- ASDA Foundation First Steps Enterprise Fund - loan-grant package is available for small community-led charities and social enterprises, working in communities in England, to help them grow their services and become more sustainable.
- CAN Invest - supports voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSEs) to build sustainable businesses by providing capital and business support.
- Comic Relief – £500 capacity building grants for small grass roots community groups, with income under £250k.
- Co-Op Foundation - interest-free loans of up to £50k to help organisations that own or manage a community space to grow their trading activities and become more sustainable.
- DWF Foundation - initiatives that develop and improve local communities, including helping voluntary and community groups become more effective and efficient.
- Emergency School Improvement Fund (Non-Capital) - schools in England facing unexpected or imminent failure.
- Esmee Fairbairn - organisations in the early phases of thinking about a merger with an identified potential merger partner (or partners); maximum £15k. One must be a grantee.
- Fidelity UK Foundation - registered charities in London, Kent or Surrey for strategic, transformational projects in arts and culture, community development, education, health or environment.
- First Steps Enterprise Fund - charities and social enterprises) based in England that are looking to take on their first loan to help them grow and become more sustainable. Particularly, work in: Older people, Health and wellbeing, Employment for young people.
- Impetus - Private Equity Foundation - Financial and other support to ambitious, innovative social enterprises that are helping children and young people in poverty in the UK to succeed at school and work.
- Newby Trust - core funding or overheads, in particular for very small charities, but would expect a broad description of what the grant will be used for. May provide small grants for short-term emergency relief.
- Oak Foundation - Special Interest Programme reflects the Trustees’ interests in making dynamic, diverse, large, innovative and challenging grants.
- Porticus UK – education, society, faith and care, will consider applications for core or project costs, including staff salaries and overheads. Particularly interested in proven models that organisations wish to roll-out or expand.
- Postcode Communities Fund - new projects, or significant expansions of existing projects, that focus on the 2020 themes to improve community health and wellbeing, increase participation in arts and physical recreation, or reduce isolation.
- Postcode Lottery Dream Fund - gives organisations the chance to deliver the project they have always dreamed of, but never had the opportunity to bring to life.
- Reaching Communities - £10k+, communities, voluntary and community organisations or social enterprises for up to 5 years; project activities, operating costs, organisational development and capital costs.
- Scaling Up Improvement - health and social care provider organisations in the UK to scale and spread tested interventions or approaches to improve the delivery of health care services.
- SCCF Capacity Development Grants – DfID, for expert not-for-profits and networks to build the capacity of small UK-based international development charities.
- The Rayne Foundation - tend to award core funding when an organisation is making a step-change in the way that it works or tackles a particular issue.
- Triangle Trust – community and voluntary organisations supporting carers or the rehabilitation of offenders and ex-offenders to improve future resilience. This might be a short piece of work over a few months or a more significant programme for up to 3 years.
- Trust For London - new and imaginative ways to tackle poverty and inequality in London.
- Tudor Trust - smaller community-led groups that support people at the margins of society in the UK. Normally £10k plus, for up to 3 years. Will consider grants to help strengthen your organisation and may consider making short-term loans.
- Weaver's Company Benevolent Fund - smaller UK based charities working with young offenders, prisoners and ex-prisoners, and young disadvantaged people, especially those at risk of criminal involvement. Will consider innovative projects, pump-priming funding and core costs.
- Whitely Animal Protection Trust - most grants up to £25k. Will consider essential core funding to smaller charities finding it hard to maintain their activities.
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