The Foundation focuses on helping people experiencing hardship access stable housing and improve their financial wellbeing. Where there is a good fit, it will consider core costs, project costs, and small capital contributions, from staff salaries to daily essentials for people moving into a permanent home or equipment for financial and digital skills sessions. Grants of up to £5,000 are available to UK registered charities.

Launched in September 2014, BCBN’s Grant Initiative aims to provide small third-sector grant awards to empower charities and local community projects. This initiative will distribute a one-off grant award of up to £3,000 per charity or to small but credible community projects, which are able to demonstrate their positive impact on the communities they aim to serve. They have in place strict vetting procedures and criteria’s for successful applications and take a responsible attitude to the funds provided by our donors. The Initiative will run throughout the year, alongside BCBN’s more headline efforts.

The Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) is investing billions of pounds to transform train travel across the 70-mile stretch between Manchester, Huddersfield, Leeds and York, presenting the project with a unique opportunity to give back to the communities it works in. This year, TRU is offering £270,000 of funding to support projects that make a lasting difference in local communities. Specific grants of £5,000 are available, but applicants can request an uplift to £10,000 where they can demonstrate that the additional funding would significantly increase the impact of their project.

Community groups, schools and charities within 5km of the Transpennine route or the Shipley Traincare Centre, can apply.

They fund projects, programmes and roles that provide ongoing, direct support to individuals and families. Your proposed project must align with at least one of our four outcome areas:

– Providing safety and shelter

– Supporting physical and/or mental health

– Developing life skills

– Reducing isolation and improving inclusion

We are looking for projects that create meaningful, measurable change for the people they support.

Community groups, schools and charities within 5km of the Transpennine route or the Shipley Traincare Centre, can apply.

To apply for a grant, you need to be a Community Group or Voluntary Sector Organisation  based in Wharfedale & Silsden or be delivering services in the Wharfedale & Silsden Community Partnership area. ​​

Activities and projects funded through Community Partnership small grants should improve population health and support people to be healthy and well in their communities, to help to reduce demand on statutory health services. 

Projects need to support one or both of the areas below:- 

•        Activity that supports a particular population group that has a higher overall level of health need compared to the wider local population. For example, people with a disability or health condition, older people with social isolation, or those who would benefit from low-level mental health support activities. 

•        Projects which provide early intervention / preventative support relating to known risk factors for the local population, which could otherwise lead to emerging or escalating health issues (or a set of lifestyle factors that could lead to health issues) and where people within these cohorts could be at risk of deterioration in the short to medium term. 

Contact for more information and for teh application form catherine@thehivesilsden.co.uk  

WISHH Community Partnership are currently running their small grants programme for 2026/27. Grants between £2000 and £4500 are available for groups or individuals who can deliver project work relating to one or more of WISHH CPs priority population groups (those identified as having higher health needs). These are:
• People living on their own, with one or more long-term health conditions

• Individuals (children, young people and adults) who are Neurodiverse

• Unpaid Carers (anyone who has a caring responsibility for someone else – for example: caring for a family member with dementia; supporting a friend/family member who has long-term health conditions)

• Care leavers (aged 16+)

• Adults with physical and/or hidden disabilities (For example: diabetes; chronic pain; epilepsy; learning difficulties)

Applicants must be based, or operate, in the communities served by WISHH GP practices

The Green Community Grants Programme offers one-year flexible funding for not-for-profit groups in England, Scotland and Wales with an annual income between £10,000 and £1 million.  To be eligible for funding, you must have been operating for a minimum of 12 months and your organisation’s main aims and objectives must fit with one of the two funding themes: contributing to nature recovery and responding to the climate emergency and improving nature-rich spaces and access to them. Priority will be given to organisations whose objects or purposes within its governing document relate to habitat or species restoration/protection, that have an income of £250,000 or below, that work in communities located in the top 15% of the Index of Multiple Deprivation, whose main activities are focused on supporting marginalised groups. This could include, but is not limited to, disabled people, communities experiencing racial inequity, and LGBT+ people.

