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National Funders

The funders listed on this page generally fund projects throughout the UK, but are known to offer funding within London as well.  There are of course more funders funding projects in London, and in Camden, than on this list.  If you are looking for funding then please contact VAC to arrange a Grantfinder session.  Grantfinder is a funding information tool, identifying support for community projects, capital expenditure and other funding opportunities.

Arts/Heritage and Cultural Activities

  • Calleva Foundation: Grants are available for charities undertaking social welfare or community projects in London or Hampshire. The scheme supports work in the following areas: education, medicine, social welfare, the arts and animal welfare.
  • Paul Hamlyn Foundation: Paul Hamlin Foundation is one of the largest independent grant-making foundations in the UK, helping people overcome disadvantage and lack of opportunity, particularly focusing on supporting young people and a strong belief in the importance of the arts.

Asylum, Migration, Refugees and Integration

  • AB Charitable Trust: The AB Charitable Trust awards grants to charities in the UK who primarily work with prisoners; refugees and asylum seekers; and human rights (especially access to justice). These priorities reflect ABCT’s concern to focus on the least popular causes.

Children, Young People and Families

  • Jack Petchy Foundation: The Jack Petchey Foundation makes grants to programmes and projects that benefit young people aged 11-25.
  • BBC Children in Need: Provide grants to projects in the UK which focus on children and young people who are disadvantaged.
  • The Peter Cruddas Foundation: Aims to benefit disadvantaged and disengaged young people in our society here in the UK by ensuring their funding reaches those most in need.
  • Paul Hamlyn Foundation: Paul Hamlin Foundation is one of the largest independent grant-making foundations in the UK, helping people overcome disadvantage and lack of opportunity, particularly focusing on supporting young people and a strong belief in the importance of the arts.

Community Regeneration

  • Big Lottery Fund: Every year, the Big Lottery Fund distribute millions of pounds of the National Lottery’s good cause money to community groups and charitable projects around the UK.

Crime/Safety, Law and Order

  • AB Charitable Trust: The AB Charitable Trust awards grants to charities in the UK who primarily work with prisoners; refugees and asylum seekers; and human rights (especially access to justice). These priorities reflect ABCT’s concern to focus on the least popular causes.
  • London Legal Support Trust: The London Legal Support Trust is an independent charity that raises funds for free legal services in London & the South East.

Disability

  • Span Trust: The Span Trust seeks to fund projects by awarding grants between £5,000 and £20,000 that will alleviate poverty, disability, age or ill health, and advance urban regeneration through the improvement of the built environment.

Disadvantaged Communities

  • Santander Foundation: The Santander Foundation provides grants to support knowledge, skills and innovation to give disadvantaged people the confidence to discover and create a new world of opportunities.
  • Paul Hamlyn Foundation: Paul Hamlin Foundation is one of the largest independent grant-making foundations in the UK, helping people overcome disadvantage and lack of opportunity, particularly focusing on supporting young people and a strong belief in the importance of the arts.
  • Baring Foundation: Makes grants to voluntary and other civil society organisations to improve the quality of life of people experiencing disadvantage or discrimination.
  • City Bridge Trust: Tackles disadvantage in London through grant making.
  • BBC Children in Need: Provide grants to projects in the UK which focus on children and young people who are disadvantaged.

Education

  • The Diana and Allan Morgenthau Charitable Trust: Offers grants to charitable organisations undertaking a range of charitable projects, including those in health, education, overseas aid and the reduction of poverty.
  • Calleva Foundation: Grants are available for charities undertaking social welfare or community projects in London or Hampshire. The scheme supports work in the following areas: education, medicine, social welfare, the arts and animal welfare.
  • Santander Foundation: The Santander Foundation provides grants to support knowledge, skills and innovation to give disadvantaged people the confidence to discover and create a new world of opportunities.

Environment

  • Polden Puckham Charitable Foundation Support work that addresses the pressures and conditions that risk global environmental breakdown.
  • Edge Fund The Edge Fund supports efforts to achieve social, economic and environmental justice.
  • Groundwork: Makes grants to organisations that want to improve the physical and natural environment.
  • Veolia Environmental Trust: Makes grants to support a wide range of community and environmental projects throughout England and Wales.
  • Span Trust: The Span Trust seeks to fund projects by awarding grants between £5,000 and £20,000 that will alleviate poverty, disability, age or ill health, and advance urban regeneration through the improvement of the built environment.

