Grant funders that a small charity supporting older people in Barnes, Mortlake and East Sheen could realistically approach — the local ones first, then London-wide and national funders, tagged so you can jump to the part of the service you need money for.
Start with the local funders. They are listed first and shaded green. For a charity of FiSH's size they have far better odds than the national trusts, and these are the ones worth a conversation before anything else:
How the list is ordered. Local funders first, then everything else by deadline, soonest first. Funds with no fixed closing date sit at the bottom. Use the filters and tags to narrow down.
Where this comes from. The London and national entries are the whole GrantFinder fund database as at 28 July 2026, narrowed by hand to what an older people's charity could apply to. The local entries come from two sources: a GrantFinder search on SW13 and SW14 restricted to locally scoped funders, and Richmond CVS's local funders directory plus the council's own grants pages. Both were needed — GrantFinder does not hold records for The Barnes Fund, The Victoria Foundation or the Richmond upon Thames Voluntary Fund, and Richmond CVS's directory does not list the council's Full of Life Fund.
Always check the funder's own guidance before applying. The notes here are a reading aid, not advice, and deadlines move. Richmond CVS offers free one-to-one fundraising support to local organisations — richmondcvs.org.uk.
| Funder | Run by | Deadline | Max value | Area | Tags | What it funds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richmond Housing Partnership – Ham Social Value Grants | Richmond Housing Partnership | 31 Jul 2026 2d | Discretionary | Barnes / Richmond | Older People Health & Wellbeing Loneliness & Befriending Hardship Grants | Grants for community groups, registered charities, not-for-profit groups and social enterprises across the London Borough of Richmond, for projects that support Richmond Housing Partnership customers and the communities they live in. Aims to improve the economic, social and environmental wellbeing of RHP customers.Framed around RHP customers rather than the borough as a whole, so worth checking how many FiSH members are RHP tenants before writing anything. |
| Richmond Upon Thames – Full of Life Fund | London Borough of Richmond upon Thames Council | 3 Aug 2026 5d | Discretionary | Barnes / Richmond | Older People Loneliness & Befriending Health & Wellbeing Physical Activity Arts, Music & Activities | Grants for organisations and groups working with older people across the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, to deliver activities that support health and wellbeing and social connectedness. Aims to connect older residents with activities and groups that help them stay physically active and socially connected.Older people, social connectedness, staying active — FiSH's entire service description written as a funding criterion, by FiSH's own council. The strongest single match on this page. |
| Richmond Foundation (formerly Richmond Parish Lands Charity) | Richmond Foundation | 12 Aug 2026 14d | Discretionary | Barnes / Richmond | Older People Health & Wellbeing Advice & Information Core Costs Loneliness & Befriending | Main Grants and Education Grants for organisations and individuals. Five priorities: accessing support and advice; reducing inequalities in education; improving health outcomes; enhancing community cohesion; and strengthening the local voluntary and community sector.The only large local funder whose benefit area covers all three of Barnes (SW13), Mortlake and East Sheen (SW14). Improving health outcomes and community cohesion describe FiSH's work almost exactly. |
| Active Richmond Fund | London Borough of Richmond upon Thames | Check current round | £5,000 | Barnes / Richmond | Physical Activity Health & Wellbeing Arts, Music & Activities Food & Shopping Older People | Supports local groups providing activities that enrich the borough's social prescribing or cultural offer and promote active, healthy lifestyles. Covers sport and physical exercise, arts and cultural activity supporting health and wellbeing, and healthy eating and nutrition. Microgrants up to £1,000 and main grants up to £5,000.Social prescribing is the obvious framing for FiSH's activity programme, and the healthy eating priority reaches the shopping and lunch side of the service. |
| Richmond Civic Pride Fund | London Borough of Richmond upon Thames | Check current round | £5,000 | Barnes / Richmond | Core Costs Volunteers Physical Activity | Priorities are building capacity in the community by using the skills and talents of local people, making public places more attractive and building stronger communities, town and neighbourhood centre initiatives, and sport. Up to £5,000 for organisations."Using the skills and talents of local people" is a direct fit for a service run by 400 volunteers. |
