Funding updates

  • Heritage Impact Fund

    Tailored, flexible loans for community businesses and charities seeking to acquire, reuse or redevelop buildings which are of historic or architectural importance

  • Oli Bennett Charitable Trust

    The Oli Bennett Charitable Trust was set up in memory of Oli Bennett who died in the September 11th World Trade Centre attack. It provides small grants for young people starting a business. Applicants must be aged between 18 and 30 and should note the following requirements: All applicants need to supply a business plan […]

  • ChurchCare

    ChurchCare is the Church of England’s national resource, providing advice, support and funding for people caring for church buildings. ChurchCare works in partnership with various grant-giving bodies to provide funding for church projects. The grants provide support for Parochial Church Councils (PCCs) for the conservation of church buildings and their historic contents. Grants are made […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • CITB (Construction Industry Training Board)

    The CITB offers grants to employers in the construction industry for training their workforce. Grants are available for apprenticeships, management, professional and technical training as well as other workforce training and development. From February 2017 the Grants Scheme will be in two strands: an Apprenticeship & Qualification Fund; and a Grants Fund for transferable and […]