Funding and Grants

Please see below information on current funding that is available.

Asda Foundation - Local Community Spaces Fund

Local Community Spaces Funding is to support community groups throughout the UK who provide a safe space for people to meet and be together.

We know accessible community spaces can be a lifeline for local people, and many of these spaces require funding to repair, renovate and develop them so that they can continue delivering vital activities and services. In addition, loneliness and isolation continue to be highlighted through our Community Insight Survey as top areas of concern for local communities throughout the UK.

Through the Local Community Spaces Fund, we will continue playing our part in helping to fund safe and welcoming community spaces that bring people together, connect communities and address loneliness and isolation. We have invested over £3 million in community hubs since 2022, and for 2026, will commit over £1 million in grant funding support.

For a full PDF version of the Local Community Spaces Fund Criteria, please click here.

Who can apply?

Charities and CIC’s that benefit local people

Grant Value:

Grants of £10,000 to £20,000.

When to apply?

Applications open from 14th April - 28th April

For more information visit their website, by clicking here.

The UK Youth Fund - UK Youth and Pears Foundation

UK Youth and Pears Foundation have launched a new £10 million fund to champion an approach that works: providing multi-year, unrestricted funding alongside targeted capacity-building support to small youth organisations.

Expressions of Interest for this funding will open at 2pm, Tuesday 14 April.

The aim of the Fund is to strengthen the financial resilience and capacity of small youth and outdoor learning organisations across the UK.

They aim to achieve this through two key outcomes:

Outcome 1: Improved Financial Sustainability, supporting grantees to invest time and resource in strategic, organisational development through our multi-year unrestricted funding grant programme

Outcome 2: Increased Capability and Organisational Resilience through our capacity building programme

Organisations can apply for multi-year unrestricted funding of up to 10% of annual turnover. This approach ensures that funding is proportional to the size and capacity of your organisation to help ensure sustainability and resilience.

 For more information and to find out how to apply, clickhere.

The Football Foundation - Funding Applications Open for Grassroots Sports Facilities

The Government has just announced the allocations for the next £85million investment for 2026/27 for grassroots sports facilities, part of a £400 million boost launched by the Government in June 2025.  Applications are now open in England, with Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland to follow.

Henry Smith Foundation - Holiday Grants - Supporting fun, enriching experiences for children

The Holiday Grants Programme offers one-off grants for schools, youth groups and non-profit organisations to take children aged 13 and under on recreational day trips or short residential trips.

They understand that memorable experiences can have a lasting impact, boosting wellbeing, building confidence, and offering a break from daily pressures. This programme helps provide these opportunities for children who face financial hardship, systemic inequity or disability.

They prioritise groups supporting disabled children and those with limited access to funds to go on holiday. In 2025, 60% of grants went to organisations working in the UK’s most deprived areas.

For more information and to read the criteria and access the application form click here.

KCOM Community Grants

Their community grants scheme gives funding of up to £1,000 to charities, community groups and schools that are working to make a positive difference to life in our region. Applications can be submitted at any time of the year, but grants are awarded on a quarterly basis. Our next panel meeting is taking place in June 2026.

For more information click here.

Sport England Launches New £160m Movement Fund

The new £160 million, four-year Movement Fund offers grants of between £300 and £15,000, crowdfunding pledges, and resources to improve physical activity opportunities for the people and communities who need it the most across England.

 The Movement Fund has been established to help close the ‘significant activity gap’ between people based on where they live, how affluent they are, their sex, ethnic background or whether they have a disability or long-term health condition.

 The funding is intended for local not-for-profit groups and organisations whose projects promote physical activity, including active travel, walking, cycling, dance, fitness and sporting activities.

Priority will be given to projects where there is the most need.

 There is particular interest in projects providing opportunities for groups facing barriers to activity, such as: 

  • People living on low incomes.

  • Disabled people or those with long-term health conditions.

  • Older people.

  • People from culturally diverse communities.

  • Pregnant women and parents with very young children.

  • Girls aged 5-16.

  • LGBTQ+ people.

  • People who are in foster care.

  • People who provide care without pay.

 And in projects that address combined hurdles, such as people with long-term health conditions alongside caring responsibilities.

 The funding could cover, for example:

  • Equipment: support purchasing new or improved equipment that’s required for the delivery of the activity.

  • Refurbishing or upgrading facilities: support to improve or create spaces that can provide opportunities to get more people active.

  • Developing new capabilities and leadership skills: providing formal training for staff and volunteers to improve their skills and leadership abilities to help improve how the group tackles inequalities and gets more people active.

  • Delivery costs: paying for the people and facilities needed to deliver the project, where these are new costs to the project.

  • Emergency relief: helping with costs during a crisis, like damage from extreme weather, that could not have been avoided or insured.

 Applications will be accepted from not-for-profit organisations working with people living in England. Applicants must be formally constituted with a clear purpose, have at least three

non-related trustees or directors who do not live together and ensure decision making and voting rights are equally distributed between their trustees or directors.

