Not-for-profit community groups

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Welcome to the Sported Funding Bulletin. This page is here to help you find funding opportunities that may be available to your group or organisation.

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St Olave’s Foundation Fund 16319

St Olave’s Foundation Fund is offering funding of up to £3,000. Grants are available for youth groups and schools in the London Borough of Southwark for educational projects and activities for young people. This fund aims to support activities for young people under the age of 25 years old in pursuit of education and who are residents in the London Borough of Southwark.

Deadline: 14 September 2026


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Stirling - Community Get Active Fund 16070

Stirling Council is offering funding of up to £1,000. Grants for local groups and organisations to deliver sport and physical activities for children and young people aged 3 to 26 years old. The Fund aims to support inclusive physical activities to encourage children and young people (aged 3 to 26 years old) to improve their physical and mental wellbeing.

Deadline: 14 September 2026


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Sunrise Medical Community Fund 16119

Sunrise Medical is offering funding of up to £5,000. Grants are available for community groups, sports clubs, disability organisations, and individuals across the UK to support projects and improvements that make community spaces and experiences more accessible and help to create more wheelchair-friendly and inclusive environments. This fund aims to support a variety of projects and activities that help wheelchair users and disabled people to enjoy greater independence, inclusion, and opportunity.

Deadline: 30 September 2026


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Sussex Community Foundation Main Grants Programme 16287

Sussex Community Foundation is offering funding of up to £10,000. The Foundation manages various funds that are available to voluntary and community groups whose work improves the lives of people in East Sussex, West Sussex, and Brighton and Hove. Sussex Community Foundation (SCF) is a charity that promotes philanthropy and is working to build a substantial permanent fund to support communities across East and West Sussex, and the city of Brighton and Hove.

Deadline: 11 September 2026


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Tewkesbury - Warm Spaces Grant 16280

Tewkesbury Borough Council is offering funding of up to £1,000. Grants are available to not-for-profit community venues in Tewkesbury Borough that provide free, warm, welcoming and safe spaces for local residents during the winter months. The funding is intended to support community venues to provide Warm Spaces where local residents can socialise, eat, stay warm and take part in activities during the winter months.

Deadline: 1 October 2026


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The Jones 1986 Charitable Trust Grant 16091

The Jones 1986 Charitable Trust is offering discretionary funding. Grants are available for registered charities or CICs working in, or benefiting the people of, Nottinghamshire, for the benefit of people of socially and medically disadvantaged groups, particularly children and young people, older people, and people with disabilities.

Next deadline: 20 September 2026


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Utilita Football Rebooted - Grassroots Fund 16141

Grassroots Football Limited is offering discretionary funding. Grants are available for FA-accredited community football clubs and leagues to improve the experience and accessibility of football to local people. The funding is intended to enhance grassroots football, providing tailored support based on individual application needs.

No deadline is stated


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Veolia Environmental Trust 16136

Veolia Environmental Trust is offering funding of up to £75,000. Grants for constituted, not-for-profit organisations and local authorities for projects that make improvements to community facilities and the natural environment that are located near a qualifying Veolia site in England. The Trust currently offers the following grant schemes: Community Grants are for constituted, not-for-profit organisations and local authorities to create or improve community buildings or outside spaces for the benefit of the community.

Deadline: 1 October 2026


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Veolia Telford and Wrekin EnviroGrant Scheme 16275

Telford and Wrekin Council is offering funding of up to £1,000. Grants are available for not-for-profit organisations in Telford and Wrekin to support projects that benefit the local community or the environment. This fund aims to support community groups in Telford and Wrekin with projects that: Improve or protect the local environment through practical action/education.

Deadline: 31 October 2026


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Veolia's Sustainability Fund 16203

Veolia UK is offering funding of up to £1,000. Grants are available for not-for-profit organisations and community groups in areas where Veolia partners with the local authority to support projects that will help transform their local community or environment. The funding is intended to support projects that make a positive, sustainable difference to local areas and deliver long-term social and environmental benefits with the aim of empowering local people to take positive action in their local area.

Deadline: 30 September 2026


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Vernon Charitable Foundation 16301

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


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Wales Community Asset Loan Fund (CALF) 16180

Welsh Government is offering funding of up to £300,000. Loans are available to community groups in Wales that are seeking to bring property into community ownership. Additionally, small grants are available to support purchasing organisations with the sustainable management of their property. The funding is intended to support local organisations in purchasing property for community use, or for use by groups that will benefit the community.

No deadline is stated


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Walking and Cycling Grants London 16326

Transport for London (TfL) is offering funding of up to £10,000. Grants are available to VCSE organisations in Greater London for projects that engage communities in safe, enjoyable and inclusive walking and cycling activities. The programme aims to: Increase walking and cycling in London (including new, lapsed or occasional cyclists).

Deadline: 28 September 2026


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Wandsworth – Community Access Revenue Grant Fund 16079

Wandsworth Borough Council is offering funding of up to £5,000. Grants are available for not-for-profit organisations across the London Borough of Wandsworth to deliver sports and physical activities initiatives that benefit local communities. This fund aims to support new sport and physical activity programmes that directly benefit residents of the London Borough of Wandsworth.

