List of Funders and Grant providers
Funders and Grant providing Charities
Arts Council Wales
Funds strategic projects, revenue funding, lottery capital, film and media production.
Association of Charitable Foundations
This website gives information about charitable trust funding in the UK and abroad. It has links to mainly charitable trusts and foundations.
Astor Foundation
This foundation gives preference to the launch and initial stages of projects in the areas of medicine, animal welfare and general charitable purposes.
B & Q You Can Do it:
One Planet Living (OPL) Grant®* offers between £50 and £250 of B&Q materials to schools, community groups and charitable organisations for long-term sustainable projects.
BBC Children in Need
Grants are open to organisations working with disadvantaged children and young people who are 18 years old and under based in the UK.
The Bevan Foundation
Launched in 2001 to develop fresh thinking about the issues facing people in Wales today, the Bevan Foundation carries out research, organises conferences and debates, publishes articles and reports.
The Clore Duffield Foundation
The Foundation is a grant-making organisation which concentrates its support on education, the arts, museum and gallery education, cultural leadership training, health and social care and enhancing Jewish life, whilst placing a particular emphasis on supporting children, young people and society’s more vulnerable individuals.
Crowdcube
Raise business finance for your company through the world’s first equity crowd funding website
The David and Elaine Potter Foundation
The Foundation’s funding is divided into five categories: Education, Civil society, Research, Human rights and Arts.
The Dulverton Trust
The Trust supports a wide range of activities in the following general categories youth and education, general welfare, conservation, preservation, peace and humanitarian support. They are particularly keen to support work in Wales and welcome telephone enquiries and applications from Welsh charities.
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
Their primary interests are in the UK’s cultural life, education and learning, the natural environment and enabling disadvantaged people to participate more fully in society.
Funding Store
Is a revolutionary new way of finding funding for your business idea. They put you in touch with finance providers that fit your business profile.
Geovation
Ordnance Survey innovation programme which promotes challenges for open data, transport and environment etc.
The Gibbs Trust
Is to support three main areas of work, innovative undertakings by Methodist churches and organisations, Other Christian Causes, especially of an ecumenical nature, and a wider category within the fields of the creative arts, education, social and international concern.
Government Funding
This is a government website detailing grant funds for the voluntary and community sector available through several government departments, e.g. Department of Health.
The Henry Smith Charity
Makes grants for work throughout the UK. Priority is given to work with groups experiencing social and/or economic disadvantage, for example, people with disabilities; and work that tackles problems in areas of high deprivation.
Idlewild Trust
Offers small grants of £1 – 3,000 in the areas of the performing arts, preservation of buildings of public interest and objects of beauty.
The LankellyChase Foundation
Concentrates its work within the United Kingdom, seeking to promote social justice, highlighting unpopular causes and working with others to tackle them.
Lloyds TSB Foundation
Funds local, regional and national charities working to tackle disadvantage across England and Wales. Our focus is on supporting small and medium underfunded charities that can make a significant difference to the lives of disadvantaged people by helping them to play a fuller role in the community.
Micropower Grants for Buildings
This is Phase 2 of the Low Carbon Buildings Programme. £50 million is available to fund the installation of micropower technologies on schools, not-for-profit and public sector buildings.
Microsoft Biz Spark for Software Startups
National Lottery Funding
This is a website that gives information on how to get Lottery Funding.
NDRC
LaunchPad an accelerator funded programmes for digital start ups
Catalyser is an investment programme that builds joint ventures with research and company partners to translate research outputs into defined product offerings in identified markets. NDRC invests in these joint ventures to accelerate research from idea to income and to create market capital.
Nominet Tech Trust
Specific funding available for projects that address the social problems facing older people.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
This foundation prioritises the arts, education & learning and social justice. There is a preference for children and young people (up to 25).
People’s Millions
Grants are available up to £100,000 for projects that help communities to enjoy as well as transform their environment.
Steve Morgan Foundation
Awards 150k’s worth of prize money and professional services
The Prince’s Trust
The trust gives practical and financial support to young people aged between 18 and 30.
The Rufford Maurice Laing Foundation
Concentrates its funding on nature conservation projects in developing countries undertaken by small to medium-sized organisations.
The Rufford Small Grants Foundation
Is a charity established specifically for the development of Rufford Small Grants for Nature Conservation (RSGs).
The Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts
Have 18 separate grant making trusts set up by 3 generations of the Sainsbury family. Each trust works autonomously as an independent legal entity with a separate board of trustees, actively led by an individual member of the family with keenly-followed interests.
The Sigrid Rausing Trust
Supports the international human rights movement, with four programmes: Civil and Political Rights, Women’s Rights, Minority Rights and Social and Environmental Justice.
The Tudor Trust
Supports work that addresses the social, emotional and financial needs of people at the margins of our society in the UK.
UNLTD Millennium Awards
Supports social entrepreneurs who want to change the world for the better. Two levels of grants are available; Level One £500 – £5,000 and Level Two £10 – 20,000.
The Wellcome Trust
Fund innovative biomedical research, in the UK and internationally.
This foundation provides disaster relief and assistance for those in need as a result of social and economic circumstances, provides assistance for the sick and elderly and promotes education, conservation and improvements to the environment. (UK only.)
The Yapp Charitable Trust
The Trust makes grants to small registered charities to sustain their existing work in England and Wales with elderly people, children and young people aged 5 – 25, people with disabilities or mental health problems, people trying to overcome life-limiting problems of a social, rather than medical, origin – such as addiction, relationship difficulties, abuse, a history of offending.
Associations in Wales
Awards for All Wales
Part of the Big Lottery Fund, it is a simple small grants scheme making awards between £500 and £5,000 supporting community activities, extending access and participation, increasing skill and creativity and improving the quality of life.
The Community Foundation in Wales
The foundation promotes the cause of philanthropy in Wales by creating and managing relationships between donors and those who are running life-enhancing initiatives.
HLF Repair Grants for Places of Worship in Wales.
Heritage Lottery Funding for heritage projects on any size from £3,000 to £5million.
Interlink Small Grants Scheme
Funding advice for organisations in Rhondda Cynon Taff.
Environment Wales
It has 5 grant streams, designed to aid projects in each step of their development – start-up, pre-project, training support, project and management grants.
Sports Wales
Sports Wales supports a number of funding schemes that aim to increase levels of physical activity and sport in Wales.
The Millennium Stadium Charitable Trust
The trust is interested in 4 areas – sport, the arts, the environment and community.
Sustainable Funding Cymru
A new one-stop shop for funding advice and opportunities.
Wales Council for Voluntary Action
WCVA manages a range of grant schemes that support local voluntary organisations, communities, groups and volunteers throughout Wales.
Welsh Assembly Government
Grants to fund schemes and initiatives that are in line with the Welsh Assembly Government’s agenda.
Welsh Coalfields Bond (A Citylife initiative backed by the Coalfields Regeneration Trust).
Provides funding in the areas of the arts, music and entertainment.
International Associations
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The foundation is organized into three main program areas, each with a specific focus.
Global Development, Global Health, and United States Programme.
The Doen Foundation
The DOEN Foundation is the fund for the Dutch charity lotteries. It only finances initiatives abroad under their Sustainable Development programme.
The Fledgling Fund
The Fledgling Fund seeks to improve the lives of vulnerable individuals, families, and communities by supporting innovative media projects that target entrenched social problems.
The Ford Foundation
The Foundation’s overall mission is to reduce poverty and injustice and to promote democratic values, international cooperation and human achievement.
The Joffe Foundation 01793 790203
The aims of the Trust are the alleviation of poverty, the protection & advancement of human rights and support of individuals in the voluntary sector in the developing world who are judged to be advancing these aims.
Open Society Foundation
The Open Society Foundation (OSF) is an independent and autonomous UK registered charitable company limited by guarantee and works with a number of international charities which are members of a network co-ordinated by the Open Society Institute (OSI) based in New York. The Foundation Open Society Institute Zug, a Swiss charitable foundation, is the major funding source for OSF’s activities.
The Wallace Global Fund
Supports initiatives related to environmental resource depletion and system collapse, corporate abuses and the concentration of corporate power, planetary carrying capacity, sustainable human population, women’s human rights, with an emphasis on ending female genital mutilation, civic engagement, civil liberties, equal justice, independent media, and media policy.
The Maypole Fund
Welcomes applications from women for projects and activities that meet the following aims: Peace initiatives, disarmament and action against the arms trade; Anti-militarism and action against male violence; Nuclear issues; Environmental issues; The promotion of women’s social and political autonomy throughout the world; International, national and/or regional networking between women for the above purposes.