| Richmond Community Fund | London Borough of Richmond upon Thames | Occasional rounds, subject to CIL receipts | Discretionary | Barnes / Richmond | Capital & Equipment Buildings | Grants from the Community Infrastructure Levy charged on building developments, spent on local priorities that address the demand development places on an area. Funding rounds are occasional and depend on enough CIL having been collected.Capital-flavoured money. Only opens sporadically, so worth a calendar reminder to check rather than a planned bid. |
| Richmond upon Thames Voluntary Fund | London Borough of Richmond upon Thames | Expressions of interest usually invited in the autumn | Discretionary | Barnes / Richmond | Older People Disability Core Costs | An independent charitable trust administered by the council. Each year trustees pick a beneficiary group and a theme based on need, then invite expressions of interest from organisations wanting to be a beneficiary charity the following year. Older people are among the groups it exists to help.Not a normal application process — you have to be in the room when the theme is set. Worth contacting before the autumn round so FiSH is on their radar. |
| The Barnes Fund | The Barnes Fund (formerly Barnes Workhouse Fund) | Rolling, with trustee meetings through the year | Discretionary | Barnes / Richmond | Older People Hardship Grants Arts, Music & Activities Health & Wellbeing | Grants to organisations and charities providing services to Barnes residents, and directly to individuals and families on low incomes or in distress. Funds work relieving hardship or distress and organisations offering education, recreation or leisure facilities for the wellbeing of the whole Barnes community.Gives around £328,000 a year into SW13 alone and funds both organisations and individual residents in hardship. Relief of need, support for older people and recreation and leisure facilities are all stated purposes. |
| The Victoria Foundation | The Victoria Foundation | Rolling — four panel meetings a year | £5,000 | Barnes / Richmond | Transport & Mobility Capital & Equipment Health & Wellbeing Disability Older People | A medical charity supporting organisations and individuals in Richmond, Kingston and Hounslow. Funds mobility aids, accessible transport, and medical equipment and support not funded by the state. Grants typically £250 to £5,000.Accessible transport and mobility aids are named funding categories — the clearest match anywhere on this page for the bus and shopping bus service. |
| Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust | The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust | 31 Jul 2026 2d | £5,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Arts, Music & Activities | Grants are available to registered UK charities that work with communities in the UK for projects that address specific categories set out by the Trust each year.Categories change each year — check the current round before writing anything. |
| Barchester Healthcare Foundation | Barchester Healthcare Charitable Foundation | 31 Jul 2026 2d | £2,600 | UK-wide | Older People Loneliness & Befriending Health & Wellbeing Disability | Grants are available for small local groups and small local charities to improve the quality of life and combat loneliness in older people as well as adults with a physical or mental disability in England, Scotland, and Wales.Names combating loneliness in older people as its whole purpose. One of the closest matches on this page. |
| D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust | D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust | 31 Jul 2026 2d | £8,000 | UK-wide | Arts, Music & Activities Health & Wellbeing Dementia & Parkinson's | Grants are available for UK registered charities working in the UK in the areas of participation in the performing arts, creative health interventions, and heritage crafts and skills.Funds creative health — arts and music used for health outcomes, dementia included. |
| Delamere Dairy Foundation | Delamere Dairy Foundation | 31 Jul 2026 2d | £5,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs Hardship Grants | Grants are available to charitable and community organisations in England, Scotland and Wales to support projects that deliver benefits for local communities. |
| Giving Machine - Community Grants | Giving Machine | 31 Jul 2026 2d | £250 | UK-wide | Core Costs Unrestricted | Small unrestricted grants are available to charitable organisations across the UK.Small unrestricted grants. |
