Funding for core costs

Supports organisations working in the areas of welfare, youth, community, arts, faith, environment, education, health and heritage.

Visit the Garfield Weston Foundation website

Supports projects which involve all or most family members in initiatives that support and encourage the family to work as a cohesive unit in tackling problems that face one or more of its members. Visit Kelly Family Charitable Trust website.

Main grants helping to prevent and tackle the consequences of adverse childhood experiences, multi-year grants of up to four years are available.

Small grants for organisations whose activities improve the lives of others.

Responsive grants providing single year grants to address specific challenges faced by their charity partners.

Visit the Leathersellers Company Charitable Fund website

Offers grants to support with long-term core costs or to strengthen organisational development. 

Visit the Lloyds Bank Foundation website

Support small registered charities working in the fields of:

• social welfare
• arts and heritage
• healthcare
• environmental and animal welfare
• education and training.

Visit the Marsh Christian Trust website

Supporting the start-up, development and sustainability of community businesses.

Visit the Power to Change website

Helping to deliver positive and lasting change to UK society focusing on the themes of opportunity, environment and heritage.

Visit the Swire Charitable Trust website

Supporting work benefitting groups experiencing social and/or economic disadvantage and work that tackles problems in areas of high deprivation, includes holiday grants for children.

Visit the Henry Smith Charity website

Awarding funds from the National Lottery The Community Fund offer a number of grant opportunities to bring real improvements to communities and to the lives of people most in need.

Visit the Community Fund website

Supports smaller groups, embedded in their communities, which work directly with people who are on the edges of mainstream society, encouraging inclusion, integration and independence. 

Currently closed to new applications whilst they re-evaluate and develop a new strategy.

Visit The Tudor Trust website

For projects working with one of the following target groups:

1. Children and Young People (up to 25 years)
2. Disadvantaged Families
3. Prisoners and Ex-Offenders.

Visit The Woodward Charitable Trust website

Supporting established small to medium charitable organisations with a track record of addressing local problems in communities of extreme urban deprivation or remote, needy rural locations. Visit Trusthouse Charitable Foundation website.