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.
Help the Homeless Grant Scheme
Help The Homeless provides grants to registered charities to help homeless people off the streets and enable them to live healthy, independent lives. They favour small, grassroots charities working to help the most vulnerable people in their communities. Applications are only accepted towards capital projects such as equipment, furniture, or building costs (but not including IT equipment). The charity will not fund projects relating to offering shelter to homeless people, or offering any other forms of sustenance.
Funding deadlines: 20th June, 20th September, 20th December 2026
ChurchCare - Grants for Bells
They give grants of up to £10,000 for the conservation of bells and bell frames in Anglican parish churches in England. These grants are offered in partnership with The National Lottery Heritage Fund and the Anglican Parish Churches Fund. Their grants are awarded around 12 weeks after the application deadline.
Funding deadline: 22nd June 2026
Rosa’s Stand With Us Fund
The Stand With Us Fund was set up to address the critical lack of investment in frontline organisations supporting women and girls who experience male violence. Originally started with money raised by Reclaim These Streets in the wake of the appalling kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard by a serving Metropolitan Police Officer, the fund exists to make the UK safer for all women and girls. The fund supports organisations to become stronger and more effective; better meeting the needs of women and girls and influencing wider change for all women and girls across the UK.
Funding deadline: 22nd June 2026
Art Fund - Student Opportunities
The programme enables students to explore their interest in the arts alongside future career options, while providing organisations with additional skilled, accountable capacity.
This funding aims to help museums, galleries and visual arts organisations provide paid opportunities for full-time university students to gain meaningful, developmental work experience that enables them to explore their interest in the arts and related future career options. In turn, museums, galleries and visual arts organisations gain skilled and accountable resources to help realise projects important to them.
Funding deadline: 26th June 2026
Lowland Peat Water Discovery Grant
The Discovery grant scheme will support the investigation, monitoring and feasibility required to create an implementation plan for safely raising water tables in lowland peat soils. Each plan must promote a change in water management that enables more sustainable land management activities at higher water tables within lowland peat soils and include plans for the long-term delivery of those outcomes.
Funding deadline: 26th June 2026
Theatres Trust Small Grants Scheme
Theatres Trust's Small Grants Programme, supported by The Linbury Trust, funds small projects that make a big impact on a theatre’s resilience, sustainability, accessibility or improving the diversity of audiences. This scheme provides grants of up to £7,500 for essential works to enable not-for-profit theatres across the UK to be viable and thrive in the future. Eligible projects include small capital works, the installation of key plant and machinery and works which make theatre buildings digital-ready. This scheme will prioritise improvements to buildings that protect theatre use and remove barriers to participation and attendance.
Funding deadline: 26th June 2026
Adamson Trust
The Adamson Trust is a small, independent, self-funded charitable organisation based in Crieff, Scotland, whose Trustees deliver the wishes of the founding donor, Agnes G Adamson. The Trust was constituted in 1949 to assist with part funding of holidays or respite breaks for children aged between 2 years and 17 years who suffer from life-limiting physical or mental health conditions. Fresh challenges have forced the charity to evolve, and the Trustees now consider applications on behalf of individuals, groups and other charitable organisations for assistance, awarding a modest sum to those successful applicants.
Funding deadlines: 30th June, 30th September 2026
The Britford Bridge Trust
The Trust was established by Adrian and Jane Frost in 2014 to formalise their long-standing charitable support. It is intended to be a permanent endowment to enable giving beyond the current generation. To date, the Trust has made more than 200 grants to a wide range of beneficiaries. The primary charitable purposes of the Trust are the prevention or relief of poverty; the advancement of education; the advancement of health or the saving of lives; and the advancement of the arts, culture, heritage, or science; however, any applicant must have national relevance.
Funding deadline: 30th June 2026
Depot Charging Scheme
The Depot Charging Scheme supports uptake of zero-emission HGVs, vans and coaches by part-funding the installation of charging infrastructure at fleet depots. The first application window runs from 25 March 2026 to 30 June 2026 (or earlier if funding is exhausted), and will fund 70% of charge point and civil costs, up to £1 million across all sites.
Funding deadline: 30th June 2026
Ouseley Church Music Trust
The objective of the charity is to promote and maintain to a high standard the choral services of the Church of England, the Church in Wales or the Church of Ireland (whether simple or elaborate) in such ways as the trustees think fit, including promoting the religious, musical and secular education of pupils attending any school in which instruction in the doctrines of any of the said churches is given and the performance of the liturgy is observed.
Funding deadline: 30th June 2026
Robert Clutterbuck Charitable Trust
The Trust exists to help other charities by making grants to them. It has set priorities and invites applications within those priority areas. In practice, the Trustees do not consider applications for payments to individuals and do not generally pay grants below £1000 or over £3000. The Trustees generally favour charities with an annual turnover of £500, 000 or less.
Funding deadline: 30th June 2026
Stafford Trust
The Stafford Trust was set up in 1991 by the late Mrs Gay Stafford of Sauchie Estate near Stirling and, on her death in 2005, the residue of her estate was bequeathed to the Trust.
The Trust does not actively fundraise but seeks to continue the philanthropic work desired by the late Mrs Stafford through the careful stewardship of its existing resources.
