Community, health & welfare

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

  • Sanctuary Housing: Grand Ideas Fund

    The Grand Ideas Fund offers up to £1,000 for projects which aim to make a difference to the lives of Sanctuary Housing residents and their communities. The largest concentration of Sanctuary Housing stock is in the Torbay area but they do have housing throughout Devon so would consider applications from across the county. The fund […]

  • St James’s Place Charitable Foundation

    The St James’s Place Charitable Foundation provides grants to support charities in the UK, with a particular focus on supporting disadvantaged children and young people under the age of 25. There are three themes: Cherishing children – for projects supporting young people with physical or mental health difficulties or life threatening or degenerative conditions; young […]

  • Wakeham Trust

    The Wakeham Trust provides small grants, usually between £125 and £2,500, to projects where a contribution of this size will make a real difference. The trust can only fund registered charities but is happy to support voluntary groups carrying out charitable activities if they have a local charity which can accept the grant and then […]

  • Responsible Finance

    Responsible Finance is the new name for the Community Development Finance Association. It is a network of finance providers which provide loans for customers not supported by other lenders. The members of Responsible Finance are social enterprises which reinvest profits so that more people and businesses can access finance. One of the programmes led by […]

  • UK-German Connection

    UK-German Connection is a bilateral government initiative for school and youth links. It is funded and governed by the UK and German governments, British Council and the Pädagogischer Austauschdienst. Financial support is offered for joint UK-German activities in schools and youth groups which have a relevant thematic focus from across the curriculum and a clear […]

  • Truemark Trust

    The Truemark Trust makes donations to small local charities dealing with all kinds of disadvantage, with preferences to neighbourhood based community projects and for innovative work with less popular groups. The average grant is around £3,000. The Trust does not have a website but the administrator can be contacted by email: truemark.trust01@ntlworld.com or telephone: 07970 […]

  • CRASH Charity

    CRASH supports building projects for homelessness charities and hospices in the UK. Assistance is available where the building in question is used to deliver services to single homeless men and women over the age of 18, or to provide hospice care for people of all ages. Assistance is provided through: Professional expertise: advice and expertise […]

  • Science in schools

    Royal Society: Partnership Grants Partnership Grants of up to £3,000 are available to schools to enable students, aged 5 – 18, to carry out science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) projects. UK schools or colleges can apply for funding to buy equipment to run a STEM investigation project in partnership with a STEM professional (research […]

  • Wolfson Foundation

    The Wolfson Foundation provides grants for charities in the UK. Grants are generally given for capital infrastructure (new build, refurbishment and equipment) supporting excellence in the fields of science & medicine, health & disability, education and the arts & humanities. Funding is for larger projects, where total costs are more than £10,000. There are separate […]