Funding

Big Give's Christmas Challenge

Big Give's Christmas Challenge is the UK’s biggest match funded campaign. For seven days, supporters of participating charities can double their donations and, in doing so, make an extraordinary difference to the world’s biggest challenges.

Applications for Christmas Challenge 2024 open now and close on 5 July 2024, 5pm.

Why charities should get involved:

Synergi Fund Round 2: Democratising Policy

Synergi’s fund will work to support grassroots campaigning at the intersection between abolition, mental health and racial justice.

This fund will be for up to £5,000 to build power and take collective action on mental health and racial justice within an abolitionist framework.   

The Small Grants Fund is to support groups led by and for those racialised as BPoC, and have been harmed by/working on:

Nourish the Nation

Sainsbury’s Nourish the Nation programme, in partnership with Comic Relief, aims to tackle food poverty by helping people access the balanced, nutritional, and sustainable food they need, right now and in the future. The aim of the Fund is to provide school children (up to Year 11) with improved access to summer holiday activity and food schemes.

Nourish the Nation is offering 22 awards of £10,000 in the Greater Manchester area.

Forever Manchester Awards

The Forever Manchester Awards is now open for applications from grassroots community groups in Greater Manchester and is offering awards of up to £1,000.

Forever Manchester believes that connected communities make stronger, happier communities, so we love any activity that brings people together. Forever Manchester Awards support groups to run activities that do just this.

B&Q Foundation Grants

The funding is intended for registered charities working with people in need (by reason of financial hardship, sickness, disability, other disadvantage or distress) in the UK and who need funding for the following:

  • Projects that provide, maintain, repair or improve housing or community space
  • Supporting people experiencing poor housing or homelessness

 UK registered charities based and working in the UK can apply.

The following organisations can apply:

Topics

Sport England – Movement Fund

The new £160 million, four-year Movement Fund offers grants of between £300 and £15,000, crowdfunding pledges, and resources to improve physical activity opportunities for the people and communities who need it the most across England.

The new fund replaces Sport England’s existing Small Grants Programme, which is now closed to applications, and Active Together fund, which will close soon.

Tesco Community Pledge

Tesco and easyfundraising have come together for the second time to give a helping hand to voluntary groups, charities, and CICs working tirelessly to keep up with spiraling costs and rising demand. They will donate £1,000 funding pots to 5 community organisations this May.

For a chance to receive £1000 for your community organisation, follow these simple steps:  

Wellbeing of Women: Women’s Health Community Fund

Working in partnership with Holland & Barrett, the charity Wellbeing of Women is offering grants of up to £5,000 to small, grassroots organisations and community groups to deliver health information and support to women, girls and people from underrepresented groups in the UK.

The funding is for projects that address the following key points:

SPAR Community Cashback

For a third year in a row, SPAR shoppers can apply for a grant of up to £10,000 for a local voluntary or community organisation or charity they feel deserves funding.

Applicants for grants are open to UK residents (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland mainland only) aged 16 years or over.

All applicants need to do is share the exceptional contribution that a local organisation has made to their local community and what the grant would be used for.

The Skelton Charity

The Skelton Charity is a charitable trust empowered to make grants only to legally constituted charities established in Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside, including the unitary authorities of Blackpool, Blackburn, Warrington and Halton.

Although the Trustees enjoy complete discretion when considering applications, they are inclined to favour applications for: