Below are the current funding opportunities from organisations other than East Suffolk Council.
For each one, you will find a short description of the type of funding available; details of who can apply; application deadline(s) and a web address for more detailed information.
On the website for each opportunity there will be details of how to apply and they also usually provide contact details if you need more information.
It is well worth contacting them before you start an application, just to make sure the fund is relevant to you and your project/service.
For East Suffolk Council grants, please go to the Community grants and funding page.
Good Luck!
Repairing and Maintaining Physical Buildings / Screwfix Foundation | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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Three round of funding, for projects which improve a physical building (or land attached to it) that is used by people in need, including improved energy efficient lighting; kitchens/bathrooms, etc.; sensory room; painting and decorating and improved safety and security. Closing dates: 10 May 2024 | 10 August 2024 | 10 November 2024 |
Up to £5,000 | Various - see website |
Building and Indoor Projects and Garden Projects / B&Q Foundation | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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The funding is for registered charities working with people most in need because of homelessness, financial hardship, sickness, disability or other disadvantage. It can be used to decorate, renovate or create spaces (indoors and outdoors) with the aim of making people feel at home and having a sense of belonging. Projects could include creating community gardens, redecorating properties, installing new boilers, and creating new buildings or rooms. Closing date: 17 May 2024 plus further rounds (no dates yet) |
Up to £10,000 | Registered charities |
Women’s Health Community Fund / Wellbeing of Women website | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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Grants for grassroots organisations and community groups to deliver health information and support to women, girls and people from underrepresented groups. Closing date: 19 May 2024 Wellbeing of Women website for more details and applications |
Up to £5,000 | Various - see website |
Funding to Reuse and Recycle Electricals / Material Focus | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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Two types of funding: The first is for projects that grow existing collection methods for small electricals. This could community drop points in libraries and other community locations, adding cages under refuse collection vehicles, bring banks/WEEE banks. The second is for projects come up with new approaches to repair, reuse and/or recycle electricals. Closing date: Ongoing |
Up to £100,000 | Various - see website |
Supporting Disabled Children and Young People / True Colours Trust | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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Supporting activities for disabled children, children with life-limiting conditions and their families. Funding for renovation, upgrading and additional eqpt for hydrotherapy pools and multi-sensory rooms; minibuses and specialised play equipment. Closing date: Rolling - no deadline |
Up to £10,000 | Registered charitable organisations and CICs |
Greenhall Community Foundation / Supporting people who are sick, the elderly, the disabled and/or disadvantaged | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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The objectives of the fund are to improve lives: among the sick, the elderly, the disabled and the disadvantaged particularly in the UK (capital/equipment). Opens: 1 March and closes after first 150 applications |
£1000-£4000 | Charities |
Community and Conservation Fund / Suffolk and Essex Coast and Heaths | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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For projects that works in heritage, media, conservation, learning, health, accessibility, and diversity, to give but a few examples. Applications from the widest range of society possible and supports equality of opportunities to access this fund. Closing date: 11 September 2024 |
£500-£700 | All |
Sustainable Development Fund / Suffolk & Essex Coast & Heaths | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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Available to a variety of local community and conservation organisations (or individuals) to support projects for the conservation and enhancement of the natural beauty of the Suffolk & Essex Coast & Heaths National Landscape Closing date: 24 May 2024 |
Up to £5000 | All |
Supporting Children and Young People with Learning Disabilities / The Red Trust | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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Aims to support educational projects and activities that benefit children and young people (CYP) under the age of 25 who have social, emotional, and mental health (SEMH) difficulties, including high functional CYP that have a diagnosis of autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) and other special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). The trustees prefer to provide grants for equipment, buildings, or activities, rather than to subsidise salaries. Closing date: 15 September 2024 |
£1000 - £5000 | Charities, Community Interest Company, Special Schools |
Supporting Children and Young People affected by Domestic Abuse / Masonic Charitable Foundation | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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For children who have experienced domestic violence and thus are more likely to struggle with mental health problems, low self-worth, develop unhealthy coping mechanisms and may begin to repeat behaviours seen in their domestic setting. Closing date: Rolling - no deadline |
£1000 - £5000 | Charities |
"I've got an Idea" Fund / The Prospectory | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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For those who have a novel technical idea which they want to try out. Schools and groups of school children can also apply as long as the idea is technically inventive and novel and, if it worked, delivering either an environmental or social benefit. Closing date: Ongoing "I've got an Idea" Fund / The Prospectory website for more details and applications |
