Funding - Kingston Voluntary Action

We regularly update this page with available funding we think might be of interest to the organisations we support. Scroll through funding with deadlines and find rolling programme funding opportunities below.

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Funding opportunities - with deadlines

Youth Sector Innovation Incubator

Invites Youth sector charities and civil society organisations in England to apply to take part in a funded project designed to help shape new digital approaches to improving social cohesion among young people aged 16 and 17. CAST (the Centre for the Acceleration of Social) and NCS (National Citizen Service) are working together to deliver this programme which will support nine youth sector organisations from across England. The programme is intended to enable organisations to explore one of the three challenges around creating greater social cohesion, particularly through digital products and services aimed at 15-17 year olds in school years 11 and 12. Deadline 19 September 2024.

The D’oyly Carte Charitable Trust

Supports registered charities working in the arts, health and medical welfare, and improvement or protection of the environment.The Trustees favour small-scale, locally based initiatives. They generally award up to £6,000 to support core costs and projects. deadline 24 September 2024.

Support for Serving Families Programme

Grants of between £5,000 and £15,000 are available for projects that will help to mitigate the impact of long or frequent involuntary separation for families, spouses, and serving personnel, including reservists and their families. Deadline 25 September 2024.

Imperial Polythene

Is offering grants of up to £1,000 for charities, charitable incorporated organisations (CIOs), and community interest companies (CICs) across the UK to deliver projects and activities that benefit local communities across the themes of environment, sustainability, creativity, and local problem-solving.Through the Imperial Community Impact Fund, a total of £10,000 is available annually for projects that drive meaningful change through environmental conservation, creative community participation, and solving pressing local challenges. To apply, groups must have an annual income of between £25,000 and £500,000 in their latest set of accounts. Deadline 26 September 2024.

Shaftesbury Young People (SYP) Trust

Is offering grants between the range of £5,000 and £10,000 for not-for-profit organisations to deliver projects that benefit young people aged between 11 and 18 across Greater London. Deadline 27 September 2024.

Voluntary and Community Sector Grant Funding

Is available for organisations providing support to the community such as: Nutritional meals for residents, espectially clinically vulnerable residents (following NICE guidelines); Warm/Community Spaces for residents to attend; Provision of household equipment to help with keeping warm, eg. electric blankets, hot water bottles and thermos flasks. Applications welcome from April - September 2024.

The Winter Engagement Fund

Up to £500 funding is available to support local community and voluntary organisations to run activities, talk to communities about winter health and wellbeing and collect their experiences about their health and care. Deadline 30 September 2024.

Go! London

The Mayor of London, in partnership with London Marathon Charitable Trust and Sport England, is offering grants of up to £40,000 for up to two years for not-for-profit organisations with an annual income of less than £500,000 per year to deliver sports and physical activities for children and young people from low-income families across London. Priority will be given to running, walking, or cycling projects. Deadline 30 September 2024.

The Hedley Foundation

Is offering grants to smaller charities operating across the spectrum of social need in the UK. Deadline 2 October 2024.

Embedding Prevention of Veteran Suicide Programme

Has funding available for projects that will enable systemic change and long-term, sustainable impact in supporting Armed Forces Veterans with poor mental health, their families, and those who are caring for or supporting them. Two levels of funding are available: Grants of up to £50,000 for projects last one year; Grants of up to £100,000 for projects lasting two years. Projects should start by January 2025. Deadline 2 October 2024.

Heathrow Community Trust Projects for Young People

Has grants of up to £15k per year available. The focus of the fund is to improve young people’s lives by increasing their resilience, raising aspirations and breaking barriers to employment. Deadline 3 October 2024.

The Arts Award Access Fund

Grants of between £100 and £1,500 are available to help registered Arts Award centres that are experiencing a lack of funds. The programme is active in arts centres, colleges and schools, community projects, libraries, galleries, local authorities, theatres, youth clubs and youth justice settings. Deadline 4 October 2024.

Sovereign Network Group (SNG)

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. Deadline 9 October 2024.

