Funding
Most of these funds generally have a rolling deadline and can be applied for at any time. Please note that Inclusive North does not administer any of these funds.
The following links and information are being shared for your interest only and it is the responsibility of each applicant to read the eligibility criteria and guidance carefully before applying for the funding.
Health and Wellbeing in Museums Fund
The Museums Association, funded by the Julia Rausing Trust, is providing a programme of grant-making, networking and learning dissemination for health and wellbeing programmes in museums. Grants will enable the development and continuation of groundbreaking health and well-being programmes in UK museums during a time of financial crisis and increasing demand for services.
Funding deadline: 20th May 2026
Fostering programme: new hubs expression of interest
The fostering recruitment and retention programme is inviting new local areas to apply to join the programme through an expression of interest. The next phase will build on the success of the existing hubs in the programme. It will provide a more integrated, end-to-end approach to recruiting, assessing and supporting foster carers. This expression of interest is open to any of these groups who are interested in working together to establish a fostering hub: local authorities, children’s trusts, and non-profit independent fostering agencies.
Funding deadline: 22nd May 2026
Apply for the Heat Network Efficiency Scheme (HNES) Round 12
The Heat Network Efficiency Scheme (HNES) provides funding to public, private and third sector applicants in England and Wales to support improvements to existing district heating or communal heating projects that are operating sub-optimally and resulting in poor outcomes for customers and operators.
Funding deadline: 22nd May 2026
Regional Care Co-operative National Rollout
Regional Care Cooperatives (RCCs) are regional bodies that bring together local authorities, health, youth justice and other partners to plan and commission homes and support for children in care. They form part of the government’s long‑term approach to improving sufficiency and stability for children. The Department is now beginning the next phase of the RCC programme and inviting applications to establish up to six new RCCs. This phase follows the initial pathfinder testing in Greater Manchester and the South East, which helped shape the model.
Funding deadline: 22nd May 2026
Frobel Trust - Open call research grants
The Froebel Trust Open Call Research Grants scheme provides funding of up to £50,000 for a team or collaborative research partnership to develop new and robust knowledge about Froebelian education. This funded research is vital for the Trust to be able to fulfil its charitable mission of enabling early childhood educators, advocating for young children and their families, and informing policymakers.
Funding deadline: 4pm 22nd May 2026
The Rowing Foundation
The Rowing Foundation offers both Equipment and Refurbishment grants to support junior & student rowers, and adaptive rowing for all ages, with organisations able to apply for up to £4,000 in any 5-year period over the two programmes. This can be comprised of a single grant or smaller grants aggregated over the period. Grants are awarded as a 50% match to the money spent by an applicant on the relevant project.
Funding deadline: 22nd May 2026
Equipment Grant deadline: 5th October 2026
Barclays Community Sport Fund
The Barclays Community Sport Fund, delivered in partnership with Sported, helps to reduce inequalities in sport – with a focus on football, tennis, and cricket. The fund supports charities, community groups and grassroots sports organisations who are working within the most deprived and rurally isolated areas of the UK and are making sport more accessible to women and girls, as well as engaging people from other under-represented groups including people with disabilities, from racially diverse communities and from the LGBTQ+ community. The programme will support thousands of community groups across the UK with a total investment of £1.4 million a year over three years.
Funding deadline: 27th May 2026
The Different Foundation - AI for All
AI for All advances diversity, equality, and inclusion across AI technologies through thoughtfully combined financial support and expert mentorship. Through our dual support model of finance and mentorship, we partner with UK charities to further access and opportunity for members of underrepresented and diverse communities in AI innovation.
Funding Opens: 1st June | Closes: 31st August 2026
F100 Growth Fund - Black Equity Organisation
If you’re a Black-led UK-registered business with a minimum viable product and you want to scale your business, our F100 Growth Fund is here for you. This is your chance to access funding, expert advice, coaching, and mentoring to take your venture to new heights.
