Environmental
Sea-Changers: Coastal Fountain Fund
Environmental Friday February 28th, 2020The Sea-Changers’ Coastal Fountain Fund is awarding community organisation up to £2,000 to install water fountain bottle filling stations at or near UK beaches/marinas/seaside locations. The grant available is per water fountain and you may apply for multiple fountains within your application. The projects funded will achieve the following objective: To prevent or reduce negative…
Sussex Lund
Environmental Monday March 2nd, 2020Sussex Lund, a grants programme of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, awards funding of up to £10,0000 to small-scale, practical projects that improve the landscape of the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). The area covers parts of West Sussex, East Sussex, Kent and Surrey) but applications from nearby areas will be considered. …
Tesco: Bags of Help Community Grants
Arts & Culture Community Buildings/Halls Education & Employment Environmental Health & Social Care Heritage Older People Religion Sports YouthTesco’s Bags of Help, administrated by Groundwork, awards grants up to £2,000 to charities and community organisations whose projects bring benefits to local residents. Funds are raised by the carrier bag charge in Tesco stores. Applications are assessed by Groundwork to ensure they are eligible. To be eligible applicants can be either a voluntary or…
The Rhododendron, Camellia & Magnolia Group: Bursary Fund
EnvironmentalThe object of this fund is to give small bursaries, maximum £1,000 per year, to support research and education projects specifically relating to Rhododendrons, Camellias or Magnolias, which further our knowledge of and/or promote these three genera. This could also be a grant towards travel expenses involved in carrying out the research. The successful applicant…
Ecosurety: The Ecosurety Exploration Fund
Environmental Tuesday March 10th, 2020Over three years the Ecosurety Exploration Fund will invest £1million in projects that can reduce the environmental impact of packaging, batteries or WEEE through innovation or research in the UK. Ecosurety are looking to support limited companies, charities, academic bodies and institutions, community interest companies, public sector organisations and social enterprises with a grant of…
National Allotment Gardens Trust
Environmental Health & Social CareThe National Allotment Gardens Trust awards funding of between £250 to £2,000 to allotment gardens that meets the following criteria: The committee must be officially recognised by the landlord of the site. Must have a written and signed constitution. Have a bank account with three signatories. Have a forwarding address and named contact. The amount…
Greggs Foundation: Small Environment Grant
EnvironmentalThe Greggs Foundation Small Environmental Grant awards grants of up to £2,000 to not for profit organisations, with preference given to small, locally based and community led organisations with a turnover under £300,000 per annum. Schools are also encouraged to apply and are given the same level of priority as small locally based organisations. Grants…
Grow Wild: Youth-led Creative Projects
Environmental Youth Monday March 30th, 2020Grow Wild are awarding up to £500 to creative projects, led by a 14-25 year old, that celebrates UK native plants and fungi in exciting and engaging ways. The funder wants projects to reach and inspire lots of people in the applicant’s community, school or youth group. Applicants can use visual art, music, poetry, dance, or theatre……
Patagonia: Environmental Grants
EnvironmentalPatagonia, the American clothing and outdoor gear company, awards grants of up to $12,000 to innovative local work that addresses the root causes of the environmental crisis and seeks to protect both the environment and affected communities. The company encourage work that brings underrepresented communities to the forefront of the environmental movement and defend communities…
The Liebreich Foundation
Education & Employment Environmental Health & Social Care SportsThe Liebreich Foundation makes occasional small grants to charitable organisations focusing on the following areas: Climate and Environment Disability and Inclusion Education Entrepreneurship Sport and Health Sustainable Development Veterans, Refugees and Victims of Violence Deadline: Continuous rolling programme. For more information and how to apply please click here.
