Discovery Grants of up to £5,000 are available to fund an activity which supports one or more of our three priority themes: Explorer – improving knowledge and insight Examples include a series of Money Management workshops to help people understand how to budget and identify the affordable credit choices available to them. A Freedom Training […]

Open Gate is a small charity set up to support grassroots environmental, technological, and educational projects to benefit small communities, both in the UK and abroad. Schemes advancing social equality and fairness and those designed to become self-supporting will be viewed favourably. Individuals and overseas-based charities are not financed and the trustees have not supported […]

Tools for Success online self-assessment tool, developed by Cass Centre for Charity Effectiveness. It asks some big questions to help identify key areas where you already meet the basics for sustainability and those where you need to do more work. On completion, you can print a report listing all your findings and giving advice on […]

Comic Relief has now launched its refreshed Grants strategy working towards a world in which all people are safe, healthy, educated and empowered.  This strategy builds upon the experience Comic Relief has gained over the past 30 years and will continue to fund established partners and projects whilst also supporting new initiatives that will help […]

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 […]