The West Yorkshire Violence Reduction Partnership (VRP) are seeking to commission provider(s) to deliver a programme building Digital Resilience, Critical Online Literacy and Healthy Relationships, which is targeted at those in Years 5 and 6 to bolster these skills prior to harm occurring.

Bingley Bubble Community Partnership are currently running their small grants programme for 2026/27. Grants for any amount up to £5000 are available for groups or individuals who can deliver project work relating to one or more of Bingley Bubble CPs priority population groups (those identified as having higher health needs). These are:
Elderly, frail and housebound

Carers (including young carers)

Children and young people with additional needs (up to 25 years old)

Applicants must be based, or operate, in the communities served by Bingley Bubble GP practices

The trust supports projects that support volunteering. They particularly like to fund projects that involve lots of volunteers, and/or encourage these young people so stay engaged as volunteers in the long term

They support young people who run projects that have a positive impact on disadvantaged communities and individuals, projects that identify a specific need, and propose to carry out activities that will clearly help to address this need. A particular interest is in projects that will have a deep and meaningful effect on those it reaches, as well as projects that are as long lasting and sustainable as possible.

The ultimate aim is youth volunteering projects that help to improve communities, but if the project is new and exciting then even better! They favour funding volunteer initiatives that are innovative and try to do things a bit differently, such as using social media creatively or using existing resources in new ways.

The Youth Jobs Grant is part of the Youth Guarantee and provides financial support to employers to encourage the recruitment of young people who may otherwise find it difficult to enter the labour market. It is intended to complement, not replace, existing recruitment activity. Eligible employers may receive up to £3,000 per job outcome, paid in stages and subject to meeting all scheme conditions.

Employers across GB who recruit an eligible young person (18-24, on Universal Credit, unemployed for 6 months) will receive a £3,000 grant per qualifying job outcome.

Focused on growing women and girls’ grassroots sport across the UK. Provides £200 per coach (up to two coaches per club) to cover Level 1 or equivalent introductory coaching qualifications plus safeguarding and first-aid requirements in football, cricket or tennis. Eligible applicants are not-for-profit clubs and groups delivering women’s and girls’ activity in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.

early closure possible if demand is high

Funded by UK Research and Innovation, provides £500 to schools in challenging circumstances across the UK to help young people engage with the skills, concepts, people and careers behind research and innovation. Eligible applicants include state-funded primary schools, secondary schools, colleges, special schools and alternative provision settings working with young people aged approximately 5 to 19. Priority goes to activities supporting groups underrepresented in STEM.

BD4+ Community Partnership are currently running their small grants programme for 2025/26. Grants are available for groups or individuals who can deliver project work in line with one or more of BD4+ CPs priorities:

• Increasing the uptake of cancer screening

• Reducing isolation and loneliness

• Promoting healthy lifestyles

BD4+ CP has also identified some priority population cohorts (those having higher health needs). Whilst grant applications relating to other cohorts will be considered, priority will be given to grant applications relating to the population cohorts set out below (other than for cancer screening, where we are looking to target the general population)

• People with one or more long-term health conditions

• Carers (including young carers)

• People affected by dementia (and their families/carers)

• Health-related support for communities of interest in the BD4+ area

• Education around teenage pregnancies and healthy relationships

Around 21 grants of up to £15,000 to support community-led projects in England that use heritage to help local people understand, influence and shape the future of their neighbourhoods. Projects must be co-created with local communities and take place within an area of multiple deprivation, working with underrepresented groups. Both heritage and non-heritage organisations with strong community connections can apply.

Innovate Now with Wellcome aims to strengthen Black-led leadership in the UK research ecosystem. It responds to a critical gap: many Black-led initiatives that support the research careers of Black Heritage and Mixed Black Heritage people provide mentoring, safe spaces, networks, and advocacy, yet remain underfunded, under-recognised, and often volunteer-led.

