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Charles Hayward Foundation

The Charles Hayward Foundation is a charitable trust that make grants to UK charities and charitable organisations. The Foundation sees the value in supporting activities which have been demonstrated to work and can be replicated. They predominantly fund capital costs. Occasionally, project funding may be offered for start-up or development activities where these are not part of the ongoing revenue requirement of the organisation. They place great emphasis on funding projects that are developmental or innovative. They also value projects that are preventive or provide early intervention. Their preferred area of impact is at the community and neighbourhood level.

Abbey Charitable Trust

Abbey Charitable Trust is committed to supporting local communities and disadvantaged people, particularly in those areas where Abbey has a significant prescence. They can only fund projects that meet one (or more) of the following three priorities to help disadvantaged people: education and training; financial advice to help people manage their money; community regeneration. Most awards will be between £500 and £4000. However, in those areas where they have a Community Partnership Group you can apply for up to £20,000 (Camden, Milton Keynes, Bradford, Sheffield, Teesside, Glasgow, Belfast). Click on the link above.

Allen Lane Foundation

The Allen Lane Foundation no longer has closing dates. The Foundation wishes to fund work which will make a lasting difference to people's lives, is aimed at reducing isolation, stigma and discrimination, and encourages or enables unpopular groups to share in the life of the whole community. The Foundation is interested in funding work which benefits people in the following groups, or work which includes significant numbers from more than one group: asylum-seekers and refugees; gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender people; gypsies and travellers; offenders and ex-offenders; older people; people from black and minority ethnic communities and migrant workers; people experiencing mental health problems; people experiencing violence or abuse. If the beneficiaries of your work do not include a significant proportion of people from one or more of these groups it is very unlikely that your application will be successful. The Foundation is particularly interested in unusual, imaginative or pioneering projects. The grants are relatively modest and to make sure that grants of this size have an impact the Foundation will not fund larger organisations.

Baring Foundation

The Strengthening the Voluntary Sector - independence grants programme for 2008 is now open. This year the focus is on advice and advocacy organisations working in the cities of Bristol, Coventry, Manchester or Sheffield, or in the counties of Kent or Lincolnshire.

Big Lottery Fund: Awards for All

Awards for All is a Lottery grants scheme for local communities. There are different schemes for each of the four countries of the UK. Grants range from £300 to £10,000. For more information call the helpline on 0845 600 2040, or click on the link above.

Big Lottery Fund: People and Places - Wales

With £66 million to give out in Wales between 2006 and 2009, the People and Places programme aims to bring people together to make their communities stronger and to improve their rural and urban environments. This programme will support people working together to make their communities better places to live. It will support local and regional projects and projects that work throughout Wales. People and Places can fund projects that achieve one or more of the following programme outcomes: revitalised communities; improved community relations; enhanced local environments and community amenities. This programme will be open to the community, voluntary and public sector.

Big Research Programme

The Big Lottery Fund will provide up to £25 million in the UK over 2007-2009 to fund social and medical research grants in the UK. The aim is to influence local and national policy and practice by funding the Third Sector to produce and disseminate evidence based knowledge. Only organisations from the voluntary and community sector will be eligible to apply for funding. The voluntary and community sector will be encouraged to link up with universities and the wider research community, but universities themselves will be ineligible to apply for funding. Help will be available to organisations that wish to do research, so that they have the skills and expertise to lead an application. This support is to be delivered by Third Sector First. A series of seminars for organisations interested in applying to the BIG Research programmed will be held early in 2008. Click on the link above.

Boots Charitable Trust

The Trust's charitable giving focuses on organisations benefiting the county of Nottinghamshire and the neighbouring borough of Erewash. The Trust's funding priorities are as follows: Health; Lifelong Learning; Community Development; Social Care (including family support groups); Social Preventive Schemes; Community Social Activities. For more information email.

BT Community Website Builder

BT Community Website Builder allows registered UK charities, non-profit making organisations and volunteer led groups or organisations to build and maintain their own website free of charge, all you need is a computer, an internet connection and a web browser. This scheme is operated by BT Volunteering and IK Software Limited. To qualify for use of the free service your organisation must be from the UK, be providing a clear benefit to the local community, and be one of the following: Registered charity, Non-profit making organisation, Volunteer led group or organisation.

