This week's Funding Bulletin (January 20th - January 24th 2025)
- lewishallwcvs
- Jan 24
- 3 min read
A short summary of funding opportunities that have came to our attention this week.
Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme
The UK government has extended the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme for the 2025/26 financial year, providing £23 million to support the restoration of thousands of listed places of worship, including churches, synagogues, mosques and temples.
This scheme offers grants towards VAT paid on repairs and renovations to listed religious buildings, including churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples. The scheme will help fund works such as repairs to foundations, masonry, and monuments integral to these historical buildings. The scheme recognises the importance of listed places of worship as part of UK heritage and their role in bringing communities together.
To read more: Listed Places of Worship (LPW) Grant Scheme
Cash for Kids' Holiday Hunger Grant Fund
This initiative aims to provide support for children and young people up to 18 years old who face food insecurity and lack access to activities during school holidays. Cash for Kids is offering grants typically ranging from £1,000 to £3,000, though applications for smaller or larger amounts will be considered.
Eligible applicants include registered charities, schools community groups, and organisations that support children affected by poverty, abuse, neglect, or those with additional needs. The Holiday Hunger grants can be used for various purposes, including providing nutritious food, covering staffing costs, purchasing equipment for activities, hiring facilities, and funding trips or residential activities. Organisations interested in applying must do so through the online application form on the Cash for Kids website.
To read more: Grants | Cash for Kids
Charles Hayward Foundation Small Grants programme
Grants of up to £7,000 are available to charities in the U.K to support preventative and early community based intervention programmes that focus on helping older people stay in their own homes and maintain their independence.
The Charles Hayward Foundation is looking to support projects that:
Address isolation and depression in older people through activities like informal daycare or social and recreational programmes.
Provide support and assistance for older individuals living in their own homes.
Cater to the emotional and practical needs of older caregivers.
Meet the specific requirements of people with dementia.
To read more: Older People - Charles Hayward Foundation
The abrdn Financial Fairness Trust
Charities, voluntary organisations, think tanks, campaigning groups, research bodies, and universities can apply for grants of between £10,000 and £200,000 for strategic work that improves living standards and personal finances, especially for low-to-middle incomes.
The abrdn Financial Fairness Trust is looking to support proposals from organisations across the UK seeking funding for policy work, campaigning, and research focused on three areas that influence financial well-being: income, spending, and assets. These might include wages, pensions and taxation, gambling, borrowing and repayment problems, and savings.
Between fifteen and twenty grants are awarded each year, and priority is given to work that focuses on younger generations.
Current deadline: 5th February 2025
To read more: Our funding process | abrdn Financial Fairness Trust
The Thomas Wall Trust
Grants of up to £5,000 are available to registered charities to support projects that equip people (18 or older in order) from disadvantaged groups with the communication skills necessary to gain employment. Priority will be given to projects that target people experiencing multiple deprivation or other groups facing major hurdles to employment, especially women, people with physical, mental, or learning disabilities, refugees and asylum seekers.
Applicants must:
Be a UK charity that has been registered with the Charity Commission for at least 3 years.
Be a project or running costs for a charity that equips people (aged 18 and over) with the skills ready for employment.
Have an annual turnover of between £25,000 - £500,000.
Current deadline: 5th May 2025
To read more: Grants for Registered Charities | Thomas Wall Trust
National Lottery Community Fund's Grant Holder Support Programme
The National Lottery Community Fund (NLCF) has launched a new initiative as part of a proposed £150 million funding package aimed at addressing common challenges faced by communities in England. The initiative includes £2.1 million in funding through a Grant Holder Support programme.
The NLCF seeks a partner to lead the development stage, working with 8 to 10 NLCF grant holders to design and deliver support packages that meet community needs. The development phase will run from spring 2025 to spring 2026.
Eligible applicants for the lead partner role include community or voluntary organisations such as constituted voluntary or community organisations, registered charities, charitable incorporated organisations, not-for-profit companies limited by guarantee, community interest companies, community benefit societies, and co-operative societies with a not-for-profit asset lock.
Current deadline: 5th February 2025
Our past Funding Bulletins will also have grant opportunities that are still open!
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