Alzheimer’s Research UK’s Inspire Fund

Has grants available of up to £5,000 per project to new applicants from across the UK.
The funding is for projects that meet both of the following core criteria: Projects must engage with underserved audiences on the topic of dementia, such as minority ethnic communities, marginalised or socio-economically disadvantaged people; Build knowledge and understanding about brain health (in the context of dementia risk reduction) and explore ways to encourage behaviour change. Deadline 14 October 2024.

Neighbourhood Community Infrastructure Levy

Has funding available, which local community groups, residents’ associations, registered charities, infrastructure providers and charitable companies as well as council departments and other public sector organisations can access in order to fund/part fund local infrastructure projects. Deadline 15 October 2024.

Kingston First Town Centre Community Fund 2025

The Kingston First Town Centre Community Fund will return for 2025 with applications opening in October 2024. This year the fund has grown, with £30,000 available to local businesses, charities and communities organisations to support projects that have a positive impact on the town centre, support local businesses and promote positive community engagement. You can find out more about what was funded in the previous window here.

You can register your interest and you will be contacted when applications open and any other details related to the process.

IT4Good Grants, through the WCIT Charity

Is offering grants of up to £15,000 for educational establishments and not-for-profit organisations across the UK to support IT projects and 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. Deadline 31 October 2024.

The DWF Foundation

Has grants of up to £5,000 available to registered charities with initiatives that develop and improve local communitites, such as: tackling a specific community issue; helping voluntary and community groups become more effective and efficient; encouraging the involvement in the community of those too often excluded; enabling young people to develop skills for the benefit of the community. Deadline 31 October 2024.

The Linder Foundation

Invites charities to apply for funding to deliver projects that bring about genuine social change in their commmunities. Deadline 31 October 2024.

Screwfix Foundation

Is offering grants of up to £5,000 to local registered charities and not-for-profit organisations for projects which improve a physical building (or land attached to it) that is used by people in need. Deadline 10 November 2024.

Greene King IPA Brewery

Is offering grants of up to £4k to support grassroots sports clubs to deliver activities within their local communities. They will prioritise sports clubs or projects that benefit members of the community and projects that will have a long-term impact. Deadline 10th November 2024.

Cash4Clubs is a grant programme funded by Flutter UK & Ireland, part of Flutter Entertainment

Has grants of up to £2,000 available for not for profit organisations, charities, community groups and traditional sports clubs from across the UK and Ireland delivering activities to adults (18+) with priority given to applications focused on 18 to 25 year olds. The funding can be used for anything that will support the organisation to continue and/or grow their activities in their local community and should be spent within a six-month period. Deadline 12 November 2024.

The Tree Council

Is offering grants of between £250 and £2,500 for schools, constituted community groups and charities, community interest companies, Tree Warden networks, and other organisations across the UK to deliver tree-planting projects during the 2024/25 Winter planting season (between the end of November 2024 and early February 2025). Deadline 1 December 2024.

International Tree Foundation

Is offering grants for community-based organisations across the UK to deliver tree-planting projects that protect and restore indigenous trees and woodlands, support community engagement in tree planting, and increase awareness of the importance of trees and forests to environmental and human well-being. Deadline 13 December 2024.

Barclays Community Football Fund

Grants of £500 are available for not-for-profit groups in the UK to help improve access to football for all by running football activities for underrepresented groups. Deadline December 2024.

The Wolfson Foundation

Is offering grants to charitable organisations and educational establishments in the UK for capital initiatives, ie buildings (new build or refurbishment) and equipment. Deadline December 2024.

Arnold Clark

UKs largest independently run car retailer, have three funds that are currently available:

Gear up for Sport

Providing funding for sports kits to support youth sports teams. Any type of sport youth team. Up to 30 members age range 4-15.

Cost of Living Fund

Offers grants up to £2,500 to registered charities and other notfor-profit organisations located within 50 miles of an Arnold Clark Branch. The nearest branches to Kingston are Heathrow, Wembley and Chertsey. Eligible projects should focus on working directly with those most affected by the cost-of-living crisis. E.g., foodbanks, accommodation, poverty relief and where people/communities are the primary and immediate focus of investment.

