FUNDERS
How TCC can help
Below is a list of funders we think might help your project. There are many more!
We will provide a bespoke funding report free of charge for the first ten churches or charitable groups to approach us within each church year. Reach out and contact us if you would like to take advantage of this.
This could be just the thing to help kick-start your new project as well! If you need further help, TCC can also support you with feasibility work, options appraisals, and everything you need to get a project off the ground.
FEATURED Funders
Local charity and voluntary services
The first port of call when looking for funding should be your local charity and voluntary service. They are the experts on charitable organisations in your area and are there to help you grow and thrive.
We are adding to our list of CVS's all the time. Click here to find your local office.
Action Together - Rochdale
Grants are available for voluntary, community, faith, and social enterprise organisations across Rochdale.
Allen Lane Foundation
The Foundation makes grants to voluntary not-for-profit organisations in the UK for work which benefits groups of people who are under-represented in UK society.
Overall, the Foundation wishes to fund work which:
- Will make a lasting difference to people's lives rather than simply alleviating the symptoms or current problems.
- Is aimed at reducing isolation, stigma and discrimination.
- Encourages or enables unpopular groups to share in the life of the whole community.
Anchor Foundation
The aim of the Foundation is to support Christian charities working with art and healing and those seeking to offer social inclusion.
Grants of up to £12,000 per year are available.
Barrow BID Events Grant
Grants are available to businesses and organisations within the Barrow BID area for projects and events that positively impact the town centre or local businesses. The scheme is designed to support local businesses and organisations with events, projects and initiatives that benefit the town centre or local businesses, or promote improvements to outside space, community space or facilities.
Barrow Community Trust
Funding is available for small community groups providing activities in Barrow.
Priority is given to projects with one of the following aims:
- Advancement of education.
- Relief of poverty.
- Benefits to health.
- Social inclusion.
- Raising aspirations.
Benefact Trust
Benefact Trust exists to make a positive difference to people's lives by funding, guiding and celebrating the work of churches and Christian charities; empowering the most vulnerable and giving people, communities and places a renewed opportunity to flourish.
Bernard Sunley Foundation
One-off capital grants are available to registered charities in England and Wales, as well as those with 'accepted' and 'exempt' status, for projects in the areas of community, education, health and social welfare. The aim of the foundation is to help raise the quality of life in England and Wales, particularly for the young, disadvantaged and older people.
Biffa Award
Biffa Award gives grants to community projects near landfill sites. We build communities and transform lives.
Big Local
Big Local is a place-based investment programme supporting residents in 150 Big Local areas around England to lead change in their area.
Bollington Town Council Grant Scheme
Bollington Town Council offers grants to local organisations which can demonstrate a clear need for financial support to achieve the aim of benefiting the local community in the following ways:
- By providing a service.
- Enhancing the quality of life.
- Improving the environment.
Bolton’s Fund
Grants are available to VCSE organisations in Bolton for projects that benefit local communities and address current issues facing residents.
The priority areas are:
- Start Well – giving children the best possible start in life.
- Live Well – improving the happiness and wellbeing of Bolton residents.
- Age Well – helping older people stay connected, active and healthy in their communities.
- Prosperous – supporting enterprise, inclusive employment and maximising social value for Bolton.
- Clean and Green – protecting, improving and enjoying our environment.
- Safe, Strong and Distinctive – creating safe, stronger, cohesive and more confident communities.
Bowland Charitable Trust
Grants for charitable organisations with outdoor and character-building projects for young people in the North West England.
The programme is intended to promote:
- Outdoor and character-building projects for young people in the North West England.
- Educational, religious and cultural activities and institutions.
For further information on how to obtain this fund, please contact the following:
Carol Fahy
The Bowland Charitable Trust
Bowland House
Phillips Road
Blackburn
Lancashire
BB1 5NA
Tel: 01254 688051
Email: carole.fahy@cannco.co.uk
Burbo Bank Extension Community Fund - Deadline 09.04.2025
Grants are available to a range of not-for-profit organisations for new or existing community and environmental projects that benefit local residents in Denbighshire, Flintshire, the Wirral and Sefton.
