Community Foundation for Merseyside is offering funding of up to £2,000. Grants are available for community groups and schools across the Liverpool City Region to deliver dance projects and activities for children and young people. This fund aims to remove barriers to dance activities so that children can enjoy dance and grow through movement in a safe, empowering space.

Deadline: 2 October 2026

Bollington Town Council is offering discretionary funding. Grants are available to local not-for-profit voluntary organisations for projects that benefit the residents of Bollington. Bollington Town Council offers grants to local organisations which can demonstrate a clear need for financial support to achieve the aim of benefiting the local community in the following ways: By providing a service. Deadline: 31 October 2026.

Chesterfield Borough Council is offering funding of up to £50,000. Grants are available to community groups and voluntary organisations in Chesterfield to support projects that improve the lives of local residents. The Community Grants Fund supports local projects that strengthen community cohesion and improve quality of life across Chesterfield. Deadline: 23 October 2026.

City Health Care Partnership Foundation is offering funding of up to £2,500. Grants are available to small, local not-for-profit voluntary and community groups in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, Knowsley, St Helens and Liverpool to improve the health and wellbeing of local people. The funding is intended to to provide an opportunity for local voluntary and community organisations and other not-for-profit organisations to contribute towards the health and wellbeing of people living in the area. Deadline: 1 November 2026.

The Craven Trust is offering funding of up to £1,500. Grants are available to local voluntary and community groups for projects that improve the quality of life of local people living within the Craven Trust area. The Trust supports local community projects that build better and stronger communities for the benefit of future generations in the Craven area.

Deadline: 14 September 2026

CRH Charitable Trust is offering discretionary funding. Grants are available for charitable and not-for-profit organisations in the North West of England that work with mental illness and mental disability. The Trust provides a small number of grants each year to support children, young people and adults in north west England who are experiencing a range of mental illnesses and mental disabilities. Deadline: 31 October 2026.

Ørsted’s is offering funding of up to £10,000. Grants are available to a range of not-for-profit organisations for new or existing community and environmental projects that benefit local residents off the Cumbria and Lancashire coast. The funding is aimed at a wide range of not-for-profit groups and organisations that are working for the benefit of the local community in the area of the Crook Hill Wind Farm. Deadline: 10 February 2027.

Lancashire County Council is offering funding of up to £15,000. Funding is available to not-for-profit organisations, town and parish councils, businesses and individuals who can raise their initial funding through a crowdfunding campaign to deliver culture and sport projects in Lancashire.

Deadline: 17 September 2026

Team Barrow is offering funding of up to £10,000. Grants are available to community groups and charities to deliver projects that respond to local priorities and make a positive difference in Barrow. The fund supports community groups and charities to deliver projects that respond to local priorities and make a positive difference in Barrow.

Deadline: 21 September 2026

Lakeland Limited is offering funding of up to £15,000. Grants are available for charitable organisations for projects and activities in Cumbria that improve the health and wellbeing of local people and protect the environment, with priority for projects located in South Cumbria. This fund aims to support projects and activities in South Cumbria that improve the lives and wellbeing of residents, as well as activities that improve the environment. Deadline: 30 October 2026.

Cumbria Waste Management Environment Trust is offering funding of up to £30,000. Grants are available to community groups and organisations for environmental and community projects that are within a 10-mile radius of either Hespin Wood or Flusco Pike landfill sites (in parts of Eden, Carlisle and Allerdale). The Trust acts as a grant distribution body, and aims to fund environmental and community projects within the local authority areas of Carlisle, Eden and Allerdale, where the project is within 10 miles of Hespin Wood or Flusco Pike landfill sites. Deadline: 1 December 2026.

Edward Holt Trust is offering discretionary funding. Grants are available to constituted groups working to address poverty, disadvantage, and homelessness across Greater Manchester. This fund aims to support initiatives that alleviate poverty and disadvantage in local communities, including working with people who are homeless. Deadline: 16 October 2026.

Ford Britain Trust offers grants of up to £250 for capital and project costs. Open to charities, schools, sports clubs and community groups near Ford locations. Funding supports education, environmental projects, youth activities, inclusion and wider community benefit. Closing date: 31 October 2026.

Hadfield Charitable Trust is offering funding of up to £5,000. Grants are available for charitable organisations in Cumbria to carry out projects in the areas of social needs; youth and employment; help for older people; the arts; the environment. Funding is intended to support community projects that meet the needs of local residents and improve the quality of life for residents of the county.

Deadline: 1 October 2026

Halton Foundation is offering funding of up to £1,500. Grants are available for community and voluntary groups across Halton to support people who are experiencing poverty, hardship, or distress. This fund aims to support projects and activities that support people in the borough of Halton across the following themes: Projects that are alleviating poverty. Deadline: 14 September 2026.

Harold and Alice Bridges Charity is offering discretionary funding. Grants are available for charitable purposes in Lancashire and South Cumbria. Grants are available to local organisations for charitable purposes in Lancashire and South Cumbria, from capital projects to grants for village halls.

Deadline: 15 September 2026

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is offering funding of up to £180,000. Grants are available for voluntary, community, faith, and social enterprise (VCFE) sector organisations across Heywood to support capital projects to improve community spaces. This fund aims to support capital expenditure on physical community spaces in Heywood where people come together and that enable the lives of Heywood residents to be improved. Deadline: 30 November 2026.

