Welcome to Funding Leeds
The free and easy way to find funding
Using Funding Leeds you can:
- Make funding searches to tap into local, regional and national funding sources
- Get regular updates on your funding area of interests
- Take advantage of useful information and local support to help you achieve your funding goals.
Funding Leeds is a public and third sector partnership - helping the voluntary, social enterprise, and community sectors in Leeds find the funds to achieve their vision.
If you would like to receive automatic email alerts informing you of new funding opportunities for your projects, please ensure you 'save' your searches. This will ensure you are regularly informed of new grants without even logging on to this service.
How to Use Funding Leeds
There are some quick videos to help you to use Funding Leeds, save your searches and receive updates in the Help & Advice section
Funding success?
Please let us know here (your funding success)
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Summary of top funders
Great help to get you started, or if a full search is a little daunting... a summary of the most active and accessible funders in Leeds.
See the latest edition here
Tell us about your grant funding success!
This service has helped it's users generate £4.11 million grant funding since it's introduction. Which is an amazing figure!
However there will more that we are not aware of. So therefore please let us know by completing a very short survey (all you have to do is click on the link in the Funding Success section above.
Or failing that, next time you receive a survey email, please take the time to complete it. It's literally a 2 minute survey! Many thanks
Local news
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- Meet the Funder: Mayors Safer Communities Fund (4/6/25, 1pm – 2pm on zoom)
- 28/05/2025
- Meet the Funder: Work and Health Grants for Leeds VCSE (3/6/25 at 1pm-2pm on zoom)
National community news
- 02/06/2025
- Bupa Foundation Green Community Grants Accepting UK Applications
- 02/06/2025
- Health and Wellbeing in Museums Fund: Approaching Deadline
- 02/06/2025
- NLCF’s Climate Action Fund’s Our Shared Future – Now Open Until ‘Late 2025’
- 30/05/2025
- New £85m Fund to Support Not-for-Profit Arts and Cultural Buildings Across England
- 29/05/2025
- Big Bike Revival Programme: Approaching Deadline
Support in Leeds
There are several organisations in Leeds that can provide support for voluntary and community groups and organisations around funding:
Voluntary Action Leeds Funding Support Service can help third sector organisations with several aspects of raising funds, including training, meet the funder events, skill-sharing and networking and feedback on draft bids.
About us
Funding Leeds is a partnership between Leeds City Council, Voluntary Action Leeds and Leeds Community Foundation. It helps voluntary and third sector groups become self-sufficient in their search for funding as well as letting groups know where they can get help and support. If you are a funder, and your fund isn't listed on Funding Leeds, or if you can offer support to groups to help them achieve their funding goals email:
Kaye.wilson@val.org.uk