Grantscape - Burbo Bank Extension Community Fund
Carlisle – Community Events Support Fund
This fund aims to encourage local people to come together, enhance community spirit, and celebrate Carlisle and its heritage, as well as add value to the local economy by supporting local businesses and partners and encouraging visitors to the city.
Charles and Edna Broadhurst Charitable Trust
The Trust gives £1,000 minimum to St Philip and St Paul with Wesley Church per annum and makes other charitable donations to charitable institutions, principally for social welfare and medical or academic research and for Christian causes in Sefton, primarily in the Southport area.
Enquiries
The Charles and Edna Broadhurst Charitable Trust
75 Radnor Drive, Southport, Merseyside PR9 9RS
Tel: 0170 462 1013
Email: woodypowr@hotmail.com
Cheshire Community Foundation
The Cheshire Community Foundation's mission is to ensure that the money received from donors is directed towards making the biggest difference to people’s lives, bringing joy and reward to beneficiaries and donors alike.
The current priorities of the Foundation are to make Cheshire a place where:
- People feel fulfilled and reach their potential.
- They can achieve economic, social, and, physical wellbeing.
- They share a strong sense of community.
- Inequalities in life expectancy, health and employment opportunities are reduced.
- Voluntary and community-based activity can thrive and flourish.
Usually grants of between £250 and £25,000 are available.
Chester Bluecoat Charity
This fund aims to support organisations that are working to structurally change the reasons for poverty, disadvantage, and inequality of opportunity, and to raise and support aspirations in the charity's area of benefit through the delivery of projects that promote social cohesion, education, and community development.
Community Foundation for Lancashire & Merseyside
Grants are available to community organisations for projects and activities that contribute to stronger and more vibrant communities in Lancashire and lead to long-term benefits to the local population.
Community Foundation for Lancashire
Community Foundation for Lanacashire Preston New Rd
Grants are available to charities and community groups for projects and activities that contribute to stronger and more vibrant communities and lead to long-term benefits to local people in Merseyside
Congregational and General Charitable Trust Grants
Grants are available to support the provisions and repair of church buildings, particularly those of the United Reformed and Congregational denominations. Grants are available to support capital works on church buildings or towards the capital costs of church community projects in the UK.
Craven Trust
Grants are available to local voluntary and community groups for projects that improve the quality of life of local people living within the Craven Trust area. The Trust supports local community projects that build better and stronger communities for the benefit of future generations in the Craven area. Keighley, Sedbergh, Grassington, Barnoldswick and the Trough of Bowland.
Crook Hill Community Benefit Fund
Grants are available to a range of not-for-profit organisations for new or existing community and environmental projects that benefit local residents off the Cumbria and Lancashire coast.
Cumbria Community Foundation
Grants are available for small local voluntary and community groups and organisations to help make a difference to the most disadvantaged people in the communities of Cumbria.
Cumbria Community Foundation - Warm Spots Fund
Cumbria Community Foundation - High Pow Community Fund
Cumbria Community Foundation - Joyce Wilkinson Charitable Trust Fund
Deo Gloria Trust
The Deo Gloria Trust is a registered charity. The objects of the Trust are 'to seek the glory of God by encouraging the furtherance and preaching of our Lord Jesus Christ'. The Trust receives its income from properties and investments. The Deo Gloria Trust offers funding to support Christian outreach projects in the UK.
Duchy of Lancaster Benevolent Fund
The Duchy of Lancaster Benevolent Fund offers grants to charitable organisations that are active in Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Lancashire for projects that benefit local communities and residents.
The Trustees are particularly interested in the following:
- Causes with which the Duchy has historical association such as church livings and estates within the boundaries of the three Counties and purposes which will benefit the community.
- Trusts, Associations and Institutions that maintain and preserve monuments, Estates and possessions of the Duchy which prove to be of benefit to the public and local community.
- Organisations which provide care and support for people who are older, infirm or disadvantaged members of society.
