Your weekly guide to current funding opportunities is below.
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Nationwide
Who: You Can Learning Innovation Fund
How much: Up to £8000
To note: Intended to help seed-fund volunteer projects that will support historic designed landscapes in the UK
How to apply:For more details and to apply, click here
Deadline: 14 November 2025
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Who: The Boring Fund
How much: Up to £200
To note: The Boring Fund helps small non-profit organisations cover a bit of the boring costs that keep them running. Boring but essential things like insurance, web hosting, admin time: the stuff that’s always so hard to find funding for. Annual turnover must be under £150,000
How to apply:For more details and to apply, click here
Deadline: Midnight, 30 November 2025
Who: CIPD Trust - HRPCT Bursary
How much: Funding towards tuition fees for CIPD Level 3 Foundation in People Practice qualification, and CIPD student membership
To note: HR, People & Culture, Talent/Recruitment, L&D professionals (including generalists and sole HR practitioners) and Operations managers employed in small UK charitable organisations.
How to apply:For more details and to apply, click here
Deadline: 1 December 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
Who: The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust - Hidden Voices Programme
How much: Between £3,000 and £25,000
To note: The Hidden Voices Programme will award grants of up to £25,000 to enable accessible, bespoke mental health and wellbeing support for those with seldom heard needs in the armed forces community
How to apply:For more details and to apply, click here
Deadline: Noon, 21 January 2026
England
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Who: Brent Giving Grant
How much: Grants of £5,000 and £10,000
To note: This funder is looking for new and existing projects that will transform the way poverty is experienced, felt or talked about in Brent - currently four specific areas of Harlesden, South Kilburn, Stonebridge and St Raphael's.
How to apply:For more details and to apply, click here
Deadline: 11pm, 16 November
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: Get Active Scotland fund
How much: Up to £5,000
To note: For the highlands and Glasgow. Constituted community clubs, groups and organisations based within the Highland Council or Glasgow City Council area are eligible to apply for funding if they deliver sport and physical activity opportunities.
How to apply:For more details and to apply, for Glasgow click here and the Highlands here
Deadline: Highland: 10 November 2025. Glasgow is ongoing.
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Who: Halsary Windfarm Community Benefit Fund
How much: Up to £10,000
To note: For groups operating in the Halkirk District Community Council. Projects must meet one of the following purposes: community facilities; skills and employment; community or local events; sport and recreation; environmental improvements; youth and education; heritage; net zero / emissions reduction initiatives; and/or such other purpose as has first been approved in writing by ScottishPower; Renewables
How to apply:For more details and to apply, click here
Deadline: 15 December.
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Who: Annandale and Nithsdale Community Benefit Company
How much: Up to £20,000
To note: The fund primarily supports community projects located within or directly benefiting one or more of 42 community council areas in Annandale and Nithsdale.
How to apply:For more details and to apply, click here
Deadline: 1 January 2026.
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Who: Halkirk District Benefit Fund
How much: Up to £25,000
To note: All within Halkirk District: Advancing citizenship or community development, recreational activities and facilities, sustainable development and regeneration, education relating to environment, culture, heritage or history, improved environmental amenities or buildings or sites of architectural, historic, or community importance.
How to apply:For more details and to apply, click here
Deadline: 31 January 2026.
Wales
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
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EDF Power Solutions (Scotland)
Making a Difference Locally (Nisa stores)
Marsh Charitable Trust
Masonic Charitable Foundation
The Pollination Project Daily Grant Programme
The National Lottery Community Fund
Tim Parry Johnathon Ball Foundation
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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