£250 - £3000 | Individuals, Groups, organisations, Schools |
Screwfix Foundation / Capital grants for improving buildings | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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For projects that will fix, repair, maintain and improve the properties and community facilities of those in need by reason of financial hardship, sickness, disability, distress or other disadvantage throughout the UK. Grants of up to £5,000 are available for all kinds of projects, from repairing buildings and improving facilities in deprived areas, to decorating the homes of people living with sickness and disabilities. Closing date: 10 May 2024 |
£5000 | Not for Profit organisations |
Community Projects / Hornsea 3 Community Fund-Orsted | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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For projects that benefit the local community, which for 'us', includes the Lowestoft area inc. Kessingland. Closing date: 8 May 2024 Community Projects / Hornsea 3 Community Fund-Orsted website for more details and applications |
£500 - £75,000 | VCSEs, Parish & Town Councils and Local Authorities on behalf of a community |
Financial Wellbeing / Abrdn Financial Fairness Trust | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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For strategic work, including policy work, campaigning and research, which has the potential to improve financial wellbeing at a national scale in the UK, especially for those on low-to-middle incomes. Closing date: 3 June 2024 Financial Wellbeing / Abrdn Financial Fairness Trust website for more details and applications |
No min or max | Organisations that are undertaking charitable activities |
Healthy Heart Grants / Heart Research UK | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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For projects working solely with adults and have a main focus on one or more of the following areas: healthy eating, physical activity, smoking or alcohol. Closing date: 10 July 2024 Healthy Heart Grants / Heart Research UK website for more details and applications |
Tbc | Registered charities & Community Interest Companies |
Heritage & Crafts and Music / Radcliffe Trust | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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For Heritage & Crafts: Development of the skills, knowledge and experience. Closing date: 31 July 2024 Heritage & Crafts and Music / Radcliffe Trust website for more details and applications |
£2,500 - £7,500 | Charities, not-for-profit or Exempt orgs |
Group-Making Music / Michael Tippett Musical Foundation | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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For development of group music-making especially involving young people, with composing central to the project Closing date: 3 September 2024 Group-Making Music / Michael Tippett Musical Foundation website for more details and applications |
Varies | Projects taking place in or out of school, college or university, or in community settings |
Legacy Fund / Hornsea 3 | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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Funding for a single capital flagship project that is 'Inspired by Green' and involves positive action in relation to environmental sustainability and carbon reduction. Closing date: 27 November 2024 Legacy Fund / Hornsea 3 website for more details and applications |
£100,000 | VCSEs, Parish & Town Councils and Local Authorities on behalf of a community |
Kellogg’s School Breakfast Clubs Grants | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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Support for school breakfast clubs. Closing date: Ongoing Kellogg’s School Breakfast Clubs Grants website for more details and applications |
£1,000 | Schools |
Community Ownership Fund / Government | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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Helps community groups buy or renovate assets that would otherwise be lost to the community. Proposals will need to prove the value of the asset to local people and that the asset can run sustainably for the long-term benefit of the community, eg community centres; cinemas/theatres; Post Office buildings; Pubs; Shops, etc. Opening date: Not open yet however, Expressions of Interests now being sought Community Ownership Fund / Government website for more details and applications |
Tbc | VCSEs |
Community welfare, cost of living, health and wellbeing, young people / Tudwick Foundation | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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Awards grants covering the various areas mentioned above. Closing date: Ongoing |
£300 to £3,000 | VCSEs |
Supporting Disadvantaged Young people through Education & Speed / Hargreaves Foundation | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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Helps children and young people to fulfil their potential and improve their wellbeing, self-esteem, and independence through educational and sporting activities. Closing date: Ongoing |
No maximum | VCSEs |
Sports Club Crowdfunding / Sport England & National Lottery | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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Available to support clubs and community organisations to set up and run their own crowdfunding campaigns to help improve their sustainability. Closing date: Ongoing |
Up to £10,000 | Various - see website |
Children & Young People Development / BlueSpark Foundation | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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For schools, colleges and community groups and a wide range of projects. Aside from values including academic, vocational, artistic and sporting endeavours they are also keen to support projects which will help enhance the self-confidence, team working skills and future employability of children and young people. Closing date: Ongoing Children & Young People Development / BlueSpark Foundation website for more details and applications |
