Arts Council Projects
After suspending the National Lottery Project Grants programme in March 2020 due to the coronavirus/COVID-19 crisis, Arts Council England is re-opening the programme for applications today, aiming to support individuals and organisations to get activities up and running again. Applications are accepted for grants of between £1,000 and £100,000.
No deadlines
Audio Content Fund
A special funding round for content that will support radio audiences during the coronavirus outbreak for new ideas that will identify and fill huge gaps that have caused great disturbance in our lives. Operating on a rolling basis.
Apply here
Buttle UK Chances for Children
Small grants of £1,500 for organisations with projects that: maintain educational activity and stimulus within the home environment; establish and or maintain internet access and electronic communications; household essentials. Apply via a support worker.
Apply here
Clothworkers Foundation
Grants are available to registered charities working in the UK in one of the following areas: alcohol and substance misuse, people with disabilities, disadvantaged minority communities, disadvantaged young people, domestic and sexual abuse, older people, homelessness, prisoners and ex-offenders, and visual impairment. Apply here
(As far as we can tell there are no deadlines)
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
Applications are now open for projects that improve the natural world, secure a fairer future, and strengthen the bonds in communities in the UK. Esmee's new strategy will focus on the following three interdependent aims: Improving our natural world; Tackling injustice to deliver a fairer future; Nurturing creative, confident communities.
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis
Foyle Foundation Small Grants
Organisations which are currently delivering services to the young, vulnerable, elderly, disadvantaged or the general community either directly or through online support can apply for grants of between £1,000 and £10,000. Funding can be used to cover core costs or essential equipment, to enable ongoing service provision, homeworking, or delivery of online digital services.
Applications can be submitted at any time. Apply here.
Hargreaves Foundation
Funding for sports and educations projects benefitting disadvantaged children and young people. Although organisations from across the UK are eligible to apply, priority will be given to organisations based in and/or working in the South West of England. No deadlines.
Jack Petchey Foundation
Does your organisation work with children/young people? If so take a look at the above website as there are several programmes/schemes to enable you to recognise, reward, and celebrate their achievements: achievement awards; leader award grant (formerley small grant programme); leader awards; achievers network; educational visits; individual grants for volunteering.
Sport England Return to Play
Two funding streams are now open:
Capital grants, of between £10,001 and £50,000, are available to help local sports clubs and community groups adapt and open important places and spaces so that sport and physical activity can happen during the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic. Your project must be about addressing the challenges you're now facing because of coronavirus and linked to a return to play.
Small grants, of between £300 and £10,000 are also on offer to organisations to deliver sport and physical activity in smaller groups, having the correct sanitation and safety equipment, not having enough sports equipment to safely deliver activities and having the appropriate training for club volunteers to ensure you're meeting the current guidelines.
Zurich Community Trust
A £2m support package for charities tackling Covid-19. They are contacting all their local partners - some of them are based in Croydon - to offer support. They aren't accepting any new applications.
Apply here