There are no deadlines for applications.

For more information and to apply, click here.

Morrisons Foundation Continues to Make a Difference in Local Communities Across Britain

‍ ‍Based in Bradford, the supermarket chain Morrisons established the Morrisons Foundation in 2015 to support local good causes across Great Britain. 

Nearly 10 years later, the Foundation welcomes applications from registered charities in England, Scotland and Wales.

Grants of up to £10,000 (previously the maximum grant was £25,000) are available for specific projects that help to improve people’s lives.

To be eligible, projects must address at least one of the Foundation’s funding objectives of:

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  • Tackling poverty and social deprivation.

  • Enhancing community spaces, facilities and services.

  • Improving health and wellbeing.

‍The funding is to be used for capital spend or direct project delivery and must wholly fund the project.

‍Priority is given to smaller charities with an income of less than £1 million, though applications will be considered from larger charities.

‍The Foundation will not generally support salaries and other running costs or ongoing service delivery.

‍There are no deadlines. Applications can be submitted at any time. 

‍For more information and to apply, click here.

Peter Harrison Active Lives Fund

Opportunities through sport and physical activity

  • Enabling life-enhancing opportunities for individuals living with disabilities and / or living in the most deprived areas in the UK.

  • Using participation in grassroots sport/physical activity as a catalyst to develop personal and life skills, assisting individuals in discovering and fulfilling their potential

  • Type of funding: We will consider applications for capital, project or core funding.

Location of project: Anywhere in the United Kingdom.

Grant amount: We accept applications for £5,001 – £30,000

For more information click here.

Sport England Announces 16m for Green Sport Initiatives

Sport England has announced up to £16 million from its £160 million Movement Fund will be reserved to help the sector respond to the impact of climate change in a move to help create the 'greenest sports sector in the world'.

Community sports clubs and physical activity groups looking to become more environmentally friendly and sustainable are being encouraged to apply for grants of between £300 and £15,000 from the Movement Fund to promote environmental sustainability.

There is particular interest in initiatives that promote and support ‘climate justice’ – addressing the barriers facing those most affected by climate change to support them to access sport and physical activity opportunities.

Sport England is now looking for projects that:

  • Show they will improve environmental sustainability by addressing at least one of the six Every Move priorities:

    • Just transition: Inequalities, inclusion and participation

    • Energy and resources: Carbon emissions – travel and facilities

    • Energy and resources: Circular economy – supply chains, products and waste

    • Nature: Blue-green environment quality and use

    • Nature: Biodiversity

    • Resilience: Adapting to climate change and extreme weather events.

    • Show they will benefit physical activity in the community.

    • Have a clear, feasible and reasonable delivery plan.

Projects that target at least one of the following priority groups are more likely to get funding:

  • People living on low incomes

  • Disabled people or those with long-term health conditions

  • Older people

  • People from culturally diverse communities

  • Pregnant women and parents with very young children

  • Girls aged 5-16

  • LGBTQ+ people

  • People who are in foster care.

 In addition, projects in an area with a high level of need are also more likely to be funded.

Applications will be accepted from local not-for-profit groups and organisations whose projects promote physical activity, including active travel, walking, cycling, dance, fitness and sporting activities.

Sport England's new Investment priorities for the Every Move programme are available from its website and should be consulted before applying.

Applications can be made at any time.

Blue Spark Foundation - Funding to Help Children and Young People Reach Their Full Potential

Schools, community groups, clubs, societies and other not-for-profit organisations based and working in England can apply now for grants of up to £5,000 for projects that help to improve the education and development of children and young people (between the ages of six and 22 years) in England.

The funding (most grants are for less than £2,000) is for the cost of specific, relatively small-scale projects that might not happen at all or would only happen on a lesser scale without the support of the funder.

Projects can be educational, cultural, sporting or other activities but particular consideration will be given to those that help the self-confidence, team working skills and future employability of children and young people.

Projects could include but are not limited to:

  • Academic education.

  • Art and design.

  • Community projects.

  • Debating.

  • Drama.

  • Educational excursions.

  • Enterprise projects.

  • Music.

  • Public speaking.

  • Sport.

  • Vocational training.

The grants can cover a range of costs including:

  • Educational materials.

  • Sports equipment.

  • Musical instruments.

  • IT equipment.

  • Drama tuition.

  • Music tuition.

  • Art and design equipment.

  • Educational training courses.

  • Vocational training courses.

  • Educational excursions.

  • Competitions.

  • Educational events.

  • Seed funding for enterprise projects.

  • Drama production costs.

    The funding will not support projects for children or young people under the age of 5 or over the age of 22; life-skill mentoring services; counselling services; holiday clubs or playgroups; construction, maintenance or repair of buildings or facilities; training adults who work with children or young people; student fees or maintenance; running costs or general activities of an organisation. 

    For more information and to find out how to apply click here.

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