Registered or unregistered initiatives are eligible for this opportunity as long as the income gained by the initiative does not exceed £150k annually.

The Trust grants annually to solely UK registered smaller charities working in the areas of children’s education, the environment and overseas development.

To show interest: do not write to the registered UK address, this will incur a significantly longer delay in any response. Visit the website and click on the speech bubble.

The County Grants Fund aims to support ECB affiliated Cricket Clubs, which are actively engaged with women’s cricket, girls’ cricket and/or disability cricket, to create welcoming environments or to provide enhanced playing or changing facilities, in an effort to increase the number of women’s, girls’ and disability cricket teams, and to achieve the game’s vision to become the most inclusive team sport

Priority will be given to applications from Clubs with an established women’s section, a girls’ section, and/or offer disability cricket, or are participating in the following specific ECB programmes in 2025/2026:

Disability Premier League Registered Hosts

Girls’ Only Dynamos Cricket

Dynamos Cricket for Girls’ Activation Clubs

Disability Cricket Champion Clubs

Provides free public-access defibrillators to UK community groups able to install and maintain an unlocked, powered cabinet where there’s clear need and no nearby defibrillator within 200 metres. Eligible groups include faith organisations, sports clubs, charities, community centres, CICs and informal resident groups.

Trustees meet three times a year in February, June and October to review applications. Applications can be submitted at any time, and an email enquiry in the first instance is appropriate, jan.swanmountaintrust@gmail.com. The fund is for organisations who are supporting refugees and asylum seekers, with a particular focus on the mental health of young people

The Nisa Making a Difference Locally charity offers small grants for community-level projects across the UK. Funding is aimed at grassroots initiatives that make a real difference to local life, including activities for children and young people, community events, wellbeing projects, equipment purchases and minor capital items.

Rather than a central application process, requests are made directly to local Nisa store owners, who decide which causes in their area to support. Grants are awarded on a rolling basis throughout the year.

Stagecoach runs a monthly community fund offering one-off grants of up to £500 to smaller, local charities based in the communities it serves. To be eligible, your organisation must be a Charitable Company, CIC, CIO, Constituted Group, or Registered Charity, and work in one or more of the following areas: health and wellbeing, supporting children and young people, addressing loneliness and isolation, or increasing accessibility and opportunity.

Before applying, you will need to set up a page on Neighbourly. Once that is done, you can submit your application through the fund.

Each year, the Asda Foundation receives a donation from Asda Stores. They use this donation to provide grant funding to grassroots groups at the heart of communities throughout the UK. The Foundation works with In-store Asda Community Champions to award grants to the local groups that need them most.

Various grants are available throughout the year.

As a way of giving back to our local area, the Edwin Pounds Community Fund aims to provide funding support for community-based projects which improve the quality of life of people living within two miles of Edwin Pounds & Sons Funeral Directors’ branches in Bradford, Wibsey, Sandbeds and Keighley.

Local charities will be awarded funding toward the cost of a specific, community-focused project. The aim is to fund projects that run for 3 months or longer, but shorter projects may consider if ongoing community benefits can be demonstrated.

In order to be eligible to receive funding, the project must align with one or more of the fund categories: Health, Education, Employment Opportunities, Poverty/Social Deprivation.

In collaboration with Groundwork: Unrestricted grants of between £500 and £2,000 can be accessed by voluntary or community organisations, including registered charities/companies, whose annual turnover is no more than £25,000.

Priority will be shown to organisations which meet the following criteria:

Organisations that work with and support communities classed as marginalised or vulnerable

Funding for communities that rank as being within the top 15% on the English Indices of Deprivation

Small and medium-sized grants are available to registered charities working for a range of charitable causes, particularly those in the areas of protecting the environment, health and human rights. Grants are generally awarded to small as well as larger, more established charities with the aim of delivering a real and lasting positive impact.