The Persula Foundation
Environmental Health & Social CareThe Persula Foundation awards grants to support charitable organisations and develop original charitable projects by providing grants. The Foundation’s current priorities are the homeless, the disabled, human rights and animal welfare. Deadline: Continuous rolling programme For more information and how to apply please contact: Teresa Chapman, Secretary The Persula Foundation Gallery Court Hankey Place London…
The G D Charitable Trust
Environmental Health & Social CareThe G D Charitable Trust awards grants to registered charitable organisations that support, but not exclusive to: The relief of animal suffering The preservation of the environment The promotion of equal opportunities for people who are disabled The relief of the homeless Deadline: Continuous rolling programme. For more information and how to apply please contact:…
The S M B Trust
Environmental Health & Social Care ReligionThe S M B Trust award grants of up to £2,000 to UK registered charities with activities that: support the Christian Faith; provide social care in the UK and abroad; provide famine/emergency aid; protect the environment and wildlife; or support education or medical research. Any expenditure will be considered. Deadline: Continuous rolling programme. Applications are reviewed…
Biffa Award: Partnerships Grant
EnvironmentalBiffa Award’s Partnership Grants Scheme is aimed at not-for-profit organisations that need funding to improve either the built or natural environment which is of regional or national significance and makes a significant impact on the quality of life within the specified area. Between £250,000 and £750,000 can be awarded for projects that are within 15…
European Regional Development Fund: Low Carbon Across the South East (LoCASE)
EnvironmentalEuropean Regional Development Fund 2014-2020’s Low Carbon Across the South East (LoCASE) project helps businesses tackle and adapt to climate change. The fund aims to reduce costs by cutting emissions and to promote the opportunities of the low carbon market. To help achieve this goal, grants of up to £10,000 are available to small and medium businesses in the…
Veolia Environmental Trust: Landfill Communities Fund
Community Buildings/Halls Environmental Local Grants SportsThe Veolia Environmental Trust funds constituted, not-for-profit organisations through the Landfill Community Fund. Grants of between £10,000 and £75,000 are available for capital improvement projects at a single site with discrete start and end dates in one of the following categories: Community buildings and rooms: community centres; village halls; community spaces within religious buildings, Scout…
Brett Landscaping
Arts & Culture Community Buildings/Halls Environmental Health & Social Care Heritage Local Grants Older People Sports YouthBrett Landscaping’s Community Engagement scheme supports small charities and community and voluntary groups with cash (up to £250) and product donations, such as concrete, bricks or paving slabs. Organisations wishing to apply must be working within the vicinity of a Brett Landscaping plant (Cliffe or Sturry, Kent). Projects renovating public outdoor spaces are favoured, but…
Ibstock Enovert Trust: Landfill Communities Fund
Community Buildings/Halls Environmental Heritage Local GrantsIbstock Enovert Trust (formerly Ibstock Cory Environmental Trust) supports community and environmental not-for-profit projects that have as big a positive impact on the community as possible. These include improving community halls, the creation of new play areas, enhancement of sports facilities, and restoring green spaces. The Trust funds projects (up to £15,000 approximately), through the Landfill Community…
Enovert Community Trust: Landfill Communities Fund
Community Buildings/Halls Environmental Local GrantsThe Enovert Community Trust (formerly Cory Environmental Trust in Britain) awards grants of up to £50,000 (guide amount) to not-for-profit organisations under the terms of the Landfill Communities Fund. Funding is to a support a broad range of community and environmental projects that fulfil at least one of the Trust’s objectives: Funding of high-quality projects which bring maximum impact to…
SUEZ Communities Trust: Landfill Communities Fund
Community Buildings/Halls Environmental Heritage Local GrantsThe SUEZ Communities Trust awards grants of up to £50,000 through the Landfill Community Fund to not-for-profit organisations within in a two and a half mile radius of a SUEZ Recycling and Recovery UK waste processing location (West Lane, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 3TT) and within a ten miles radius of any licensed landfill (Kemsley Mill Landfill,…
Viridor Credits Environmental Company
Community Buildings/Halls Environmental Heritage Local GrantsViridor Credits Environmental Company funds community, heritage and biodiversity projects through the Landfill Communities Fund. They offer three funding schemes in England: Small Grants Scheme: up to £20,000. Main Grants Scheme: between £20,001-50,000. Large Grants Scheme: between £50,001-100,000 (the most competitive scheme). To be eligible to apply, not-for-profit organisations must be within a ten miles of an active…
Biffa Award
Community Buildings/Halls Environmental Local Grants SportsBiffa Award’s Main Grants Scheme awards grants (through the Landfill Communities Fund) to projects that provide or improve biodiversity, community spaces, cultural facilities, and places for outdoor recreation. See previously funded projects in Kent. You may have a building that needs improvement in order to increase the range of services on offer to the local community.…
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Food Waste Reduction Fund
EnvironmentalThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ Food Waste Reduction Fund, administrated by WRAP (The Waste and Resources Action Programme) invites expressions of interest from not-for-profit organisations helping to avoid surplus food produced by food businesses from becoming waste. To be eligible, organisations applying will need to demonstrate they plan to work in partnership with food…
