Funding

Grants of up to £1,000 are available to support voluntary and community organisations in Kensington and Chelsea to deliver projects that improve and sustain children, young people and families’ wellbeing.

In light of the Coronavirus and its inevitable impacts on vulnerable children and young people across London, The Childhood Trust is launching the Champions for Children match-funding campaign to raise UNRESTRICTED FUNDS for charities working with children whose lives have been impacted by the pandemic.

Compassionate Communities is a new initiative, funded by Imperial Health Charity, to help improve the health and wellbeing of people in north west London most affected by Covid-19.

London Catalyst is an independent grant-making trust that provides funding for charities and not for profit organisations to deliver projects and improve their services. The trust aims to make a difference by acting as a catalyst for change, they aim to: improve health and wellbeing, help to remove people from poverty and raise awareness of poverty and ill-health in London.

The Foundation gives supports programmes designed to help disadvantaged and disengaged young people in the age range of 16 to 30, to pursue pathways to Education, Training and Employment with the ultimate aim of helping them to become financially independent.

The overall aims of this funding programme is to prevent people entering the criminal Justice system and to support people entering the criminal justice system and to support those already in the system to move on and rebuild their lives.

The Paul Hamlyn Foundation have recently reopened their UK funds, with some changes to their criteria and processes offering more flexibility and better responsiveness to applicants. The funder have a range of funding available.

The Rose Foundation provide financial assistance to registered charities and exempt bodies undertaking building projects less than £200,000 in the London area. Our donation is usually between £5,000 and £10,000.

Trust For London will fund work which tackles poverty and inequality in the capital. They support work providing greater insights into the root causes of London’s social problems and how they can be overcome; activities which help people improve their lives; and work empowering Londoners to influence and change policy, practice and public attitudes

Sport England’s Community Asset Fund will make awards of between £10,001and £50,000 from a pot of £5m to help local sports clubs and organisations adapt and open important places and spaces to help their local community return to play safely.

The Fund is designed to enable organisations to deliver fun and accessible activities for children and young people during the school holidays.  This includes all half-term breaks, Easter, Christmas and the summer holidays. The Fund will pay for the running costs of holiday programmes that are delivered during school holidays which provide young people with activities in accordance with Government guidelines.  Please note that the maximum grant allowance is £4,000.

The Return to Play: Active Together Small Grants fund

The fund seeks to support projects addressing the challenges coronavirus (Covid-19) has posed to people taking part in sport and physical activity. A total of £10 million is available, with grants of between £300 and £10,000, to help not-for-profit community organisations create coronavirus-secure settings for community sport and physical activity to resume this autumn.

Grants are available for charities and educational institutions that support those under the age of 18 years, and living with a mental health problem, physical disability or growing up in poverty through the medium of sports and education.

Grants are available for UK registered charities working to help improve the quality of life for people and their communities in Greater London by targeting the disadvantaged and socially excluded in the fields of social welfare; education and young people; and textiles and heritage.

Grants are available for smaller scale professional theatre companies to encourage and assist projects in the Greater London area with the performance and/or development of professional dramatic work.

Grants are available for small local grassroots organisations in England to become stronger and more robust and better able to deliver projects that bring about lasting change.

The Fund aims to deliver long lasting community driven change by awarding Capacity Building grants to organisations in England whose work delivers on one of Comic Relief’s four strategic themes: Children Survive and Thrive, Fighting for Gender Justice, A Safe Place to Be and Mental Health Matters

Grants are available to not-for-profit organisations that are working for the benefit of London inhabitants and which make London’s communities stronger, more resilient and thriving.

The scheme aims to benefit people living in Greater London by tackling social and financial inequality, leading to stronger, more resilient communities where local people have more access to facilities and more involvement in the way their communities are run.

Grants are available for projects in England and Wales that fit with the Foundation's ethos of protecting rural communities and encouraging participation in the arts.

Grants are available to UK charities that demonstrate a strong focus on alleviating social deprivation and helping vulnerable groups who have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

The National Lottery are awarding grants of between £300 and £10,000 to groups carrying out activities to support those affected by the coronavirus crisis. These emergency grants are intended to cover up to six months expenditure.