This is our regular Friday round-up of national grant programmes with an upcoming application deadline. All of the programmes summarised below are featured in detail in the daily grants bulletin we send out at 8.30 each weekday morning throughout the year.
The following list covers the period Monday 14th July to Sunday 27th July 2025.
If you click on the title of each grant scheme, it should take you directly to the grant programme in question. A free 2-week trial of the daily grants bulletin is available for anyone who would like to try it out. Simply email GRIN at info@grin.coop with ‘Free 2-week trial’ as the subject heading and you’ll receive the bulletin the following morning.
1. Grant programmes with an Application Deadline between Monday 14th July and Sunday 20th July 2025
Monday 14 July 2025.
THE BIG BIKE REVIVAL CHALLENGE 2025
Grants of up to £3,500 are available to a range of not-for-profit and charitably inclined organisations in England, including local authorities, for projects that support people returning to cycling, starting as complete beginners, as well as people who do not cycle regularly.
Tuesday 15th July 2025.
THE STEEL CHARITABLE TRUST: UK UNDER 26 FUND
One-off and multi-year grants of between £10,000 and £25,000 are available to UK registered charities working with or on behalf of children and young people under 26, with an emphasis on creating educational and/or access opportunities for those in circumstances, groups, or locations that face economic challenges, social marginalisation or poor outcomes in later life.
Friday 18 July 2025 at 12 noon (midday)
THE SCOTTISH POWER FOUNDATION: GENERAL GRANTS
This is an annual grant programme offering project grants of between £35,000 and £150,000 to UK registered charities for projects in the areas of the arts, citizenship and community development, culture, disability relief, education, environment, heritage, science, social welfare and the relief of poverty.
Sunday 20 July 2024.
THE DAN MASKELL TENNIS TRUST
Grants of up to £1,600 for groups and £600 for individuals are available to enable disabled people in the UK to play tennis through the purchase of wheelchairs, tennis equipment and grants for coaching.
2. Grant programmes with an Application Deadline between Monday 21st July and Sunday 27th July 2025
Monday 21 July 2025
THE HENRY SMITH FOUNDATION HOLIDAY GRANTS FOR CHILDREN
Grants of between £500 and £2,750 are available for UK youth clubs, charities, not-for-profit groups and schools to provide recreational trips or holidays for children aged 13 years and younger who live in an area of high deprivation and are experiencing disability or disadvantage.
Monday 21 July 2025 at 9am
SOUND CONNECTIONS
Grants of up to £2,000 are available to individuals and grassroots organisations across England to test and deliver new ideas and approaches to working with children and young people through music.
Friday 25 July 2025
THE A B CHARITABLE TRUST
Revenue grants, generally for between £10,000 and £25,000, are available to small to medium-sized UK registered charities and Community Interest Companies that are supporting people who are most marginalised and vulnerable in UK society.
Friday 25 July 2025 at 12 noon for Expressions of Interest
ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND: CREATIVE FOUNDATIONS FUND
Capital grants of up to £10 million are available to not-for-profit creative and cultural organisations in England to revitalise, restore, retrofit or renew cultural assets, including urgent work to address issues preventing organisations from effectively delivering work for the public.
Friday 25 July 2025 at 23:59
TOWNSWEB ARCHIVING DIGITISATION FUNDING GRANTS
3 grants of £3,000 for a range of organisations in the UK, the Isle of man and the Channel Islands for the digitisation of valuable and rare heritage collections. Up to £1,000 in match funding is available for all other eligible applicants.
