Monthly Funding Update 15th March 2022
Funding Categories:
NEWS & Covid-19 UPDATES
ARTS & CULTURE
BUSINESS & ENTERPRISE
CHILDREN & FAMILIES
COMMUNITY FUNDING
ENVIRONMENT & CONSERVATION
GENERAL FUNDING
HEALTH
LAND & PROPERTY
SPORT FUNDING
YOUNG PEOPLE
1. NEWS & Covid-19 UPDATES
National Heritage Memorial Fund - COVID-19 Response Fund
Grants are available to community and public sector organisations in the UK for projects to protect nationally important heritage assets that are at risk due to the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19).
Deadline: 30 April 2023
https://www.nhmf.org.uk/funding/covid-19-response-fund
North Berwick Trust -Local Grants
The fund is available for organisations who operate within North Berwick or residents in need. The Trust currently awards around £250,000 in grants through its bi-annual grants rounds. The next grants round will be open for general grant applications fromWednesday 30th March 2022 at 12 noon. Applications are welcome from North Berwick organisations, charities and individuals. Grants of up to £30,000 are available for projects and initiatives that deliver against the Trust’s funding themes. Grants are available up to £30,000.Grants and Funding | North Berwick Trust
Volant Charitable Trust - COVID-19 Response Fund
Grants are available to UK charities that demonstrate a strong focus on alleviating social deprivation and helping vulnerable groups who have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
Deadline 31 July 2022
https://www.volanttrust.org/how-to-apply-covid-19/
Culture and Business Fund Scotland (CBFS) COVID-19 Recovery & Renewal Strand
Grants between £1,000 and £40,000 to enable collaboration between businesses and arts and heritage organisations based in Scotland to support all sectors in their recovery and renewal in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Deadline: 31 March 2024
https://www.culturebusinessfund.scot/
Hardship Fund for Fund for Creative Freelancers
One-off awards between £500 and £2,000 are available to support freelance creative professionals working in the arts, screen and creative sector in Scotland who are experiencing immediate financial difficulty due to the loss of income as a result of COVID-19. A second tranche of funding (£4m) will open to applications at 2pm on Wednesday 2 March and will remain open for as long as funds are available.Deadline: Ongoing
https://www.creativescotland.com/funding/funding-programmes/hardship-fund-for-creative-freelancers
Arnold Clark Community Fund Winter Edition
Grants up to £1,000 are available for UK registered charities and other not-for-profit organisations who need financial assistance due to the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic.
Reopening: March
https://www.arnoldclark.com/community-fund
National Emergencies Trust (with Crowdfunding) – Local Action Fund
A maximum of £10,000 of match funding per organisation is available for not-for-profit groups and organisations in the UK who can raise their initial funding through a crowdfunding campaign to help them get back on their feet after the challenges of the pandemic.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/local-action-fund
2. ARTS & CULTURE
Museums Galleries Scotland - Community Stories Fund
Grants of between £500 and £5,000 are available for not-for-profit organisations and community groups to take part in Scotland’s Year of Stories 2022.
Deadline: 18 March 2022
https://www.museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk/funding/year-of-stories-2022-community-stories-fund/
Music for All - Community Project Funding
Grants of up to £1,500 are available to community groups that aim to bring musical projects to their local communities.
Deadline: 01 April 2022
https://www.musicforall.org.uk/apply-for-funding/community-project-funding/
Steel Charitable Trust
Grants between £10,000 and £25,000 are available to charities in the UK working in the areas of arts and heritage, education, environment, health, or social and economic disadvantaged.
Deadline: 20 April 2022
https://steelcharitabletrust.org.uk/
Radcliffe Trust
Grants between £2,500 to £7,500 are available for UK charities, not-for-profit and Exempt organisations working in the areas of music, especially chamber music, composition and music education, or in heritage and crafts.