Deadline: 15 September 2026


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Wandsworth – Women and Girls Capital Grant Fund 16080

Wandsworth Borough Council is offering discretionary funding. Grants are available for not-for-profit organisations across the London Borough of Wandsworth to support the improvement and maintenance of infrastructure and facilities that promote inclusive access for women and girls. This fund aims to support physical improvements to facilities and equipment that promote inclusive access for women and girls.

Deadline: 15 September 2026


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WAT IF? Local Community Grant 16243

WAT IF? is offering funding of up to £2,000. Grants for a range of community projects to benefit the local residents of Woolfords, Auchengray and Tarbrax in South Lanarkshire. Grants from the WAT IF?

Deadline: 14 October 2026


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Waterloo Foundation - Projects in Wales Programme 16157

The Waterloo Foundation is offering funding of up to £30,000. Grants are available for registered charities and organisations with a charitable purpose that are working to support community development in Wales. Although the funding priorities for the Waterloo Foundation are the environment and world development, the original founders of the Foundation live and work in Wales, and through the foundation they are offering funding in support of the local community.

No deadline is stated


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We Love Lichfield Fund 16273

Community Foundation for Staffordshire and Shropshire is offering funding of up to £1,000. Grants are available to community and voluntary organisations in Lichfield for projects and activities that will make a real difference to the lives of local residents. The We Love Lichfield Fund aims to enhance the provision of service, provide new services or to help make organisations more efficient or to improve the scope of their provision.

Deadline: 23 October 2026


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We Love MCR Charity - Stronger Communities Fund 16299

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


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We Love the Moorlands 16270

Community Foundation for Staffordshire and Shropshire is offering funding of up to £1,000. Grants are available to community and voluntary organisations in Staffordshire Moorlands for projects and activities that will make a real difference to the lives of local residents. Funding is intended to assist local organisations with projects and activities that will help benefit the residents in Staffordshire Moorlands and bring communities together.

Deadline: 20 October 2026


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Weir Charitable Trust 16120

Weir Charitable Trust is offering funding of up to £25,000. Grants are available to small charities or community groups in Scotland for work addressing sport, health, culture, animal welfare, or recreational facilities.

Deadline: 30 October 2026


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West Suffolk Council - Thriving Communities Fund 16327

West Suffolk Council is offering funding of up to £20,000. One-off grants are available to address the health and wellbeing of residents in West Suffolk, including support through the continuing cost-of-living crisis. The aim of the fund is help local residents access services and support as well as activities to improve their health and wellbeing.

Deadline: 25 September 2026


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Whitbread Plc Chairman's Fund 16106

Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation is offering funding of up to £5,000. Grants are available for locally based small charities and community groups in South Bedfordshire for projects that focus on skills and inclusion, reducing rural social isolation and community cohesion. The aim of the fund is to provide financial support to charities and community groups across South Bedfordshire, including Dunstable, Houghton Regis, Leighton Buzzard and the surrounding rural communities, as far as the county boundary to the south west.

Deadline: 29 September 2026


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Whitefield – Let’s Live Well: Stronger Spaces Fund 16296

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


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Wiltshire - Older People's Programme 16276

Wiltshire and Swindon Community Foundation is offering funding of up to £10,000. Grants are available to voluntary and community groups for projects in Wiltshire and Swindon supporting older people to be independent, healthy and socially included. The aim of the grant programme is to support the residents of Swindon and Wiltshire aged 65 and over through: Improving health and wellbeing.

Deadline: 21 September 2026


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Wiltshire and Swindon - Community Grants 16281

Wiltshire and Swindon Community Foundation is offering funding of up to £18,000. Grants are available for local or regional not-for-profit organisations working in Wiltshire or Swindon for projects focused on disadvantaged members of the community. The funding is intended for voluntary organisations improving people's lives and supporting communities in Wiltshire and Swindon.

Deadline: 17 October 2026


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Wokingham - Grants for Voluntary Organisations 16288

Wokingham Town Council is offering discretionary funding. Grants are available to voluntary and community organisations for projects that directly benefit the residents of Wokingham Town. The scheme aims to provide funding to voluntary groups, charities or any organisation that has a project that directly benefits the residents of Wokingham Town.

Deadline: 11 September 2026


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Woodsmith Foundation - Community Grants 16315

Woodsmith Foundation is offering funding of up to £10,000. Grants are available for community groups, voluntary groups, registered charities, and other not-for-profit organisations to deliver projects and activities to benefit residents in Scarborough, Redcar and Cleveland, and the North York Moors National Park. This fund aims to support a wide variety of projects and activities that improve the lives of people living in the Foundation’s area of benefit in the following ways: Increase opportunities for better life chances.

Deadline: 5 November 2026


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Yorkshire Cricket Board (YCB) County Grants Fund 16261

England and Wales Cricket Trust is offering funding of up to £50,000. Grants are available to support ECB-affiliated cricket clubs that are actively engaged in women's and girls' cricket and/or disability cricket, and that aim to create positive and welcoming environment. The County Grants Fund aims to support ECB-affiliated cricket clubs that are actively engaged in women's, girls' and/or disability cricket to create welcoming environments and/or improve playing and changing facilities.

Deadline: 30 September 2026


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