| Inman Charity | Inman Charity | 31 Jul 2026 2d | £5,000 | UK-wide | Older People Disability Health & Wellbeing | Grants are available for UK registered charities carrying out medical, social welfare or general welfare activities within the UK.A regular funder of older people's and disability welfare. |
| Music for All - Community Project Funding | Music for All | 31 Jul 2026 2d | Discretionary | UK-wide | Arts, Music & Activities | Grants are available to UK-based community groups that aim to bring musical projects to their local communities.Community music projects — fits the music and memories strand. |
| GSK Community Health Programme | The King's Fund | 10 Aug 2026 12d | £10,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Core Costs Unrestricted | Awards programme that offers unrestricted funding and leadership support to small charities tackling health inequalities in the UK.Unrestricted funding and leadership support for small charities tackling health inequalities. |
| Screwfix Foundation | The Screwfix Foundation | 10 Aug 2026 12d | £5,000 | UK-wide | Buildings Capital & Equipment | Grants are available to UK registered charities and not-for-profit organisations for projects that improve, fix, and repair buildings, homes and facilities specifically used by people in need across the UK.Repairs and improvements to buildings used by people in need. |
| Heart Research UK - Healthy Heart Grants | Heart Research UK | 12 Aug 2026 14d | £15,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Physical Activity Food & Shopping | Grants are available to charities and community interest companies in the UK for new community projects aimed at supporting adults to reduce their risk of coronary heart disease, helping them to lead healthier, happier and longer lives.Community projects helping adults cut heart-disease risk — fits an exercise or healthy-eating strand. |
| Souter Charitable Trust | Souter Charitable Trust | 13 Aug 2026 15d | Discretionary | UK-wide | Hardship Grants Health & Wellbeing | Grants are available to UK registered charities for projects engaged in the relief of human suffering in all aspects in the UK and overseas - especially, but not exclusively, those with a Christian emphasis and ethos. |
| B&Q Foundation - Home Improvement Grants | B&Q Foundation | 14 Aug 2026 16d | £10,000 | UK-wide | Capital & Equipment Disability | One-off grants are available for UK registered charities who are working to improve the lives of people in need.Fits the practical help side: small home adaptations and repairs for members. |
| Skinners Company - Relief of Poverty and Hardship Grants | The Skinners' Company | 14 Aug 2026 16d | £5,000 | London | Hardship Grants | Grants are available to charitable organisations to fund projects that support people in London and Kent who are experiencing the negative impact of poverty and deprivation. |
| WCIT Charity | WCIT | 14 Aug 2026 16d | £15,000 | UK-wide | Digital & IT Core Costs | Grants are available for not-for-profit organisations across the UK to deliver IT projects and activities that support the themes of education, inclusion, IT for charities, and understanding of IT.Has an IT-for-charities theme, so it covers FiSH's own systems as well as members' digital inclusion. |
| GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) IMPACT Awards | The King's Fund | 19 Aug 2026 21d | £50,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Core Costs Unrestricted | Annual awards programme open to registered charities working in the UK to improve people's health and wellbeing.An award rather than a project bid: unrestricted money plus free leadership development. |
| Heathrow Community Trust - Communities Together Small Grants Programme | Heathrow Community Trust | 20 Aug 2026 22d | £5,000 | London | Hardship Grants Loneliness & Befriending | Grants are available to local authorities, schools, charities, community groups, social enterprises and not-for-profit companies for local community projects in the Heathrow area that focus on bringing communities together, enhancing the local environment or improving the quality of life for local people.Richmond CVS lists Heathrow Community Trust as covering Richmond, and the programme names tackling loneliness among older people. Up to £15,000. |
| Schroder Charity Trust | Schroder Charity Trust | 28 Aug 2026 30d | £5,000 | UK-wide | Hardship Grants Core Costs | Grants are available for UK charities who are working with vulnerable and disadvantaged people within the UK. |
| Skinners Company - Arts, Heritage and Communities | The Skinners' Company | 28 Aug 2026 30d | £5,000 | London | Arts, Music & Activities | Grants are available to charitable organisations for arts, heritage and community projects primarily (but not exclusively) in London and Kent. |
| Chapman Charitable Trust | