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 8th December to Sunday 21st December 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 8th December and Sunday 14th December 2025
Monday 8 December 2025
CASH4CLUBS 2026 APPLICATIONS
Grants of up to £2,000 GBP / €2,000 Euros are available to not-for-profit organisations, including registered charities, Community Interest Companies and sports clubs in the UK and the Republic of Ireland for the improvement of facilities, purchasing new equipment, coaching qualifications and investing in the sustainability of sports clubs.
Monday 8 December 2025 at 5pm
HOSPICE UK and THE MASONIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: HOSPICE GRANTS 2025
A limited number of grants of up to £40,000 are available to hospices that care for children, adults or all ages in England, Wales, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man to fund a new project or build on existing programmes of work to better support people facing financial hardship or living in socio-economic deprivation.
Tuesday 9 December 2025 at 4pm
ROSA: VOICES FROM THE FRONTLINE
One-off grants of between £500 and £10,000 are available for women’s organisations across the UK for projects and activities that raise women’s voices and challenge inequality.
Tuesday 9 December 2025 for Stage 1 applications
THE SCOPS ARTS TRUST
Grants of up to £15,000 (although awards are usually for less than £10,000) are available to small to medium sized UK charitable organisations, including social enterprises, for children and young people’s instrumental music education.
Wednesday 9 December 2025 at 12 noon
THE FORE TRUST (also known as THE FORE, part of the BULLDOG TRUST) SPRING 2026 GRANTS ROUND
Grants of up to £45,000 (previously £30,000) over 1-3 years are available to smaller registered charities, Community Interest Companies (CICs) and Community Benefit Societies to transform their impact by unlocking exponential growth, sustainability, efficiency or create some other major step forward. The Trust particularly encourages applications from smaller organisations working with marginalised groups and led by people in the community that may have found it hard to access Trust and Foundation funding in the past.
Thursday 11 December 2025 at 4pm
THE FINNIS SCOTT FOUNDATION (WINTER 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 11 December 2025 at 5pm
THE SCHOOL BASED NURSERY CAPITAL GRANT PROGRAMME (ENGLAND ONLY) (THE DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION)
Capital grants of up to £150,000 are available to eligible state-funded primary-phase schools and maintained nursery schools in England to create or expand a school-based nursery, with a focus on supporting disadvantaged families to access early years provision.
Friday 12 December 2025 at midday (12 noon)
THE INTERNATIONAL TREE FOUNDATION UK COMMUNITY TREE PLANTING PROGRAMME 2025/26
Grants and resources are available to support grassroots community projects across the UK that engage local people in tree planting.
Friday 12 December 2025
THE KRISTINA MARTIN CHARITABLE TRUST
Grants are available to UK registered charities working in the UK and/or overseas working in the areas of mental health and wellbeing, suicide prevention, homelessness linked to poor mental health, social media linked to poor mental health, and the reduction of social isolation.
Friday 12 December 2025
THE PETPLAN CHARITABLE TRUST WELFARE GRANTS
Grants from £5,000 to £25,000 are available to UK registered charities towards the welfare of dogs, cats, horses and rabbits. Grants are occasionally made to overseas projects.
Friday 12 December 2025 (the application window opens on 8 December 2025)
W G EDWARDS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
Generally, capital grants of between £1,000 and £1,500 are available for UK registered charities with an annual turnover of under £100,000 that are supporting older people aged 65 and over.
2. Grant programmes with an Application Deadline between Monday 15th December and Sunday 21st December 2025
Monday 15 December 2025
THE CHRYSALIS TRUST
A small number of grants are available to UK registered charities working in the UK (particularly the North-East of England) and internationally in the areas of the relief of poverty, disability, healthcare, education, shelter, water and less popular or unpopular causes.
Monday 15 December 2025
HELP THE HOMELESS GRANTS
Capital grants of up to £5,000 are available for projects that help homeless people rebuild their lives and move towards a return to mainstream society.
Monday 15 December 2025
MOTABILITY FOUNDATION GRANT PROGRAMMES
Motability is accepting Stage 1 applications (Expressions of Interest) to 5 grant programmes for initiatives across the UK that support, research and innovate in order that all disabled people can make the journeys they choose.
Monday 15 December 2025
THE ULVERSCROFT FOUNDATION
Revenue grants. usually for under £5,000, are available for local and national UK and overseas not-for-profit organisations, including Community Interest Companies (CICs), libraries, schools, colleges and sports groups, for projects that benefit visually impaired people.
Tuesday 16th December 2025
NATIONAL CHURCHES TRUST: SMALL AND MEDIUM GRANTS PROGRAMMES
Small Grants of up to £5,000 and Medium Grants of up to £10,000 are available for listed and unlisted Christian places of worship of any denomination in the UK to support project development and medium size repairs.
Wednesday 17 December 2025
AWARDS FOR ALL ENGLAND ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMME
Grants of between £300 and £20,000 over 2-years are available to a range of UK not-for-profit organisations for projects and activities that connect local people with nature and the environment.
Wednesday 17 December 2025
CLIMATE ACTION FUND – OUR SHARED FUTURE (NATIONAL LOTTERY FUND)
Revenue grants between £500,000 and £1.5 million over 3-5 years are available to UK community-led partnership projects that have a significant impact on climate change and make a clear link between climate and nature.
Wednesday 17 December 2025
THE PADDLE TRUST (PREVIOUSLY THE CANOE FOUNDATION)
Capital grants of between £500 and £10,000 are available to UK clubs, community groups, parish and town councils and local authorities for projects that improve accessibility to waterways and canoeing facilities, thereby encouraging greater use.
Friday 19 December 2025
THE ANGLING TRUST THE ANGLING IMPROVEMENT FUND: FISH PROTECTION & PREDATION MANAGEMENT
Grants of up to £6,000 are available to support non-lethal and legal techniques to manage unsustainable predation (the preying of one species on another) at angling sites and venues across England that are covered by an Environment Agency non-migratory trout and coarse fishing licence.
Friday 19 December 2025
THE HINRICHSEN FOUNDATION
One-off grants, generally for between £500 and £3,000, are available to UK registered charities, not-for-profit organisations and individuals to assist the public performance of contemporary music and independent musicological research.
Friday 19 December 2025 at 5pm for Stage 1 applications
THE 1001 CRITICAL DAYS FOUNDATION (THE PARENT-INFANT FOUNDATION)
Grants of up to £100,000 per year for up to 5 years are available to UK registered charities for projects that support babies and their families during the first 1,001 days of life, from pregnancy to age 2.