Our Communities Support

For organisations who provide services which are widely accessible to those within their local communities and address the needs of people living with them, supporting them to a better future.

Deadline for all Arnold Clark funds is 31 December 2024.

Funding opportunities - rolling programmes

Community Hub Grants Programme

Has grants between £100 - £500 available for projects or activities that require space to share special interests (i.e. knitting, chess) or offer an opportunity for learning or skill transfer (i.e. creative writing, language). Funds to be used to deliver a project, not salaries or general services. Ongoing.

Leathersellers' Small Grants Programme

Has funding available for charities and Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs) registered and operating in the UK to deliver activities to meet an identified need for vulnerable members of the community. You should have a planned expenditure of under £200,000 during the financial year in which you are applying for funding and at least one year’s published accounts. Ongoing.

Legal & General

In partnership with the UCL Institute of Health Equity (IHE), has launched a £3mn ‘Health Equity Fund’ to support community-based initiatives across the UK that address the social determinants of health. The Fund is open to receiving expressions of interest from organisations with projects or ideas for projects for implementation in any part of the UK. Grants of up to £75,000 per project are available. Projects could range from funding for projects that enable children living in areas of deprivation to live healthier lives to community programmes which address the social determinants behind pressures on A&E services, ways to improve housing to support better health of the occupiers, or partnerships raising awareness of the contribution the natural environment makes to health and wellbeing. Ongoing.

Football Foundation - Funding for Goal posts

Grassroots football clubs, charities, community and voluntary groups, local authorities and other
not-for-profit organisations in England can apply for grants of up to £25,000 to purchase new or replacement goalposts. Ongoing.

The Federation of Independent Retailers (The Fed)

Has announced the availability of emergency grants for members whose businesses have been damaged by recent riots in towns and cities across England and Northern Ireland wth the aim to provide financial assistance to members in need of urgent support.
These grants are part of a broader range of support measures the Fed is offering to those impacted by the disturbances. In addition to the financial aid, members can access guidance on making insurance claims, legal advice, and information on other sources of help and support.
Eligible members can apply for a one-time grant of up to £1,000. To qualify, members must be located in areas that have experienced rioting.

Protective Security for Mosques Funding Scheme

Is accepting applications from Mosques and associated faith community centres from across the UK to cover the provision and installation of security measures to keep their place of worship safe. They can also apply for some security guarding services, where they feel security guards will improve the safety of their site and those worshipping there.

BBC Children in Need Emergency Essentials Programme

Supports children and young people who are facing exceptionally difficult circumstances, and is delivered by Family Fund Business Services. The programme provides items that meet a child’s most basic needs such as a bed to sleep in, a cooker to provide a hot meal and other items or services critical to a child’s wellbeing. All applications must be made by a registered referrer. Ongoing.

The Albert Hunt trust

Has grants available to local registered charities in the UK that provide hospice care, provide support for the homeless or promote health and wellbeing. Ongoing.

Trust for London

Is offering grants of around £40,000 to £80,000 per year for up to five years for charitable work across London that addresses economic and social injustice across the city. The Trust will support work that helps to create a fairer London through achieving the aims laid out in the new 2030 Funding Strategy. Ongoing.

Alpkit Foundation

Grants are available to community groups, schools and other not-for-profit organisations for projects that tackle issues such as diversity and inclusion in the outdoors, participation, education, conservation and protection of the natural environment and health and well-being. Ongoing.

Barchester Healthcare Foundation

Is offering grants of up to £2,500 for small community groups and local charities across England, Scotland, and Wales for projects that help reduce isolation and loneliness, promote group activities, and generally improve mobility and quality of life for older people and adults with physical, learning, or mental disabilities. Funding is intended to help small community groups and local charities with the following: Activities; Equipment and materials for use by members; Member transport; Day trips, outings, and group holidays in the UK. Priority will be given to innovative projects that help older people and those with a disability to get active, meet people, and reduce isolation. Ongoing.

Sport England

Is offering grants of between £300 and £15,000, crowdfunding pledges, and resources to improve physical activity opportunities for the people and communities who need it the most across England. The funding is intended for local not-for-profit groups and organisations whose projects promote physical activity, including active travel, walking, cycling, dance, fitness and sporting activities. Priority will be given to projects where there is the most need. Ongoing.

