Grants and External Funding

Financial award available to organisations or teams from within the public, voluntary, community or social enterprise sectors that demonstrates they are helping people transform their lives by helping them develop their sense of purpose and confidence to take action.

Funding is available for UK food producers, offsetting the costs of sending quality unsold food to good causes.

Comic Relief is offering a range of funding investments to organisations supporting refugees on the move along the key migration routes, from Middle East and North Africa to Europe, including the UK

Grants of up to £250,000 available to UK women's organisations which provide front line services to meet the needs of women and girls facing multiple disadvantage across one or more strands of Violence against Women & Girls (VAWG).

A fund to support coordinators to work with farms in the same geographical area in England in order to deliver specific local priorities, such as the creation of wildlife corridors, which can help improve the natural environment’s resilience.

This pilot programme will enable three existing business support organisations in the UK to design and run refugee entrepreneurship programmes over a one-year period.

Funding of £1 million is available to support the work of life-saving charities operating rescue boats on rivers, lakes and inland waterways within the UK.

Advance notice - A £2 million pilot innovation fund to support public interest journalism in the UK, following recommendations in the Cairncross Review.

£33.5 million new government funding announced to encourage academy trusts in England to grow and drive school improvement.

A small number of grants are available to larger not-for-profit organisations for projects in England, Scotland or Wales that provide a significant benefit to communities across the whole of the Centenary region.