Your latest round up of current funding opportunities includes a housebuilding firm supporting community groups, grants to improve access to nature, and an employment website’s focus on small charities.

Your weekly guide to current funding opportunities is below
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Nationwide

Who: Scops Arts Trust
How much: Up to £15,000
To Note:Applications are invited for funding to support children and young people's music education. This funder has limited resources and its office is only open for the equivalent of one day a week.
How to apply: For more details click here
Deadline: 5pm 23 September

Who: John Lewis Partnership Foundation
How much: Up to 20,000
To Note:This fund focuses on supporting charities that help care experienced people to improve their lives and support their employability. Grants will be in the range of £5,000 to £20,000 and the Foundation says the majority of funding will be smaller grants to small charities.
How to apply: For more details click here
Deadline: 5pm, 25 September

NEW
Who: CharityJob
How much: Up to £20,000
To Note: This online charity job search organisation is offering small charities the chance to share £70,000 in funding this year. Grants will be in the range of £5,000 to £20,000. Charities with 50 or fewer employees and an annual income of less than £1m are urged to apply.
How to apply: For more details click here.
Deadline: 26 September



Who: Forrester Family Foundation
How much: Up to £40,000
To Note: For charities that are working to support those facing financial hardship, health and social inequality and threats to their freedom. Grants of up to £40,000 are available for the funder's theme for 2025 of rehabilitating offenders. This is for charities with an income of less than £5m a year.
How to apply: For more details click here
Deadline: 30 September

Who: The Gillian Stevenson Charitable Trust (Gilly's) - Small Grant's Programme
How much: Up to £5,000
To note: For charities with an income of £100,000 or less working to improve the lives of children, young people, families and adults who are disadvantaged due to illness, disability or circumstance
How to apply:For more details and to apply, click here
Deadline: Midnight, 5 October 2025

NEW
Who: The Wildlife Trusts
How much: Up to £25,000
To note: The Wildlife Trusts is to distribute grants to small charities towards nature recovery and improving access to nature. The money has been made available through the People’s Postcode Lottery. “Whether your group would like to create a community wildlife garden, buy an electric mini-bus to take a disabled group birdwatching or to buy the equipment needed for their volunteers to do regular beach cleans, we want to hear from them all,” said The Wildlife Trusts’ head of grants Cath Hare.
How to apply:For more details and to apply, click here
Deadline: 8 October

NEW
Who: Miller Homes
How much: Up to £2,000
To note: This housebuilder’s Community Fund is offering grants to community groups of between £250 and £2,000 to “help enhance the lives of individuals and the areas in which they live”. The fund has a focus on funding groups supporting education, wellbeing, the environment and participation in sport. Applications will be reviewed by employee volunteers knowns as Community Fund Ambassadors.
How to apply:For more details and to apply, click here
Deadline: 15 October

Who: Churchill Fellowship
How much: Funding for an 4-8 week international research period, in person or online
To note: Provides funding for around 100 individuals with an idea for change to spend 4 - 8 weeks learning from leading practitioners worldwide – in person or online – to use that experience to drive change in the UK. Open to UK citizens over 18.
How to apply: For more information and to apply click here
Deadline: 4 November 2025.

Who: Warburtons Community Grants
How much: Up to £400
To note: The scheme prioritises support in three areas; health, place and skills in ways which ultimately focus on supporting families.
How to apply:For more details and to apply, click here
Deadline: 4 November 2025

Who: Cash4Clubs
How much: Up to £2,000
To Note:A total of £500,000 is being made available to 250 community sports clubs in UK and Ireland through this fund, amid concerns that more than two in five clubs are cancelling services due to a lack of funding. It is being launched by betting firm Flutter UK & Ireland and promotion of this grassroots sports funding is being fronted by former England footballers Alan Shearer and Peter Crouch.
How to apply: For more details click here.
Deadline: 8 December



Who: National Lottery Awards for All England - Environment
How much: £300 - £20,000 for up to two years
To note: Funding supports community-led projects that improve the environment and help people connect with nature locally. This includes new or ongoing activities, one-off events, and initiatives that tackle environmental challenges and foster local engagement with nature.
How to apply:For more details and to apply, click here
Deadline: 17 December 2025