- Community Associations that benefit local people.
- Organisations for young people such as Scouts, Guides, Cadets, Youth Organisations etc.
- Support for educational initiatives that will have beneficial results for the local community.
Duchy of Lancaster Benevolent Fund - Background Information
Duchy of Lancaster Benevolent Fund - Greater Manchester
Elizabeth Rathbone Charitable Trust
Grants for voluntary and community organisations undertaking a variety of charitable activities in Merseyside.
Equilibrium Foundation
This fund aims to support a variety of projects and activities that make local communities a better place and improve the lives of those within it, such as through sports, arts, education, helping the disadvantaged or improving the environment.
Applications are reviewed every six months, with five winners being chosen each time. The Foundation aims to respond to successful applicants within four weeks of the submission deadline.
Eric Wright Charitable Trust
The Trust offers:
- Major Grants - by invitation only
- Community Grants - aimed at assisting and supporting the development of smaller local charitable organisations which deliver services directly to beneficiaries in seven different areas of interest to the Trust.
- Minor Grants - aimed at supporting small local charitable organisations which deliver services directly to beneficiaries. There is no restriction on the sector.
Three different grants are available:
- Minor Grants of between £500 and £4,999.
- Community Grants of between £5,000 and £20,000.
- Major Grants of between £20,000 and £35,000.
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation - Grants
The funding is intended for projects with the following aims:
- Improving the natural world.
- Securing a fairer future.
- Strengthening the bonds in communities in the UK.
The focus is on work that will deliver the greatest long-term impact and create change for the future.
The work should be:
- Driving change for the future by breaking new ground or using tried and tested models to push things forward in a new way.
- Ambitious and aiming to make a difference over the long-term.
FCC Community Action Fund - England
Grants are available to not-for-profit organisations for public amenity projects eligible under Object D of the Landfill Communities Fund (LCF) and located within 10 miles of an eligible FCC Environment landfill site. The funding is intended to support not-for-profit organisations with the costs of making physical improvements to single amenity sites that are open and accessible to the general public. The facility should be somewhere the general public can go, join, or use, for leisure or entertainment purposes without any limit or restriction of use.
Forever Manchester
Forever Manchester, a registered charity, works with community and and grassroot organisations in Greater Manchester to inspire and encourage projects in the local community, making neighbourhoods happier, healthier and safer places to be.
Friends of Friendless Churches - The Cottam Will Trust
Grants are available for the purchase of works of art to be placed in medieval churches in England and Wales for the advancement of religion. Funding is intended to be used for the purchase of works of art to be placed in medieval churches. Grants can be made for items such as: statues, murals, paintings, Paschal candlesticks, vestments, Commandment Boards, stained glass, altars and altar frontals. For further information on how to obtain this fund, please contact the following:
Enquiries, Friends of Friendless Churches, 70 Crowcross Street, London EC1M 6EJ
Tel: 0204 520 4458 Email: office@fofc.org.uk
Frognal Trust
The trust applies income for general charitable purposes at the discretion of the trustees, awarding grants to other charities for people with disabilities, the elderly/old people, youth, medical research and environmental heritage. .For further information on how to obtain this fund, please contact:
Enquiries, Frognal Trust, c/o Wilsons Solicitors LLP. Alexandra House. St John's Street. Salisbury
SP1 2SB Tel: 01722 412412 Email: joyce.salkeld@wilsonsllp.com
G S Plaut Charitable Trust Limited
The G S Plaut Charitable Trust Limited provides grants which are available to organisations registered throughout the UK. The scheme is intended to support work undertaken for charitable purposes. For further information on how to obtain this fund, please contact the following:
Enquiries, G S Plaut Charitable Trust Limited, 39 Bay Road, Wormit, Newport-on-Tay, Fife DD6 8LW
Email: GSPCTrust@gmail.com
Garfield Weston Foundation
The Foundation awards grants for capital, project and revenue costs to UK registered charities working within the UK in the areas of Welfare, Youth, Community, Arts, Faith, Environment, Education, Health and Museums & Heritage.