Material Focus

Is offering grants to communities across the UK to reuse and recycle small household electricals. A total of £750,000 is being made available in 2024 to support two types of projects: Growing existing services – grants of up to £100,000 for projects that grow existing collection methods for small electricals. This could community drop points in libraries and other community locations, adding cages under refuse collection vehicles, bring banks/WEEE banks; Innovating new methods – grants of up to £50,000 to come up with new approaches to repair, reuse and/or recycle electricals, for example, collection points at large offices/campuses, drop-offs at post offices, major supermarkets, large shopping centres, retail parks, collection of waste electricals using the return journey/spare capacity during collection/delivery of parcels, or projects that support tackling the growing concerns around digital inclusion. Ongoing.

Morrisons Foundation

Is offering grants of up to £10,000 to registered charities in England, Scotland and Wales for specific projects that help to improve people’s lives. To be eligible, projects must address at least one of the Foundation’s funding objectives of: Tackling poverty and social deprication; enhancing community spaces, facilities and services; improving health and wellbeing. Ongoing.

National Lottery Heritage Fund

Grants are available to support projects of up to five years that care for and sustain heritage in the UK. This could include nature and habitats, historic buildings and environments, or cultures, traditions and people’s memories. Applications for grants of between £10,000 and £250,000 are open all year round. Applications for more than £250,000 have quarterly application deadlines. Ongoing.

Community Ownership Fund

Is accepting expressions of interest from community groups to buy or renovate assets that would otherwise be lost to the community. Voluntary and community organisations from across the UK can apply as long as they are an incorporated organisation set up to deliver charitable purpose, social purpose or public benefit and have a viable plan for taking ownership of a community asset at risk and running it sustainably for community benefit. this is the fourth and final round. Ongoing.

Biffa Award

Is giving grants to Community Projects near Landfill sites. Ongoing.

Benefact Trust Building Improvement Grants Fund

Is offering grants to support capital works to protect and enhance Christian church and charity buildings, ensuring their continued use and viability, and the safeguarding of their heritage. Ongoing.

Skipton Charitable Foundation

Is offering grants of up to £6,000 to UK registered charities whose objectives are to: Benefit children and adults particularly those living in socially deprived areas, through education to develop core skills and support wellbeing and mental health; Benefit the wellbeing and welfare of children and adults by preventing or reducing poverty and homelessness in the community; Support the elderly and improve their wellbeing by reducing isolation, helping reduce the effects of Dementia and Alzheimer's and support later life/palliative care. Ongoing.

The Cruach Trust

Is offering Grants 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. Ongoing.

The Leathersellers' Foundation

Is offering grants to support the work of registered charities in the UK. Ongoing.

The True Colours Trust

Is offering grants of up to £10,000 for registered charitable organisations with an annual income of less than £350,000 across the United Kingdom. to deliver projects that work to improve the lives of disabled children and young people up to the age of 25, children and young people with life-limiting conditions, and their families. Ongoing.

The Willowtree Foundation

Is offering grants to people and their families who are living with Blood Cancer. Ongoing.

The UK Fund (The National Lottery)

A fund supporting organisations that want to do more to help communities come together and help create a better-connected society. Ongoing.

Percy Bilton Charitable Trust

Funding is provided to UK registered charities whose primary objectives are to assist one or more of the following groups: Disadvantaged/underprivileged young people, people with disabilities and older people. Ongoing.

City Bridge Foundation

Aimed at a wide range of organisations. Applications can be submitted at any time. The Grants Committee meets six times a year to consider applications. Ongoing.

British Gas Energy Trust

If any of your beneficiaries are struggling with increased utility bills, they should be encouraged to apply for this grant. Only individuals and families can apply and they need to apply.

Cash for Kids Cost of Living grant

The charity helps children and young people (up to 18 years old) affected by poverty, neglect or those living with additional needs. Ongoing.

British Gas Energy Trust Offering Fuel Poverty Grants

In response to the cost-of-living crisis and energy price cap increase, the independent charitable trust is currently providing two funds: Individuals and Families Fund and British Gas Energy Support Fund. No official deadline but will be cancelled once fund runs out.

Hodge Foundation

Grants are available to UK registered or exempt charities for projects that address the objectives of the Foundation which are welfare, education, medical treatment and research and religion. Ongoing.

Gosling Foundation

For charities and non profit organisations with an income of less than £30m working with young people, in education, health and with Royal Marines. Ongoing.

Ovo Energy Fund

Supports OVO customers who’ve fallen behind with their energy payments to OVO. You must be in receipt of: Income Support, Job Seekers Allowance, Pension Credit, Employment and Support Allowance, or Universal Credit (but only if not working). Ongoing.

Mercers Company and Philanthropy

Grants are intended to support charitable organisations with community-led projects that 'will make a real difference in people's lives' and which address the Foundation's priorities within its three funding programmes.

The Clothworkers' Foundation

Has grants available to UK registered charities working in the UK in one of the following areas: communities experiencing racial inequalities, disabilities, domestic and sexual abuse, economic disadvantage, homelessness, LGBT+ communities, older people facing disadvantage, prison and rehabilitation, substance misuse and addiction, and young people facing disadvantage. Ongoing.

Matthew Good Foundation

Grants are available of up to £3,500 for local community groups, charities, voluntary groups and social enterprises in the UK for projects that have a positive impact on communities, people, or the environment. Ongoing.

National Lottery Community Fund - Reaching Communities

Large grants are available to voluntary and community organisations in England for projects that make positive changes in their communities. The grant value is discretionary and ongoing. The following webinars are being run to explain the latest details: 29 July 2024 (14:00); 29 July 2024 (14:00); 6 August 2024 (15:00).

Tesco Bags of Help Bags of Help

Tesco’s local community grant scheme where the money raised from the 5p bag is used to fund local projects in communities right across the UK. Ongoing.

Pilgrim Trust

Two levels of grants are available for projects in the UK concerned with heritage preservation and social welfare, especially improving the life chances of vulnerable members of society (particularly women and girls). Grants are up to £5,000 and beyond. Ongoing.

Home Instead charities

Grants of up to £1500 are available for grass roots community groups and charities addressing mental health and isolation in older people in the UK. Ongoing.

Hargreaves Foundation

Grants up to a discretionary amount are available for charities and educational institutions that support those under the age of 18 years, and living with a mental health condition, disability or growing up in poverty through the mediums of sport and education. Ongoing.

Ernest Cook Trust

Grants are available to registered charities, schools and not-for-profit organisations in the UK for educational projects that will encourage young people's interest in the countryside and the environment. Grants of up to £15,000 are available. Ongoing.

Goldsmiths Charity

General charitable support - Grant support of up to £30,000 is available for projects addressing prisoner resettlement, youth and an ageing population. Currently, only prisoner resettlement activities are considered. Ongoing.

Henry Smith Charity

Main Grants - Grants are available for registered charities, social enterprises and constituted charitable groups to help people in the UK when other sources of support have failed, are inappropriate, or are simply not available. Ongoing.

Barrow Cadbury Trust

Criminal Justice Programme - The Criminal Justice Programme aims to support projects that will strengthen the evidence base for practical, structural change to the criminal justice system to account for the distinct needs and contexts of young adults, women and Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities. Ongoing.

Toy Trust

The funding is intended for UK based children's charities who are working for the benefit of disadvantaged children under the age of 13 years and their families. Ongoing.

London Housing Foundation

The London Housing Foundation (LHF) supports organisations who work with homeless people, or work to prevent people becoming homeless. Ongoing.

Sporting Capital Fund

Sporting Capital is a social investment fund operating with the objective of helping organisations that make a difference by developing people and communities through sport. Ongoing.

Allen Lane Foundation

The Foundation makes grants to voluntary not-for-profit organisations in the UK for work which benefits groups of people who are under-represented in UK society. Ongoing.

Veterans' Foundation

The aim of the Foundation is to help charities and other organisations that support serving and former members of the British Armed Forces, and sometimes their dependants, who are in need. Ongoing.

