Funding Friday

Posted on 9 January 2025 in News and updates

The Screwfix Foundation

The Screwfix Foundation provides grants up to £5,000 for projects that relate to the repair, maintenance, improvement or construction of homes, community buildings and other buildings. The aim is to help those in need: this could be by reason of financial hardship, sickness, distress or other disadvantages.

There are four deadlines each year: 10 February; 10 May; 10 August; and 10 November.

For more information visit the screwfix site: Screwfix Foundation | Screwfix

The Mobile Boost Voucher Scheme

The Mobile Boost Voucher Scheme still has funds available to help improve your indoor mobile signal. The scheme offers vouchers of up to £1,300 towards technology to help improve indoor mobile coverage and connectivity. It is funded through the Heart of the South West Local Enterprise Partnership’s Growth Deal.

The scheme is for small businesses and households who currently have adequate outdoor but poor indoor mobile coverage. The vouchers can be used towards the cost of a mobile signal booster from a registered supplier.

Businesses and residents in Devon, Torbay, Plymouth and Somerset can apply to the scheme for a voucher.

Vouchers worth up to £1,300 are available towards the cost of a mobile signal booster.

Youth Music Trailblazer Fund

Grants are available for organisations that support children and young people facing barriers to make, learn or earn in music. The Youth Music Trailblazer Fund provides grants of £2,000 to £30,000 for initiatives that help to make music more accessible.

Your work must meet one of the following themes:

  • early years
  • disabled, d/Deaf and neuro-divergent young people
  • youth justice system
  • young people facing barriers
  • young adults
  • organisations and the workforce
  • Projects can offer music making, learning, or earning – or a combination of all three. Trailblazer grants can now be used to sustain a grassroots programme, as well as to test and trial new ways of working. Children and young people should be involved in the planning and ongoing development of your project.

For Trailblazer Fund, you need 10% total match funding or higher and at least 5% must be cash match funding.

UK constituted organisations can apply to the Trailblazer Fund. Note that schools, sole traders and individuals are not eligible to apply.

Application deadline: 11 April 2025.