Our Friday website article each week is dedicated to listing 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 16th to Sunday 29th March 2026.
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 16th and Sunday 22nd March 2026
Monday 16 March 2026 at 12 noon (midday)
THE SIR JULES THORN CHARITABLE TRUST SCALING IMPACT IN HEALTH AND CARE FUND
A limited number of grants for between £150,000 and £500,000 are available to established UK registered and exempt charities, as well as NHS organisations, with an annual income of over £10 million, to expand proven health and care interventions and deliver them more widely within the UK. Partnership applications are welcomed.
Wednesday 18 March 2026 at 3pm
GROW WILD YOUTH PROJECT GRANTS 2026
Grants of up to £500 are available for young people aged 14-25 across the United Kingdom to carry out creative projects that celebrate UK native plants and fungi in exciting and engaging ways.
Wednesday 18 March 2026
THE JERWOOD FOUNDATION
Grants, normally for between £1,000 and £20,000, but sometimes for significantly higher amounts, are available for UK arts-based organisations for activities and projects that support the promotion of the arts for public health.
2. Grant programmes with an Application Deadline between Monday 23rd and Sunday 29th March 2026
Thursday 26 March 2026 at 4pm
THE FINNIS SCOTT FOUNDATION (SPRING 2026 GRANTS ROUND)
Capital and revenue grants of up to £10,000 are available to UK registered charities, Charitable Incorporated Organisations, Community Interest Companies, Hospices and Parent Teacher Associations for projects in the areas of gardening and plant sciences, art history and fine art.
Thursday 26 March 2026 at 5pm
THE QUAKER HOUSING TRUST: BEST PRACTICE GRANTS
Grants of up to £6,000 are available for organisations in England, Scotland and Wales that are at the early stages of developing a project to provide housing for people in need. Applicants do not need to be part of the Quaker movement to apply for a grant. The Trust is particularly interested in receiving applications from minoritized communities as well as projects from geographically underrepresented areas in previous grant rounds, particularly Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Wales and the East of England.
