The trust is particularly interested in supporting charitable causes in the arts, community groups and projects, cultural and environmental causes, disability groups and charities supporting people with disabilities, educational projects, welfare causes to include hardship alleviation, and medical charities encompassing treatment, care and support.

Funding is at the discretion of the trustees. Typically grants range from £1,000 to £5,000.

Last year, 152 grants, totalling around £672,000, were awarded to the charitable sector.

The Trust was established to encourage and assist the provision of leisure activities for the disabled.

The Trustees will consider grant applications related to the provision of leisure activities for the disabled but favour particularly applications whereby the potential beneficiaries meet one or all of the following criteria:

 

Please note: this fund wa paused in May 2021 due to high demand, but will open at the end of January 2022.

Grants are available for UK-based charities and community interest organisations to support projects that promote the mental health and wellbeing of children and young adults.

The Ashley Family Foundation is an independent family Trust Fund set up in 1986, in memory of Laura Ashley, the designer, who died the year before.

The Foundation awards funding to charities and community groups for good small-scale arts and community projects in England and Wales that fit with the Foundation's ethos of protecting rural communities and encouraging participation in the arts.

It welcomes proposals from community museums, organisations, farms and gardens for funding for arts subjects

Funding available is intended to support Christian charities and churches that are serving their local community. Projects which spark interest and passion are favoured.

The Trustees consider the following factors in the decision process:

The Grocers Company has a tradition of dispensing monies to charitable causes and in 1968 it founded the Grocers' Charity, through which it offers financial support a wide range of charitable causes.

The Charity provides one-off grants for UK registered charities to support the following areas:

• Relief of poverty.
• Children and young people.
• The elderly.
• Disability.
• Health.
• Military.
• Heritage and the arts.
• Environment.

Community Grants

 Our Community Grant Scheme is available to constituted not-for-profit organisations and local authorities. Grants of between £10,000 and £75,000 are available to create or improve buildings or outside spaces for the benefit of the community. Please read our criteria document for further details by following the link to the website.

Warburtons Community Grants provides small grants up to £400 to support charitable organisations towards broader activities which improve Health, Place or Skills for families in their community.

Based on our localism approach, our community investment funds are allocated to our local bakeries and depots. This helps our Community Champions to make the best decisions for our local communities. We will use your postcode to understand which of our sites is closest to you and they will then receive the application and make a decision.

Family Fund Business Services are working in partnership with BBC Children in Need to deliver their Emergency Essentials Programme (previously the Buttle UK Families Programme). Donations received during the BBC's Big Night In appeal are being used to support families facing financial hardship due to the coronavirus/COVID-19 crisis.

This programme provides items for the most basic needs of vulnerable children and young people who may be:

The BlueSpark Foundation is a registered charity whose objective is to fund or part-fund projects that aim to improve the education and development of children and young people by means of educational, cultural, sporting or other activities.

The funding is intended to support projects that have the following objectives: