Here’s a round up of funding opportunities we’ve shared via our newsletter and on social media.
- West Midlands Combined Authority – Community Recovery Innovation Challenge: A brand new competition for bright ideas that help people in our communities to get through this pandemic and beyond. The Community Recovery Innovation Challenge will provide three top projects with up to £15,000 in investment and coaching. There will also be cash prizes and support for an additional > More Details
- The Anchor Foundation: Provides grants of between £500 and £10,000 per year to Christian charities that encourage social inclusion through ministries of healing and the arts. Funding can be awarded for up to three years. The Foundation will consider applications for either capital or revenue funding. > More Details
- Asda Foundation Supporting Communities Grant: With further lockdowns in place across the nation, the grant has been designed to support communities in three broad areas, which are aimed to meet local needs: Food, Hygiene & Wellbeing. > More Details
- Aviva Community Fund: Aviva has launched the next round of its Community Fund. Aviva have teamed up with the fundraising platform Crowdfunder to offer funding of up to £50,000 to small charities, schools and community interest groups in the UK with innovative ideas that benefit their community. > More Details
- Fareshare’s Surplus with Purpose Fund: Food production businesses in England with surplus food can apply for up to £50,000 worth of funding to help them reduce their food waste. The Fund aims to offset the additional costs faced by companies seeking to redistribute their edible surplus food to frontline charities and community organisations who can use it to create meals for their service users. > More Details
- Hilden Charitable Fund – Funding for Community Based Projects: Grants of an average of £5,000 to causes working at community level in the UK which are less likely to be able to raise funds from other sources. Current UK funding priorities are Homelessness, Penal affairs, Asylum seekers and refugees & Community-based initiatives for disadvantaged young people aged 16 to 25. > More Details
- Magic Little Grants 2021: Online fundraising platform Localgiving, together with the Postcode Community Trust, have announced that this year’s Magic Little Grants programme will reopen for applications on 1st March. Small charities and community groups can apply for grants of up to £500 to launch or strengthen their services. > More Details
- Severn Trent Community Grants: From 2020 ST are giving away more than £10 million over the next five years to support new projects by local charities and community groups in the region – helping to make a real and tangible difference to the communities. The fund is overseen by a Community Fund Panel made up of customers who review applications and so, ultimately, it is the customers who decide where the money goes. More Details / Register now for our Meet The Funder Workshop
- Volant Trust Covid-19 Response Fund: Accepting applications from registered charities, community interest companies, community organisations or social enterprises in the UK that demonstrate a strong focus on alleviating social deprivation and helping vulnerable groups who have been particularly impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. > More Details
- Warburtons Community Grants Scheme: Charities and organisations with charitable aims can now apply for up to £400 worth of funding for projects that have a direct and tangible social impact on families and solve significant social issues. > More Details
- WV Holiday Squad Funding for activities in the Easter Holidays: Grants are now available for voluntary and community organisations wishing to put on Easter holiday activities for children and young people in the city. > More Details
- Women Thrive Fund to Support Women’s Organisations During the Covid-19 Pandemic – Deadline: 25th March 2021. Grants are available to enable women and girls to improve their mental health and wellbeing and/or improve their financial resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic. > More Details
- Masonic Charitable Fund Early Years Opportunities Group – Deadline: 31st March. The Early Years Opportunity Grants programme is open to charities that help disadvantaged children and young people (up to the age 25 years) overcome the barriers they face to achieve the best possible start in life. > More Details
- Social Investment Business Resilience and Recovery Loan Fund – Deadline: 31st March. In response to coronavirus, Social Investment Business have launched a Resilience and Recovery Loan Fund for social enterprises and charities which have been adversely impacted by the pandemic. The £25 million fund provides emergency loans of between £100,000 and £1,500,000. > More Details
- Severn Trent Community Grants: From 2020 ST are giving away more than £10 million over the next five years to support new projects by local charities and community groups in the region – helping to make a real and tangible difference to the communities. The fund is overseen by a Community Fund Panel made up of customers who review applications and so, ultimately, it is the customers who decide where the money goes. > More Details
- The Pixel Fund: Grants are available for UK-based charities and community interest organisations to support projects that promote the mental health and wellbeing of children and young adults. > More Details
- Baring Foundation – Arts and Mental Health Programme: Grants are available to arts organisations in the UK for projects that promote the role of creativity in the lives of people with mental health problems from ethnically diverse backgrounds. > More Details
- Arnold Clark Community Fund: The fund aims to help UK charities and local community groups continue their important work which may be at risk due to the coronavirus pandemic. > More Details
- Lloyds Bank Foundation Opens 2021 Funding Programme: Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales reopened its grants programme this week with £9.5 million in funding for small and local charities. > More Details
- Second Round of Green Recovery Challenge Fund Open: The £40 million second round is part of the UK Government’s wider green economic recovery, jobs and skills package. It seeks to award grants to environmental charities and their partners across England to create and retain jobs while restoring nature and tackling climate change. The fund is being delivered by the National Lottery Heritage Fund in partnership with Natural England, the Forestry Commission and the Environment Agency. > More Details
- Impact Hub King’s Cross is seeking ethical food businesses to join Feeding the City: Accelerate. This 6-month programme will help social or environmental-driven food enterprises reach the next stage of growth and scale their impact. > More Details
- Government u-turn on business grants signals millions more for charities > More Details