Campaign for Learning

Runs the Family Fusion project, funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, providing free advice and support to develop family learning opportunities. They offer help with accessing funding and creating new provision for the families in your area. For further information phone 0121 773 3133.

Charities Information Bureau

The Charities Information Bureau website has been improved, extended and badged as fit4funding. The website has moved from www.cibfunding.org.uk. The new website has even more information in the Help & Advice sections. All these pages are now downloadable in Acrobat pdf format for you to print out and use offline. You are encouraged to use this information to get help with the funding process.

Charity Bank

Charity Bank is extending its services by opening a Yorkshire and Humber branch. The Yorkshire and Humber business community has been invited to invest in a unique way to support local charities by depositing with the bank. The new branch, based in Leeds, is the first regional office of the national organisation, Charity Bank, set up to provide business support and affordable finance to those smaller charities and community groups that can’t typically get help. Charity Bank is the only regulated bank in the UK that is also a registered charity. As part of the programme of support, there will be a mentor scheme for charitable organisations, with a bank of volunteer business consultants from local firms who are able to give up some of their work time to provide practical support and guidance. Charity Bank is one way in which third sector organisations can gain a firm and sustainable financial footing.

City Parochial Foundation

Offers grants to registered charities or charitable organisations in the Metropolitan Police District of London that aim to tackle the causes of poverty and help poor Londoners to cope with and find ways out of poverty. In particular they want to fund work which helps by reducing or overcoming discrimination; isolation and violence.

Co-operative Foundation Community Support Programme

The Co-operative Foundation is keen to support community and voluntary sector activity through grants to local groups and organisations across its trading area (North West, South Cumbria, Yorkshire, North Midlands & Staffordshire, Northern Ireland, and North Wales). It is particularly interested in locally led and run groups which can demonstrate evidence of co-operative values and principles: self-help, equality, democracy, concern for the community. The community can be geographically based such as a village, town or housing estate, or could be a community of people brought together to address a specific issue. Grants are available for between £500 and £30,000. The Foundation has established objectives and assessment criteria for applicants. The next date for receipt of applications is 7 December.

Coalfields Regeneration Trust

The Coalfields Regeneration Trust gives grants to groups, organisations and agencies in England, Scotland and Wales who can show that their project or activity benefits a coalfield community. As a charity, the Trust will not usually support established private businesses. The Trust is always open to good ideas, but as a guideline, funded categories include: providing community support and facilities and life-long learning. If you are thinking of applying to the Trust, please contact your nearest Trust Office, where the Regeneration Manager can check your eligibility and give you advice on your application. For further information and regional contacts click on the link above.

Comic Relief

The programme areas for the 2005-2008 UK grants are: Young People; Older People; Mental Health; Refugees & Asylum Seekers; Domestic Violence and Disadvantaged Communities. Guidelines can be downloaded from the Comic Relief website on the link above.

Community Foundations

Community foundations are charities located across the UK dedicated to strengthening local communities, creating opportunites and tackling issues of disadvantage and exclusion. Community foundations target grants that make a genuine difference to the lives of local people. The Community Foundation Network (CFN) represents the community foundation movement in the UK. Their aim is to help clients create lasting value from their local giving through the network of community foundations. It is one of the largest funders of community organisations in the UK (making grants of over £70 million a year). All applications need to be made to a local foundation, they do not handle any grant applications at CFN's national office. Each community foundation has its own grant-making policy, criteria and time-scales for dealing with grant applications, drawn up to reflect community priorities.

Esmée Fairburn Foundation

Esmée Fairburn Foundation has launched a new funding approach. The majority of their funding will now be chanelled through the main fund which will be an open, less prescriptive way of working, through which they will listen to ideas. They expect to fund a wider range or work than before, although their core interests remain in the fields of culture, education, environment and social development. As part of their new funding approach they are running a number of smaller, more focused funding strands one of which is new approaches to learning - devising, testing and disseminating new approaches to teaching and learning that address current and future challenges in state schools and pre-schools. They plan to launch futher funding strands later in the year.