Gay and Peter Hartley’s Hillards Charitable Trust
One-off grants for local voluntary and community organisations doing charitable work to improve social welfare in areas formerly served by a Hillards store in North and Central England.
Eligible costs associated with projects may include (but are not limited to):
- Care for older people - luncheon clubs, outings, winter aid, combating isolation, social activities.
- Medical health - volunteer schemes, respite care, hospices.
- Physical/mental health - support for the less able.
- Children's charities - enhancing sports/social opportunities.
- Church-based projects - with a proven outreach factor.
- Education - reading support, literacy advocation, one-to-one support.
Hadfield Charitable Trust
Grants are available for charitable organisations in Cumbria to carry out projects in the areas of social needs; youth and employment; help for older people; the arts; the environment.
Harold and Alice Bridges Charity
Grants are available for charitable purposes in Lancashire and South Cumbria.
The Charity has made a large number of grants over the years to support a wide variety of charitable projects and in recent years, the emphasis has been on awarding smaller grants to a larger number of charitable causes, mainly in Lancashire and surrounding areas.
Grants are available for charitable purposes, such as capital projects and grants for village halls.
Applicants that display a good degree of self help and local support will be favoured.
Henry Smith Charity - Christian Projects
Grants are available for projects that support the wellbeing of Anglican clergy to ensure they remain healthy and effective in their ministry.
Heritage Impact Fund
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) is an independent charity that promotes the conservation and sustainable re-use of historic buildings for the benefit of communities across the UK by providing advice, information and financial assistance in the form of early project grants and loans for projects undertaken by charities and not-for-private profit organisations.
The Heritage Impact Fund is a £7 million social investment fund, launched in 2019, with the aim of enabling charitable organisations to deliver economic and social impact from the re-use of the UK’s heritage buildings.
It is administered by AHF and is provided as a joint initiative, with contributions from AHF (£1.42 million), the National Lottery Heritage Fund (£2.25 million), Historic England (£800,000), Historic Environment Scotland (£427,000), Cadw (£100,000) and the Department for Communities Northern Ireland. Additionally, Rathbone Greenbank Investments provides investment management and loan facilities to the AHF.
Hodge Foundation (Jane Hodge Foundation)
The Foundation supports general charitable purposes, working in the areas of welfare, education, medicine and religion.
John Gilpin Trust
Small grants are available for small local charities undertaking general charitable activities in Cumbria, Merseyside or Suffolk
Enquiries
John Gilpin Trust
Mantins Solicitors and Notaries
23a High Street
Southwold
Suffolk
IP18 6AD
Tel: 01502 724750
John James Charitable Trust
The overall aims of the Trust are as follows:
- Promote education in the Christian faith amongst children and young people.
- Support people in training for Christian ministry.
Johnson Foundation
Grants are available for UK registered charities working within the Liverpool City Region in the areas of welfare, youth, community, arts, education and health. Applications from churches are considered.
Joseph Rank Trust
The scheme is intended to support organisations which work to either advance the Christian faith or carry out other charitable purposes with consideration of a Christian approach to the practical, educational and spiritual needs of people.
Joseph Strong Frazer Trust
Grant for registered charities in England and Wales carrying out a range of charitable activities. The scheme aims to fund a wide range of charitable activities. For further information on how to obtain this fund, please contact the following:
Enquiries, Joseph Strong Frazer Trust, Joseph Miller & Co., A Floor, Milburn House, Dean Street,
Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 1LE Tel: 0191 2328065
Email: jsf@joseph-miller.co.uk
Laing Family Trusts
The Trusts support a diverse range of charitable purposes with a focus on promoting the Christian faith and values in the UK and overseas. Each of the four Family Trusts funds work in their specific areas of interest.
Laing Family Trusts - MHLCT Warm Spaces Fund 2024-25
A small number of grants are available for churches running a ‘warm space’ within a church-run building in one of the top 20% of deprived areas in England to help with the cost of running their warm spaces this winter.