Equality, Discrimination and Human rights

  • AB Charitable Trust: The AB Charitable Trust awards grants to charities in the UK who primarily work with prisoners; refugees and asylum seekers; and human rights (especially access to justice). These priorities reflect ABCT’s concern to focus on the least popular causes.
  • City Bridge Trust: Mission is to tackle inequality in London through grant making.
  • Edge Fund: The Edge Fund supports efforts to achieve social, economic and environmental justice.
  • Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust: Gives grants to people who address the root causes of conflict and injustice.
  • Baring Foundation: Makes grants to voluntary and other civil society organisations to improve the quality of life of people experiencing disadvantage or discrimination.
  • Esmee Fairbairn Foundation: Funds the charitable work of organisations that are building an inclusive, creative and sustainable society.

Faith

  • Church Urban Fund: Awards grants to organisations to bring people together from different faiths and backgrounds and get to know each other better.

General

Health, Mental Health and Wellbeing

  • Span Trust: The Span Trust seeks to fund projects by awarding grants between £5,000 and £20,000 that will alleviate poverty, disability, age or ill health, and advance urban regeneration through the improvement of the built environment.
  • The Diana and Allan Morgenthau Charitable Trust: Offers grants to charitable organisations undertaking a range of charitable projects, including those in health, education, overseas aid and the reduction of poverty.
  • Calleva Foundation: Grants are available for charities undertaking social welfare or community projects in London or Hampshire. The scheme supports work in the following areas: education, medicine, social welfare, the arts and animal welfare.

IT and Technology and Business Start Up and Social Enterprise

  • Transform Foundation: They help small and mid-size charities to transform their digital presence to reach more people, raise funds and better serve their beneficiaries. They do this through giving grants.

Older People

  • Span Trust: The Span Trust seeks to fund projects by awarding grants between £5,000 and £20,000 that will alleviate poverty, disability, age or ill health, and advance urban regeneration through the improvement of the built environment.

Prisoners and Ex-Offenders

  • AB Charitable Trust: The AB Charitable Trust awards grants to charities in the UK who primarily work with prisoners; refugees and asylum seekers; and human rights (especially access to justice). These priorities reflect ABCT’s concern to focus on the least popular causes.

Social Welfare and Poverty

  • Comic Relief: Comic Relief funds grants in the UK and internationally, working to reduce poverty all over the world.
  • The Goldsmiths Company Charitable Trust: Funds charitable purposes including the relief of poverty in the Greater London Area, relief of poor members of the Goldsmiths’ Company and poor members of the goldsmiths’ trade, advancement of education and any other charitable purposes. Smaller grants will be given for purposes involving general welfare, culture, medicine and disability.
  • Trusthouse Charitable Foundation: Are a medium-sized grant making foundation giving grants to small, well-established organisations in the UK who address local issues in areas of extreme urban deprivation, or in remote and fragile rural communities.
  • Help the Homeless: Makes grants to charitable organisations with the aim of helping homeless people.
  • Trust for London: Awards grants to tackle poverty and inequality in London.
  • Elsie Talbot Bridge Will Trust: Grants are available for local voluntary and community groups and charitable organisations undertaking social welfare or community projects throughout England and Wales.
  • Span Trust: The Span Trust seeks to fund projects by awarding grants between £5,000 and £20,000 that will alleviate poverty, disability, age or ill health, and advance urban regeneration through the improvement of the built environment.
  • The Diana and Allan Morgenthau Charitable Trust: Offers grants to charitable organisations undertaking a range of charitable projects, including those in health, education, overseas aid and the reduction of poverty.
  • Calleva Foundation: Grants are available for charities undertaking social welfare or community projects in London or Hampshire. The scheme supports work in the following areas: education, medicine, social welfare, the arts and animal welfare.
  • Edge Fund The Edge Fund supports efforts to achieve social, economic and environmental justice.

Sports, Leisure and Outdoor Activities

  • Sport England: Funds organisations with projects that get people more active and involved in sport.
  • London Sport: Helping you find current funding opportunities across London for physical activity and sport.