Grant Directories

The Lincolnshire Community Foundation exists to benefit disadvantaged people and communities by making grants to support relevant charitable, voluntary and community organisations. Through the High Sheriffs’ Fund the foundation provides grants of up to £5,000 to assist projects that promote a safer society and help reduce crime in Lincolnshire. Funds can be used for young people (diversionary activities, projects that raise aspirations or reduce isolation); intergenerational activities (reduce fear of crime, promote community cohesion); activities for older people that tackle isolation and loneliness (resident groups, clubs societies).

The Trusthouse Charitable Foundation is a grant making foundation that give grants to small and medium sized local organisations in the UK with a demonstrable track record of success working to address local issues in communities of extreme urban deprivation and deprived rural districts. Through the Major grants programme the foundation provides funding of between £10,000 and £100,000 for core costs, salaries, running and project costs to organisations that have a focus on Family Support, this may further include: Early intervention;  Families coping with addiction; Prisoners' families

Nottinghamshire Community Foundation exists to benefit disadvantaged communities by making grants to support relevant charitable or voluntary organisations, which make a difference to their local communities. Through the Danielle Beccan Memorial Fund the foundation provides grants of up to £5,000 to support charitable groups in Nottingham working with children and young people around the prevention of violence.

Nottinghamshire Community Foundation exists to benefit disadvantaged communities by making grants to support relevant charitable or voluntary organisations, which make a difference to their local communities. Through the JF Mortimer Fund the foundation provides grants to support people in Nottingham City and County by making grants to community and voluntary groups who work to improve their communities. Grants are available for projects covering exclusively or mainly one of the following themes: Children & Young People; Stronger and Safer Communities; Greener and Cleaner Communities; Healthier Communities; Older and Vulnerable People.

Foundation Derbyshire exists to benefit disadvantaged communities by making grants to support relevant charitable or voluntary organisations, which make a difference to their local communities. Through the Derbyshire High Sheriff Fund the foundation provides grants of up to £2,500 to improve the quality of life for Derbyshire residents by supporting activities that help to build safer, stronger communities.

The Wiltshire Community Foundation exists to benefit disadvantaged communities by making grants to support relevant charitable or voluntary organisations, which make a difference to their local communities. Through the St Matthews Big Local programme the foundation provides grants for both individuals and organisations for projects that contribute to the St Matthews Big Local vision, which is: A cleaner and greener neighbourhood; Increased feelings of safety and security for local residents; The celebration of diversity, talent and creativity; Increased community cohesion on the estate.

It is the Home Office's responsibility to keep citizens safe and the country secure. Through the Safer Streets Fund the government is supporting Police and Crime Commissioners to bid for investment in initiatives, such as street lighting and home security, that have been proven to prevent acquisitive crime. The fund aims to reduce acquisitive crime in areas that receive funding, making residents safer and reducing demand on the police; build evidence to strengthen the case for future investment in targeted crime prevention;  grow local capability to undertake data driven problem solving approaches to crime prevention

The Dulverton Trust is an independent grant-making charity that supports UK charities and Charitable incorporated Organisations tackling a range of social issues, protecting the natural world, and preserving heritage crafts.  Through its General Welfare funding strand, the Trust aims to support wide range of activities that benefit disadvantaged people and communities

The Supporting Families against Youth Crime Fund provides additional capacity to local authorities where gang and youth crime is an issue and to help them respond to their local needs. The fund will support proposals that aim to develop children’s personal resilience to withstand peer pressure and make positive choices and to reduce gang and youth crime by intervening early to raise awareness of the dangers of gangs, youth violence and knife crime. A total of £5million is being made available.

This scheme will provide protective security measures to places of worship that have been subject to, or are vulnerable to a hate crime attack. To be eligible, applicants will need to demonstrate that any crimes committed at their place of worship (or one not necessarily of the same faith within a 2 mile radius) was motivated by hostility or prejudice based on religion or belief. Grants can cover security equipment but not the cost of recruiting security personnel and may include: CCTV; perimeter fencing; access control gates; window locks; intruder alarm; external lighting; and security doors and the appropriate labour cost to install the security equipment.

Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation (BLCF) is one of 48 community foundations across the UK. The Foundation aims to be a catalyst for social change by awarding grants to organisations with charitable purposes that operate for the benefit of the community. In particular, the Foundation will support projects that enable the advancement of education, the protection of good health, both mental and physical, and the relief of poverty and sickness. Projects supported must directly address the needs of Bedfordshire and Luton's most vulnerable people and communities. BLCF is able to fund a wide range of project costs including capital purchases e.g. equipment, maintenance or improvement of community buildings, or revenue costs such as venue hire, promotional costs, start-up expenses, activities or training. Applications for core costs will be considered.

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.

The Saint Sarkis Charity Trust is a grant making organisation which funds the following organisations: The Armenian Church of Saint Sarkis in London; The Gulbenkian Library at the Armenian Patriarchate in Jerusalem; registered charities concerned with the Armenian community in the UK and/or overseas. Although the Trust continues to provide funding for a small number of innovative projects which help to support prisoners in the UK and so reduce the rates of re-offending, it no longer accepts unsolicited applications for this priority. The funding amount is discretionary and applications may be submitted at any time.

The Indigo Trust is a grant making foundation that funds technology-driven projects to bring about social change, largely in African countries.  The Trust focuses mainly on innovation, transparency and citizen empowerment. The Trust will also consider innovative projects, which utilise Information Technologies to support development outcomes in any sector including the health, education, human rights and agricultural spheres. The Indigo Trust makes grants to African projects or programmes, or to organisations which operate at least partly in African countries.

The Drapers' Company aims to improve the quality of life and expectations of people and their communities within the UK, particularly those disadvantaged or socially excluded. Most of the support is focused in Greater London and covers the following areas: Social Welfare - including homelessness, prisoners, ex-service personnel, support for the elderly, carers, community and family services, disabled adults; Education and Training - projects which raise the aspirations or help to realise the full potential of disadvantaged young people under 25 years old; Textiles and Heritage - including textile conservation, projects within the textile industry, museums, memorials and monuments relating to the armed forces, history of London or the textile trade. There is no minimum or maximum grant; grants are normally awarded for sums up to £15,000.

The Trust makes revenue grants to small registered charities whose work focuses on one of the Trust’s priority groups.  These are;  elderly people, children and young people aged 5 - 25, people with physical impairments;  learning difficulties or mental health challenges,;  social welfare - people trying to overcome life-limiting problems of a social, rather than medical, origin (such as addiction, relationship difficulties, abuse, offending); and education and learning (with a particular interest in people who are educationally disadvantaged, whether adults or children).  Grants are given for running costs for up to three years. Grants are normally for a maximum of £3,000 per year.

The aim of the Weaver's Company Benevolent Fund is to support projects working with disadvantaged young people (aged 5 to 30 years) to ensure that they are given every possible chance to meet their full potential and to participate fully in society. The Fund also aims to help young people at risk of criminal involvement to stay out of trouble and assist in the rehabilitation of offenders, particularly young offenders both in prison and after release. Grants are usually no more than £15,000 per annum, and to make sure grants of this size have an impact, we will not fund large organisations. To be eligible for funding, local organisations such as those working in a village, estate or small town should normally have an income of less than £100,000. Those working across the UK should normally have an income of not more than £250,000. Applications are considered at meetings in February, June and November.

Westhill support projects with strong underlying Christian Values that transform peoples lives, foster empathy between communities and build bridges between people of diverse backgrounds and cultures. Grants have been made to a very wide range of successful projects in local communities in churches and cathedrals, hospitals and hospices; and in higher and a wide range of further educational institutions both in the UK and overseas. Most grants range between £500 and £20,000. Larger sums for projects running over two years are considered but matching funding is sometimes advised. Applications can be submitted at any time and these are assessed on a quarterly basis.

The Charles Hayward Foundation is a grant-making charitable Trust that makes grants to charities and charitable organisations which are registered in the U.K. The Foundation runs two grants programmes: Main grant programme, this focuses on Social & Criminal Justice, Heritage & Conservation and Overseas (UK registered charities undertaking projects in the Commonwealth countries of Africa) and is aimed at charities with an income of more than £350,000; Small Grant Programme, this focuses on Social & Criminal Justice and Older People and is for charities with an income of less than £350,000.