Displacement Education Grant

The new £1 million Displacement Education Fund has been launched to address the specific challenges that children and young people who have been displaced by conflict face in accessing quality education. Ongoing.

Big Local

The aim of the fund is to create empowered, resilient, dynamic and asset-rich communities making their own decisions on what is best for their area. This will involve forming a Big Local partnership and creating a plan unique to each community. Ongoing.

Lionel Wigram Memorial Trust

Funding is available for charities that are providing services for blind, deaf and disabled people in the UK. Ongoing.

Trust for London

Trust for London is an independent charitable foundation aiming to tackle poverty and inequality in London. Ongoing.

The Pixel Fund

Grants of between £500 and £5000 are available for registered UK-based charities and registered community interest organisations to support projects that promote the mental health and wellbeing of children and young adults.

London Marathon Trust

The London Marathon Charitable Trust awards grants for capital projects that inspire and increase the numbers of people regularly taking part in physical activities.

The Kingston Lottery

The Kingston Council has launched the ‘Kingston Lottery’, which aims to raise money for local charities and community groups. Ongoing.

London Marathon Trust

The London Marathon Charitable Trust awards grants for capital projects that inspire and increase the numbers of people regularly taking part in physical activities.

Kingston Charitable Trust

The Kingston Charitable Foundation is providing an average of 3 x £500 grants with an emphasis on getting timely help to small, Kingston-based charities.

The Mrs Smith & Mount Trust

Grants are available to registered charities in the East of England, South East and London in the areas of: Mental Health; Learning Disability; Homelessness; and Community Youth Services.

Tesco Community Grants

Eligible organisations can apply online for a grant, applications are assessed and shortlisted. Every three months successful shortlisted applications are put into a customer vote in Tesco stores across the UK. Ongoing.

Stuart Halbert Foundation

Grants for projects that support disadvantaged people, animal welfare, the Armed forces or the local community. Ongoing.

Waitrose Community Matters

Each month every Waitrose branch donates £1,000 (£500 in convenience shops) between 3 local good causes that customers choose. Ongoing

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

Fund the charitable work of organisations that are building an inclusive, creative and sustainable society. Ongoing.

Garfield Weston Foundation

The foundation supports a broad range of charities and causes across the UK with small and larger grants. Ongoing.

Cranfield Trust

The Cranfield Trust is a national charity offering free business skills, advice and guidance to voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations. Ongoing.

LawWorks: the solicitors Pro Bono group

LawWorks is a charity working in England and Wales to connect volunteer lawyers with people in need of legal advice, who are not eligible for legal aid.

Groundwork One stop Community Partnership

This programme is designed to support community groups or organisations operating within two miles of a One Stop store and tackling food poverty, supporting the vulnerable, supporting the elderly, supporting low-income families or running youth sports teams. Ongoing.

Smallwood Trust

Open to women aged 18 or above, living in the UK, on a low income / not in work and in receipt of all benefits entitled to, or have no recourse to public funds, with savings under £2,000. Ongoing.

Sense Cost of Living Support Fund

To provide financial support to people with complex disabilities who live in the family home and are on low incomes. Ongoing.

Turn2us

Comprehensive list of grant givers to individuals and families. Ongoing

Community Chest funding

Cambridge Estate - Each year, £50,000 (£75,000 in the first year) will be put into the Community Chest to fund projects that Cambridge Road Estate residents support and value.

Hargreaves Foundation

Buttle Trust

Grants of up to £2000 available to enable vulnerable children and young people in the UK to overcome financial barriers preventing them from achieving their education, training or employment goals. Ongoing.

Matthew Good Foundation

Sobell Foundation

Grants are available to registered charities in England and Wales for causes benefiting children, the sick, elderly, needy and disabled. Ongoing.

Motability

Community Transport Grants - Grants for a maximum of three years available to charities and community groups to develop community transport. Ongoing.

Ernest Cook Trust

Will Charitable Trust

Grants are available to UK registered charities for activities in the UK that fall within the following categories: care of and services for blind people; long-term care of people with learning disabilities; and care of and services for people suffering from cancer. Ongoing.