Community Grant / Cambridge City Council/ Deadline 3 June

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Fund your community activity with a Cambridge City Council Grant – launches on 23 April 2025.

Have you got plans or ideas for an activity that will take place between July 2025 and March 2026 and help to reduce inequality?

Voluntary or community organisations, or groups of local residents, could be eligible for a £5,000 and under Community Grant – this grant scheme replaces Area Committee Grants.

The funding is available for activities that reduce social or economic inequality for disadvantaged residents. Activities can be open to all city residents or targeted at residents living in a particular area of the city.

We want these grants to make a difference to the lives of city residents with the highest needs.

There will be 2 funding rounds:

  • Round 1: is now closed
  • Round 2: launches on 23 April 2025 – apply by midday on 3 June 2025

(for activities taking place between July 2025 and 31 March 2026).

Please note you can only apply to one round. Please contact grants@cambridge.gov.uk if you are unsure.

Go to: https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/community-grants-of-5000-and-under for further information including:

  • guidelines
  • recorded webinar and drop in appointment dates
  • application form.

Contact the Grants Team now for further information and to discuss your ideas:

Museum Estate and Development Fund (MEND)/ Arts Council England/ Deadline 02 October 2025

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Museum Estate and Development Fund (MEND)

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), Arts Council England, Historic England, and the National Lottery Heritage Fund have set the Museum Estate and Development Fund (MEND) criteria.

The grants are administered, awarded and monitored by Arts Council England.

Funding is provided by DCMS.

What is available?

Capital expenditure to support non-national Accredited museums in England to undertake vital infrastructure and urgent maintenance backlog work to their buildings.

They define capital expenditure as an amount spent on improving fixed assets that will be capitalised on your balance sheet.

Between £50,000 (minimum) and £5 million (maximum). 

Grants near the maximum value are likely to be made only by exception.

Who can apply?

Non-national Accredited museums based in England, and/or Local Authorities based in England responsible for maintaining non-national Accredited museum buildings.

Lead applicants must be registered with Companies House and/or with the Charity Commission or similar regulatory authority.

How to apply

Registration for this fund will open on Grantium at 9 am on 12 May 2025.

  • Expression of Interests (EOI) open on Grantium at 9 am on 12 May 2025 and close at noon (midday) on 5 June 2025
  • The Full Application opens on Grantium at 9 am on 14 July 2025 and closes at noon (midday) on 02 October 2025

Find out more and apply here: Museum Estate and Development Fund (MEND): Round 5 – Guidance for Applicants | Arts Council England

Cambs Community Foundation/Investing in Health/ Deadline 1 May 2025

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Investing in Community Health Fund

The fund aims to tackle pressing health challenges through targeted support to local non-profit organisations. £50,000 will be equally distributed to organisations in each of the region’s 13 Integrated Neighbourhoods, ensuring that resources reach communities. This localised approach will enable organisations to address specific health needs within their communities while building sustainable capacity for the future.

The fund will focus on three strategic priorities:

  • Improving healthy lifestyles
  • Reducing frailty and social isolation
  • Reducing obesity and educating communities about healthy eating

The fund will be divided into 13 equal amounts of funding (£50,000), one for each Integrated Neighbourhood. The aim is to build capacity based on the specific needs of each local area, leveraging existing local VCSE providers to strengthen current services and provisions. The 13 Integrated Neighbourhoods are listed below. A list of GP Surgeries that link to each Integrated Neighbourhood can be seen here.

Huntingdonshire locality

  • A1 Network
  • Huntingdon
  • St Neots
  • St Ives

Peterborough locality

  • Peterborough Partnership
  • BMC and Paston
  • Bretton, Park and Hampton
  • Central, Thistlemoor and Thorpe
  • Peterborough East
  • South Peterborough

Fenland locality

  • Fenland
  • South Fenland
  • Wisbech

Applicant groups are able to apply for projects covering more than one Integrated Neighbourhood (a maximum of £50,000 per Integrated Neighbourhood). However, applicants must make it clear in their budget how costings are broken down per Integrated Neighbourhood. Applicants must also be prepared for the possibility that funding may not be received for every Integrated Neighbourhood within an application.

 

https://www.cambscf.org.uk/funds/investing-in-community-health-fund/

 

Reaching Communities England/ The National Lottery / Ongoing

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Reaching Communities England

What is available?

£20,001 or more, for up to 5 years

With this funding we’ll help strengthen communities and improve lives across England. Our funding is available to all communities. But our priority is the places, people and communities that need it most.

By ‘community’ we mean people living in the same area. Or people with similar interests or life experiences, even if they do not live in the same area.

Our priorities are to fund projects that:

  • support places, people or communities experiencing poverty, disadvantage or discrimination
    and
  • support people and communities to shape the decisions that affect their lives.

