MSE Charity, the charitable fund of financial advice website MoneySavingExpert.com, offers grant support for charities, self-help groups, and other community organisations to enable them to educate people across the UK about problems relating to consumer debt. The MSE Charity is in a period of strategic review and normal grant giving has been put on hold. […]

Grants are available to organisations that further the objectives of the NFU Mutual Charitable Trust, particularly those that educate young people in rural areas and relieve poverty in rural areas.  Following a recent strategic review, the Trustees have indicated that in future, the Trust will focus on providing funding to larger initiatives, which would have […]

For one grant round only, they are going to remove the upper limit of £5,000 and will consider applications between £2,000 and £15,000. they are seeking only applications that are innovative, testing out ideas that are genuinely new; that as far as possible do not overlap with projects funded by other funders. they will only consider applications that deliver […]

Multi-million pound disability research programme seek proposals The UK-wide Disability Research on Independent Living and Learning (DRILL) Programme invites research teams led by disabled people to respond to its first call for proposals. DRILL is a partnership of 4 national disabled people’s organisations across the UK, including Disability Wales.   Funded by a £5 million […]

Powys Drugs and Alcohol Centres (PDAC) is a long established local charitable organisation which was formed to provide a wide range of support for individuals living in Powys who are dependant on drugs, alcohol or other substances.  PDAC are offering financial support to Powys based voluntary organisations and community groups which provide – or aim […]

Behavioural Economics is changing our understanding of how people make decisions. While we like to think we are rationale, considered beings, the majority of our daily decisions are made quickly and often irrationally. This has huge implications for us as fundraisers, not least in the way we engage with donors making ‘impulse’ or ‘spur of […]

Capital and revenue funding to support the transfer of assets, such as land and buildings, from individuals, public or private sector organisations to community ownership. The CAT2 programme will provide both capital and revenue funding to support the transfer of assets, such as land and buildings, from individuals, public or private sector organisations to community […]

Are you looking for funders for your village hall? Try these websites which list several useful sources of grant funding: http://www.thevillagehalls.co.uk/fund http://www.comfirst.org.uk/village_hall_fundersing.asp http://www.ruralwarwickshire.org.uk/funding Also worth visiting are the Plunkett Foundation the only national organisation supporting the development of community shops in the UK. Through specialist support programmes, regional community advisers, mentors and experts, as well as online, […]

The Foundation sees the value in supporting activities which have been demonstrated to work and can be replicated. It predominantly funds capital costs. Its preferred area of impact is at the community and neighbourhood level. Small grants up to £5,000 only to charities with an annual turnover of less than £250,000. Other larger one-off grants […]

Greggs Foundations has a number of programmes that aim to address the needs to disadvantaged local communities. The Breakfast Club programme provides a free nutritious breakfast before the school day at disadvantaged primary schools in England, Scotland and Wales. The Local Communities Project Fund makes small grants of up to £2,000 to help organisations based […]