Although the Trust welcomes applications from eligible potential grantees, its trustees seek out organisations that will effectively fulfil its objectives.  Charities that receive larger grants normally have a close working relationship with trustees. Applications may be made at any time in writing.

Funds will support children and young people (up to and including 18 years old) living in our community affected by poverty, abuse, neglect or those with additional support needs.

Groups eligible:

Charities (turnover less than £1 million) , Schools, Community / grassroots organisations

Grants, normally for up to £10,000, are available to UK registered charities working in the UK and/or overseas in the areas of the relief of poverty, financial hardship, education and disaster relief.  The Trust can also support the medical and educational expenses of individuals.

An approach to the Trust may be made at any time in writing.

The Singer Foundation awards grants to UK registered charities that support individuals and groups through enterprise, employment, and training. It favours organisations with strong governance and a track record of inspiring people to become self-sufficient and contribute their skills to others.

Applications may be made at any time by the application form which is available on request from the Foundation.

Funding covers a broad range of charitable purposes including animal welfare, dementia, healthcare and medical research, hospices, housing, support for women, general charitable purposes, and overseas causes. The Trust has no website, and applications may be submitted at any time in writing.

Grants up to £5,000 for UK charities that are working to conserve, preserve and restore the natural beauty of the UK countryside using voluntary workers.

Please note the Foundation does not maintain a website.  Further information is, however, available on the Charity Commission website.

The Movement for Good is a chance to nominate your favourite charity (or your own) for grants of £1,000 or £5,000, selected via prize draw. The funding can be awarded to charities of all sizes, anywhere in the UK, and every nomination is 1 entry so the more nominations, the more chances of the charity being drawn. The £5000 draw is open to charities making a difference in the fields of Health, Community, and Animals and Wildlife.

Unrestricted small grants for medium sized charities (income of £100,000 to £2 million) that work to provide health and care services, providing practical and emotional support to people with physical or mental ill health, people living with a disability, and their families and carers.

The maximum grant is £5,000. You are asked not to request a specific amount as the Trustees will determine the amount based on the availability of funding and what they feel is appropriate.

Each year a handful of grants, typically ranging from £5,000 to £50,000, are made to registered charities across England and Wales. Causes relating to medicine and support for children and young people tend to feature regularly among those awarded funding.

Trust focuses on making grants, primarily benefiting children, young people, and voluntary bodies, often funded through investment income and donations

The fund offers grants of up to £3,000 to support physical activity projects for people with Parkinson’s across the UK. In 2026, funding is focused on people who are currently inactive, helping them begin to engage in physical activity and sustain their participation.

To make activities more accessible, the fund also supports ‘gateway activities’ — movement-based sessions that build confidence and encourage interest in becoming more active.

The fund supports local groups and projects in and around Bradford, where the firm’s team lives and works.

The fund is open to initiatives that support people in the local community, promote positive activities that help others, or would benefit from additional funding to grow or continue their work.

As one of the region’s leading independent accountancy firms, Watson Buckles sees the fund as a way of giving back and helping the local community to thrive.

Local groups, charities or community projects that could benefit are encouraged to apply by completing the application form

This programme is designed to support excellent local organisations and projects that work with disabled children and young people, children and young people with life-limiting conditions and their families.

The programme is open to applications at any time. We aim to respond to your application with a final decision within twelve weeks.  They provides grants of up to £10,000, although many grants are smaller than this.

The Leslie Sell Charitable Trust was set up in May 1969 by the late Leslie Sell to provide financial assistance to the Scouting and Guiding movement. This independent Trust Fund makes small grants to Groups to help with the cost of making repairs, purchasing sundry items of equipment, or trips in the UK or overseas.

Being active can have a significant impact on living well with Parkinson’s, regardless of symptoms or time since diagnosis. The Parkinson’s UK Physical Activity Grants Programme supports activity providers to develop more physical activity opportunities across the UK for inactive people with Parkinson’s to become and stay active, and improve social wellbeing as a result of attending the project.