Down Syndrome Forum
We are hoping to bring people with Down’s syndrome in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent together, to create a ‘Down’s syndrome forum’ where we talk about their experiences of Health, Social Care, Housing and Employment, and find out what can improve. We have had a really low uptake of this offer so far, so we are asking […]
Warburtons Families Matter Community Grants Programme
The Community Grants Programme is provided by Warburtons, a family run bakery business, and is administered on their behalf by Charities Aid Foundation (CAF). The principle aim of this funding is to focus on supporting families that need help the most, in a way which adheres to their principles of transparency, trust and transformation. The […]
Sylvia Waddilove Foundation UK
The Foundation provides grant funding in the following areas: Grants are usually in the range of £1,000 to £5,000. Support is provided to charities (registered or not), CICs limited by guarantee and registered societies. Funding is available to applicants that meet all of the following criteria: The level of the organisation’s income depends on the […]
Department of Health and Social Care – Community Automated External Defibrillators Fund
The programme is in the last stages of the funding with around 50 match funded units remaining. Grants are available for community organisations across England to buy an automated external defibrillators (AED) to install in a public place. The £1 million Community Automated External Defibrillators Fund is provided by the Department of Health and Social […]
Music for All – Community Project Funding
The Community Grants programme is administered Music for All, which is the charity of the UK musical instrument industry. The mission of the charity ‘is to make more musicians and to enable and inspire more people to discover the mental and physical benefits that playing a musical instrument can bring’. Music for All is a […]
Home Instead Charities
The funding is intended to support local community events that enhance and enrich the lives of people over the age of 55 to combat loneliness and sometimes isolation ensuring they stay fit, active, healthy and connected and contributing to their local communities.
There are two levels of funding:
- Grants of up to £500 for small grass roots organisations.
- Grants of up to £1,500 for small local registered charities. Larger grants can be considered for exceptional projects.
The funder will only fully fund a grant request where the applicant holds no more than three months operating costs in reserve. For organisations that have more than this, up to 50% of the project costs will be funded.
Applications are accepted from small community groups and charities in the UK.
Priority will be given to applications that have a connection to, and are championed by, a local Home Instead office.
To be eligible, applicants must:
- Have a bank account in the same name of the group they are applying for funding under.
- Have a policy of being open and inclusive of all, irrespective of race, religion, sex or sexual orientation.
- Show that their group members are over 55 years old or the project for which they seek funding benefits people aged over 55 years.
Registered charities must be able to attach a copy of their governing documents and their last set of accounts as part of their application.
Applications will be considered from groups, associations and charities that do not service the over 50s directly but the project they require funding for does, ie, a local school wishes to hold a special afternoon tea for its local care home residents.
Grants are for wellbeing activities and projects that benefit people aged over 55 years and reduce social isolation and/or loneliness.
Funding can be used for:
- Regular weekly or monthly events and activities such as weekly cinema club, weekly knit and natter or Thursday lunch club.
- One off activities such as a day trip or a Christmas lunch.
- Activities such as yoga or a guest speaker for your group such as a local historian.
How To Apply
From January 2024, there will be four application windows per year: January, April, July and October.
Applications received outside of these windows will not be processed.
Applications received in:
- January will be processed and awarded in February
- April will be processed and awarded in May
- July will be processed and awarded in August
- October will be processed and awarded in November.
Applicants should complete the online form on the Home Instead Charities website. Small registered charities must attach their governing document and last set of accounts to their application.
Historic Houses Foundation
Grants are available to organisations and individuals to support the preservation of heritage buildings and structures of architectural significance, particularly historic country houses, including their gardens, grounds, and works of art within them. Objectives of Scheme This fund aims to support the repair and conservation of rural historic buildings and structures in England and Wales, including […]
Hilden Charitable Fund
Grants are available for small charitable organisations working in the areas of penal affairs and asylum seekers and refugees in the UK. The aim of the Fund is to address disadvantage, notably by supporting causes which are unlikely to raise funds from public subscriptions. Objectives of Scheme The funding is for projects taking place in […]
Green Heat Network Fund (GHNF)
Public, private and third sector organisations in England can access capital grant funding to help new and existing heat networks move to low and zero carbon technologies, such as heat pumps, solar and geothermal energy. Objectives of Scheme The Government has announced a new Green Heat Network Fund (GHNF) to support low-carbon technologies like heat […]
City & Guilds Foundation – Local Community Skills Fund
Grants are available for registered charities, social enterprises, colleges and FE providers for projects or activities in the UK that support the development of skills for people 16+ who are facing barriers to move towards or into employment. The funding aims to support a wide range of initiatives that will make a positive impact on communities […]