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Community funding opportunities

Mayoral Community Fund

Mayor Luke Campbell MBE has announced a £1 Million Community Fund to support projects that make a meaningful difference in our region.

Local residents are invited to submit project ideas that will benefit communities across our region. Whether it’s enhancing public spaces, supporting vulnerable groups, or fostering local connections, the Mayor wants to hear from you. Proposals will be carefully considered to ensure funding is directed where it’s needed most. For more information, please click here.

B&Q Foundation - Home Improvement Grants

One-off grants are available for UK registered charities who are working to improve the lives of people in need. The funding is intended for UK charities working to improve the lives of people in need by supporting projects that make homes safe, welcoming, and comfortable.

Grants are for essential home improvements and home starter kits—helping individuals and families facing homelessness, domestic abuse, disabilities, illness, or financial hardship to feel more settled and supported in their living spaces. For more information, please click here.

Closing date for applications is 14 August 2026.

Queen Elizabeth Trust

'Inspired by Queen Elizabeth's belief that "everyone is our neighbour" the Trust works hand in hand with communities, providing funding and targeted support to create spaces that will thrive long into the future. Starting from 2027, grants will be available to strengthen communities across the UK by funding local community spaces, with an emphasis on restoring, renovating or updating existing spaces.

The Trust says that it expects to make their first grant in spring 2027. The level of grant has not yet been published. For more information, please click here. 

Although applications are not being accepted at this time, groups may leave a message on the Trust's website on the 'contact us' page.

Grocers' Charity Grant

One-off grants are available to small UK registered charities for work in the specific areas of: relief of hardship; children and young people; disability and inclusion; the elderly; health; military; environment and conservation; the arts; and heritage.

For more information, please click here. Closing date for applications is 15 August 2026.

Bernard Sunley Foundation

One-off capital grants are available to registered charities in England and Wales for projects in the areas of community, education, health and social welfare.

For more information, please click here.

Garfield Weston Foundation

The Foundation aims to 'be responsive to where need is greatest' and therefore supports a wide range of charitable activity across fields including the arts, community, education, environment, youth, faith, health, welfare, museums and heritage.

The grants are to be used for one of three areas: Operating/core costs to help with the general costs of running the organisation, such as helping to pay bills or rent and provide support towards salaries; Capital projects to help with building works or repairs, or equipment that is necessary for the organisation’s work;

For more information please click here. There is no deadline for applications.

Two Ridings Community Foundation: 

1) Small Grants Fund - Two Ridings Community Foundation’s Small Grants Fund is aimed at supporting small voluntary and community groups, small charities, and other types of not-for-profit organisations (e.g. CICs and CBSs) with a turnover under £150,000, based in East Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, Hull and York.

You can apply for grants between £200 and £2,500. For more information, please click here.

2) Community First Prime Opportunities Fund - The fund is available to voluntary organisations, community groups, small charities and other not-for-profits serving communities in York, North Yorkshire, Hull and East Riding. Projects must address issues which create barriers to young people aged between 11 and 19 from disadvantaged backgrounds from reaching their full potential.

For more information, please click here. 

Educational and environmental funding opportunities

Changing Coasts East Riding Schools Support Fund

The fund is designed to support schools to deliver coastal learning activities such as field visits, workshops and assemblies, as well as purchase equipment to facilitate this. In addition to delivering their usual coastal activities, schools are asked to highlight sustainable coastal management in the East Riding, with the support from the CCER team if required. 

The fund will be open to applications until 18th December 2026. Guidance notes and the online grant application form can be found on East Riding of Yorkshire Council's Online Grant Application Portal.  

For further information and to discuss your project idea prior to submission, please contact the Project Team at coastal.management@eastriding.gov.uk 

Yorkshire Young Achievers Foundation

The purpose of the Foundation's grants programme is to support the mental, educational, spiritual, cultural, moral and physical development, health and improvement of young people under the age of 35 who were born, are connected to, work or live within Yorkshire so that they can develop their full capacities and become members of society with improved conditions of life and health. The Foundation also seeks to support registered charities in the achievement of their charitable objectives.

For more information, please click here.

King Charles III Charitable Fund – Small Grants

The scheme provides small grants to support independent UK registered non-for-profit organisations for grassroots, community-based projects that fall within its core funding themes.

This round is for projects working across the Fund's Education and Heritage Conservation funding themes:the preservation of historic and culturally important buildings and traditional craftmanship, together with the sustainable regeneration of communities and the built environment across the globe. For more information, please click here. 

Closing date for applications is 19 August 2026.

NFU Mutual Charitable Trust

Grants are available to large charitable groups and organisations in the UK for projects that further the objectives of the NFU Mutual Charitable Trust, particularly those that educate young people in rural areas and the relief of poverty in rural areas. For more information, please click here.

Closing date for applications is 09 October 2026.

UK Financial Literacy Foundation Offers Grants for Yorkshire and the Humber

Grants are available for not-for-profit organisations based in the UK for projects to improve financial literacy in areas of Yorkshire and the Humber which have higher indicators of deprivation and disadvantage. For more information, please click here. 

The deadline for Expressions of Interest is 2 August 2026.

Energy Resilience Fund

The Energy Resilience Fund provides eligible charities and social enterprises in England with a blended funding package of loan (60%) and grant (40%) to improve their energy resilience. This could include, for example reduced carbon emissions, energy cost savings, upgrading energy efficiency ratings to meet future regulations, increased use or comfort of buildings, replacing older vehicles and equipment with modern energy efficient versions.  

For more information, please click here. Applications can be made at any time.

Alpkit Foundation

Grants are available to community groups, schools and other not-for-profit organisations for grassroots direct action projects that tackle issues such as diversity and inclusion in the outdoors, participation, education, conservation and protection of the natural environment and health and well-being. For more information. please click here. 

Applications can be submitted at any time.

The New Allotment Site Fund

The funding is to create new, not-for-profit, private allotment sites for local communities that will be cultivated via sustainable gardening practices for the benefit of the environment. The aim is to enable social cooperation so that Green Allotment sites are managed by the community of gardeners on-site.

For more information, please click here. Applications are currently being accepted.

HDH Wills Charitable Trust

Grants are available to support registered charities that are concerned with the preservation of wildlife and the environment.

The following funding is available: Small grants £500–£2,000 to general charities, which are small enough in size or are applying for support for a modest project such that the charity will benefit substantially from a donation. £1,000–£2,000 (though occasionally up to £5,000) to wildlife and conservation charities; Large grants Typically in the range of £5,000–£50,000 to support wildlife and environmental causes.

For more information, please click here.