Grant Directories

The Morgan Foundation is a grant making trust that supports charities across North Wales, Merseyside, West Cheshire and North Shropshire. The foundation specialises in supporting organisations helping children and families as well as the elderly, disabled and socially isolated.  Through the Major Grants programme the Foundation makes grants of over £100,000 including awards for capital projects to organisations helping children and families as well as the elderly, disabled and socially isolated.

The Local Schools Nature Grants Scheme allows schools in England, Scotland & Wales to apply for £500 worth of outdoor resources, and a two hour training session. Operated by Learning through Landscapes, the scheme is funded by Postcode Local Trust which receives funding from players of People's Postcode Lottery. Schools whose learners are aged 5+ and are passionate about making environmental improvements for the benefit of their pupils, staff and the community can apply to receive equipment to the value of £500 selected from a list of 72 items. Funded schools will show how they will make great use of the equipment and training supplied by the programme. The ideal partners will include children in the decision making and incorporate their local community.

This Welsh Government funded grant scheme aims to promote volunteering in Wales. Administered by the Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA), the scheme provides grants of up to £25,000 to not-for-profit organisation to support formal volunteering projects that aim to recruit, support, train and place new volunteers and support volunteering projects working towards the themes of young people; welsh language; tackling poverty; underrepresented groups (BAME, Asylum seekers etc); and social exclusion; higher support needs.

The BBC Children in Need Main Grants programme distributes grants of over £10,000 to not for profit organisations such as Registered charities; Voluntary organisations; Schools ; Churches; and Community groups, etc  that work with disadvantaged children below the age of 18 living in the UK. In particular, grants are available for projects that help children and young people of 18 years and under experiencing illness, distress, abuse or neglect; any kind of disability; behavioural or psychological difficulties; and / or living in poverty or situations of deprivation. Applications should demonstrate how your project will change the lives of children for the better.

The aim of the GwirVol Youth Volunteering Grants scheme is to support the delivery of a wide range of new volunteering opportunities in Wales and overseas that will support the step change in access to volunteering for young people aged 14-25 and especially for disadvantaged young people. The GwirVol grant scheme offers three different strands of funding; Creating Opportunities, Promotions and Millennium Volunteers. Creating Opportunities: For organisations looking to create new youth volunteering projects, new youth volunteering roles or to recruit more young people into existing volunteering roles. Creating Opportunities grant applications can be for up to a maximum amount of £10,000; Promotions: For organisations looking to promote the benefits or challenge the perceptions of volunteering to young people or about young people to their local communities. Promotions grant applications can be for up to a maximum amount of £3,000; Millennium Volunteers: For organisations looking to...

The Peter Cruddas Foundation gives priority to programmes calculated to offer disadvantaged and disengaged young people in England and Wales pathways into education, training and employment. The Foundation can only donate to registered charities in the UK for use in the UK.  Current priorities are for Charities in England and Wales.  Revenue grants will be made in three priority areas: Pathways and support for disadvantaged young people aged 16 to 30 into education, training or employment: Work experience for 16 - 30 year olds: Youth work in London particularly evening work for 16 - 30 year olds. The funding amount is discretionary and projects can be funded for more than one year, although the Foundation does not intend to continually repeat funding organisations. Deadline dates of the 1st March and 1st September have been introduced.  Charities are encouraged to apply at any time and before the twice yearly deadline dates.

The Wood Foundation (TWF) is a Scottish based charity with a Global outlook. In Sub Saharan Africa and in the UK, TWF will invest in economic, community and enterprise initiatives which develop and support individuals to become caring and contributing members of society. The Foundation is proactive by nature and will only accept applications through our global citizenship programme.  Funding is provided through three programme: Making Markets Work for the Poor Sub Saharan Africa; Facilitating Economic and Education Development in Scotland; and Developing Young People in Scotland

The Volunteering in Wales Fund is a scheme funded by the Welsh Government to promote Volunteering in Wales. The Fund is administered by Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA). The aim of the Volunteering in Wales Fund (VWF) discretionary grant scheme is to support projects whose aims are mainly achieved by the use of formal volunteers; support not for profit organisations whose primary purpose is the recruiting, training and placing of volunteers; encourage good practice in volunteering; and encourage projects in areas where volunteering is under-developed because of location of the project, or the type of volunteering activity.

BBC Children in Need Small Grants programme distributes grants of up to £10,000 to not for profit organisations such as Registered charities; Voluntary organisations; Schools ; Churches; and Community groups, etc  that work with disadvantaged children below the age of 18 living in the UK. . In particular, grants are available for projects that help children and young people of 18 years and under experiencing illness, distress, abuse or neglect; any kind of disability; behavioural or psychological difficulties; and / or living in poverty or situations of deprivation. Applications should demonstrate how your project will change the lives of children for the better.