£2,000 to £5,000 | Various - see website |
Supporting employability skills development for young people/ John Lewis Foundation | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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To support projects that invest in vulnerable young people for those living in disadvantaged communities. Available to those where the John Lewis Partnership has a presence – for example, a John Lewis store, Waitrose store, supplier, manufacturer, distribution hub or contact centre. Closing date: Ongoing |
£10,000 to £50,000 | VCSEs |
Supporting welfare, education, medicine & religious facilities / The Hodge Foundation | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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Various - see website. Closing date: Ongoing |
Not stated | VCSEs |
Alleviating Poverty & Health / Yorkshire Building Society | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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Alleviating poverty and improving health/saving lives. Beneficiaries supported include children, those who are seriously ill, as well as elderly, homeless and the disabled. Staff costs or equipment. You can also nominate a charity here: https://ybs.givingforce.com/usercg/nomination/request-nomination Closing date: 30 September 2024 | 31 December 2024 Alleviating Poverty & Health / Yorkshire Building Society website for more details and applications |
Up to £2,500 | VCSEs |
Making Music Activity More Inclusive / Youth Music | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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Funding for organisations that support children and young people facing barriers to making, learning and earning in music, eg making music activity more inclusive either by sustaining or scaling up their work or changing sector practice. Closing date: 10 May 2024 Making Music Activity More Inclusive / Youth Music website for more details and applications |
£30,000 - £300,000 | VCSEs |
Places Fund (East of England) / People's Postcode Trust | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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Themes of Interest: Improving mental wellbeing; enabling community participation in the arts; reducing poverty; supporting marginalised groups; Improving biodiversity/green spaces; physical activity; climate change; access to outdoor space. Closing date: 1 July 2024 | 1 October 2024 Places Fund (East of England) / People's Postcode Trust website for more details and applications |
£500 - £25,000 | Not-for-profit organisations |
Racial Equality Grants / Lloyds Bank Foundation | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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To support organisations working with people experiencing economic inequity because of their race or ethnicity. Closing date: Ongoing Racial Equality Grants / Lloyds Bank Foundation website for more details and applications |
£75,000 | VCSEs |
Swimming for Children and Young People / The Children’s Alliance | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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Funding to give children and young people a better start in life. Eligible projects must support children under the age of 18 years to have access to swimming lessons, transport to lessons, swimwear and water play equipment. Closing date: Ongoing |
Up to £15,000 | Various |
Cultural, Heritage & Visitor Centres and Natural Environment / Biffa Awards | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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Supporting projects to restore, modernise and/or improve facilities such as cultural, heritage or visitor centres. The facility should be inclusive and promote learning, curiosity and participation to large numbers of visitors on a national scale and....Natural Environment projects should restore and/or improve the environment and the natural systems or habitats that support it. Please note projects be located within 15 miles of a Biffa site. There are sites at Kesgrave, Needham Market and Ipswich, so some of our ESC areas may qualify. Closing date: 31 May 2024 |
£250,000 - £1,000,000 | VCSEs |
Climate Action Fund / National Lottery Community Fund | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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For formal partnership working across sectors, led by community and voluntary organisations or public sector organisations for projects that reach more people by linking climate action to the everyday lives and interests of local communities and inspiring them to take action and/or influencing communities at a regional or national level Closing date: Ongoing Climate Action Fund / National Lottery Community Fund website for more details and applications |
£500,000 - £3,000,000 | VCSEs |
Youth Homelessness / Comic Relief | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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For organisations that specialise in providing holistic support to young people aged 16-25 who are at risk of, or experiencing homelessness. Closing date: 7 May 2024 Youth Homelessness / Comic Relief website for more details and applications |
Upto £200,000 | Various - see web-site |
Youth Psychological Therapies / Youth Endowment Fund | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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Funding to build interventions that will work to help create the conditions to keep child and young people safe and prevent them from being drawn into violence. Closing date: 24 May 2024 Youth Psychological Therapies / Youth Endowment Fund website for more details and applications |
See website | Various - see web-site |
Holiday Grants for Disadvantaged and Disabled Children / Henry Smith Charity | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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Schools, youth groups, not for profit organisations and charities can apply for grants to support recreational trips or holidays within the UK for groups of disabled or disadvantaged children. Closing date: 22 July 2024 |
£500 - £2,750 | Various - see web-site |
Race Equality - Windrush Justice Programme / Action for Race Equality | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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To support advocacy services. Funding can be used to pay for case workers, cover administrative costs, venue costs, run awareness raising events, and staffing costs. Closing date: Ongoing |
Up to £22,000 | Not-for-Profits |
Social and Criminal Justice / The Charles Hayward Foundation | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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Funding to prevent people entering the criminal justice system and to support those already in the system to move on and rebuild their lives. The Foundation also looks to alleviate the consequences of domestic abuse and criminal exploitation of vulnerable persons. Closing date: 16 August 2024 | 8 November 2024 |
£15,000 - £25,000 | Various - see web-site |
Help to Reduce Crime / Suffolk Police & Crime Commissioner (via SCF) | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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Prioritising support to victims of crime; reducing crime and improving safety in Suffolk, including collaborative working to enhance community safety and improve criminal justice outcomes. Closing date: 3 May 2024 |
£2,500 - £20,000 | VCSEs |
Helping BAME Communities Experiencing Economic Inequity / Lloyds Bank Foundation | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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Supporting organisations to provide immediate and long-term support to help people from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) communities break free from poverty. Closing date: 30 May 2024 |
Up to £75,000 | Registered charities & Community Interest Companies |
Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Arts Fund | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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Supporting the core costs of cultural organisations working at the intersection of art and social change so they can continue the work they are already doing and for programmes which are central to their mission. Closing date: 31 May 2024 Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Arts Fund website for more details and applications |
£90,000 - £300,000 | Not for profits |
Supporting Rural or Deprived Communities / Trusthouse Charitable Foundation | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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Funding to address local problems with communities in areas of extreme urban* deprivation or remote, needy rural# locations Closing date: Ongoing |
£2,000 - £100,000 | Not for profits |
Community Cashback Campaign / SPAR Supermarket | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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SPAR shoppers can nominate a local voluntary or community organisation or charity they feel deserves funding. All applicants need to do is share the exceptional contribution that a local organisation has made to their local community and what the grant would be used for. Closing date: 22 May 2024 Community Cashback Campaign / SPAR Supermarket website for more details and applications |
Up to £10,000 | Various - see web-site |
Vulnerable Young Women & Girls / Triangle Trust 1949 | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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Aimed at supporting those who have been in the criminal justice system or who are at a high risk of entering it. Closing date: 23 May 2024 Vulnerable Young Women & Girls / Triangle Trust 1949 website for more details and applications |
Up to £80,000 | Not-for-Profits |
Helping BAME Communities Experiencing Economic Inequity / Lloyds Bank Foundation | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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Supporting organisations to provide immediate and long-term support to help people from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) communities break free from poverty. Please complete the Eligibility Quiz first using weblink below. Closing date: 30 May 2024 |
Up to £75,000 | Registered charities & Community Interest Companies |
Art / Paul Hamlyn Foundation Fund | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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Supporting the core costs of cultural organisations working at the intersection of art and social change so they can continue the work they are already doing and for programmes which are central to their mission. Closing date: 31 May 2024 Art / Paul Hamlyn Foundation Fund website for more details and applications |
£90,000 - £300,00 | Not-for-Profits |
Financial Wellbeing Projects Focused on Transition to Net Zero / Abrdn Financial Fairness Trust | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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Funding is intended for strategic work that has the potential to improve financial wellbeing for those on low to middle incomes and on a national scale. Closing date: 3 June 2024 |
Usually £10,000 - £200,000 | Various - see web-site |
Capital Works on Christian Buildings / Benefact Trust | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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Supporting works to protect and enhance Christian church and charity buildings, ensuring their continued use and viability, and the safeguarding of their heritage. Closing date: Ongoing Capital Works on Christian Buildings / Benefact Trust website for more details and applications |
Varies | Various - see web-site |
Migration Fund / Paul Hamlyn Foundation | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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Supporting not-for-profit organisations working towards the Foundation’s vision of a world in which everyone is free to move and no-one is forced to move. Closing date: Ongoing Migration Fund / Paul Hamlyn Foundation website for more details and applications |
Varies | Not-for-Profits |
Schools and Youth Groups Visits to German Counterparts / Uk-German Connection | Grant value | Who can apply? |
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These grants aim to facilitate meaningful interactions between young people from both countries, fostering cultural understanding and collaboration. Closing date: Ongoing |
Up to £5,000 | Various - see web-site |