This year’s funding aims to support smaller charities and good causes to make a difference to their community for the benefit of people and planet.

Projects must have a clear alignment with one of the Trust’s 2024 themes:

• Enabling participation in physical activity
• Enabling participation in the arts
• Preventing or reducing the impact of poverty
• Supporting marginalised groups and tackling inequality
• Improving biodiversity and responding to the climate emergency
• Improving green spaces and increasing access to the outdoors
• Providing support to improve mental health with a focus on organisations that are actively supporting specific mental health issues rather than general mental wellbeing activities.

Depending on their not-for-profit legal structure, organisations can apply either for a grant of between £500 and £2,500 or between £500 and £25,000.

Who can apply? 

If the round is oversubscribed, priority will be given to charities and good causes which meet some or all of the following criteria:

• Organisations with an annual income of £250,000 and below.
• Communities that rank as being within the top 15% on the English Indices of Deprivation
• Groups that are led by and provide services for people from the following minority/marginalised groups:
  • Communities experiencing racial inequity.
  • People with disabilities.
  • LGBT+ people.

The funding offered is unrestricted and therefore flexible. It can be used however it is most needed.

How to apply?

This is the second of three application rounds in 2024. Each has an application window of one week.

Applications for Round 2 open at 9am on 24 June and close at noon on 1 July 2024.