Funding updates

  • BBC Children in Need

    BBC Children in Need has announced that it will be pausing its grant-making this year while it introduces a new system. You can submit a new expression of interest up until 15 April 2025 but after that no further new applications will be accepted until the new portal launches in September. The current Children in […]

  • Arts Everywhere Fund

    The Government has announced a package of support for the arts and culture sector. It includes new funding programmes and additional funding for existing schemes to support museums, libraries, arts venues and heritage organisations. The new funds are: Creative Foundations Fund – £85million to support urgent capital works to keep venues across the country up […]

  • Benefact Trust

    The Benefact Trust provides grants to support the repair, restoration, protection, improvement and reach of places of Christian worship. This includes activities that benefit the wider community and the environment. The following grant schemes are open to applications: Building improvement grants – including making essential repairs, enhancing accessibility, restoring historic features, or installing energy-efficient systems […]

  • Health Lottery Foundation

    Voluntary organisations will soon be able to apply for funding from the new Health Lottery Foundation. The foundation will be distributing funding from the Health Lottery which launched in January 2025. Grants will be available for organisations offering support in the following areas: chronic disease disability inequity healthcare IT health disparity preventative care young people […]

  • Updates from Defra on funding for farmers

    Defra has announced several reforms to the range of support available to farmers including changes to some of the funding schemes. The Farming in Protected Landscapes programme is being extended until March 2026. This programme supports nature recovery, climate change mitigation and public access activities in National Landscapes (previously AONBs) and National Parks. More details […]

  • Farming in Protected Landscapes

    Farming in Protected Landscapes is a grant scheme for farmers and land managers in National Parks and National Landscapes (formerly AONBs). There are two National Parks and five National Landscapes either wholly or partly in Devon. The programme has been extended until March 2026 and will fund projects that: support nature recovery mitigate the impacts […]

  • Parkinson’s UK: Physical Activity Grants 2025

    Parkinson’s UK is re-opening its grants programme to help people with Parkinson’s to get and stay active. You can apply for between £500 and £3,000 to help people with Parkinson’s become and stay active, or help people increase their levels of physical activity. This year’s programme will re-open on 10 March and Parkinson’s UK will […]

  • Energy Redress Scheme

    Charities and community energy groups can apply for funding from the Energy Redress Scheme. Energy Saving Trust will be administering the scheme until 2026. Projects will be considered if they support households most at risk from cold homes and high energy bills, develop innovative products and services related to domestic energy use, or address carbon […]

  • D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust

    The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust considers applications from UK registered charities that are seeking funding towards core costs or projects in the UK in the following areas: Advancement of the arts: access and participation in the arts with an emphasis on choirs and singing to bring people together, performance arts, music and drama projects for […]

  • Kellogg’s Breakfast Club Grants

    Schools can now apply for a Kellogg’s Breakfast Club Grant of £1,000 to help fund a breakfast club for pupils between reception age and year 13. The aim is to provide breakfast for children that need it most and so the priority is to support schools that either: have 35% and above of children eligible […]