Lord Barnby’s Foundation
Environmental Health & Social Care Heritage Older People YouthLord Barnby’s Foundation offers grants to charitable organisations for, general charitable purposes, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability, the prevention or relief of poverty, animals, environment, conservation and heritage. Grants are between £1,000 – £5,000, but no maximum amount is specified. Applications should be made in writing and include a brief description of…
The Charles Hayward Foundation: Main Grant Programme
Environmental Health & Social Care HeritageThe Charles Hayward Foundation is a grant-making charitable trust offering grants to charities registered in the UK. The Main Grant Programme makes grants in the following categories: Heritage and Conservation Social and Criminal Justice Generally, when funding projects, the Foundation value projects that develop, expand and replicate a tried and tested approach but are also…
Woodroffe Benton Foundation
Environmental Health & Social Care Older People YouthThe Woodroffe Benton Foundation welcomes applications from any charitable organisation based in the UK, as well as any educational institutions (schools, universities, etc.) whether or not they have charitable status. Projects should fall within one of the following categories: Relief of Hardship Care for the Elderly Education and Youth Development Environment and Conservation Grants range…
The Chestnut Fund
EnvironmentalThe Chestnut Fund is an independent charity, making grants available to encourage and enable community groups to carry out conservation activities. The grants are administered by The Conservation Volunteers (TCV). The grants fall into two categories: Start-up Grants These are for groups who have no money when they are first set up and are available to…
Donald Forrester Trust
Arts & Culture Environmental Health & Social Care Local Grants Older People YouthThe Donald Forrester Trust target their support where they believe it is most needed and are increasingly look towards UK registered charities that are dependent upon volunteer support and a small amount of money will go a long way. The Trust also favours organisations where both overheads and fund raising costs are kept to a minimum. Grants are made twice yearly…
Jephcott Charitable Trust
Environmental Health & Social CareThe Jephcott Charitable Trust supports UK registered charities and properly constituted organisations working to address the Trust’s four main priorities: Population Control: The Trust is prepared to consider support for schemes, particularly educational ones, which help to control excessive growth in population. The National Environment: The Trust has supported a number of projects involved in…
Sylvia Waddilove Foundation UK
Arts & Culture Environmental Health & Social Care HeritageThe Trustees welcome applications from charities, CICs and Registered Societies. Grants are provided for projects relating to the following charitable purposes: Education (organic farming, animal husbandry, veterinary science, animal welfare and animal surgery) The visual and performing arts Medical research The relief of disability and severe illness The preservation of buildings of architectural or historical…
The Phillips Fund
Environmental Local GrantsThe Phillips Fund, administrated by Kent Community Foundation, offer grants of up to £1,000 to a wide variety of projects which aim to protect, conserve and enhance the use and character of the rural landscape and its communities. Projects must benefit the wider community and have public access. Project ideas could include the following activities: planting of native…
The Cole Charitable Trust
Environmental Health & Social Care Local Grants YouthThe Cole Charitable Trust supports charities in the West Midlands, Kent and Cambridgeshire areas preferring to fund small charities for whom the modest grants available can make a significant difference. The Trust welcomes applications from small and local (as opposed to regional or national) organisations, or local branches of organisations, working in the fields of: social welfare, all age…
The Fore
Arts & Culture Community Buildings/Halls Environmental Health & Social Care Heritage Older People Social Enterprise Sports YouthThe Fore is the only open-access funder in the UK offering development funding and strategic support to early-stage charities and social enterprises. Unrestricted grants of up to £30,000 over one to three years and access to business expertise are available to any UK registered charity, social enterprise or community interest company with an annual income less than £1m.…
Polden-Puckham Charitable Foundation
Environmental Health & Social Care ReligionThe Polden-Puckham Charitable Foundation looks to fund pioneering organisations in the UK that are working to influence policy, attitudes and values at a national or international level. These may be single issue groups working to achieve a particular change, or organisations with a broader remit. The Foundation gives particular consideration to small pioneering headquarters organisations.…
The John Coates Charitable Trust
Arts & Culture Environmental Health & Social Care HeritageThe John Coates Charitable Trust mainly makes grants to large national charities or to small charities that are of personal or local interest to the trustees, typically in London, the South East, South West of England, and East Anglia. Grants are made to those working in the following areas: Education The Arts Medicine and healthcare…
Garfield Weston Foundation: Regular Grants
Arts & Culture Community Buildings/Halls Education & Employment Environmental Health & Social Care Heritage Religion YouthThe Garfield Weston Foundation’s Regular Grant programme awards grants of up to £100,000 to UK registered charities, CIOs, schools, faith-based organisations that are either exempt under the Charity Commission guidelines or are registered charities, housing associations or museums and galleries with activity in the following areas of Welfare, Youth, Community Arts, Faith, Environment, Education, Health…
GC Gibson Charitable Trust