Garfield Weston Foundation

Founded in 1958 the Garfield Weston Foundation is a UK based, general grant-giving charity endowed by the late W Garfield Weston and members of his family. In the year ending April 2006, 1,533 grants were made and a total of £38 million distributed. Before applying for a grant, please see the various sections of their website, they think it gives a good overview of the type of activities that they fund and their grant-giving policy. Their recent rounds of funding have helped projects in the following categories: Arts; Community; Education; Welfare; Medical; Social; Religion; Youth; Environment. Details of larger grants are on their website. There are also pages describing examples of smaller projects they have funded. Call 020 7399 6565 or follow the link above for more details.

Give it Sum Fund North Staffordshire

Give It Sum is Robbie Williams' charitable fund which he set up in 2000 with the money he received from his Pepsi sponsorship deal. He asked Comic Relief to administer the Fund. The Fund will continue to target work in North Staffordshire. The Fund supports a broad range of self-help projects and voluntary groups, which address poverty, disadvantage and discrimination. They will give priority to local community groups, but will also consider applications from voluntary organisations with an income of less than £100,000 per year. They give grants for both running costs and capital costs. They can make grants for up to two years. Grants will not usually be more than £15,000 each year. However, the Trustees might give more to projects, which show new ideas or are likely to have a major impact.

HBOS Foundation

The HBOS Foundation operates as an independent company and works with charitable and not-for-profit organisations across the UK, supporting people and their local communities. They provide funding for both national and local projects. For more information and to apply click on the link above.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

JRF initiates programmes of research, commissioning and managing most projects, and disseminating the research findings to appropriate audiences to influence change. The Foundation seeks to fund research and development which has the capacity to change policy or practice for the better. The work is divided into a number of priority areas, each of which is supported by a specialist research committee. There are two core committees focusing on poverty and disadvantage, and on housing and neighbourhoods. There are also a number of themes and developments supported by committees which will fund projects for around three years. To date JRF Trustees have agreed to support work on drugs and alcohol; the governance of public services, differences in parenting, independent living and immigration and inclusion. Occasionally they will consider proposals arising from an unsolicited approach.

Kelly Family Charitable Trust

The Trust is interested in providing support to local community projects that will provide direct benefit to, and make a difference to, the lives of people in the immediate vicinity. The trust will consider both capital and revenue grants and is particularly interested in innovative projects and in projects that work in partnership with other local activities. The Trust will support applications for core funding from relatively new organisations to help them become established. Only registered charities need apply, there will be no grants to individuals, national charities or general appeals. Initial applications should be confined to two sides of A4 paper. The submission should outline: the history and purpose of the charity; the total cost of the activity for which the grant is required; the level of grant requested and on what it will be spent; amount of funding currently in place; how the project will benefit the community and how the results of the project will be measured. Applications should be supported by annual accounts where available. Grants will generally be given in the range of £1000-£5000 but will occasionally be in excess of that. Email applications to S Armstrong.

Leeds Building Society Charitable Foundation

Leeds Building Society Charitable Foundation was established by the Society in 1999 to support the communities around its nationwide network of branches by making donations to charities working in those areas. Applications will normally only be considered from registered charities. Generally, they will consider applications for community based projects which aim to provide relief of suffering, hardship or poverty, or their direct consequences. The project must operate in the area of one of their 57 branches. Church projects will be considered only where they involve community outreach and benefit, (for instance, supporting the homeless, disadvantaged families). Donations are normally in the range of £100 to £1000. The application must be for capital expenditure. In order to keep costs down, there is no application form. The Trustees meet quarterly in March, June, September and December.

Lloyds TSB Foundation

The Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales has unveiled a new look website with a clear step-by-step guide to the application process, a range of case studies and reports on current grants, and a new guide to generating publicity. The Foundation wants to make the application process very straightforward by providing as much information as possible. It supports charities that help disadvantaged people to play a fuller role in the community. Click on the link above.

Lottery Funding Website

Lottery Funding is a joint website run by all Lottery funders in the UK. This site allows you to search information on current funding programmes across the UK. The funding search will help you to find the funding programmes that best match your project. It will search programmes offered by Lottery funders that are currently open to applications. The funding search will take you through a series of four questions about: the location of your project; you the applicant; the project itself; the amount of money you are applying for.