The Trust makes grants to charities from the income generated from the trust fund.
Funding deadline: 30th June 2026
Veterans' Foundation - Salary Grants
The Veterans’ Foundation provides grants to eligible organisations that assist in serving and former members of the armed forces community, operational-qualified seafarers and their immediate families. The trustees will consider a range of factors, including the projects or items being funded, the number of beneficiaries, the importance of the grant to the applicant organisation, the efficiency of the organisation, and the needs of the beneficiaries.
Funding deadline: 30th June 2026
Veterans' Foundation - Standard Grants
The Veterans’ Foundation provides grants to eligible organisations that assist in serving and former members of the armed forces community, operational-qualified seafarers and their immediate families. The trustees will consider a range of factors, including the projects or items being funded, the number of beneficiaries, the importance of the grant to the applicant organisation, the efficiency of the organisation, and the needs of the beneficiaries.
Funding deadline: 30th June 2026
Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Foundation - Small Change Big Difference Fund
Through the Small Change Big Difference® Fund, trustees consider nominations to charities providing urgent support or relief to those experiencing financial hardship, to enable them to address immediate needs. In moving to one aligned priority, the trustees hope funding will focus on supporting charities that provide urgent support or relief to those experiencing financial hardship, deepening the financial resilience of our communities.
Funding deadlines: 30th June, 30th September, 31st December 2026
Wolfson Foundation
The Wolfson Foundation wants to contribute to the health, resilience and variety of our society. We believe that supporting education — in its broadest sense and across the life course — is a key way to do that. Their aim is also to promote excellence in the areas we fund. They often make grants to act as a catalyst to generate more support and help to attract funding to areas that may otherwise be under-resourced. They are keen to encourage applications from parts of the UK where we have traditionally received fewer applications or where there are few other sources of funding.
Funding deadline: 1st July 2026
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Weaver's Company Benevolent Fund
The Weavers’ Company Benevolent Fund was set up in 1973, succeeding an existing charitable fund. We decided that the Fund’s principal aim should be to support people in trouble, particularly ex-offenders and young people involved in the Criminal Justice System. Preference is given to pump-priming new projects, especially those that are innovative and can serve as a model elsewhere.
Funding deadline: 2nd July 2026
National Churches Trust - Large Grants Programme
National Churches Trust wants to keep the UK’s wonderful collection of church buildings well-maintained, valued and in use. Working on the ground in all four nations, we support churches of all denominations. Our vision is to see open churches thriving at the heart of their communities.
Funding deadline: 7th July 2026
Wolfson Fabric Repair Grants
Wolfson Fabric Repairs Grants are awarded by the National Churches Trust on behalf of the Wolfson Foundation. The aim of the grant is to support the conservation and restoration of places of worship with outstanding historic and architectural significance. Churches of any Christian denomination can apply for grants of up to £15,000 to support repairs to the fabric of their buildings such as roof repairs, masonry repairs, rainwater disposal and drainage, and floorwork.
Funding deadline: 7th July 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
Tree Production Capital Grant (TPCG)
The TPCG is a competitive grant, which provides funding to help tree nurseries and seed suppliers invest in projects that improve, expand, automate or mechanise their operations. The funding aims to increase the resilience and productivity of the UK’s tree production sector enabling a reliable supply of diverse, biosecure and high-quality trees to England.
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 deadlines: 10th July, 30th November 2026
Armed Forces Families Fund: Early Years Programme
Under this programme, the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust will award grants of between £5,000 and £80,000 on behalf of the MOD’s Armed Forces Families Fund Early Years programme, towards projects lasting up to two years, which help enhance early childhood education and childcare settings to meet specific needs of young children from armed forces families.
Funding deadline: 15th July 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
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 Deadline: 31st 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
Ulverscroft Foundation
The Ulverscroft Foundation is a UK based charity offering grants to organisations looking for help with projects relating to improving the quality of life of visually impaired people.
Funding is mainly given to organisations directly helping the visually impaired, including libraries, schools, colleges and hospitals, charities, CICs or social groups Funding can be considered from UK or overseas-based organisations.
Funding deadlines: 15th September 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 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.
Equipment deadline: 5th October 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 Deadline: 31st October 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
Chrysalis Trust
The Chrysalis Trust was established in 2009 and makes grants to UK registered charities and other organisations that carry out charitable activities providing public benefit. They focus on less popular and harder to fund projects and with a spread of funding between local (North-East England), National (providing benefit across the UK) and International projects. The trust provides support for both capital projects and core funding
Funding deadlines: 15th December 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.
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT)
The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) is an independent trust which makes grants to organisations and individuals working to produce positive social change through their charitable work. Their mission is to support people who address the root causes of conflict and injustice. Every year JRCT makes more than 100 grants for all kinds of charitable work, from grassroots community groups to well-established charities working to build a peaceful and just world.
They make grants via five funding programmes: Power and Accountability, Peace and Security, Rights and Justice, Sustainable Future and Northern Ireland.
This support is provided, primarily, through funding applied for by applicants.
We draw our income from a responsibly invested endowment. We don’t fundraise.
Applications for the small grants scheme can be submitted at any time.