Deadline: 31 July 2022
https://www.theradcliffetrust.org/
Goldsmiths' Company - General Charitable Support
Grants up to £30,000 are available for general charitable needs, ranging from disadvantaged in society and general welfare to culture and the arts.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://www.thegoldsmiths.co.uk/charity/general-charity/overview/
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Arts Access and Participation Fund
Grants of between £30,000 and £400,000 for charities supporting education, communities, the environment, health, arts, culture and heritage.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://www.phf.org.uk/our-work-in-the-uk/arts-access-participation/
Schroder Charity Trust
Grants up to £5,000 are available for activity lasting between 12 months and 4 years are available to organisations to widen and deepen participation in the arts.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://schrodercharitytrust.org/homepage
3. BUSINESS & ENTERPRISE
UnLtd Awards
Awards up to £5,000 and up to £15,000 with free business support to social entrepreneurs trying to start-up or grow their social business.
Deadline: 18 March 2022
https://www.unltd.org.uk/awards
Amazon Launchpad Sustainability Accelerator
Participants will get expert mentorship, access to a network of likeminded entrepreneurs and £30k in cash and credits. Entrepreneurs who are an early stage start-up building a physical product with environmental impact in mind, apply for grants and support.
Deadline: 31 March 2022
https://sell.amazon.co.uk/programmes/launchpad/sustainability-accelerator/
Energy for Tomorrow
Grants of up to £100,000 to support entrepreneurs working within private businesses, non-profit companies, charities and community interest companies, who have concepts and innovations that tackle climate change, lower energy bills and deliver tangible positive impacts to people and communities.
Deadline: 31 March 2022
https://www.centrica.com/sustainability/energy-for-tomorrow/
Hugh Fraser Foundation
Grants can be for one year or up to three years and are available to non-profit-making organisations for charitable work in a number of different sectors in Scotland.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://www.turcanconnell.com/the-hugh-fraser-foundation/
Scottish Forestry Community Fund
Funding up to £5,000 and up to £20,000 to support voluntary and community organisations, development trusts, social enterprises, charities and local authorities for projects and activities that encourage people to use woods more.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://forestry.gov.scot/forests-people/communities/community-fund
4. CHILDREN & FAMILIES
LEGO Foundation - Build a World of Play Challenge
Grants are available to not-for-profit organisations, businesses and research institutes for innovative projects which focus on young children's wellbeing while addressing social issues worldwide.
Deadline: 07 April 2022
https://learningthroughplay.com/build-a-world-of-play/the-challenge/
Warburtons Families Matter Community Grants Programme
Community grants up to £400 are available are available for local projects, activities and organisations that have charitable aims and that will be of real direct benefit to families in England, Scotland and Wales.
Deadline: 09 May 2022
https://www.warburtons.co.uk/our-company/sustainability/within-the-community/givingdonating/financial-giving/
Ironmongers' Company
Grants range from a few hundred pounds up to around £10,000 and are available for projects in the UK that provide opportunities for disadvantaged children and young people under the age of 25 years to fulfil their potential.
Deadline: 31 July 2022
http://www.ironmongers.org/charity_organisations.htm
Barbara Ward Children's Foundation
Grants for charitable organisations undertaking projects for severely disadvantaged children and young people anywhere in the world.
Deadline: Ongoing
http://www.bwcf.org.uk/
Boshier-Hinton Foundation
Grants up to £2,000 are available for charities in the UK working with children and adults with special educational or other needs.
Deadline: Ongoing
http://www.boshierhintonfoundation.org.uk/apply.php
Toy Trust
Grants for less than £5,000 are available for registered charities undertaking projects to support disadvantaged and disabled children who are under 13 years of age within the UK and abroad.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://toytrust.co.uk/
Wooden Spoon Charity
Grants are available for organisations that are working to support disadvantaged and disabled children in the UK.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://www.woodenspoon.org.uk/
5. COMMUNITY FUNDING
Vinci UK Foundation Grants
Grants between £3,000 and £20,000 are available for innovative projects across the UK and Ireland which tackle one or more of the Foundation's areas in the fight against social exclusion: access to employment, insertion through housing, inclusive mobility and building better communities.
Deadline: 31 March 2022
https://vinci-uk-foundation.co.uk/your-project/criteria/
Ocado Foundation for Good
Grants up to £1,000 are available for registered charities, community interest companies, local authorities and other organisations to support skills development or sustainability projects that bring benefit to communities across the UK.
