Here is a selection of current funding opportunities open for applications.
Moondance Covid-19 Relief Fund
The Moondance Foundation has made additional funds available specifically to support organisations to continue their operations during the coronavirus crisis.
The foundation will consider applications for:
- Staff retention
- Current activities and services in jeopardy
- Evolution of services to adapt to the current crisis.
The Yapp Charitable Trust Grants
The Yapp Charitable Trust is providing grants for running costs and salaries to small registered charities in England and Wales to help sustain their existing work.
Small charities tackling the impact of the coronavirus can apply for funding to go towards their ongoing core costs.
Steve Morgan Foundation
In response to the Coronavirus pandemic, the Steve Morgan Foundation wants to support charities and not for profit companies based in north Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire. The fund is open to support charities that are losing fundraising revenue because of the virus.
Wales Coronavirus Resilience Fund
A Community Foundation Wales fund to assist groups and organisations that are adapting their services and support to individuals and families, whether singly or collectively, affected by coronavirus. The fund is providing support for ongoing needs of vulnerable people to ensure that their health and well-being is maintained.
Grants of between £500 and £2,000 are available to groups with an annual income of up to £200,000. Grants of up to £5,000 are also available for groups with an annual income of between £201,000 and £500,000.
Tesco Bags of Help COVID-19 Communities Fund
Tesco Bags of Help is providing a single payment of £500 to organisations who are supporting vulnerable groups.
The fund is prioritising organisations:
- Whose need for services has been disrupted
- Require new services to be put in place.
Third sector resilience fund for Wales
Working with Welsh Government, Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA) has introduced the Third sector resilience fund for Wales to provide cash flow support to help incorporated voluntary sector organisations through the current crisis.
It will involve a blend of 75 percent grant and 25 percent initially interest free loan. Organisations can apply for up to £75,000 and it can be put towards costs of ongoing revenue expenditure, including salaries.
Voluntary services emergency fund
The WCVA has introduced the Voluntary services emergency fund to help those providing vital support to groups such as people struggling to access food.
Grants wil support not for profit organisations working at a community scale up to a national level in Wales and can be between £10,000 and £100,000.
The grant’s aims include:
- Maintaining or increasing activities that support the vulnerable during the coronavirus pandemic
- Ensuring third/voluntary sector organisations have the resources needed to deliver vital services for their communities.
Community COVID-19 Emergency Funding
Pen y Cymoedd Wind Farm Community Fund is making emergency, fast-track funding available for organisations in Neath, Afan, Rhondda and Cynon Valleys area. The funding is divided into two strands:
- Survival Fund – providing emergency cashflow funding for organisations at risk of closure
- Project Fund – supporting additional services that meet immediate community needs.
Les Mills Fund for Children
The Les Mills Fund for Children is open to registered charities and accountable non-profit organisations who have improved the education and physical and emotional well-being of children aged 0 to 16.
Grant of up to £1000 are available.
Closing dates for applications: 28 April, 5 June, 17 November 2020
Magic Little Grants 2020
The Postcode Community Trust and Local Giving are offering grants of £500 to community projects across Great Britain through the Magic Little Grants 2020 programme.
Successful projects will support and inspire people to participate in sports or physical activity with the primary aim of improving the physical health of participants.
Closing date for applications: 31 October 2020
National Lottery Awards for All Wales
National Lottery Awards for All Wales is looking to fund projects that bring people together and build strong relationships in and across communities. Also, it wants to fund projects that improve the places and spaces that matter to communities. Grants vary from £300 to £10,000.
Who can apply?
- Voluntary or community organisations
- Registered charities
- Constituted groups or clubs
- Not-for-profit companies or Community Interest Companies
- Schools
- Statutory bodies.
The Thomas Howell’s Education Fund for North Wales
Schools and organisations who work with disadvantaged children and young people (school age to under 25) can apply for The Thomas Howell’s Education Fund for North Wales grants. The charity considers funding applications three times per year.
Grants are considered to improve educational opportunities available to young people in any of the six counties of north Wales (Anglesey, Gwynedd, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham):
- who are disadvantaged due to financial hardship
- who are disabled
- who have low aspirations, excluded, at risk or with lack of opportunity.
The Ragdoll Foundation – Open Grants Scheme
The Ragdoll Foundation’s Open Grants Scheme supports organisations working with children and young people using the arts and creative media. Grants of up to £50,000 are available but the majority of grants will be between £5,000 and £20,000.
The Foundation looks to support projects that:
- evidence the power of arts and creativity and their transformative power for children and young people
- promote children’s development through their imaginative thinking
- ensure effective evaluation of projects to promote sharing and learning
- demonstrate how the concerns of children can be heard.
The Ragdoll Foundation is interested in funding projects that will benefit children up to 10 years old but will consider projects that benefit young people up to 18 years old.
Track 2000 Grant Legacy Fund
Track 2000 provides grants for registered small charities and voluntary groups who make a difference to individuals, families and communities in south Wales. Track 2000 can fund a project or organisation with between £5,000 to £35,000 for revenue or capital costs. Projects can last for up to two years.
Grants are available for:
- Education and training
- Environmental improvements
- Strengthening disadvantaged communities.
The Steve Morgan Foundation
The Steve Morgan Foundation supports projects that have a positive effect on people’s welfare or quality of life in North Wales, Merseyside, Cheshire and North Shropshire.
The Foundation offers a Main Grant Programme providing support to charities, organisations and community groups which help: children and families, the elderly, those with disabilities and the socially isolated.
For more information email or call 01829 782808
Foyle Foundation
The Foyle Foundation’s Small Grants Scheme is designed to support smaller charities in the UK, especially those working at grass roots and local community level, in any field, across a wide range of activities.
The Foyle Foundation plans to make one year grants of between £1,000 and £10,000 for core costs, equipment or project funding to charities which can show that such a grant will make a significant difference to their work.
Carriers for Causes
The One Stop’s ‘Carriers for Causes’ grants programme is funded through the money raised from the 5p bag charge in One Stop stores in England, Wales and Scotland. Grants of up to £1,000 are available for projects that benefit local communities within two miles of a One Stop store in Great Britain.
Projects must meet at least one of the following outcomes:
- Improving the lives of young people
- Improving the lives of the elderly
- Promoting physical activity
- Improving health or well being
- Increasing community safety
- Protecting or improving the local environment.
Examples of eligible projects include, but are not limited to:
- One off community events such as community fun day expenses, summer youth camp, day trips costs for community based clubs or organisations
- Purchasing items to run a project such as specialised medical equipment, arts and craft materials for a workshop, marketing materials for an event
- Improvements to community buildings such as painting, refurbishing buildings such as scout or guide huts, or community centres.
This is a rolling programme, and applications will be accepted throughout the year.
Tesco Bags of Help
Bags of Help is Tesco’s local community grant scheme is being used to fund thousands of community projects across the UK. Bags of Help is now is always open to applications from community projects.
Following a shortlisting process three local community projects will be voted on in Tesco stores each month throughout England, Scotland and Wales. In each region, the project that received the most votes from all stores in their region will receive a grant of up to £5000. The second placed project receives up to £2000 and third placed up to £1000. Grants will be awarded to voluntary or community organisations (including registered charities/companies), schools, Parish/Town Councils and local authorities, and social housing providers.
Viridor and Prosiect Gwyrdd Community Fund
Community schemes across South Wales will be able to tap into a £50,000 funding pot every year over the next 25 years through a new green partnership. Viridor, the firm working with the 'Prosiect Gwyrdd' council partnership, has announced the launch of a new Community Fund to support projects across Caerphilly, Cardiff, Monmouthshire, Newport and Vale of Glamorgan.
Community associations and projects can apply for up to £3000.
Biffa Award
Biffa Award provides funding under the Recreation theme to projects that transform open spaces for the benefit of the community, providing them with more opportunities to become involved in recreational activity.
Examples of projects that fall under this category are green spaces, woodland walks, play areas, sports facilities and community gardens.
Small grants of between £250 and £10,000 available.
The Yapp Charitable Trust
The Trust funds categories such as work with: elderly people; children and young people; people with disabilities or mental health problems; people trying to overcome problems such as addiction, abuse, relationship problems, a history of offending; and lifelong learning.
Applicants must have charitable status, have been constituted and operating for at least three years, and a normal turnover of less than £40,000 per year.
Awards grants up to £3,000 per year for up to three years
Garfield Weston Foundation
The Foundation provides funding for projects in the UK in the general fields of: education; arts; health; community; youth; religion and welfare. There are no specific priorities for funding and a wide range of charitable activity is supported.
The Foundation awards grants upwards of £1,000
Marsh Christian Trust
Grants of £250 to £4,000 are available to help small organisations across the UK to pay for various running costs, such as: volunteer expenses, training days and equipment maintenance.
The Trust is interested in funding charities working in the fields of:
- Literature, arts and heritage
- Social welfare
- Environmental and animal welfare
- Education and training
- Healthcare.
The Trust funds registered charities with an annual income of less than £250,000 that have been established for more than one financial year.
True Colours Trust UK Small Grants Programme
Grants of up to £10,000 are available for small charities and projects in the UK working to support disabled children and their families on a daily basis.
The Trustees would like to support:
- Specialised play equipment / access to play and leisure
- Hydrotherapy pools
- Multi-sensory rooms
- Mini buses
- Sibling projects
- Bereavement support
- Family support / parent-led peer support.