Mayor of Sefton's Charity Fund is offering discretionary funding. Grants are available for small local registered charities and voluntary groups undertaking charitable activities that benefit the people of Sefton. The Mayor of Sefton's Charity Fund offers grants to smaller charitable and voluntary groups based and operating in Sefton that do not have a national profile and whose work benefits the residents of Sefton. Deadline: 30 June 2027.

Montirex Foundation is offering funding of up to £10,000. Grants are available for charities and CICs for sporting initiatives widening opportunity and fulfilling potential in Liverpool. This funding is intended for projects that offer access to and opportunity through sport to underrepresented, underprivileged, vulnerable young people and/or adults. Deadline: 1 December 2026.

Next Energy Group is offering funding of up to £3,000. Grants are available for local groups to support social and environmental projects and activities that benefit the residents around the NextEnergy’s solar assets in the Midlands and the Northwest of England. The funding is intended for activities that will have positive social, economic and/or environmental impacts on the area. Deadline: 31 December 2026.

Chadderton and Failsworth Rotary Club is offering funding of up to £1,000. Grants are available for constituted voluntary groups in Oldham to deliver projects and activities that bring people together and make a difference in local communities. This fund aims to support groups and organisations to deliver projects and activities that benefit local people and address specific priorities in their communities.

Deadline: 30 September 2026

Peak District National Park Foundation is offering funding of up to £500. Grants are available for schools, community groups and associations to help pay for the cost of a trip to visit the Peak District National Park. The funding is designed to remove barriers for disadvantaged and marginalised communities to access, understand and enjoy the park. Deadline: 16 October 2026.

Peter Kershaw Trust is offering discretionary funding. Grants are available to registered social welfare charities working in Greater Manchester and North Cheshire for the benefit of disadvantaged people. The grants are for registered charities operating in Greater Manchester to support a wide variety of purposes under the general heading of "social welfare", such as assisting people with medical conditions, disabilities, addictions, to help the aged, youth work etc.

Deadline: 30 September 2026

Provincial Walsh Trust for Bolton is offering discretionary funding. Grants are available for voluntary groups, community groups, and charities across Bolton to deliver a variety of projects and activities that support vulnerable communities and individuals. This fund aims to support people who are most in need and/or vulnerable and/or who live in the most disadvantaged areas of Bolton Borough. Deadline: 23 October 2026.

GrantScape is offering funding of up to £3,500. Grants are available for community projects which will benefit residents in the area of the Reaps Moss wind farm on the moors between Bacup and Todmorden. The Fund is intended to support community and environmental projects taking place within the area of the Reaps Moss wind farm. Deadline: 17 February 2027.

The Robert Clutterbuck Charitable Trust is offering funding of up to £3,000. Grants are available to registered charities in England and Wales with a preference for projects in Cheshire and Hertfordshire. The Trust awards grants to registered charities to support projects rather than running costs.

Deadline: 31 December 2026

Saddleworth Community Hydro is offering funding of up to £20,000. Grants are available for community groups, clubs, societies, and other not-for-profit organisations to deliver sustainability projects across Oldham, with a preference for projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This fund aims to stimulate and assist community sustainability projects in Oldham and the surrounding area, particularly projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Deadline: 30 October 2026.

Scotmid Co-operative offers grants of up to £500 for community projects and activities. Open to charities, schools, sports clubs, CICs and community groups. Funding can be used for equipment, events, local initiatives and fundraising activities that benefit communities. Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

Francis C Scott Charitable Trust is offering funding of up to £15,000. Grant for a Cumbria-based, early-stage social entrepreneur whose venture supports children and young people (aged 0 to 25 years old) facing barriers in the area. The new Cumbria-only scheme supports an individual whose new venture will make a real difference to the lives of children and young people (from birth up to 25 years old) facing barriers in the county. Deadline: 2 November 2026.

Vernon Charitable Foundation is offering funding of up to £5,000. Grants are available to registered charities and community organisations to deliver projects and activities that address poverty and support community development across Stockport, Cheshire, and Greater Manchester. This fund aims to support local charities providing public benefit in local communities, focussed on the prevention and relief of poverty and community development.

Deadline: 18 September 2026

Ørsted’s is offering funding of up to £50,000. Grants are available to a range of not-for-profit organisations for new or existing community and environmental projects that benefit local residents off the Cumbria and Lancashire coast. The funding is aimed at a wide range of not-for-profit groups and organisations that are working for the benefit of the local community and environment in the areas of Copeland, South Lakeland, Barrow-in-Furness, Walney Island, Lancaster and Wyre. Deadline: 8 January 2027.

We Love MCR Charity is offering funding of up to £4,000. Grants are available to local community and charity groups for projects in Manchester that improve their local communities. Funding is intended to assist local charities, community groups and organisations working to improve the lives and life chances of people living in Manchester and to help develop stronger communities by encouraging more citizens to be active in working together.

Deadline: 15 September 2026

Bury Voluntary and Community Faith Alliance (VCFA) is offering funding of up to £20,000. Grants are available for voluntary, community, and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations in Whitefield to deliver projects and activities that improve community spaces and make a difference in local neighbourhoods. This fund aims to support the provision of capital grants that will enable groups to improve, adapt, or better use community buildings, thereby strengthening communities and improving lives for people in Whitefield.

Deadline: 11 September 2026