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Action for Women's Health – Global Open Call NEW

Status:	Open for Applications	
Grants are available for organisations in the UK and around the world that are improving women’s mental and physical health.
Fund Information
Funding body:	Pivotal Ventures	
Maximum value:	5,000,000 USD (£ 3,858,429) 	
Application deadline:	03/12/2024 	
Who Can Apply
Applications will be accepted from organisations around the world that have a record of improving women’s mental and/or physical health. They should centre equity in their approach and be poised to scale their work to strengthen the health of more women. 
To be eligible, UK applicants must be recognised as one of the following: 
•	A non-governmental organisation
•	A higher educational organisation
•	A charitable organisation.
•	A not-for-profit organisation.
•	A similar type entity that is a not-for-profit organisation or government agency that is engaged in charitable activities.
Applicants must: 
•	Have two years of audited financial records.
•	Be able to provide proof of registration and governance structure (eg, Trust Deed, Constitution, Memorandum and Articles of Association, Bylaws, Statutes, Charter, etc.).
•	Have the time and capacity to complete an application by the application deadline of 10 January 2025, and potentially participate in Participatory Review (the process can take up to 30 hours).
Location
Global, including UK
Useful links
Lever for Change - Action for Women's Health
https://womenshealth.leverforchange.org/submit
Addresses and contacts
For further information on how to obtain this grant locally, please contact the following:
Enquiries
Lever for Change
140 South Dearborn Street
Chicago
Illinois
60603
United States
E-Mail: actionforwomenshealth@submittable.com

Calls and deadlines

Information on future calls is indicative only and may be subject to change.
Registration Deadline
Application start date:	09/10/2024	
Application end date:	03/12/2024	

												

Alec Dickson Trust UPDATED

Status:	Open for Applications	
Grants are available to support volunteering projects in the UK, organised and run by young people (aged 30 years and younger).
Fund Information
Funding body:	Alec Dickson Trust	
Maximum value:	£ 500 	
Application deadline:	13/11/2024 	
Who Can Apply
Applications are accepted from UK based volunteering or community service projects, organised and run by young people (under 30 years).
Location
United Kingdom
Useful links
Alec Dickson Trust
http://www.alecdicksontrust.org.uk/
Addresses and contacts
For further information on how to obtain this grant locally, please contact the following:
Secretary
Alec Dickson Trust
18-24 Lower Clapton Road
Hackney
London
E5 0PD
E-Mail: secretary@alecdicksontrust.org.uk

Calls and deadlines

Information on future calls is indicative only and may be subject to change.
Sixth 2024 Deadline
Application start date:	-	
Application end date:	13/11/2024	

												

BGF Foundation Partnership Grants NEW

Status:	Open for Applications	
A small number of unrestricted grants are available to UK registered charities who work exclusively with disadvantaged young people (aged 7 to 30 years) in the UK and who have plans to scale their impact.
Fund Information
Funding body:	BGF Foundation	
Maximum value:	£ 100,000 	
Application deadline:	29/11/2024 	
Who Can Apply
Registered charities in the UK can apply. 
To be eligible, applicants must: 
•	Have been operating for at least three years.
•	Have an income between £1 million and £3 million in their latest published annual accounts
•	Have all of their work with young people in one or more of the Foundation's five focus areas of: enterprise, education, employment, mental health and physical wellbeing.
Location
UK
Useful links
BGF Foundation Partnership Grants
https://145182168.hs-sites-eu1.com/bgf-foundation-2024-funding-call?__hstc=25316514.d02ef60765bcb8499f07096f08ee9ee9.1717684031697.1730724749846.1730727228016.139&__hssc=25316514.1.1730727228016&__hsfp=4245361148
Addresses and contacts
For further information on how to obtain this grant locally, please contact the following:
Enquiries
BGF Foundation
Business Growth Fund
Watergate House
13-15 York Buildings
London
WC2N 6JU
E-Mail: info@bgffoundation.org.uk

Calls and deadlines

Information on future calls is indicative only and may be subject to change.
2024 Deadline for Expression of Interest
Application start date:	04/11/2024	
Application end date:	29/11/2024	

												