And your project must achieve one of our missions. Which are to support communities to:

  • Come together, through inclusive places, spaces and activities (either physical or virtual). Especially for communities where people are least able to come together.
  • Help children and young people thrive, by developing positive social and emotional skills.
  • Be healthier, by addressing health inequalities. And helping prevent poor health.
  • Be environmentally sustainable. By engaging with climate issues and having a positive environmental impact. And improving access to quality natural spaces.

We’re more likely to fund work that achieves one or two of these missions really well. For more see our priorities.

Funding starts at £20,001. But most applications we fund are for less than £500,000. We can fund many different types and sizes of work. See what you can spend the money on.

Who can apply?
Voluntary or community organisations
Application deadline
Ongoing.

Find out more here and apply: Reaching Communities England | The National Lottery Community Fund

United with Ukraine community grant / Cambridge City Council/ Deadline 1 June

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United with Ukraine community grant from Cambridge City Council

Community groups, small groups of residents and organisations supporting refugees (Cambridge based) fleeing the war in Ukraine can apply for a grant to support activities that will meet one or more of the following priorities:

  • navigating life in the UK
  • promote community cohesion and integration
  • deliver money advice and management
  • support access to employment
  • increase confidence in speaking English
  • enhance wellbeing, including activities for children

United with Ukraine grant scheme has three funding tiers, referred to as Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3.

What is available?

Community groups or small groups of residents can apply for a grant of up to £2,000 (Tier 1), while constituted not-for-profit organisations with a track record can apply for a grant of up to £5,000 (Tier 2). Constituted not-for-profit organisations with a track record of successfully delivering a United with Ukraine grant or with a track record of working with refugees can apply for a grant between £5,001 and £30,000 (Tier 3).

Eligibility

You must demonstrate that your group’s activity fits into one of the six priority areas.

The people who benefit from the activity must live in Cambridge. It’s fine for people from elsewhere to take part, but we can only provide funding for residents that live inside the city boundary.

We will fund the direct costs of running the activity and will consider a realistic and proportionate share of your organisation’s overheads.

Your activity should be open to all residents who could benefit.

To find out more and apply please visit: United with Ukraine community grant – Cambridge City Council

Deadline: 11:59pm Sunday 1 June

Grants /i3ntegrate/ Deadline 12 May

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I3ntegrate call for grant applications

A grant for one organisation or partnership for up to £30k for a one year pilot in the Cambridge wards: Cherry Hinton, Queen Edith’s and Trumpington.

What is available?

In Spring/Summer 2025, I3ntegrate are looking to award a one-off grant of up to £30,000 to an organisation, group or collaboration with the knowledge, expertise and capacity to create and deliver a 1-year pilot programme of support for the caregivers (and others within the immediate ecosystem) of young people within the Cambridge City wards of Cherry Hinton, Queen Edith’s and Trumpington. This programme should support those within a young person’s immediate ecosystem to develop and maintain healthy relationships and emotional connections with their young people.

Key Criteria
• Maximum grant: A single grant with a maximum value of £30,000 will be awarded by I3ntegrate trustees.

• Who can apply: Organisations which fall under one of the following categories can apply: constituted voluntary or community organisation, registered charity, charitable incorporated organisation, not-for-profit company limited by guarantee, community interest company, school, statutory or public body, community benefit society registered with the Financial Conduct Authority, co-operative society registered with the Financial Conduct Authority. Partnerships, groups of collaborations may also apply if all members fall within one of the aforementioned categories. All organisations must be registered in the UK or RoI.

• Audience: Those who are within the immediate ecosystem of young people aged 5 – 18 years in the Cambridge City wards of Cherry Hinton, Queen Edith’s and Trumpington. These ecosystems are unique to each person, and may include: primary caregivers, parents, guardians, extended family members, mentors, friends. Applicants should give a clear description of their audience(s) within their application. See below for further detail on audiences.

• Geographical area: Applicants must give equal consideration and detail proportionate provision for Cambridge City wards of Cherry Hinton, Queen Edith’s and Trumpington.

• Duration of programme: Deliver should begin between 1 and 15 September 2025, and end in July 2026.

• Other: all provision must be free at point of access to all.

Timeline
Applications close: 12 May 2025, 23:59
Outcomes communicated: Week commencing 2 June 2025
Delivery to begin: 1 September 2025 – 15 September 2025
Interim report deadline: 13 February 2026
Delivery to end: 31 July 2026
Final report deadline: 31 August 2026

Submitting an application
Applicants should complete an online application form which can be accessed via the following website: I3ntegrate call for Grant Applications 2025
The deadline for applications is 23:59 on Monday 12 May 2025.
If you require a PDF copy of the application form, please contact them by email: hello@i3parenthub.org.

Contact 
They welcome conversations with prospective applicants to answers any queries and/or to discuss proposal suitability.

Please get in touch by email: hello@i3parenthub.org.

 

School of Social Entrepreneurs /Business Development / 14 May 2025

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Trading for Good Community Business Programme Opens for Applications

The School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE) provides this free business development learning programme with a match trading grant of up to £4,000 to support locally rooted community businesses in England to become stronger and more sustainable.