The funding is intended to help churches run a ‘warm space’ within a church-run building during the winter of 2024/25.
The warm space could be in a church building, parish hall or other building run by their church.
Lancashire - Pots of Possibility
Grants are available for voluntary, community, faith, and social enterprise organisations in across Lancaster District to deliver projects and activities that generate positive outcomes for people and the environment by reducing waste and building community resilience.
Leek Building Society Charitable Foundation
Grants are available to support local schemes and good causes across Staffordshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire and Shropshire. Grants are available for projects that:
- Prevent or relieve poverty.
- Provide welfare advice.
- Improve community facilities (including the development of green spaces).
- Provide healthy food to vulnerable and disadvantaged people.
- Develop digital inclusion.
- Support local people attempting to return to employment.
Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme
The Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme makes grants towards the VAT incurred in maintenance and repairs to listed buildings that are primarily used for public worship, or which are listed places of worship owned by, or under the authority of, a number of specified organisations that look after redundant places of worship.
The scheme applies to listed places of worship of all religions and faith groups throughout the UK.
Manchester Airport Community Trust Fund
Grants are available for local not-for-profit projects that enhance, protect and conserve the natural and built environment in specified areas around Manchester Airport.
Funding is intended to support community, social or environmental projects with a charitable focus within the Trust's Area of Benefit which covers an approximate 10-mile radius of the Airport, concentrating on the areas most exposed to aircraft noise, including:
- Stockport.
- South Manchester.
- Trafford.
- Parts of Cheshire East and Cheshire West.
Manchester City Council - Neighbourhood Investment Fund
Grants can be used to fund projects that will build the capacity of individuals and groups and contribute to delivering ward plan priorities, which can be acquired from the regeneration ward officers. Funding is intended for projects that fall under one of the following categories:
- Work and skills.
- Community groups.
- Improving the environment.
- Carbon reduction (tackling climate change).
- Other activities/events linked to ward priorities.
Manchester Diocesan Council for Social Aid - Grants Scheme
Grants are available to Anglican Church-owned or church-linked projects within the Diocese of Manchester to support new mission initiatives, or to develop current mission activities that tackle poverty.
Applications will be accepted from parishes, or projects with a strong parish link, for projects that deliver benefits for residents of communities within the Diocese of Manchester.
Manchester Diocesan Council for Social Aid - Small Grants Scheme
Matthew Good Foundation - Grants for Good Fund
The Grants for Good Fund has been launched to extend the impact of the Matthew Good Foundation, and allow small charities, community projects and social enterprises to apply for funding directly.
Mayor of Sefton's Charity Fund
The Mayor of Sefton's Charity Fund offers grants to smaller charitable and voluntary groups based and operating in Sefton that do not have a national profile and whose work benefits the residents of Sefton.
Morrisons Foundation
The Foundation is offering grants to help get new projects off the ground that will benefit the local community.
The funding is for specific projects which make a difference to people’s lives, with special consideration for vulnerable and disadvantaged groups.
National Churches Trust
The National Churches Trust is the national charity dedicated to supporting and promoting places of worship of historic, architectural and community value used by Christian denominations throughout the UK through advice, support and funding.
The Trust supports church and chapel buildings open for worship throughout the UK. It funds urgent repairs and modernisation, provides expert advice on church maintenance and on how churches can continue to serve local communities and promote church heritage and tourism.s.
National Churches Trust - Medium Grants - Deadline 15.04.2025
National Churches Trust - Cherish Grants - Deadline 15.04.2025
Grants for places of worship in Scotland, Wales and Northwest of England (Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cumbria) for small repairs and maintenance to help keep historic churches and chapels thriving. The Cherish Grants programme is administered by the National Churches Trust who has been awarded a £1.9 million National Lottery Heritage Fund grant to boost skills, resources and funding for historic places of worship over a three-year period. The funding is for listed and unlisted Christian places of worship, of any denomination, to help with the costs of urgent and essential maintenance and repair projects as well as the costs of developing a church building project.
