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.
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.
Application Date: 11th August - 10th November 2026
The British Council
The British Council is offering funding to support artistic collaboration and exchange between the UK and selected countries across Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand. The Connections Through Culture grants programme encourages partnerships, cross-cultural exchange and long-term collaboration between the UK and participating countries.
The programme supports creative practitioners, cultural professionals, artists, creative hubs, festivals, biennials, and organisations to deliver collaborative projects across a wide range of themes and art forms. This includes: architecture, design, fashion and craft, creative technology, including digital arts, XR/immersive, and games, film, literature, music, theatre and dance, and visual arts.
Funding deadline: 12th August 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
Men's Health Community Fund
Movember is committing £3 million to support up to 15 grants of up to three years. Grants of £150,000 - £300,000 are available to voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations in England delivering community-led, non-clinical initiatives that strengthen social connection as a pathway to improving young men’s mental health and encouraging earlier help-seeking.
This opportunity is for voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations in England already working with young men aged 16 - 35 who face barriers to accessing support.
Funding deadline: 31st 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
City Bridge Foundation - Climate and Environmental Justice
The programme will support community-led work that tackles the unfair effects of climate change and environmental problems in London. This includes issues such as heat, damp, flooding and pollution. The fund is aimed at organisations that are based in, led by, or closely connected to communities most affected by these problems. This includes low-income communities and communities facing wider inequalities.
Funding deadlines: 8th September 2026
LLoyds Bank - Good Place to Live New Beginnings
Through this fund, they are focusing on four major life moments where the evidence shows people face a heightened risk of homelessness. They want to back organisations that provide the right support at the right time, to help people before they reach crisis point.
We’re funding work that supports people who are leaving:
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Prison
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The care system
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An Abusive relationship
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The asylum system on securing the right to remain
Funding deadline: 9th September 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
Charles Hayward Foundation
The grants support projects aimed at preventing criminal activity and rehabilitating offenders. Charities with an annual income between £350,000 and £4 million are eligible for Main Grants of £15,000 to £25,000 per annum, for up to three years. Smaller charities with incomes under £350,000 are encouraged to apply through the Foundation’s separate Small Grant programme.
The funding supports programmes that deliver early intervention for vulnerable families, diversionary projects for at-risk youth, particularly girls and young women, and rehabilitation schemes that bridge prison and community life. Priority is given to initiatives supporting victims of domestic abuse and criminal exploitation, as well as those offering viable alternatives to custody.
Funding deadlines: 18th September 2026
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 September, 20th December 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
Postcode Neighbourhood Trust
Grants of up to £50,000 are available from Postcode Neighbourhood Trust for charities and good causes in the north of England. The Trust awards funding raised by players of the Postcode Lottery and supports hundreds of local organisations each year.
Funding is for organisations whose core work fits one of four themes: enabling participation in the arts; preventing or reducing poverty; supporting marginalised groups and tackling inequality; improving mental health.
Funding deadlines: Round 3 opens at 9am on 24 September 2026 and closes at 12 noon on 1 October 2026.
Groundwork Grassroot Grants
Groundwork is working with Postcode Lottery for a third year to deliver Grassroots Grants. This year, the programme will provide unrestricted funding of up to £2,000 to 700 small, local organisations in England that are making a positive difference in their communities.
Funding can be used for core organisational costs that support the important work organisations deliver in their communities. The funding offered is unrestricted and therefore flexible and can be used where it is most needed.
Funding deadline: 30th September 2026
The Co-operative Bank Customer Donation Fund
The scheme, which supports grassroots initiatives, is open to organisations with a Co-operative Bank Charity or Community Directplus account.
To apply, organisations must show how their proposed activity will benefit the local community and demonstrate clear outcomes. Applications are assessed on community benefit, need, and impact.
Applications received before the 30th of September 2026 are entered into October’s prize draw.
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 September 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 September, 31st December 2026
The Nuffield Foundation
The fund supports research on racial diversity in the UK, with the 2026 priority theme focusing on inter-generational changes, continuities and challenges in a racially diverse UK. Projects may examine issues such as identity and belonging, exclusion, aspirations and values, civic and political participation, and life chances. Funding can support projects that: contribute to public debate, policy or practice on racial inequalities, discrimination and disadvantage; map pathways towards a UK that benefits from growing racial diversity; use any methodological approach, including applied and participatory research.
Outline application deadline is 5 October 2026, with shortlisted applicants invited to submit full applications in January 2027
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
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: 23rd 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
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: 30th November 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.
BBC Children in Need - Emergency Essentials
BBC Children in Need has announced that its Emergency Essentials programme has reopened for applications. Through the programme, grants are available to support children and young people in the UK experiencing a crisis or emergency.
Applications can be made at any time.
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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Bailey Thomas
UK charities can apply for grants to help children and adults suffering severe learning difficulties, including autism. The funding can be used to purchase equipment, support capital works, and cover project and core costs.
The Fund does not currently accept appeals from Community Interest Companies. There are two funding programmes. The main programme is for grants of £9,000 or more, and a small grants programme for appeals below £9,000.
Applications can be made at any time.
Angus Irvine Playing Fields Fund
The fund, administered by Access Sport, aims to increase the opportunities for young people in disadvantaged areas to playsport.
Projects should focus on including young people (up to the age of 18) who would otherwise be excluded from sports such as: disadvantaged young people, women and girls, young people from minority ethnic communities, young offenders and those at risk of offending.
School projects or school facility improvements will be considered for funding if there is significant community involvement.
Larger grants may be possible in some circumstances.
Applications can be made at any time.
Contact: Aipff@AccessSport.org.uk
Speech Language and Hearing Foundation
The Speech Language and Hearing Foundation has announced funding to support education, therapy and research aimed at improving the lives of children facing communication challenges and complex developmental needs across the United Kingdom.
The Foundation provides grants to small UK-based charities working with children who have hearing impairments, speech delays, language and communication difficulties, or broader complex needs. In addition to direct educational and therapeutic support, funding is also available for medical innovation and research initiatives that advance understanding and treatment in these areas.
Award Amount between £500 and £15,000
Applications can be made at any time.
Mercers Company
Not for profit, community led organisations in London that address one or both of the following priorities can receive grants:
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combatting loneliness faced by older people
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combatting poverty faced by older people
Those living in Black or ethnic minoritised communites, LGBTQ+ communities, disadvantaged neighbourhoods, informal carers and people living with long-term conditions have been identified as priorities.
Award Amount between £50,000 and £120,000
Applications can be made at any time.
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.
Mercers Company
Not for profit, community led organisations in London that address one or both of the following priorities can receive grants:
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combatting loneliness faced by older people
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combatting poverty faced by older people
Those living in Black or ethnic minoritised communites, LGBTQ+ communities, disadvantaged neighbourhoods, informal carers and people living with long-term conditions have been identified as priorities.
Applications can be made at any time and are reviewed at a monthly basis.
The Souter Charitable Trust
The Souter Charitable Trust invites applications from UK-registered charities that work to relieve human suffering in the UK and overseas. The Trust particularly supports organisations with a Christian ethos, although charities without a Christian emphasis are also welcome to apply.
The Trust works with organisations that share its values and aims to support vulnerable and underserved communities. Funding is intended to help charities provide practical assistance and improve both physical and spiritual wellbeing.
Award Amount between £1,000 and £3,000
Applications can be made at any time and are reviewed at a monthly basis.
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.
