Gary Millar FJMU

🔔 NEW GRANT: £10k to bring people together in community spaces The UK Government is opening the Common Ground Award to invest in VCSE organisations building community connection and cohesion through physical spaces and equipment. Funding is designed for organisations that bring communities together and need support to upgrade their space or purchase essential equipment What they’ll fund: 🏗 Building or renovating community facilities 🛠 Equipment purchases for service delivery 🏘 Supporting spaces used to bridge social divides Eligibility: ✅ VCSE organisations in England (charities, CICs, community groups) ✅ Must have governing documents, bank account, and ability to deliver capital projects ✅ One application per organisation Funding & timeline: 💷 Up to £10,000 standard (up to £50,000 in exceptional cases) 📅 Applications open 13 October 2025 📅 Deadline 21 November 2025 📆 Capital must be spent by 31 March 2026 🔗 Link to find out more in the comments #CommunityGrants #VCSE #CapitalGrant ------- 🛎️ Looking for more grants like this? Subscribe to our newsletter and every Friday we send a roundup of the latest funding opportunities for charities and CICs.

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Comic Relief Community Fund for England Opens for Applications Groundwork are administering the grants programme on behalf of Comic Relief Grants of up to £5,000 are available for grassroots, community-led organisations in England with an income of less than £250,000. To be eligible to apply, your organisation must be working in a local area to tackle the immediate impacts of poverty or build resilience to poverty and hardship. The Fund will support: Organisations that are tackling the immediate and urgent impacts of being in poverty, including providing essential resources like food, shelter, advice and healthcare. For example, foodbanks, community kitchens, homeless shelters, welfare advice agencies and health outreach projects. Organisations working to empower communities to take positive steps to lift themselves out of poverty in the longer term. For example, projects that build skills, increase access to employment, strengthen financial resilience or develop community-led solutions. The deadline for applications is 6th October 2025 (12 noon). More information here - https://lnkd.in/eJX8xpmi 'We expect this programme to be significantly oversubscribed. Our 2024/25 programme received more than three times as many applications than the number of grants available'

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New Fund - opened yesterday. Green Community Grants Programme. Up to £25,000 for non profits in England, Scotland and Wales with income between £10,000 and £1 million pa that are contributing towards nature recovery and responding to the climate emergency – and to improve places for nature and people’s access to them. Within this, funding can also be used for a wider range of sustainable activities, including recycling, litter picking, beach cleans or sustainable transport. Deadline 8 Oct. https://lnkd.in/eHkRs9zR

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THE LEEDS BUILDING SOCIETY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: SMALL GRANTS Awards of up to £1,000 are available for UK registered charities across the UK, working in communities local to the Building Society’s branches to provide a safe and secure home for people in need. Grants are normally awarded for capital items in areas where the Leeds Building Society has a branch. Applicants do not need to have an account with the Society. Project proposals must meet one or more of the following criteria: o Financial stress. o Security and refuge. o Quality and suitability of housing, and/or o Health and wellbeing support for those experiencing homelessness. The Foundation welcomes applications from those who take a Housing First and/or relationship-based approach. Applications should show evidence of: o Strength-based practice. o Trauma-informed care, and o Psychologically-informed environments. The following grants are available: 1. Small Grants up to £1,000 for registered charities across the UK with an annual turnover of under £1 million, and 2. Large Grants between £25,000 and £100,000 (the Large Grants programme is currently closed). Large grants can be for 1-year or divided over several years. However, applications for a Large Grant are only accepted from charities based in or delivering work in Yorkshire and/or the North East. There is no upper limit for the annual turnover for applicants to the Large Grants programme. Charities benefiting include those providing: o Support for the homeless. o Centres offering facilities for the local community with emphasis on the young and elderly. o Skills training for young people with special needs. o Transport for the physically disabled. o Practical equipment for the terminally ill, and o Recreational and educational opportunities for children and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. Funding is not available for: o Animal welfare projects. o Charities and projects that don’t align with our purpose of supporting people in need of a safe and secure home. o Charities or projects based overseas. o Individuals (including sponsorship). o Local Scouts, Brownies or Girl Guides groups. o Medical research. o Religious, military or political projects, or o Retrospective costs. The next Large Grants application deadline is scheduled for Wednesday, 3rd December 2025. The current round of the Small Grants programme opened on Tuesday, 12th August, with a deadline of Monday, 3rd November 2025. Further information is available on the Foundation’s website. Contact details for the Foundation are: The Secretary The Leeds Building Society Charitable Foundation 105 Albion Street Leeds LS1 5AS Tel: 0113 2257518 Email: [email protected] For professional help with identifying funding opportunities or preparing strong bids, contact @Heaward solutions. Thank you to @GRIN SW LLP, who shared this opportunity in their daily grant bulletin

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