Grant Directories

The UK Government's Tampon Tax Fund distributes the VAT collected on women's sanitary products as grants to charitable organisations within the UK. A total of £15 million is available for projects that address violence against women or work with disadvantaged women and girls. Priority will be given to projects that provide services that are not currently widely available. Proposals from organisations that work to improve the lives of disadvantaged women and girls more generally are welcomed. All applicants must demonstrate how user involvement is built into their work and that users (or potential users) of a service or project are involved in an appropriate way at all stages.

To help deliver the priorities of Leicestershire County Council's Communities Strategy, the SHIRE Community Grant programme will enable voluntary and community sector organisations (including social enterprises and Town/Parish Councils) to deliver community-based projects, services and activities which directly benefit the most vulnerable people in Leicestershire.
Priority will be given to new and innovative projects that will: support the most vulnerable individuals and communities in Leicestershire; provide early intervention and prevention based solutions; complement existing services already being delivered.

Through the Police & Crime Commissioner for Nottinghamshire's Make Notts Safe Fund, grants are available under the following three themes: Community Chest - this will provide seed-corn and other funding for third sector organisations to enable local delivery against the PCC’s priorities; Thematic Grants - will fund third sector organisations with multi-year funding through thematic funding rounds which are closely linked to the Make Notts Safe Plan’s strategic priorities; Innovation Fund - will support organisations to research, develop or pilot and evaluate a new initiative.

The Police & Crime Commissioner for Leicestershire's grant scheme (The PCC Grant) aims to support local voluntary, community and social enterprise sector organisations to develop and run projects that support the achievement of specific commissioning intentions and related outcomes in identified hotspot locations across the county. Eligible projects form interventions that pro-actively reduce anti-social behaviour in eight specific locations and, across the county, those that increase the reporting of domestic abuse, serious sexual assault and hate crime.

The Police & Crime Commissioner for Humberside's Crime Reduction Fund aims to cut crime and make local communities safer by supporting projects and activities identified by local people and promoted by community and voluntary organisations. Community groups, charities, youth projects and organisations with an interest in crime reduction and public safety can bid for grants from the scheme. Examples include grants for CCTV equipment, security gates for alleyways to reduce burglaries and anti-social behaviour, and projects to divert young people at risk of committing crime into more positive activities. The PCC is particularly keen to support small grassroots groups.

The Police & Crime Commissioner for Derbyshire has established three grant streams to which public and third sector organisations and community groups can apply, these are: Community Action Grants for community projects that assist in reducing crime and anti-social behaviour, protect victims and vulnerable people, and support witnesses: NICE grants for capital projects: Commissioners grants for the provision of specialist services. The overall aim is to enable organisations to work at a local level with the PCC towards the priorities set out in the Police and Crime Plan.

The Police & Crime Commissioner for Staffordshire's Achieving Safer, Fairer, United Communities strategy is about how different organisations and the public go about making a real and sustained difference to reducing crime and anti-social behaviour and improving local communities. Through establishing grant funding mechanisms, the PCC aims to encourage public agencies, the voluntary sector, businesses and communities to work together to improve community safety, reduce crime and disorder and increase public confidence. PCC grant streams offer funding of £100 to £10,000 to achieve local solutions from small, targetted community safety and reassurance activities to larger projects delivered by agency partnerships.

UnLtd is the leading provider of support to social entrepreneurs in the UK and supports individuals who have their social ventures firmly rooted in delivering positive social change. It operates a unique model by investing directly in individuals and offering a complete package of resources; from awards of funding to ongoing advice, networking and practical support. UnLtd resource community entrepreneurs to start-up; support those with more established social ventures to scale up; and are committed to developing an eco-system of support to make it easier for those who need help to find it. UnLtd offers a number of programmes with varying levels of funding and support. Please refer to the funder's website for details.