This free learning programme will be a mix of online and four in-person sessions. The programme will run from 20 October 2025 to 31 July 2026.

Applications will be accepted from leaders of an early stage community business. This could be a charity, a Community Interest Company (CIC), a company, community benefit society or other group, which is led by and working for a local community in England.

To be eligible, applicants must be based in England with an income of less than £100,000 per year, established within the last one to five years and plan on starting or growing the income it makes from trading.

Applications are encouraged from organisations led by women, young people aged 18-35, racially minoritised communities, disabled people, LGBTQ+ people, people with lived experiences of the issues their businesses seek to address and leaders working in areas of multiple deprivation. The programme also wants to ensure geographic representation from across England.

Organisations accepted onto the programme will receive a match trading grant of up to £4,000. The first £800 will be awarded up front. The remaining four instalments of up to £800 will be given over the year matched against the participant’s increased trading.

Online information sessions will be held on 8 April (12:00 to 13:00) and 7 May (16:00 to 17:00).

The deadline for applications is 14 May 2025 (12noon).

Warburtons /Families in Need/ Deadline 5 May 2025

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Small Grants for Summer Projects to Support British Families in Need

Through its Community Grants programme, the family run bakery business Warburtons provides a limited number of grants of up to £400 four times a year. Applications are currently being accepted for projects starting this summer.

Not-for-profit organisations with charitable purposes that are based and working in England, Scotland or Wales can apply as long as their projects are addressing one of Warburtons’ priority areas:

  • Health – supporting families to care for each other and lead healthier lives:
    • Improving physical health
    • Improving wellbeing
  • Place – supporting families to flourish in communities that are safer, greener and more inclusive:
    • Making spaces safe and inclusive
    • Connecting communities with the environment
  • Skills – supporting families to gain useful skills for life and work:
    • Developing useful life skills
    • Developing useful skills for employment.

Grants can be used to cover specific costs that will benefit the cause (eg, purchasing equipment to support an employability project).

Applications are considered quarterly.

The current deadline for applications is 5 May for decisions in mid June 2025.

Albert Gubay/Various /Quarterly

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Albery Gubay Charitable Foundation

This charitable foundation offers a limited number of grants to registered charities in England, Wales, the Isle of Man, and Republic of Ireland as well as to eligible Roman Catholic Dioceses and Roman Catholic charities in these countries.

The funding is for charitable projects that are based in and for the benefit of people living in England, Wales, the Isle of Man or Republic of Ireland.

To be eligible, projects need to address one or more of the current funding priorities:

  • Victims of modern slavery
  • Victims of domestic abuse
  • Ex-offenders and their families
  • Homelessness
  • Medical research
  • Support for people with terminal illnesses / life limiting conditions and their carers
  • Drug and substance misuse
  • Support for people with intellectual disability
  • Care leavers: to give them a chance to succeed on a par with other young people
  • Worship and associated community outreach
  • Amateur sport
  • Care for the elderly

Funding is at the discretion of the Trustees. Previous grants have ranged from £5,000 to £2.25 million.

The first step in the application process is to complete a short online form. Groups with eligible projects will be sent a link to the application form and given a deadline for submission for the next Grants Meeting.

Heritage Revival Fund /Historic Town Centre Buildings / Expression of Interest 12 May 2025

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New £5m Fund to Support Community Regeneration of Historic Buildings in Town Centres Across England

The Heritage Revival Fund is a new grants programme provided with funding from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DMS) and Historic England and forms part of the government’s wider £270 million investment in arts and culture.

The £5 million programme is being delivered by the Architectural Heritage Fund. It will run for one year (1 April 2025 – 31 March 2026).

Charities and social enterprises in England who are seeking to take ownership of and/or adapt historic buildings in town centres for community uses can apply now for grants of between £5,000 and £350,000.

The grants will support projects from the earliest stages through to capital works, with funding available for feasibility studies, development of business plans and drawings for architectural adaptations, as well as the costs of acquiring and renovating buildings.

There are three different grants:

  • Project Viability Grants up to £15,000 for up to one year.
  • Project Development Grants up to £100,000 for up to one year.
  • Capital Works Grants up to £350,000 for up to one year.

Applications will be accepted from the following not-for-private-profit organisations or lowest tiers of local government:

  • Unincorporated charities (Project Viability Grants only)
  • Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs)
  • Charitable Companies Limited by Guarantee
  • Community Benefit Societies
  • Not-for-private-profit Companies Limited by Guarantee
  • Community Interest Companies (CICs) Limited by Guarantee
  • Co-operatives
  • Parish and Town Councils
  • Independent secular organisations seeking to take ownership of a place of worship that will retain some religious use.

There is a two-stage application process.

The Capital Works Grants will open for Expressions of Interest on 12 May 2025 when the guidance notes are published and close on 27 June 2025.

Expressions of Interest are currently being accepted for Project Viability Grants and Project Development Grants.

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