Funding is available to support innovative community arts and culture projects across the UK which open up conversations about dying, death and grief in new and creative ways. Hospice UK’s Dying Matters Community Grants Programme will award grants of between £5,000 and £8,000 to hospices for community-led projects that support hard to reach groups including ethnic minorities, homeless people, prisoners, people with learning disabilities, LGBT+ people, those living in remote and rural areas, and deprived people.

Lloyds Bank Foundation has just launched a new round of funding for specialist charities. This programme is for small, local, specialist charities supporting people facing complex issues such as homelessness, sexual abuse and offending. Under this programme charities will be supported to strengthen their capacity and capabilities and become more resilient through a range of tailored development support offers alongside a three-year unrestricted grant of £75,000.

SSE’s Cost of Living Challenge Fund offers support to charities and social enterprises serving the most disadvantaged communities in England who are struggling most with the cost of living crisis – for example, those that are providing food, energy saving and warm spaces, access to essential goods, financial advice, essential transport, mental health support and access to housing. 

Young people are currently struggling with mental health and wellbeing, especially after the global pandemic and during the current cost of living crisis.

The Wellbeing Champions Programme (WCP) will invest £1million over the next 3 years and pledging to award £450k of grants to grassroot organisations that will provide young people with social action opportunities to help them have a voice in their future and communities, as well as being a positive catalyst for change.

Grants of up to £10,000 are available to community groups for projects that will help people to save money, keep their homes warm and access warm community spaces this winter.

Projects eligible for support include, but are not limited to:

The Strong Foundations Grants from the building company Sir Robert McAlpine will be available to those seeking funding or support for new ideas or existing projects, with an aim to drive positive change in the local area.

To apply you will need to register on Action Funder and post the project you need funding for. Your project will automatically match with any funds you meet the criteria for (grant amount, location, focus area).

The Wessex Water Foundation Community Fund supports charitable and community-based activities or projects that meet a local need and seek to improve the lives of local people who are most in need of support. These activities or projects should be informed by the people or community they serve and have considerable reach, with priority given to work that fulfils one of more of the following:

Localgiving has relaunched the Magic Little Grants scheme. Small or new organisations with current or new Localgiving accounts can complete a very simple form to apply for £500.

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