Community, health & welfare

Funding for social and community enterprise, schools and innovative social services.

  • L. and R. Gilley Charitable Trust

    Registered charities in Devon that provide care for terminally ill and frail elderly people can apply to the L. and R. Gilley Charitable Trust for a grant. The charitable trust supports charities that assist in the care of the terminally ill or support the frail elderly in their own homes and institutions which do not […]

  • Hedley Foundation

    The Hedley Foundation provides grants to smaller charities that support people in need. The funding is for activities that fall within one of the following categories: Youth support – raising the aspirations of disadvantaged young people and supporting youth projects through education, the arts, sport and adventurous activities Disabled support – improving the quality of […]

  • Wolfson Foundation: Funding for Places

    Registered charities and local authorities can apply for capital grants for buildings and equipment from the Wolfson Foundation which provides support for places as part of its main grants programme. Grants are available for the following types of organisation: Charities working with disability or mental health – with a particular focus on training, employment and […]

  • Morrisons Foundation

    Morrisons Foundation – set up by Morrisons supermarket chain – makes grants to registered charities undertaking projects that improve people’s lives. Grants of up to £10,000 are available for specific projects that help to improve people’s lives. To be eligible, projects must address at least one of the following objectives: tackling poverty and social deprivation […]

  • B&Q Foundation

    A wide range of UK registered charities based and working in the UK can apply for one-off grants of up to £5,000 from the B&Q Foundation for garden projects or up to £10,000 for building or indoor projects. The funding is for registered charities working with people most in need because of homelessness, financial hardship, […]

  • David Solomons Charitable Trust

    The David Solomons Charitable Trust provides small grants to registered charities that are working to support people with learning difficulties. The Trust has a particular interest in supporting smaller, local projects that focus on care and treatment of those with learning difficulties as well as providing funding towards research into learning disabilities. Most grants are for £500 to […]

  • Woodland Trust: Free Trees

    Schools and communities can apply for free tree packs to plant trees in school grounds and community spaces. The Woodland Trust is giving away hundreds of thousands of trees that can be planted as copses, hedges, shelter-belts or in other creative ways. There are different packs available, each with species selected for a particular purpose: […]

  • Adult Social Care Training & Development Fund

    UPDATE 06 August 2024: Please note that this fund has been withdrawn The government is launching a new Adult Social Care Training and Development Fund. Eligible adult social care (ASC) employers can claim varying levels of reimbursement from this fund, for spend on upskilling the adult social care workforce. The fund is due to launch […]

  • Asda Foundation

    The Asda Foundation supports charities and not-for-profit organisations which are carrying out projects to benefit the local community and that have the support of their local Asda store. There are Asda stores in Newton Abbot, Torquay, Paignton, Plymouth, Barnstaple, Bideford and Crediton, as well as Gunnislake in Cornwall and Wellington in Somerset (near the Devon […]

  • Leathersellers’ Foundation

    The Leathersellers’ Foundation provides grants for charities in the UK through its Main Grants and Small Grants programmes. Main Grants – these grants are targeted to help prevent and tackle the consequences of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). The foundation uses the term ACEs to include traumatic events that have an adverse impact on a young […]