Arts & Culture Environmental Health & Social Care Older People YouthThe GC Gibson Charity offers grants of between £1,000 and £10,000 (averaging around £4,000) to a wide range of UK registered charities, preferably those with annual charitable donation of less than £1 million. The Trustees are all highly involved in various philanthropic activities and priority for support is given to charities that the Trustees have previously…
The Mackintosh Foundation
Arts & Culture Environmental Health & Social CareThe Mackintosh Foundation gives priority to: the theatre and the performing arts medical aid particularly research into cancer and HIV and AIDS homelessness community project the environment refugees The Foundation is looking to award grants to the following requests: Financing education in the UK and abroad by making grants to schools’ core costs and assisting the…
Foyle Foundation: Small Grants Scheme
Arts & Culture Environmental Health & Social Care Heritage Local Grants Older People YouthThe Foyle Fondation’s Small Grants Scheme is designed to support smaller charities in the UK, especially those working at grass roots and local community level, in any field, across a wide range of activities. Please note the Foyle Foundation are not able to support individuals. Applications are welcomed from charities that have an annual turnover…
Chapman Charitable Trust
Arts & Culture Environmental Health & Social Care Local GrantsThe Chapman Charitable Trust awards grants of either £1,000 or £2,000 to UK registered charities which: promote physical and mental wellbeing; conserve our natural environment and promote the sustainable use of resources; or increase the accessibility of the arts, especially for young people. The Trust prefers to support charities which address the root causes of…
The Lister Charitable Trust
Environmental Health & Social Care YouthThe Lister Charitable Trust supports general charitable causes however have a tendency to fund projects supporting activities for children and young people, health causes and environment. Deadline: Continuous rolling programme. The Trustees meet quarterly to review applications. For more information and how to apply please contact: Penelope Horne, Trustee The Lister Charitable Trust c/o Apperley Limited…
Antony Hornby Charitable Trust
Arts & Culture Community Buildings/Halls Environmental Health & Social Care Older People YouthThe Antony Hornby Charitable Trust makes general charitable donations to organisations working in the following causes: education, training and employment; medical, health and sickness; Arts and culture; animals and environment; and community development. Grants are typically around £1,000 and rarely over £5,000, however no maximum amount you can apply for is stipulated. Deadline: Continuous rolling programme.…
Schroder Charity Trust
Arts & Culture Environmental Health & Social Care Heritage YouthThe Schroder Charity Trust awards grants up to £5,000 (average £2,500) to UK registered charities working in: Education and Young People; Communities; Environment and Conservation; Health; Arts and Culture; International Development; Heritage; and Supporting our Armed Forces. Deadline: Continuous rolling programme. Applications reviewed bi-annually. For more information and how to apply please click here.
The Lawson Trust
Arts & Culture Education & Employment Environmental Health & Social Care HeritageThe Lawson Trust awards grants to national and regional charities whose work benefits the communities of Kent and Sussex where the Founders of the Trust lived and worked. The Trust’s key five priorities are: Arts and Heritage Education Environment Health Social and Economic Disadvantage Although there is no maximum grant size set that you can…
The Stanley Smith (UK) Horticultural Trust
EnvironmentalThe Stanley Smith (UK) Horticultural Trust offer grants of up to £5,000 (average grant size £3,000 – £4,000) to charities, community and voluntary organisations and institutions for projects that meet the objectives of the Trust: to promote horticulture; to promote the conservation of the physical and natural environment by promoting biological diversity to promote the creation,…
The Bothwell Charitable Trust
Environmental Health & Social Care Older People YouthThe Bothwell Charitable Trust supports general charitable causes however seems to favour applications for health, people with disabilities, conservation, children’s and older people’s causes in the South East of England. Grants are typically under £5,000 however no maximum is stipulated. Deadline: Continuous rolling programme. Distributions are made during February/March. For more information and how to apply…
The Edith M Ellis 1985 Charitable Trust
Environmental Health & Social Care ReligionEdith M Ellis was a passionate Quaker and worked tirelessly for international peace and reconciliation. Each year the trust gives a few seed grants of between £2000 and £10,000 to UK registered charities, NGOs, public bodies and social enterprises who have innovative ideas to bring about a more peaceful, sustainable and just world, embodying Quaker…
The Bromley Trust
EnvironmentalThe Bromley Trust’s aims and objectives are to: To combat violations of human rights and help victims of torture, refugees from oppression and those who have been falsely imprisoned; to help those who have suffered severe bodily or mental hurt through no fault of their own and if need be help their dependents; to try…
Support Adoption for Pets
EnvironmentalSupport Adoption for Pets support organisations whose main charitable activity is the rescue and rehoming of UK pets. They want to work together with these organisations to reduce the number of homeless pets in the UK and to improve the lives of UK pets in rescue. Support Adoption for Pets want to know how the…
The NINEVEH Charitable Trust
EnvironmentalThe NINEVEH Charitable Trust supports a broad range of UK-based projects and activities of benefit to the general public, with an emphasis on promoting better understanding of the environment and countryside, whilst facilitating improved access, education and research. Since the Trust’s objectives are so broadly based, they are interested in applicants interpreting them as creatively…