Funding deadline: 2nd June 2026
Vaughan Williams Foundation
Composers are at the heart of what they do. VWF offers three annual funding rounds towards: the performance, commission, and recording of music by British and Irish composers active in the last 100 years, and/or work which furthers the knowledge and understanding of the life and work of Ralph Vaughan Williams, and of Ursula Vaughan Williams.
Funding Opens: June 2026 | Closes: 31st October 2026
Barclays Female coaches for girls grant
The Barclays Community Sport Fund, delivered in partnership with Sported, helps to reduce inequalities in sport – with a focus on football, tennis, and cricket. The fund supports charities, community groups and grassroots sports organisations who are working within the most deprived and rurally isolated areas of the UK and are making sport more accessible to women and girls, as well as engaging people from other under-represented groups including people with disabilities, from racially diverse communities and from the LGBTQ+ community. The programme will support thousands of community groups across the UK with a total investment of £1.4 million a year over three years.
Funding deadline: 8th July 2026
The Royal Society - Partnership Grants
The Partnership Grants scheme funds UK schools and colleges up to £3,000 to work in partnership with STEM professionals from academia or industry to run an investigative STEM project. The scheme is open to all levels of education supporting students aged between 5 - 18. Schools and colleges that are outside of the UK (except the Channel Islands and Isle of Man) are not eligible to apply.
Funding deadline: 10th July, 30th November 2026
A B Charitable Trust
The A B Charitable Trust was founded in 1990 and promotes human dignity and defends the human rights of marginalised and excluded groups in the UK.
Funding is available to UK registered charities through their Open Programme (other programmes are by invitation only), which has 4 priority areas:
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Human Rights
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Access to Justice
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Criminal and Legal System and Penal Reform
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Migrants and Refugees
Funding deadlines: 31st July, 23rd October 2026
Screwfix Foundation
The Screwfix Foundation is a registered charity set up in 2013 in the UK and launched in the Republic of Ireland in 2025. We are passionate about making a difference to communities for the benefit of people in need.
The Screwfix Foundation currently offers local registered charities and not for profit organisations funding in the region of £5,000. All applications are reviewed individually by our team on a quarterly basis, the review dates are in March, June, September and December.
Second Application Date: 10th August 2026
Third Application Date: 11th August - 10th November 2026
WCIT Charity
The WCIT Charity works with a wide range of registered charities and not for profit organisations aligned with its purpose, who depend on external financial support and specialist skills to realise their IT initiatives. Funding applications may be submitted at any time and are considered by the Charitable Operations Committee at one of its four meetings a year.
Funding deadline: 5pm 17th August 2026
Archive Revealed - Consortium Grants
The Consortium Grants programme offers grant funding of up to £150,000 for large-scale consortium projects, bring together multiple archive, heritage and other organisations to deliver specific outcomes related to the goal of Archives Revealed, ensuring that significant archive collections, representing the lives and perspective of all people across the UK, are made accessible to the public for research and enjoyment.
Funding Opens: 31st August | Closes: 1st October 2026
Archives Revealed - Cataloguing Grants
The Cataloguing Grants programme provides grants of up to £50,000 for the cataloguing of significant archive collections held in the UK. The programme aims to unlock these collections for the public for research and enjoyment. At least 20% of the total grant value is required to be allocated to activities that will promote public engagement with the collection during or after cataloguing.
Funding Opens: 31st August | Closes: 1st October 2026
Fidelio Charitable Trust
Fidelio provides grants in support of the Arts particularly for Music, including Opera, Lieder, Composition and Dance. The trust supports individuals and groups who would not be able to carry out a project or activity without financial support, particularly those who are at an early stage in their careers.
Funding deadlines: 25th September 2026
The Concertina Charitable Trust
Concertina tries where possible to support smaller charities providing music for the elderly, reaching parts of the charity world that larger grant givers can’t. Examples in 2018 included Llys Glanyrafon Care Home in Newtown, Powys; Haven Court (health and social care provider) in South Tyneside; Coundon Care Centre Charity in Coventry and Spitalfields Music in East London for their project providing music for the elderly in three care homes in Tower Hamlets.
