Our Friday website article 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 23rd February and Sunday 8th 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 23rd February and Sunday 1st March 2026
Thursday 26 February 2026
ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT GRANTS FOR INDIVIDUALS
At the end of October 2025, the Arts Council announced that it had paused its Developing Your Creative Practice programme until April 2026. However, to ensure the Arts Council can continue to support individual practitioners in the interim, it has ringfenced £7.5 million of Research and Development funding for individuals within its National Lottery Project Grants. Research and Development (R&D) projects are typically where a person develops a new idea or explores a new way of working. Applicants must work in one of the Arts Council’s supported disciplines. Grants of between £1,000 and £30,000 are available.
Friday 27 February 2026 at 12 noon (midday)
THE KFC YOUTH FOUNDATION COMMUNITY GRANTS PROGRAMME
Grants of between £250 and £3,000 for each of two years (i.e. up to £6,000 in total) are available for UK grassroots organisations providing safe social spaces, mentoring, work or social skills for young people aged 11 to 25.
Friday 27 February 2026 at 1pm
THE UNIVERSAL UK SOUND FOUNDATION: THE SCHOOL FUND
Grants of up to £1,000 are available to schools in the UK and Ireland that are teaching the national curriculum to support music education for young people in all its forms, specifically for school music projects and the purchase of instruments and equipment.
Saturday 28th February 2026
THE ASHWORTH CHARITABLE TRUST
Grants of up to £5,000 are available to UK registered charities with an annual turnover of under £1 million that are working in the UK and/or overseas on projects that address humanitarian causes.
Saturday 28th February 2026
THE ASTOR FOUNDATION
Small grants, usually for between £250 and £1,500, are available to UK registered charities for medical research in its broadest sense, as well initiatives for children and youth groups, the disabled, the countryside, the arts, sport, carers groups and animal welfare.
Saturday 28 February 2026
THE AUSTIN AND HOPE PILKINGTON TRUST (ROUND 1, 2026)
Revenue grants of £1,000 are available for UK charities with an annual turnover of between £100,000 and £1 million for projects that support people experiencing or at risk of homelessness and/or provide life skills, including food education, healthy living, and budgeting, with priority given to people leaving the Armed Forces, leaving prison, or care.
Saturday 28th February 2026
THE CHAPMAN CHARITABLE TRUST
Grants, usually for between £1,000 and £3,000, are available to registered charities that are promoting physical and mental wellbeing, conserving the natural environment, promoting the sustainable use of resources and increasing the accessibility of the arts, especially for young people. The Trust will fund national charities, including Scottish charities, if they operate across the UK and local charities if their beneficiaries or activities are located in North Wales or South-East England (please refer to the map on the Trust’s website).
Saturday 28 February 2026
THE FRANK LITCHFIELD GENERAL CHARITABLE TRUST
Grants, generally for under £10,000, are available for local, regional and national charities in the UK that provide services for the residents of Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Essex.
Saturday 28th February 2026
THE GILCHRIST EDUCATIONAL TRUST: GRANTS TO ORGANISATIONS
Grants, usually for between £500 and £4,000, are available to UK registered charities and UK registered companies working in the UK and/or overseas to fill an educational gap or make a particular aspect of education or learning more widely available.
Saturday 28th February 2026
THE INMAN CHARITY
Grants, generally for between £2,000 and £5,000, are available to UK registered charities providing medical, social welfare or general welfare activities, particularly in the areas of support for the elderly, people with disabilities, medical research, hospices and the Armed Forces.
Saturday 28th February 2026
MAGDALEN HOSPITAL TRUST
One-off project grants, usually for between £200 and £2,000, are available to smaller UK registered charities with an annual income of £100,000 or less that are working with disadvantaged children aged 25 and under.
Saturday 28th February 2026
THE OUSELEY CHURCH MUSIC FUND
Grants, generally for of up to £5,000, are available to Choral Foundations, Choirs, Parish Churches, Cathedrals, Collages and Schools in England, Wales and Ireland for the maintenance, performance and promotion of choral services in England, Wales and Ireland.
Saturday 28th February 2026
REWILDING BRITAIN: REWILDING INNOVATION FUND
Grants of up to £15,000 are available for projects in England, Scotland and Wales that remove barriers to rewilding projects. Projects that take an innovative approach to land and marine rewilding are particularly welcomed.
Saturday 28th February 2026
THE SAMUEL GARDNER MEMORIAL TRUST
Grants, normally for up to £1,500 are available to UK registered charities for the advancement of music and musical education.
Saturday 28th February 2026
SEA-CHANGERS: COASTAL FOUNTAIN FUND 2026
Grants of up to £2,500 are available for UK not-for-profit organisations to install a water bottle refill station in a busy or environmentally important coastal location.
Saturday 28th February 2026
WISE MUSIC FOUNDATION
A limited number of grants for between £500 and £5,000 (but averaging £1,500) are available to smaller UK charitable organisations with an annual turnover of under £500,000 that are working in the UK and/or overseas to support people experiencing hardship, distress and illness, with a focus on children, the homeless and people living in poverty.
Sunday 1 March 2026
THE FRIENDS OF THE NATIONS’ LIBRARIES
Grants, generally for between £200 and £20,000 are available to regional, national and specialist libraries, archives and museums across the UK for the acquisition of books, manuscripts and archives that they could not otherwise afford.
Sunday 1 March 2026
THE HENLEY ROYAL REGATTA CHARITABLE TRUST
A limited number of small to large grants are available to UK rowing clubs and charities for activities that develop the coaching of rowing in state-maintained secondary schools.
Sunday 1 March 2026 at 11pm
HENRY MOORE FOUNDATION
Generally, capital grants of up to £20,000 are available for the growth and development of sculpture across historical, modern and contemporary fields, and for research that expands the appreciation of sculpture.
Sunday 1 March 2026
THE KELLY FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST
Capital, revenue and core grants up to £5,000 are available to help establish recently formed UK registered charities that are working to nurture and support family life.
Sunday 1 March 2026
THE MARC FITCH TRUST
A limited number of small grants, usually for under £5,000, are available to UK registered charities and individuals for projects, publications and research that focuses on local and regional history across the United Kingdom.
2. Grant programmes with an Application Deadline between Monday 2nd and Sunday 8th March 2026
Monday 2 March 2026 at 5pm
THE ENERGY REDRESS SCHEME: ROUND 15
A total fund of £20 million is available for charities and community energy groups across England, Scotland, and Wales for projects that align with three key objectives: (1) Assisting households most at risk of cold homes and high energy bills; (2) Developing innovative domestic energy products and services, and (3) Reducing carbon emissions.
Wednesday 4 March 2026
THE J J CHARITABLE TRUST
Revenue grants of between £5,000 and £20,000 for up to 3 years are available to UK registered charities, exempt charities, community groups and Community Interest Companies for activities that improve the effectiveness of literacy teaching in primary and secondary education for children with learning difficulties, including dyslexia.