Deadline: 31 December 2022
Applicants must first create a BizGive account to apply
National Lottery Awards for All - Scotland
Grants of between £300 and £10,000 are available for voluntary, community and public sector organisations in Scotland to carry out projects that will improve local communities and the lives of people most in need.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/funding/programmes/national-lottery-awards-for-all-scotland
National Lottery Community Fund - Community-led Activity
Grants of between £10,001 and £150,000 are available to voluntary and community organisations in Scotland for projects in local communities that bring real improvement to the places where people live and to the wellbeing of those most in need.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/funding/programmes/grants-for-community-led-activity
Persimmon Community Champions
Grants of up to £1,000 are available for local community organisations and charities that have already secured matched funding for local community initiatives across England, Scotland and Wales.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://www.persimmonhomes.com/community-champions
Robertson Trust
Range of grants less than £25,000 up to £100,000, and £100,000+ are available to registered charities in Scotland that are working with communities experiencing poverty and trauma.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://www.therobertsontrust.org.uk/funding/our-funds/
Ross and Liddell Community Bursaries
Grants up to £500 are available for local community groups and charities in Scotland to buy equipment and materials to improve the services they provide to their local communities.
Deadline: Ongoing
http://ross-liddell.com/community-bursary
The Rozelle Trust
Financial assistance is available to smaller charities in Scotland that work to support the poor and disadvantaged in their local communities.
Deadline: Ongoing
http://www.rozelletrust.org/default.asp
6. ENVIRONMENT & CONSERVATION
Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation – Victorian Theatres Small Repairs Fund
Grants of up to £15,000 are available to support discreet and vital repairs or conservation projects in listed Victorian theatres across the United Kingdom.
Deadline: 31 March 2022
http://www.andrewlloydwebberfoundation.com/grant-application-victorian-theatres-small-repairs-fund
Scottish Mountaineering Trust
Grants and a one-off Diamond Grant of up to £100,000 are available for organisations and individuals to promote public recreation, knowledge and safe enjoyment of the mountains of Scotland.
Deadline: 31 March 2022
https://thesmt.org.uk/apply-for-a-grant-new-form-and-guidance/
Dulverton Trust
Grants between £25,000 and £35,000 are available to registered charities working to produce significant impact in the Trust's priority areas: youth opportunities, general welfare, conservation, heritage, Africa (Kenya and Uganda), and international stability and reconstruction.
Deadline: Ongoing
http://www.dulverton.org/
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation - Grants
Grants of up to £30,000 are available to organisations doing legally charitable work in the UK that focuses on the Foundation's funding priorities of improving the natural world, securing a fairer future, and strengthening the bonds in communities in the UK.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://esmeefairbairn.org.uk/
Faith in Community Scotland - Greener Spaces, Fairer Places
Grants of up to £500 are available for local faith groups and other related organisations for projects that address poverty and climate change in communities across Scotland.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://www.faithincommunity.scot/gsfp
Oak Trust
Grants up to £4,000 are available for registered UK charities that are supporting people who are disadvantaged, medical and environmental charities.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://www.oaktrust.org.uk/
Rewilding Britain - Rewilding Innovation Fund
Grants of up to £15,000 are available to boost locally led land and marine nature recovery projects across Britain.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/support-rewilding/the-rewilding-network/rewilding-innovation-fund
Smarter Choices, Smarter Places Open Fund
Grants of between £5,000 and £50,000 are available for public, third and community sector organisations in Scotland that want to change people's everyday travel behavior; encouraging people to use sustainable travel choices for longer journeys, walking and cycling for short journeys, and home-working to replace daily commutes.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://www.pathsforall.org.uk/pfa/get-involved/smarter-choices-smarter-places-open-fund.html
7.GENERAL FUNDING
Skipton Building Society Charitable Foundation
Grants up to £3,000 are available to registered charities for charitable work in the UK that benefits children, through their education and/or welfare, youth projects, and the elderly and their welfare.
Deadline: 30 June 2022
https://www.skiptoncharitablefoundation.co.uk
Hedley Foundation
Grants up to £5,000 are available to smaller charities operating across the spectrum of social need in the UK.
