Funding

Women’s voluntary and community organisations are a cornerstone for sustainable and stable communities, and are crucial to the advancement of equality and women’s rights.

The Small Grants Fund enables organisations to access smaller amounts of funding outside the main Trustee meetings.  Requests to the Small Grants Fund are considered at least six times a year and there are no deadlines.

John Lyon’s Charity Main Grants Fund delivers many opportunities such as contributions towards salary costs; direct project funding, apprenticeship prospects or general overheads to ensure the lights remain on. Whilst there is no maximum grant amount, a typical Main Grant is £20,000-£30,000 per annum for three years.

The Arts Council's open access programme for arts, museums and libraries projects. Fund is open to individual artists and practitioners, community and cultural organisations, museums and libraries.

The Foundation aims to transform communities and change lives across the UK by making grants to charities and grass-roots community organisations. The first round of funding is called ‘Kits-for-Kids’, and aims to help as many children as possible to be active and enjoy sports by providing them with the right equipment to do so.

The funding is for projects that make differences in children’s lives that help prevent or overcome the effects of the disadvantages they face.

Grants of up to £50,000 are available for community sport projects taking place between summer 2021 and June 2022 across two grant streams: New Ideas and Tried & Tested.

Bringing People Together funding can support projects that will build stronger connections across communities, and improve the infrastructure and conditions that are needed to strengthen these connections.

This Fund is about creating opportunities for young people to engage with Arts that have been curtailed by restrictions due to Covid-19, particularly those from backgrounds that typically do not engage in Arts activities.

Lloyds Bank Foundation fund small and local charities, investing in their work helping people overcome complex social issues across England and Wales.

Funding available for organisations working in sport who can show that COVID has adversely affected them operationally or financially.

If you’re an organisation in London tackling the root causes of poverty and inequality and your work fits one of our seven funding programmes, we would love to hear from you.

Tesco Community Grants fund thousands of local community projects across the UK, helping to fight holiday hunger, tackle mental health, support young people, host community events and much more.

The Projects, Opportunities & Programme fund is a dedicated funding programme for children and young people in Brent to apply to.

Youth led funding opportunity to create projects that are culturally enriching in Brent.

This funding is designed to support OOSS in Brent with capacity building, governance and management and the delivery of engaging, fun and accessible learning whilst building intercultural capacity and ensuring the safeguarding of children and young people.

Brent Council has been awarded funding from the Department for Education to deliver a Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) Programme in 2021, as part of a national scheme. The aim of the programme is to support the physical and mental health and wellbeing of children and young people, encouraging them to engage in interactive and fun activities.

The Edward Harvist Trust (EHT) gives grants of up to £5,000 towards one off projects and expenditure to organisations that work to improve the quality of life for local people in Brent.

The Swire Charitable Trust makes grants to charities supporting some of the UK’s most vulnerable people to overcome barriers and realise their potential, and to charities who are protecting our precious environment and heritage.

The Nineveh Charitable Trust provides grant-aid for UK-based projects that benefit the General Public. Education, access and preservation of the countryside are common themes, but we welcome creative new approaches that meet our charitable objectives