National Lottery Awards for All
National Lottery Awards for All is a small grants programme provided by the National Lottery Community Fund.
The funding is intended for projects that support communities to thrive by:
- Building strong relationships in and across communities.
- Improving the places and spaces that matter to communities.
- Helping more people to reach their potential, by supporting them at the earliest possible stage.
- Supporting people, communities and organisations that are facing increased demands and challenges as a direct result of the cost-of-living crisis.
National Lottery Heritage Fund: Heritage in Need: Places of Worship
Grants are available for not-for-profit organisations to deliver projects that help places of worship across the UK tackle heritage challenges systemically, become more sustainable, share their heritage, and welcome people from all backgrounds, including those who rarely visit. Individual places of worship are not eligible for funding through this strategic initiative, nor single site applications for capital works-only projects. This funding is for projects that improve or transform nine identified heritage locations through collaborative projects with local partners and organisations.
National Lottery Community Fund - Reaching Communities
The funding is intended for projects that support communities to thrive by:
- Building strong relationships in and across communities.
- Improving the places and spaces that matter to communities.
- Helping more people to reach their potential, by supporting them at the earliest possible stage.
The National Lottery Community Fund - Reaching Communities England
One Oldham Fund
The aim of this fund is to support a range of projects across several strands of funding that support a variety of projects and activities across Oldham.
Patch Community Fund
Small grants are available for voluntary, community, and faith sector organisations to deliver a variety of projects and activities that benefit local communities in areas where Patch operates - North Yorkshire, Bradford, Calderdale, Pendle, Ribble Valley, Preston, Chorley, Crewe, Greater Manchester.
Pilgrim Trust
Grants are available for projects in the UK for the preservation/repair of historic buildings and the conservation of items, collections and records.
The Pilgrim Trust offers the following grants:
- Historic Buildings and Structures: for the preservation and repair of historic buildings, structures and architectural features. Special consideration for those helping find sustainable solutions for the conservation and re-use of historic buildings, particularly those at risk and of outstanding importance.
- Care of Collections and Objects: to preserve historic collections, objects, artefacts, works of art, ephemera, manuscripts and museum objects.
- Places of Worship: preventative maintenance and repair of historic places of worship and the conservation of their historic interiors and churchyard structures across the UK.
Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts - Jerusalem Trust
The objects of the Jerusalem Trust are to advance:
- The Christian religion and promote Christian organisations and the charitable purposes and institutions they support.
- Christian education and learning.
The trustees' priority areas are:
- Evangelism and Christian Mission in the UK - particularly work with children, new and emerging evangelists and work with prisoners, ex-prisoners and their families
- Christian Education - particularly curriculum resource materials for schools and support of RE as a subject; adult lay Christian training and education, and projects which encourage Christians in leadership in schools
- Christian Evangelism and Relief Work Overseas - priority areas are Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa, Ethiopia, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq and Iran; programmes which support theological training colleges or build capacity of local churches; translation of Christian books and provision of aid to the persecuted church
- Christian Media - particularly media projects promoting Christianity in the UK, North Africa and the Middle East; training and networking projects for Christians working in the media and the creative use of digital media and the internet to promote Christianity
- Christian Art - commissions of works of art for places of worship
About Funding – The Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts (sfct.org.uk)
Salford - Community Committee Grants
Grants are available to groups in Salford for projects that deliver improved wellbeing and health outcomes for the local population.
Screwfix Foundation
Grants are available to UK registered charities and not-for-profit organisations for projects that improve, fix, and repair buildings, homes and facilities specifically used by people in need across the UK.
Sir Halley Stewart Trust
Grants are available to UK based charitable organisations for UK and/or international research projects that address the themes of medical, social, or religious with the aim of assisting and promoting innovative activities or developments.
Speaking Volumes - Grants for Christian Books in the Community - Deadline 01.05.2025
Grants are available for the purchase of books and DVDs about the Christian faith for placing anywhere that they can be borrowed and enjoyed, such as public libraries, schools, hospitals, hospices, prisons or churches in the UK.
St. Jude’s Trust
Grants are available for individuals and charitable organisations helping those who are disabled or disadvantaged in the UK. Funding is at the discretion of the Trustees but the majority of grants awarded are of up to £2,000.
For further information on how to obtain this fund, please contact the following:
Enquiries, St. Jude’s Trust, Druces LLP, Salisbury House, London Wall, London EC2M 5PS
Tel: 02076389271
Stewardship Loans for Churches and Christian Charities
Stewardship is a charity lender. It is a registered charity which was set up more than 100 years ago by a small group of Christians in the UK to provide financial support and gifts to Christian ministries in the UK and overseas.
Stewardship’s ‘vision is “For the world to encounter Jesus through the generosity of His Church”.
To this end, Stewardship gives each year more than £100 million to over 4,200 churches, 2,500 Christian workers and 6,000 charities.
It currently provides loan funding of around £25 million to 115 churches and Christian charities in the UK.The funding aims to help churches and Christian charities achieve their vision by supporting building projects, such as buying a new building, converting or refurbishing their building.
Stobart Sustainability Fund
The funding is intended to support community-led sustainability projects and initiatives by non-profit organisations, community groups and educational facilities. The Stobart Sustainability Fund aims to help these groups transform their local communities by tackling climate change, reducing carbon emissions or protecting and enhancing the environment.
Stockport Council - Ward Flexibility Fund
Grants are available for community groups and voluntary organisations across Stockport for projects and activities that positively contribute to the environmental, economic, or social wellbeing within a particular ward.
Each of Stockport’s 21 wards has a total of £3,000 available per year.
Grants of between £50 and £1,000 are available.
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The W.A. Handley Charity Trust
Grants will commonly be in response to appeals in support of welfare for those who are disadvantaged, young, elderly, disabled, as well as maritime and Service causes, education, training and employment opportunities, community benefit, historic and religious buildings, the environment, music and the arts. For further information on how to obtain this fund, please contact the following:
Secretary to the Trustees, W.A. Handley Charity Trust, 32 Portland Terrace, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
NE2 1QP Tel: 0191 281 1292 Fax: 0191 212 0075
Email: davidmilligan@ryecroft-glenton.co.uk
UK Community Foundations
The broad purpose of UK Community Foundations is to promote and support local charitable and community activity. This is achieved through managing donor funds, building endowments and making grants to charities and community groups. Community foundations are created by and for local people.
We Love MCR Charity - Stronger Communities Fund
Grants are available to local community and charity groups for projects in Manchester that improve their local communities; with particular interest in supporting groups as they recover from the pandemic. Funding is intended to assist local charities, community groups and organisations working to improve the lives and life chances of people living in Manchester and to help develop stronger communities by encouraging more citizens to be active in working together to strengthen their community.
The fund is looking to support projects which have one or more of the following themes:
- Helping the early years: supporting children 0-4 years old, and their parents, to make the best start possible in terms of learning, health and/or nutrition.
- Combating loneliness and social exclusion: supporting groups of people who are at risk of exclusion from community life, for example as a result of advanced age or disability.
- Protecting and improving open spaces: delivering work which ensures public spaces are maintained and improved for the benefit of local people, or expanding access to open spaces for all members of the community.
- Offering positive youth activities: providing sustainable, structured programmes/activities to help communities of young people to live safely and successfully.
Westhill Endowment Trust
Grants and other resources are available to support educational projects with strong underlying Christian values that enable people to transform their lives and the life of their communities in the UK.
The Trust provides grants to charities and other not-for-profit organisations for faith-motivated religious education and community transformation projects in the UK.
Westmorland and Furness Council – Community Grants Fund
Grants are available for locally based voluntary and not for profit groups to help with the set up of new community initiatives or the purchase of new equipment or refurbishment costs for existing groups.
Funding is available for projects that demonstrate lasting community benefit. The funding can be used to support the cost to purchase new equipment, the refurbishment of village halls and/or community centres, start-up costs of a new group or community initiative and a variety of other purposes.