British Gas Energy Trust UPDATED

Status:	Open for Applications	
Grants are available to individuals and families across Great Britain to be used to help write off their energy debts.
Fund Information
Funding body:	British Gas Energy Trust	
Maximum value:	£ 2,000 	
Application deadline:	None specified	
Who Can Apply
Individual and Families Fund 
Applicants must: 
•	Live in England, Scotland or Wales. 
•	Be a pre-payment meter customer with between £50 and £1,700 of energy debt or a credit customer with between £250 and £1,7000 of energy debt.
•	Have a household income of less than £18,723 or someone in the household is registered disabled and receives a disability benefit or receives Carers Allowance or has 3+ children.
•	Not have received a grant from the British Gas Energy Trust within the last two years.
•	Be seeking a grant to clear an outstanding debt on a current or open gas, electricity or dual fuel energy account in their name. The energy account must relate to their main residence.
•	Have electric and/or gas debt.
•	Be in or facing fuel poverty.
•	Have received help from a money advice agency within the last six months.
The fund is available to British Gas and non-British Gas customers. However, non-customers should check with their own provider first, as there may be funds available to support them. 
British Gas Energy Support Fund 
Applicants must: 
•	Be British Gas credit or pre-payment meter customer.
•	Live in England, Scotland or Wales.
•	Not have received a British Gas Energy Trust grant within the last 12 months.
•	Be seeking a grant to clear an outstanding debt on a current or open gas, electricity or dual fuel energy account in their own name or be a member of that household. The energy account must relate to their main residence.
•	Have electric and/or gas debt of between £250 and £2,000 on an active energy account for a main residence.
•	Be in or facing fuel poverty.
•	Have received help from a money advice or guidance agency.
Please note that the British Gas Energy Trust is interested in funding applications where the applicant can show a sustainable position moving forward.
Location
Great Britain
Useful links
British Gas Energy Trust - Grants
https://britishgasenergytrust.org.uk/grants-available/
Addresses and contacts
For further information on how to obtain this grant locally, please contact the following:
Enquiries
British Gas Energy Trust
Farrer & Co
65-66 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
London
WC2A 3LH
Tel: 0121 348 7797
E-Mail: admin@britishgasenergytrust.org.uk

												

Condition Improvement Fund (CIF) UPDATED

Status:	Open for Applications	
Capital funding is available for academies, sixth-form colleges and non-diocesan voluntary aided (VA) schools in England to transform facilities, improve school buildings and create more good school places.
Fund Information
Funding body:	Department for Education (DfE)	
Maximum value:	Discretionary	
Application deadline:	17/12/2024 	
Who Can Apply
To be eligible to apply for CIF funding, applicants must have been by the start of September 2024 one of the following: 
•	Stand-alone academy
•	School in a multi-academy trust (MAT) with fewer than five schools or fewer than 3,000 pupils as counted in the Spring 2024 census or 2023/24 Individualised Learner Record (ILR)
•	Voluntary Aided (VA) school in a VA body or VA group with fewer than five schools or fewer than 3,000 pupils as counted in the Spring 2024 census or 2023/24 ILR
•	Sixth-form college
•	School with a signed academy order as of 1 September 2024 that  DfE expects to convert to a CIF-eligible responsible body by 1 April 2025.
Applicants can submit up to two projects per academy or college, only one of which may be an expansion project. 
Applications from free schools must confirm that the CIF project did not form part of the original free school project.
Location
England
Useful links
Condition Improvement Fund
https://www.gov.uk/condition-improvement-fund
Addresses and contacts
For further information on how to obtain this grant locally, please contact the following:
Department for Education (DfE)
Piccadilly Gate
Store Street
Manchester
M1 2WD
Tel: 0370 000 2288

Calls and deadlines

Information on future calls is indicative only and may be subject to change.
2025-2026 Deadline
Application start date:	22/10/2024	
Application end date:	17/12/2024	

												

Friends of the Elderly - Grants for Older People UPDATED

Status:	Open for Applications	
Small grants are available to support older people living on low incomes in England and Wales with the costs of home essentials, unexpected large bills, living costs and getting connected online.
Fund Information
Funding body:	Friends of the Elderly	
Maximum value:	£ 500 	
Application deadline:	None specified	
Who Can Apply
Applications are only accepted from a Referral Agent who knows the older person in a professional or community capacity. 
Referral Agents can include: housing associations, local authorities, charities, community organisations, social workers, advice providers, health centres, cultural and religious centres etc. 
A doctor/GP surgery can be a referrer, but only if they are willing to submit the application and follow through on its outcome. 
The older person must be: 
•	Currently residing in England or Wales.
•	In privately owned, privately rented, or social housing (not in residential care or a nursing home).
•	Of/over UK state pension age.
•	On a low income and with savings of less than £4,000 or £5,000 for joint applications.
Location
England and Wales
Useful links
Friends of the Elderly - Grants for Older People
https://www.fote.org.uk/our-charity-work/grants-2/
Addresses and contacts
For further information on how to obtain this grant locally, please contact the following:
Enquiries
Friends of the Elderly
40-42 Ebury Street
London
SW1W 0LZ
Tel: 0330 332 1110
E-Mail: hello@fote.org.uk

												

Neat Streets Grant Fund UPDATED

Status:	Open for Applications	
Grants are available to support new projects to run campaigns that aim to support litter reduction and boost recycling in the UK.
Fund Information
Funding body:	McDonald's	
Maximum value:	£ 10,000 	
Application deadline:	08/01/2025 	
Who Can Apply
Applications are accepted from: 
•	Local authorities
•	Business Improvement Districts
•	Major property owners or those who manage public space
•	Transport hubs eg airports, train stations
•	Companies limited by shares or guarantee
•	Charities
•	Social enterprises
Location
UK
Useful links
Neat Streets Grant Fund
https://neatstreets.org.uk/neat-streets-grant-fund
Addresses and contacts
For further information on how to obtain this grant locally, please contact the following:
Enquiries
Hubbub UK Ltd
Somerset House
The Strand
London
WC2R 1LA
E-Mail: hello@hubbub.org.uk

Calls and deadlines

Information on future calls is indicative only and may be subject to change.
2025 Deadline (Round 2)
Application start date:	-	
Application end date:	08/01/2025	

												

Peter Harrison Foundation - Active Lives Grant Programme UPDATED

Status:	Open for Applications	
Grants are available to UK charities to support grassroots sports projects which provide opportunities for self-development for people living in the most disadvantaged areas in the UK who encounter physical, mental, social, or economic barriers.
Fund Information
Funding body:	Peter Harrison Foundation	
Maximum value:	£ 30,000 	
Application deadline:	01/01/2025 	
Who Can Apply
Applications are accepted from UK organisations that: 
•	Are either a registered charity or a registered CASC (Community Amateur Sports Club).
•	Have been registered with the charity regulator for two years or more (charity applicants).
•	Have been registered as a CASC for two years or more (CASC applicants).
•	Have produced independently examined or audited accounts for at least one full year of operation.
Priority will be given to organisations with a turnover of under £5 million. 
The Foundation is interested in organisations that meet the following priorities: 
•	Focus on deprivation   
o	Provide high-impact, life-enhancing opportunities for those who live in the top 10% of areas of deprivation.
•	Are experienced   
o	Have significant experience using physical activity to engage disabled individuals and/or those who face severe and multiple disadvantage. 
•	Provide high impact opportunities   
o	Focus on using physical activity to provide opportunities for individuals to build their personal skills and self confidence.
o	Committed to removing barriers to participation in these life enhancing opportunities for disabled or disadvantaged people .
•	Prioritise grassroots and community engagement   
o	Prioritise grassroots involvement rather than elite participation in physical activity.
o	Have trustees, staff and beneficiaries who include people with personal and lived experience of the challenges their community faces.
o	Understand their community’s needs.  
•	Demand excellence   
o	Support, implement and disseminate best practice.
o	Seek to have a wider impact, perhaps through training, partnerships and/or dissemination activities [major grants only].
o	Have a strong leadership and can demonstrate the difference the charity has made in its community.
o	Have good governance in place including signed safeguarding and diversity, equity and inclusion policies, and efficient financial processes.
o	Are best placed to deliver the solution.
•	Have an entrepreneurial mindset   
o	Operate with ambition, inspiration and determination.
o	Have a vision for their charity’s future.
o	Seek to find ways to maximise the impact of their work, including the sharing of information with others.
•	Work with integrity   
o	Act responsibly, respectfully, reflectively and transparently.
o	Know their strengths and challenges.
•	Strive for sustainability   
o	Seek to deliver significant outcomes that leave a legacy.
o	Have plans for financial and environmental sustainability for the initiative and organisation.
Location
United Kingdom
Useful links
The Peter Harrison Foundation Grants
https://peterharrisonfoundation.org/about-our-grant-programmes/
Active Lives Grant Programme
https://peterharrisonfoundation.org/about-our-grant-programmes/active-lives/
Addresses and contacts
For further information on how to obtain this grant locally, please contact the following:
Enquiries
Peter Harrison Foundation
Foundation House
42 - 48 London Road
Reigate
Surrey
RH2 9QQ
Tel: 01737 228000
E-Mail: enquiries@peterharrisonfoundation.org

Calls and deadlines

Information on future calls is indicative only and may be subject to change.
First 2024 Deadline
Application start date:	01/11/2024	
Application end date:	01/01/2025	

												

Pink Ribbon Foundation UPDATED

Status:	Open for Applications	
Grants are available to breast cancer charities in the UK that assist people affected by breast cancer and organisations that work on breast cancer research and prevention.
Fund Information
Funding body:	The Pink Ribbon Foundation	
Maximum value:	£ 6,000 	
Application deadline:	30/05/2025 	
Who Can Apply
Registered charities working in the field of breast cancer in the UK may apply. 
Social enterprises and Community Interest Companies can apply as long as they are legally constituted and their proposed project is clearly for public benefit. 
Partnership bids will be accepted. 
The Foundation will consider applications from general cancer charities if any grant made will be used to benefit at least 50% of patients that suffer from Breast Cancer or for research into, or the dissemination of information about, breast cancer. 
The Foundation welcomes applications from all ethnic and minority groups.  
For the 2025 grant period, and with requests for assistance growing, the Foundation will focus in the main on organisations with limited financial resources to deliver their services.
Location
England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands
Useful links
Pink Ribbon Foundation
https://www.pinkribbonfoundation.org.uk/
Addresses and contacts
For further information on how to obtain this grant locally, please contact the following:
The Trustees
The Pink Ribbon Foundation
Crofton House
5 Morley Close
Orpington
Kent
BR6 8JR
Tel: 01689 858877
E-Mail: enquiries@pinkribbonfoundation.org.uk

Calls and deadlines

Information on future calls is indicative only and may be subject to change.
2025 Deadline
Application start date:	17/06/2024	
Application end date:	30/05/2025	

												

Solihull Winter Support and Prevention Fund NEW

Status:	Open for Applications	
Grants are available to local charitable organisations to provide social wellbeing, food and mental health support to households in Solihull over the winter period.
Fund Information
Funding body:	Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council	
Maximum value:	£ 4,000 	
Application deadline:	08/11/2024 	
Who Can Apply
Applications are accepted from: 
•	Registered charities.
•	Constituted community groups.
•	Companies limited by guarantee with charitable aims.
•	Community interest companies.
•	Co-operatives (registered community benefit societies and registered industrial and provident societies).
•	Social enterprises.
To be eligible, organisations must: 
•	Have an annual income of no more than £1 million.
•	Have a management committee/board of trustees/board of directors with at least three unrelated people as members.
•	Have a written constitution/articles/set of rules.
•	Have a bank account in the name of the organisation with at least two unrelated signatories.
•	Have safeguarding and equal opportunities policies.
•	Provide quotes for capital items over £300.
Projects must be benefiting households in Solihull. Organisations applying from outside of the area must demonstrate a connection within the borough.
Location
Solihull
Useful links
Solihull Winter Support and Prevention Fund
https://www.heartofenglandcf.co.uk/solihull-winter-support-and-prevention-fund/
Addresses and contacts
For further information on how to obtain this grant locally, please contact the following:
Enquiries
Heart of England Community Foundation
c/o Stellantis
Pinley House
2 Sunbeam Way
Coventry
West Midlands
CV3 1ND
Tel: 02477 800520
E-Mail: info@heartofenglandcf.co.uk

Calls and deadlines

Information on future calls is indicative only and may be subject to change.
2024 Deadline
Application start date:	-	
Application end date:	08/11/2024	

												

