Grants of up to £5,000 for capital funding are available to charities, working to support homeless people, registered with the charity commission and have an annual turnover of under £500,000.

Deadline 20th Dec with a decision made within 8 weeks. Please note there should be a minimum of 2 years between the receipt of a decision and making a further application.

Charity grants of up to £15,000 are available for constituted not-for-profit organisations to support IT projects and activities. The fund 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 for applications is 6th February 2026 with decisions mid-March 2026

Up to £5,000 is available to UK charities registered with the Charity Commission for at least 3 years and have an annual turnover of between £25,000 and £500,000. Funding is available to support specific projects that improves communication skills for disadvantaged adults and support NEET people into employment.

The trust will support annual repeat funding for up to 3 years subject to satisfactory annual reviews. Deadline for applications is 22nd Dec 2025

£9,000 is available for suitable projects that will benefit the local community and take place within the SMBC boundary. Projects must have an environmental focus and can be part of a community or co-operative nature. Registered charities, trusts, educational establishments, clubs and associations are eligible to apply.

Deadline is 31st January 2026. Successful applicants will be notified in March 2026 and projects should complete by 1st August 2026.

Macmillan have launched a pilot CARE programme to test how community led approaches can tackle deep rooted unfairness in cancer care.

Grants of between £50,000 and £150,000 are available with a total pot value of £1.5million for the first found. The grant focuses on 3 key areas- cultural responsiveness in cancer care, shared decision making and dementia friendly cancer care. Staff and people costs, project delivery costs and evaluation and learning costs are able to be included. Any VCFSE organisation based and working in the UK is eligible to apply.

There are information webinars planned for 11 December 2025 (18:00 - 19:00)  and 8 January 2026 (15:30 - 16:30)

The deadline for applications is 23 January 2026.

Grants are available to voluntary, community and faith sector organisations to strength and support the capacity and career pathway opportunities for the homelessness and rough sleeping sector’s workforce.

The grants programme will be delivered through 4 individually biddable funding streams referred to as ‘pillars’. These pillars are:

1. Foundations
2. Training
3. Advice
4 Community

Organisations can apply for one or multiple pillars and must be willing to work with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.

Up to £12 million is available as multi year funding over 3 years (April 26-March 29). Registered charities, CICs, CIOs, CBS, IPS and a Company limited by guarantee are eligible to apply. Consortium and partnership applications are strongly encouraged.

Deadline 5pm 10th December

Offering microgrants of up to £1,000 for small-scale, community led activities that bring people together and support wellbeing. Registered charities, social enterprises, and unincorporated groups with an appropriate constitution will be considered. This fund is designed for geographically dispersed and intersectional groups who are not concentrated in any particular area or spread across multiple boroughs, not always visible at local level but a significant population across Greater Manchester or may have specific needs or experiences, requiring tailored approaches to engagement, service design or representation.

The fund will consider applications on a rolling basis up to 15th December.

This quarterly fund has reopened for all voluntary organisations working within Stockport. Groups can be awarded from between £100-£650

Families caring for disables or seriously ill young adults aged between 18-24, living at home are invited to apply directly.

Families must be on a low income from work, or benefits such as Universal Credit, Working Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit etc and the young adult for who they are applying for needs to have a high level of support needs in three of the following areas, Personal care, supervision and vigilance, access to social activities, education/vocational training/communication, therapy and medical treatment, specialist resources and the physical environment.

Funding is allocated on a first come, first served basis until funding is fully allocated.

A collaboration between Findarace and Run The World, offers quarterly grants of up to £1,000 to UK grassroots projects that promote physical activity, particularly in disadvantaged or underserved communities.

Find out more about the Go Far Fund.

Offers small grants up to £250 and large grants up to £3,000 for UK-based community projects focusing on education, environment, youth, and disabilities.

Small grant applications, up to £250, are welcomed three times a year during:
1st April to 30th June for review in July
1st August to 31st October for review in November
1st December to 28th February for review in April

Large grant applications, up to £3,000, are welcomed twice a year during:
1st March to 31st July for review by our Board of Trustees in September/October
1st September to 31st January for review by our Board of Trustees in March

Find out more about Ford Britain Trust.

Grants of between £500 and £2,000 are available for freelance and independent artists across Greater Manchester. The fund is to support a range of projects from musicians who would benefit from a new instrument or a small group who needs funds to replace costumes or a freelance artist who wishes to upskill via a training course. Round 4 is open from 28th March until 28th April. Round 5 opens 29th September until midday Friday 31st October.

Find out more about the fund.

The Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) have announced that the Hong Kong BN(O) Welcome Programme has been re-funded for a 5th year. This announcement includes continued funding to the North West RSMP to deliver the North West Welcome Hub as well as continue our work funding vital projects and programmes across the region supporting BN(O) visa holders.

The Government is continuing to fund the following key elements of the Welcome Programme:

• Demand-led funding for local authorities in England to provide English language and destitution support. Funding for English language support will be available for the first three years that a BN(O) is in the UK – this is a change in eligibility for the English language funding and the attached updated guidance has also been produced by Government;

• Funding for the 12 Welcome Hubs across the UK;

• Funding for the Hate Crime Reporting Service for BN(O)s and ESEA communities. There will be a reduction in the operating hours for the service with details to be confirmed; and,

• Funding for the mental health and wellbeing project being delivered by Barnardo’s until September 2025.

Information is also available on the RSMP website or on the Gov.uk BN(O) webpage

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has announced that people in the UK will benefit from upgraded sports facilities in their local area backed by £100 million of government funding.

The funding is expected to support new and improved pitches, changing rooms, goalposts and floodlights to improve access to sport and physical activity for local communities. The funding will be targeted at deprived areas and support greater access and participation levels among under-represented people including women and girls, ethnic minority groups and disabled players.

Clubs and organisations in the UK are now being urged to come forward and apply for funding. Applications can be made in England via the Football Foundation on an ongoing basis. The first tranche of beneficiaries are expected to be confirmed in summer 2025.

These grants aim to:
– Enable smaller grass-roots groups to develop a delivery record
– Tackle health and wellbeing issues in communities
– Undermine the wider social determinants of health that impact in communities
– Build capacity and resilience across the VCSE sector.

Their grant awards are either:
Micro grants – £50 to £500
Small grants – £500 – £2500

The grants are expected to be delivered within 12 months of the award - it may be a one off event or a project that runs for 1 to 12 months.

Find out more here.

Alongside their national funding round, they are also running two regional rounds in Summer 2025:

• North West funding round (for organisations based in the North West of England, which includes the counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside)

• South West funding round (for organisations based in Cornwall)

Successful applicants will receive:

• An unrestricted grant: Up to £30,000, spread across 1 to 3 years

• Access to skills and networks: Including peer support and pro bono support from experienced professionals

• Access to training: Through our workshops programme and fully funded impact measurement support courses

Who they fund:

• Registered Charities, Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs), Community Interest Companies (CICs) limited by guarantee, and Charitable Community Benefit Societies (CBSs)/Non-Charitable CBSs with an asset lock

• Your annual revenue should be less than £500,000

What they fund: 

They offer unrestricted funding to help your organisation grow, become more sustainable, efficient, or resilient. We are interested in organisational development, and we believe that by asking you and your charity what you need, our grants will create a transformational impact on your organisation. 

You can find examples of what they have previously funded here.

Find out more here.

They are hosting an online Q&A session on Tuesday 18th March, 12pm to 1pm. If you want to hear more from The Fore team about their application process and pose your own questions before you register your interest in applying, you can sign up here. If you can’t make it on the day, please still register if you would like to receive the recording.

Lloyds local collaborations funding programme will open soon for its second round. Through this fund, they will award grants to 15 collaborations across England and Wales looking to influence change around one of three themes:

• accommodation

• social security

• support for refugees and asylum seekers

Collaborations can apply for £100k over 2 years initially and will be able to access development support. Find out what this support looks like. 

When the programme launches you will have the opportunity to join a webinar to find out more and talk to one of our team about your proposal before you apply. 

In the meantime, take a look at what they've already funded through the programme and read the blog from a local charity leading a collaboration.

Grants and technical expertise are available to non-profit organisations, civic entities, academic institutions, and social enterprises from the UK and worldwide to build socially impactful gen AI-powered solutions across Google.org’s three focus areas:

• Knowledge, Skills, and Learning

• Scientific Advancement

• Resilient Communities.

They are offering up to equivalent of USD £500k-2M, and pro bono assistance from Google employees, technical training, and access to Google Cloud credits.

Find out more here.

The programme is open to all schools, registered charities and not-for-profit organisations, with priority given to projects that provide food and support to young people.

Buttle UK provide individually tailored grants of up to £2,400 for children and young people who have experienced a crisis that has recently had a significant and enduring impact on their wellbeing and educational engagement.

They only accept applications from frontline professionals working for a registered charity, housing association or public sector organisation.

There is a list of things they WON’T fund, including where the main reason is disability, ongoing serious illness or the additional needs of a child.

There is no deadline for applications - find out more here.