February Roundup of Current Funding Opportunities
- Emma Huggill
- 3 days ago
- 5 min read
Below is a selection of current funding opportunities available to charitable organisations across B&NES.
The 18 opportunities below are listed in order of closing date, and separated into two sections; Local and National.
Local Opportunities
🪙 Main grant of £15,000, and two smaller grants of £4,000
Bath Women's Fund has opened its grant programme for 2026 to local charitable organisations, with the theme this year being Meeting the needs of families who are most impacted by the increased cost of living, For example, organisations providing food, warmth, benefits advice, and preventing homelessness.
Deadline: Monday 23rd February - Find Out More
🪙 £500 - £1,000
Grants are available to support charitable or voluntary activities for organisations operating within Radstock Town Council area. Match funding of projects receiving Big Lottery money will also be considered. Provision for local nature recovery and biodiversity is a central theme for the council, therefore grants that show support of this theme would be most welcome.
Deadline: Friday 27th February - Find Out More
🪙 £500 - £5,000
The Society normally awards grants of between £500 and £5,000, together with a few higher awards, to registered charities and organisations with charitable purposes in the Greater Bristol area (including being based and working in B&NES). Its primary areas of support are
Social Welfare, Youth, Education, Environment, Social Enterprise, Healthcare, Culture and the Arts, projects that will benefit Greater Bristol and its Economic Development. Grants can be used for revenue and project costs, as well as capital appeals.
Deadline: 5pm on Tuesday 31st March - Find Out More
National Opportunities
🪙 £1,000 - £100,000
Funding supports capital projects, equipment and community assets, with priorities spanning health and wellbeing, village halls, countryside and wildlife, arts and heritage, education, youth groups, and sport and leisure. Open to not-for-profit organisations including registered charities, CICs and schools, for community projects, based in Somerset, Plymouth, Barnstaple and Kendal.
Deadline: The grant committee meets in March, June, September adn December. The cut off for applications is the 15th of the month before (e.g. 15th February, for the March meeting). Find Out More.
🪙 Offering £11.59m over 3 years
This funding supports collaboration between charities and local authorities to strengthen preventative, community-based services in England, targeting 15 priority areas most affected by the cost of living and addressing needs such as mental health, adult social care, women's refuges and child poverty. Open to civil society organisations able to lead multi-stakeholder local partnerships.
Deadline: 11.59pm on Monday 23rd February - Find Out More
🪙 Up to £6,000 over 2 years
This fund is for grassroots, youth-focused organisations working with young people aged 11 - 25 in high-deprivation areas. The funding aims to support programmes that create safe spaces, offer diversionary activities, and build life skills such as confidence, resilience and job-readiness.
Deadline: Midday on Friday 27th February - Find Out More
🪙 £1,000
Grants for UK charities and CICs that improve health and wellbeing, with eligibility limited to organisations with incomes of £300,000 or less, operating for 2+ years. 10 organisations will be selected at random and contacted in early March.
Deadline: 5pm on Friday 27th February - Find Out More
🪙 Between £500 and £5,000
This fund is for small UK charities (generally turnover under £500k) that support vulnerable people facing hardship and poverty - particularly children, the homeless, the elderly, and people with disabilities.
Deadline: Unspecified. Applications submitted by the end of February will be reviewed in March. - Find Out More
🪙 No fixed limit
This fund is for organisations performing national-level work in the UK - work that is legally charitable and focuses on systemic change. JCRT will not fund large, established national charities or statutory bodies, nor will it fund business development projects.
Deadline: Monday 2nd March - Find Out More
🪙 Minimum grant size of £100,000, average of £250k - £300k
This fund supports organisations working to improve financial resilience for those who need it most in the UK. Eligible organisations will have a minimum annual income of £1m. There is a total budget of £3 million for 2026.
Deadline: Wednesday 15th April - Find Out More
Small grants are available to support local grassroots neighbourhood-level projects that improve community life, such as activities for children and young people, community events, wellbeing initiatives, equipment, and small capital items. Applications can be made directly to individual NISA stores; there are 4 NISA stores in Bath
Deadline: Awards are made throughout the year - Find Out More
🪙 Unspecified
Available to small charities working with children who have hearing impairment, speech delay, language or communication difficulties, or complex needs. Charities working on research in all topics related to these children, and medical innovation relating to them, are also welcomed. Decisions may take several months.
Deadline: Unspecified - Find Out More
🪙 Typically £1,000 - £3,000. Larger amounts considered.
Available to organisations and groups with turnover of less than £1million, that support children and young people affected by poverty, abuse, neglect or those with additional support needs.
Deadline: Application windows open and close as funds allow - Find Out More
🪙 Up to £25,000 in match funding per year
For small charities and non-profits with incomes of less that £1m. This funding is for organisations that help build financial resilience and support community-led climate action.
Deadline: Ongoing - Find Out More
🪙 Up to £2,000
This fund is for voluntary organisations which are looking to start or expand advocacy groups. The fund especially welcomes organisations which can demonstrate their commitment towards diversity, cultural awareness, health and wellbeing, among other criteria.
Deadline: Unspecified - Find Out More
🪙 £500 - £5,000
Old Possum's Practical Trust continues the charitable work Mrs Eliot embraced on with the proceeds of the musical CATS. The Trust favours projects which fall within artistic, literacy, literary, musical and theatrical criteria. The Trust also seeks to support organisations devoted to upholding the right to freedom of speech. It distributes approximately £250,000 pa, and since inception has awarded over £7 million to a wide range of causes.
Deadline: Unspecified - Find Out More
🪙 Grants of £2.5 million - £7 million
Delivered by the National Lottery Community Fund, providing large-scale grants for long-term, partnership-led projects that aim to strengthen the UK food system, reduce food insecurity, and create healthy, affordable food produced in ways that work with nature.
Deadline: Unspecified - Decision in 39 weeks. Find Out More
🪙 Applicants invited to specify the level of funding required
Applications of a green, ecological or sustainability nature to benefit the environment are welcomed. This Fund is open to charities, community groups, educational institutions and small businesses for community-led sustainability projects.
Deadline: Applications may be submitted at any time - Find Out More
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