Deadline: Ongoing
http://www.hedleyfoundation.org.uk/
People's Postcode Trust - Scotland
Grants from £500 to £25,000 are available for smaller charities and good causes in Scotland.
Deadline: Ongoing
http://www.postcodetrust.org.uk/applying-for-a-grant
SUEZ Communities Trust Scottish Landfill Communities Fund - Smaller Projects Fund
Grants up to £2,000 are available to non-profit making organisations in Scotland for projects under the categories of Land Reclamation (Object A), Community Recycling (Object B), Public Amenities (Object C), Biodiversity (Object D) and Historic Buildings (Object E).
Deadline: Ongoing
https://www.suezcommunitiestrust.org.uk/apply-for-funding/scotland/
Wakeham Trust
Grants up to £2,500 are available to registered charities, community and voluntary groups in the UK to support small-scale projects with a community emphasis that would find it hard to obtain funding elsewhere.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://thewakehamtrust.wordpress.com/
National Lottery Community Fund - Grants for Improving Lives
Grants of between £10,001 and £200,000 for up to three years are available to a range of organisations in Scotland for activities which help people in Scotland to overcome difficulties and become more resilient.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/funding/programmes/grants-for-improving-lives
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation
Grants from £2,000 up to £10,000 and from £10,000 to £100,000 are available for small and medium sized local charities and not-for-profit organisations in the UK with a track record of success working to address local issues in communities of extreme urban deprivation or deprived rural areas.
Deadline: Ongoing
http://www.trusthousecharitablefoundation.org.uk/grants/
8. HEALTH
Barcapel Foundation
Grants up to £100,000 are available to registered charities in Scotland for projects and activities that promote the Foundation's priority areas of health, heritage and youth.
Deadline: 18 April 2022
http://www.barcapelfoundation.org/
Foundation Scotland - Scotch Whisky Action Fund
Awards of up to £25,000 for a one year period are available to reduce the impact of alcohol-related harm in Scotland's communities.
Deadline: 25 April 2022
https://www.foundationscotland.org.uk/apply-for-funding/funding-available/scotch-whisky-action-fund
Albert Hunt Trust
Grants are available to local charities in the UK that provide hospice care, provide support for the homeless or promote health and well being.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://www.alberthunttrust.org.uk/
Home Instead Charities
Grants up to £1,500 are available for grass roots community groups and charities addressing mental health and isolation in older people in the UK.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://www.homeinstead.co.uk/charities/apply-for-a-grant/
Scottish Government National Drugs Mission - Local Support Fund
Funding of up to £50,000 per year for up to five years is available to small community-based groups which deliver frontline services to support people who use drugs, people in recovery and their families.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://www.corra.scot/grants/drugs-services-funds/
Lionel Wigram Memorial Trust
Grants between £400 and £3,000 are available for charities that are providing services for blind, deaf and disabled people in the UK.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://www.lionelwigrammemorialtrust.org/
Swire Charitable Trust
Grants are available for UK registered charities working to deliver positive and lasting change to UK society under three programme areas: opportunity, environment and heritage.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://www.swirecharitabletrust.org.uk/
9. LAND & PROPERTY
Viridor Credits - Scottish Landfill Communities Fund
Grants of up to £25,000 are available to not-for-profit groups for community, heritage or biodiversity projects that benefit local communities in areas that are within ten miles of a Viridor Waste Management landfill site in Scotland.
Deadline: 30 April 2022
https://www.viridor-credits.co.uk/scottish-landfill-communities-fund
Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts - Headley Trust
Funding for registered charities in the UK for projects in the following areas: arts and heritage UK, cathedrals and major churches, parish churches, arts and heritage overseas, developing countries, education, and health and social welfare.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://www.sfct.org.uk/Headley.htm
W F Southall Trust
Grants of between £1,000 and £5,000 are available for charities in the UK working in the fields of environmental action and sustainability; social action; peace and reconciliation; and Quaker work.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://southalltrust.org/
10. SPORT FUNDING
Sports Facilities Fund
Grants of up to £100,000 are available for the provision or upgrading of sports facilities in local communities throughout Scotland.
Deadline: 01 April 2022
https://sportscotland.org.uk/funding/sport-facilities-fund/
Baillie Gifford Grassroots Sports
Grants up to £5,000 are available to support grassroots sports organisations to widen participation in sport across Scotland.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://www.foundationscotland.org.uk/apply-for-funding/funding-available/baillie-gifford-grassroots-sports
Barclays Community Football Fund
Grants of £500 are available to community groups in the UK to a make playing football more accessible at the grassroots level, and in particular encourage girls and young people from lower socio-economic and under-represented groups, including culturally diverse communities, young people with disabilities, and young people from the LGBTQ+ community to take part.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://sported.org.uk/barclays-community-football-fund/
Bruce Wake Charitable Trust
Grants are available for the provision of leisure activities for the disabled in the UK.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://brucewaketrust.co.uk/index.php/grants/
Jordan Sinnott Foundation Trust
Grants up to £5,000 are available to clubs, community groups or teams in the UK to encourage vulnerable and underprivileged children and young adults to get active and enjoy taking part in sport.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://www.js25.co.uk/ApplyForFunding
Peter Harrison Foundation - Opportunities through Sport Programme
Grants are available to UK charities running sports projects which provide opportunities for people who are disabled or otherwise disadvantaged to fulfil their potential and develop personal and life skills.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://peterharrisonfoundation.org/grant-programmes/grant-programmes
11. YOUNG PEOPLE
Weaver's Company Benevolent Fund
Grants up to £15,000 are available for smaller UK based charities working with young offenders, prisoners and ex-prisoners, and young disadvantaged people, especially those at risk of criminal involvement within the UK.
Deadline: 17 March 2022
https://weavers.org.uk/
Clothworkers' Foundation
Capital grants are available to UK registered charities working in the UK in one of the following areas: alcohol and substance misuse, people with disabilities, disadvantaged minority communities, disadvantaged young people, domestic and sexual abuse, older people, homelessness, prisoners and ex-offenders, and visual impairment.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://www.clothworkersfoundation.org.uk/apply-for-a-grant/
Gosling Foundation
Grants from £5,000 are available for charitable organisations carrying out projects in the UK that benefit the Foundation's focus areas: Royal Navy/Royal Marines, Youth, Education or Health.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://www.thegoslingfoundation.com/
Leslie Sell Charitable Trust
Grants for trips or projects associated with the Scouts or Guides movement within the UK. As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the Trust has introduced two additional temporary grants:
IT support: £100 to assist with delivering a blended Scout or Guide programme.
Census/insurance costs for 2022: up to £750 is available to cover 75% of the Group’s annual charge
Deadline: Ongoinghttp://www.lesliesellct.org.uk/
Robert McAlpine Foundation
Grants between £2,500 and £10,000 are available for registered charities in the UK undertaking projects for the benefit of children, youth, the elderly, social and medical research.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://www.robertmcalpinefoundation.org/
The Scout Association - Scout Grants Committee UK HQ Grants
Grants are available to Scout groups across the UK.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://www.scouts.org.uk/volunteers/running-things-locally/grants-and-funds-for-your-localgroup/grants-from-ukhq/
Variety Club - Youth Clubs Grant
The average grant is between £250 and £600 and are available to youth clubs in the UK that provide opportunities for improving social skills, team spirit and self esteem for young people aged from 8 to 18 years.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://www.variety.org.uk/what-we-do/youth-clubs-grants
Youth Scotland - Stand Up to Sectarianism Small Grants Scheme
Grants of up to £500 are available to community-based youth groups to tackle local experiences of sectarianism in Scotland.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://www.youthlinkscotland.org/funding-directory/s/stand-up-to-sectarianism-small-grants-scheme/
Youth Scotland Winter Fund
Grants between £500 and £3,000 are available for community-based youth groups and organisations in Scotland to support families who are experiencing poverty.
Deadline: Ongoing
https://www.youthscotland.org.uk/programmes/youth-scotland-winterfund/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=e-bulletin-02
