to deliver cycling projects aimed at adults who are either not currently cycling or cycling less frequently.Through the Big Bike Revival Programme, grants of up to £3,500 are available for groups to deliver events that use the ‘fix-learn-ride’ model. Deadline 14 July 2025.

Funding to Connect Communities to Nature (UK)

Charities, social enterprises, community groups, voluntary organisations, small grassroots groups and businesses who are working to connect their communities to nature can apply now for a grant of up to £5,000. The funding is intended to encourage nature connection initiatives within the local community, such as:

  • Arts and cultural activities.
  • Community gardening.
  • Green gyms.
  • Eco anxiety and mental health.
  • Training a community with green skills.
  • Conservation volunteering.
  • Urban nature programmes.
  • Social prescribing.
  • Access to nature.
  • Community wildlife surveys.
  • Nature mindfulness.

Applicants must be entirely based in the UK and have a website or social media presence. Deadline 15 July 2025.

The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund

UK charities, voluntary organisations, and schools can apply for grants to help children and adults suffering from severe learning difficulties and autism. Funds can be used to purchase equipment, support capital works as well as cover project and core costs.  The next deadline for applications seeking funding over £9,000 is 1 August 2025. Applications for £9,000 and below can be submitted at any time. 

WCIT Charity

Has grants of up to £15,000 available for educational establishments and constituted not-for-profit organisations across the UK to support IT projects and activities. They will support activities within the themes of education, inclusion, IT for charities, and understanding of IT, such as the development and delivery of new services, solutions, training, apps, analytics, AI, robotics, or accessibility features/hardware. 

Projects that are more likely to be funded include:

  • Projects where WCIT is a material or sole funder.
  • Projects where WCIT is the sole funder of the IT component of a larger project.
  • Organisations that could benefit from pro bono support.

Deadline 18 August 2025.

The Inman Society

Has grants available of up to £5,000 for Registered charities based in the UK and working in the areas of medical research; care of the elderly; general welfare; hospices; the deaf and blind; care of the physically & mentally disabled; and the Armed Forces. Deadline 31 August 2025.

Kelly Family Charitable Trust

Registered charities that work to tackle family problems or problems facing one or more of its members can apply for grants of up to £5,000. The trust prefers to support charities whose income is below £500,000. However, larger charities with pioneering pilot projects will be considered. Grants are available for revenue, core and capital costs and awarded twice a year; the next application closing date is 1 September 2025.

Philip Henman Trust

Is offering UK-based charities working overseas the opportunity to apply for  grants of up to £25,000 for projects that benefit some of the most deprived people and communities in the developing world. The funding can be awarded over 3 – 5 years as grants of between £3,000 and £5,000 per year. Previous awards have been made to Cool Earth for providing safe sanitation for indigenous rainforest villages in Papua New Guinea, Point Foundation for supporting community-based living for the disabled in Rwanda, and Just a Drop, a school water and sanitation project in Kenya. Applications are considered once a year. Deadline 10th September 2025.

The Cruach Trust

Has grants available to charities and other organisations to support gardeners, retired gardeners and the preservation of gardens throughout the United Kingdom. Additionally, funding can support a wide range of activities. Deadline 12 September 2025.

The Different Foundation’s ‘AI for All’ Funding/Mentoring Programme Opens for UK Applications

The Different Foundation, a charity registered in 2024, 'exists to embrace diversity, empower the underrepresented, and shape an inclusive future'. 'AI for All' is the Foundation's 'flagship programme' which offers one-off grants of up to £2,500 and four hours of specialised mentorship with respected leaders in AI. This mentorship provides practical guidance to enhance impact, improve programme delivery, and strengthen organisational capabilities. The funding is intended to promote access and opportunity for members of underrepresented and diverse communities in AI innovation. It supports organisations committed to diversity in technology. The current focus is addressing digital bias, elevating diverse voices, and developing AI that works for everyone. Applications will be accepted from UK registered charities, based and working within the UK, with a turnover of between £150,000 and £1.15 million and one to ten employees. There will be two funding rounds in 2025 and two rounds in 2026.

The first round opens for applications on 1 May and closes on 30 June 2025.

The second round opens 1 August and closes 30 September 2025 for the December 2025 grant round.

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.