Funding Opportunities

22nd of May, 2025

Crowdfund Lancashire – Deadline Tuesday 1 July 2025 – Now Open! If you have an idea for a project to improve the culture or sport offer in your local community, then you could get up to £15,000 towards your target from the Lancashire Culture and Sport Fund. For more information Crowdfund Lancashire - Lancashire Culture and Sport Fund - Lancashire County Council Drop in session today at Garstang Library 10am – 4.30pm.

LoveReading4Kids Funding for Schools – Grants between £1000 & £5,000 are available to state funded schools including primaries, secondaries and early years settings to support access to books, and enable children to experience reading for pleasure. PTAs are not eligible to apply; the application needs to come directly from the school. The fund will not provide funding for textbooks or curriculum books. For more information The LoveReading4Kids Funding for Schools Scheme

Mortgage Advice Bureau Foundation (with Crowdfunding) – Grants up to £5,000 are available for registered charities and Community Interest Companies who can raise their initial funding through a crowdfunding campaign to support sustainable community projects based across England, Scotland and Wales. Funding is available for new projects that will benefit local communities. Projects must be delivered in 2025/26 and could include Environment and conservation, Health & Wellbeing or projects to help the prevention or relief of poverty. For more information Mortgage Advice Bureau Foundation | Crowdfunder.co.uk or contact foundation@mab.org.uk

Nature Save Trust - Connect Communities to Nature – Deadline 15 July 2025 - Grants up to £5,000 are available for Charities, social enterprises, community groups, voluntary organisations, small grassroots groups and businesses who are working to connect their communities to nature. To be eligible you must have a website or social media presence. For more information The Naturesave Trust - Naturesave Insurance or contact abhawells@naturesave.co.uk

Universal Music UK Sound Foundation - School Funding – Deadline 25 June 2025 - Grants of up to £1,000 are available for schools, students and teachers to facilitate the purchase of musical instruments and equipment. The Foundation has helped over 10,000 schools, individual students and teachers improve their access to music through the purchase or upgrade of musical instruments and equipment. For more information UMUKSF SCHOOL FUNDING – UMUK Sound Foundation or contact umuksoundfoundation@umusic.com

Power of Music Fund – Deadline 16 June 2025 – Grants are available up to £2000 to local organisations that use music making to support people living with dementia and their carers in the UK and who are working with underrepresented communities, including those from racially minoritised communities throughout the UK. The funding is intended for not-for-profit organisations that are already delivering music activities or working with people living with dementia and carers. For more information The Power of Music Fund | Music For All or contact help@musicforall.org.uk

Wellbeing of Women - Women’s Health Community Fund – Deadline 15 June 2025 – Grants up to £5,000 are available for small, grassroots organisations (registered charity, non-profit, or community interest company (CIC) operating in the UK) that are providing direct services to minoritised groups to reduce stigma, share high quality information and improve education on women’s health in the areas of periods, menstrual health or perimenopause and menopause. The Fund is part of the Wellbeing of Women's work to improve the education and awareness of women’s common health issues which are currently overlooked and underfunded particularly among under-served communities, with a specific focus on lower income families, ethnically diverse communities, those with disabilities and who are LGBTQ+. For more information Women’s Health Community Fund - Wellbeing of Women or contact

community@wellbeingofwomen.org.uk

Funding Reminders

NFU Mutual Charitable Trust – Grants are available for charities working in agriculture, rural development and insurance. For more information NFU Mutual Charitable Trust: What do we do | NFU Mutual and how to apply Applications for Funding | Charitable Trust | NFU Mutual or contact nfu_mutual_charitable_trust@nfumutual.co.uk

Tesco Stronger Starts – Cooking for All Fund - Deadline 30 May 2025 - A limited number of one-off grants up to £1,000 are available for not-for-profit organisations and schools for projects in local communities across the UK that grow children and young people’s (up to the age of 16 ) knowledge of food and cooking skills, particularly how to cook. For more information Cooking for All -or contact tescostrongerstarts@groundwork.org.uk

Ernest Cook Trust - Outdoor Essentials Grant - Grants are available up to £1000 for UK state funded primary and secondary schools to enable them to get their pupils learning outdoors. The current round of funding offers grants for the following areas:

Nature and Nurture – school grounds improvements.
Transport and Travel – transport costs to outdoor learning venues.
Wellies and Waterproofs – outdoor clothing.

For more information Outdoor Essentials Grant – The Ernest Cook Trust or contact grants@ernestcooktrust.org.uk

WCIT – IT4Good Grant Programme – Deadline 18 August 2025 - Grants up to £15,000 are available for not-for-profit organisations across the UK to deliver IT projects and activities that support the themes of education, inclusion, IT for charities, and understanding of IT. For more information Home - WCIT Charity or contact charity@wcit.org.uk

Westminster Foundation - Small Grants – Grants up to £10,000 are available for registered charities working in rural communities in Lancashire to create opportunities for young people (up to 25 years of age) and their families to have the resilience, skills and capacity to lead happy and healthy lives. For more information Better lives are built on solid foundations – Westminster Foundation or contact westminster.foundation@grosvenor.com