Who: National Lottery Community Fund - Climate Action Fund
How much: £500,000 - no maximum
To note: Supports partnership-led projects across the UK that tackle climate change and promote long-term, sustainable action. Funding prioritises initiatives that engage new audiences—especially those facing poverty, discrimination, or disadvantage—and link climate action to everyday life. Projects must show potential for lasting impact, be scalable or replicable, and involve diverse partners, not just climate-focused organisations.
How to apply:For more details and to apply, click here
Deadline: 17 December 2025

England

Who:Groundwork and Comic Relief
How much: Up to £5,000
To Note:This fund is available to community-led organisations in England with an annual income of less than £250,000 that support people living in, or at risk of, poverty or hardship. It can be used for direct project costs or to support core running expenses, or a combination of both. Typical recipients are likely to be foodbanks, community kitchens, homelessness shelters, advice organisations and health outreach projects. Community group support organisation Groundwork has worked with Comic Relief for the last six years.
How to apply: For more details click here
Deadline:6 October

Who: National Lottery Community Fund - The Million Hours Fund
How much: £30,000 to £100,000
To note: Funds projects for young people aged 10–18 (up to 25 with SEND) at risk of anti-social behaviour. Must expand youth work hours, involve young people in planning, be open access, and be led by trusted adults. Aims to improve wellbeing, life skills, safety, and access to supportive relationships.
How to apply:For more details and to apply, click here
Deadline: 22 October 2025

Who: Redrow Eastern Community Fund
How much: Up to £12,000
To note: Funding for organisations to support local groups, organisations and good causes across Essex, Suffolk, and Hertfordshire
For specific areas; Essex, Suffolk and Hertfordshire
How to apply:For more details and to apply, click here
Deadline: 12am, 30 September 2025

NEW
Who: Oxfordshire Community Foundation
How much: Up to £20,000
To note: This local funder is launched a new round of its community capacity funding, to help the county’s adult residents to live independently and to support their health needs, after receiving £520,000 from Oxfordshire County Council. Grants of between £5,000 and £20,000 are available and can cover running, capital or promotional costs or be used towards projects.
How to apply:For more details and to apply, click here
Deadline: 12noon, 15 October

NEW
Who: Point North
How much: Up to £25,000
To note: This funder has launched two strands to its Public Health Thriving Together Fund, which supports good health and wellbeing in County Durham. The first offers small grants of between £2,000 and £5,000, while the second offers large grants of between £5,000 and £25,000.
How to apply:For more details and to apply, click here
Deadline: 23 November

Scotland

Who: Scottish Building Society Foundation
How much: Up to £5,000
To Note: Funding to provide financial support to charities and community groups. Issues of interest to this funder include community support, such as transport and affordable housing; youth and education including training; and promoting care and support of vulnerable people, such as tackling isolation.
How to apply: For more details and to apply, click here
Deadline: 29th September 2025

Wales

Who: Volunteering Wales Main Grant Scheme
How much: Up to £25,000 in development funding, after using the funding can apply for up to £2m for up to six years.
To note: This funding aims to improve children and their caregivers’ health and wellbeing in Wales. It is looking for projects that do this by helping them connect with the natural environment.
How to apply:For more details and to apply, click here
Deadline: 24 October 2025

Who: National Lottery Community Fund - Meithrin Natur
How much: Up to £30,000 per year over a maximum of two years
To note: The scheme will focus on projects that tackle barriers to volunteering, give a positive experience for the volunteer and have a long-lasting impact on the community.
How to apply:For more details and to apply, click here
Deadline: 12pm, 1 December 2025

For funders with rolling deadlines, visit the below websites

B&Q Foundation

Making a Difference Locally (Nisa stores)

Masonic Charitable Foundation

The National Lottery Community Fund

Oak Trust

Tesco Stronger Starts

If you would like to be featured here as a funder, email melissa.moody@charitytimes.com

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