Latest Funding Opportunities
The Radcliffe Trust
Music and Heritage & Crafts Project Grants. Awards typically ranging from £2,500 to £7,500.
- Music Scheme: Supports classical music performance, training, and education. This includes chamber music, composition, youth orchestras, and music for children and adults with special needs.
- Heritage & Crafts Scheme: Focuses on traditional crafts and conservation, training, capacity building, and therapeutic skill development.
Deadline 31 January 2026. Details here.
Fisheries Improvement Programme
Grants of up to £5,000 for projects that enhance fish habitats, improve angling facilities, and help fisheries adapt to climate challenges. Match funding is required. Eligible applicants include angling clubs, fisheries, and community organisations.
Deadline 6 February. Details here.
Windrush Day Grant Scheme 2026
For 2026, up to £500,000 is available nationally, with grants of between £5,000 and £25,000 for eligible organisations. Funded projects should focus on one of the following aims:
• Raising awareness of the Windrush story
• Fostering pride in the contribution of the Windrush generation and their descendants
• Encouraging and inspiring young people
Applications close 10 February. Details here.
Small Charity Week Match Funding Campaign 2026
The campaign helps small charities maximise donations through match funding, providing vital unrestricted income. Thanks to match funding from Champion funders, including players of People’s Postcode Lottery, public donations made during the campaign will once again be doubled. The Small Charity Week 2026 match funding campaign will run from 22–29 June 2026, aligning with Small Charity Week.
Applications close 11 February. Details here.
The Path Accessibility Fund by The Ramblers
This fund helps community groups remove access barriers—like stiles, steps, overgrown trails—to make UK public rights of way usable by people with reduced mobility, including those using mobility aids or pushchairs. Grants average around £2,500, ‘however we have funded larger amounts which represented good value for money and contained a strong element of match funding, or in-kind funding. The smallest amount awarded was £250’.
Deadline 14 March. Details here.
The Henry Smith Foundation Holiday Grants Programme
‘offers one-off grants for schools, youth groups and non-profit organisations to take children aged 13 and under on recreational day trips or short residential trips.’ Priority is given to disabled children and those in deprived areas. Grants range between £500 and £3,000.
- Applications for trips between 12 January and 30 April 2026 are open from 9am, 1 December 2025, until 19 March 2026.
- Applications for trips between 1 May and 30 September 2026 are open from 20 March and 19 August 2026.
- Applications for trips between 1 October and 31 December 2026 are open from 20 August and 19 November 2026.