WCIT – IT4Good Grant Programme UPDATED

Status:	Open for Applications	
Grants are available for not-for-profit organisations across the UK to deliver IT projects and activities that support the themes of education, inclusion, IT for charities, and understanding of IT.
Fund Information
Funding body:	WCIT	
Maximum value:	£ 15,000 	
Application deadline:	10/02/2025 	
Who Can Apply
The following can apply: 
•	Registered charities.
•	Educational establishments.
•	Community interest companies.
•	Organisations with a formal not-for-profit constitution.
Applicants must provide: 
•	A document proving charitable state.
•	A copy of their most recent audited annual accounts.
•	A copy of their current safeguarding policy
•	A copy of their Person with Significant Control Register (for CICs and companies limited by guarantee).
Applicants for grants over £5,000 and less than £15,000 must also provide contact details of an external referee who can provide a reference on the charity’s effective project or service delivery. This contact must be external to the organisation and be happy to be named. They should not be related to any applicant staff or volunteer. 
Applicants for grants over £15,000 must also provide: 
•	Their most recent annual report or minutes of AGM. If the organisation is new, the minutes from the meeting when the constitution was formally adopted are acceptable.
•	Contact details of three external referees who can provide a reference on the charity's effective project or service delivery. The contacts must be external to the organisation and be happy to be named. They should not be related to any applicant staff or volunteer.
Location
UK.
Useful links
WCIT Charity
https://wcitcharity.org.uk/
Addresses and contacts
For further information on how to obtain this grant locally, please contact the following:
Enquiries
WCIT
39a Bartholomew Close
London
EC1A 7JN
E-Mail: charity@wcit.org.uk

Calls and deadlines

Information on future calls is indicative only and may be subject to change.
First 2025 Deadline
Application start date:	-	
Application end date:	10/02/2025	

												

West Midlands - Access Programme UPDATED

Status:	Open for Applications	
Grants and loans are available to charities and social enterprises supporting people impacted by the cost-of-living crisis in areas of the West Midlands where deprivation is most severe.
Fund Information
Funding body:	Social Investment Business (SIB)	
Maximum value:	£ 40,000 	
Application deadline:	None specified	
Who Can Apply
Grants and blended finance are available to social enterprises and charities based in specified areas of the West Midlands. 
To be eligible, organisations must be seeking to diversify and root their service models in enterprise activity. 
They must be providing one or more of the following critical services: 
•	Food and emergency supplies (e.g., food and baby banks or the provision of hot meals, clothes, or toiletries).
•	Emergency shelter (e.g., night shelters or other accommodation for people experiencing homelessness).
•	Safe spaces (e.g., domestic abuse services and youth services).
•	Warmth - warm rooms and spaces.
•	Financial and housing advice - giving people advice because of the increased cost of living.
Location
Coventry, Warwickshire, Birmingham, Solihull, Sandwell, Dudley, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Worcestershire and Staffordshire.
Useful links
Coventry and Warwickshire - Access Programme
https://www.cwrt.uk.com/access-programme
Addresses and contacts
For further information on how to obtain this grant locally, please contact the following:
Enquiries
Coventry and Warwickshire Reinvestment Trust Ltd
Enterprise Centre
Coventry University Technology Park
Puma Way
Coventry
CV1 2TX
Tel: 02476 551 777

												

Youth Endowment Fund - Open Call NEW

Status:	Open for Applications	
Grants are available for delivery organisations that work to reduce young people’s involvement in violence for well-established projects delivered in England or Wales.
Fund Information
Funding body:	Home Office	
Maximum value:	Discretionary	
Application deadline:	None specified	
Who Can Apply
YEF is interested in proposals from both: 
•	Delivery organisations currently delivering an evaluable project, service or intervention.
•	Partnerships between delivery organisations and YEF Evaluator panel members.
Applications will be considered from registered charities, companies, statutory bodies and community interest companies (CICs) supporting children and young people in England and/or Wales.  
Organisations need to fit one of the following: 
•	Delivering an intervention or service which should be evaluated.
•	A partnership between an organisation delivering an evaluable intervention or service, and an independent evaluator.
•	Leading a consortium or partnership which delivers an intervention or service which should be evaluated.
•	A lead organisation proposing a multi site trial of an intervention or service which should be evaluated.
To be eligible, applicant organisations must: 
•	Have experience of being involved in a large-scale evaluation.
•	Have experience of delivering at scale to the children and young people they are intending to work with.
•	Have demonstrable experience of delivering in a culturally sensitive and equitable way.
•	Be prepared to work with an independent evaluator.
•	Understand they will be asked to randomise allocation of children and young people between a control group and those who take part in the activity, meaning that some children and young people will not receive the intervention.
Location
England and/or Wales
Useful links
Youth Endowment Fund
https://youthendowmentfund.org.uk/
Youth Endowment Fund - Funding
https://youthendowmentfund.org.uk/funding/opportunities/
Addresses and contacts
For further information on how to obtain this grant locally, please contact the following:
Grants Team
Youth Endowment Fund
1st Floor, 64 Great Eastern Street
London
EC2A 3QR
E-Mail: grants@youthendowmentfund.org.uk