Funding Deadline: 31st October 2026
Colyer Fergusson's Through the Gate Fund
Colyer Fergusson's Through the Gate Fund supports organisations working with people leaving prison and moving back into the community in Kent and Medway.
Organisations can apply for either:
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a one-off grant of between £10,000 and £50,000
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a grant of between £20,000 and £75,000 payable over two or three years.
If you apply by the end of June you will usually receive a grant decision by early November.
Please note: These are not fixed deadlines.
RWE Hameldon Hill Wind Farm Community Fund
Following the extension of the Innogy Renewables UK Wind Farm on Hameldon Hill, a community investment fund has been set up to benefit local communities throughout the lifetime of the wind farm (up to 25 years). The fund wants to encourage local people to take pride in their local area and create a sense of community spirit.
Duration: 1 Year
Henry Smith Charity - Holiday Grants for Children
The Holiday Grants Programme offers one-off grants for schools, youth groups and non-profit organisations to take children aged 13 and under on recreational day trips or short residential trips.
Deadline: Applications for trips between 1 May and 30 September 2026 are open from 20 March and 19 August 2026. Applications for trips between 1 October and 31 December 2026 are open from 20 August and 19 November 2026. Apply at least 4 weeks before the trip.
Universal Music UK Sound Foundation - School Funding
Universal Music UK Sound Foundation (UMUKSF) was formally known as EMI Music Sound Foundation (EMI MSF) and is an independent music education charity, established in 1997 to celebrate the centenary of EMI Records and to improve young people’s access to music education in the UK & Ireland.
David Riddell Memorial CIO Grant Programme
The fund supports suicide awareness and prevention programmes run for charitable purposes. Applications may include full cost recovery, and core costs will be considered if the applicant organisation’s mission aligns with the grant criteria. Priority is given to innovative projects.
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Allen Lane Foundation
The aims are to fund work within each of the funding programmes which:
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Will make a lasting difference to people’s lives rather than simply alleviating the symptoms or current problems;
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Is aimed at reducing isolation, stigma and discrimination, and;
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Encourages or enables groups that experience marginalisation and/or discrimination to share in the life of the whole community.
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The Allen Lane Foundation funds small organisations working within their seven programmes, including young people, offenders and ex-offenders.
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The total amount available is up to £15,000, which can be over three years, two years, or a single grant.
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Please note: Applications received from now until early August are likely to be considered ahead of the Trustee meeting in October.
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BBC Children in Need - Project Costs
Funding for specific projects and activities children and young people aged 18 or under. Priority to smaller, local organisations and rarely fund organisations with income above £1 million. For UK wide Hospices and Housing Associations there is no maximum income limit. They will only consider applications for over £15,000 pa, if you are a registered non profit.
Eric Wright Charitable Trust
Minor Grants are aimed at supporting small local charitable organisations which deliver services directly to beneficiaries. They fund core costs, average grant size is £500 - £4,999
Community Grants are aimed at assisting and supporting the development of smaller local charitable organisations which deliver services directly to beneficiaries. Grant Size in the range of £5,000-£20,000
Esme Fairbairn Foundation
Grants are available to organisations doing legally charitable work in the UK that focuses on Communities or people most affected being involved in campaigning or leading change / Work which makes connections across our aims: Our Natural World, A Fairer Future and Creative, Confident Communities. You must have an annual turnover of less than £100,000. Funds of £30,000 upwards
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Forte Charitable Foundation
Forte Charitable Foundation gives grants for running costs to charities and not-for-profit organisations (excluding CICs) in accordance with criteria that are regularly reviewed and decided by the Trustees.
Applications for the small grants scheme can be submitted at any time.
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Paul Hamlyn Youth Fund
Not for profit youth organisations that support young people (aged 24-25) facing disadvantage can apply for grants of up to £150,000 spread over three years. The Youth Fund supports organisations whose main purpose is to help young people facing complex transitions to adulthood.
Applications can be made at any time.