Nationwide Foundation

The Nationwide Foundation has launched new funding criteria. The Foundation is providing grants of up to £1500 to registered charities, with incomes not exceeding £250,000, which support those affected by domestic violence. Preference is given to work which focuses on volunteers; black and minority ethnic (BME) groups; preventative measures, such as research programmes, courses, workshops, seminars; young people 0-18; mediation; peer support; local projects; collaborative projects; advocacy. The Foundation supports organisations nationwide, however any work supported needs to take place at a local level and not nationally.

The Nationwide Foundation is also offering grants to charities that support prisoners' families and for the rehabilitation of young offenders. The Small Grants Programme offers grants of up to £5000 to registered charities across the UK that have an income of under £500,000, click here for more information.

Prisoners' Families

The Nationwide Foundation is offering grants to charities that offer support for prisoners' families and for the rehabilitation of young offenders. The Small Grants Programme offers grants of up to £5000 to regsitered charities across the UK that have an income of under £500,000. Click on the link above.

ProHelp

ProHelp is a national network of over 1,000 professional firms - lawyers, accountants etc. - who give their time and expertise for free to local community groups and voluntary organisations.

Scurrah Wainwright Charity

The Scurrah Wainwright Charity funds projects in England, primarily in Yorkshire and the North of England. It looks for innovative work in the field of social reform, with a preference for ‘root-cause’ rather than palliative projects. It favours causes that are less mainstream, and less likely to be funded by other charities. It will fund core costs. It will repeat-fund as well as making one-off grants. As general guidance grants for work within the UK are between £200 and £5000 per year. The trustees meet three times a year - in March, July and November - and applications must be submitted by 1 February, 1 June or 1 October respectively. For more information click on the link above.

The Morgan Foundation

The Morgan Foundation was created in 2001 by businessman Steve Morgan OBE, founder and former chairman of Redrow plc and now chairman of Harrow Estates plc and the Bridgemere Group of Companies. Its purpose is to support charities across North Wales, Merseyside, West Cheshire and North Shropshire. Their philosophy is ‘making a difference’. Their aim is to provide funding for small to medium sized organisations who are addressing specific needs in these regions. They are particularly keen to support those who have already begun to make an impact, but need a helping hand to expand their work and increase their effectiveness. They focus their help mainly on those who work directly with children and families, but they recognise that many wider issues may also affect their welfare so they are interested in any project which contributes to the quality of life of the people in their region.

Trust for London

Trust for London is an independent charitable trust set to support small, new and emerging voluntary organisations which have been established to improve the lives of people and communities in London. They will fund areas of work which have one (or more) of the following aims: to challenge discrimination faced by disabled people; to promote the inclusion and integration of recently established communities; to strengthen mother-tongue and supplementary schools to provide creative educational opportunities; to address new and emerging needs. The maximum you can apply for is £15,000 per year, although the average grant will be approximately £8,000 in total. In addition, they will also make a smaller number of grants to organisations that want to increase their staffing levels in order to make a step change in their development. There are 3 deadlines a year: 7 February for the June meeting; 30 May for the October meeting; and 25 October for the February meeting. For more information click on the link above.

Vodafone UK Foundation

The foundation, a registered charity, has launched a call to action for charities to apply for Reach, its flagship funding programme. This will provide £5m of funding across three years for work helping 16-25 year olds facing exclusion from society. To be eligible, charities must apply in collaboration - either in pairs or wider groups.

Wakeham Trust

The Wakeham Trust, established in 1973, provides grants to help people rebuild their communities. They are particularly interested in neighbourhood projects, community arts projects, projects involving community service by young people, or projects set up by those who are socially excluded. They also support innovative projects to promote excellence in teaching although they never support individuals. Click on the link above.

Yapp Charitable Trust

The Yapp Charitable Trust makes grants to small registered charities in England and Wales, whose annual expenditure is less than £60,000. Charities must have been fully constituted and operating for at least three years. Grants are for core running costs and salaries and are to provide continuation funding for established work only. The trust does not offer funding for any new projects or special events. Grants are for work that benefits groups including: people with disabilities or mental health problems; people trying to overcome life-limiting problems of a social rather than medical origin, such as addiction, relationship difficulties, abuse, a history of offending. Grants are also made to support charities' work in education and learning (including lifelong learning). Priority is given to work that is unattractive to the general public or unpopular with other funders, helps improve the lives of marginalised people and makes effective use of volunteers. Deadlines are 26 May (for consideration in July) and 30 September (for consideration in November).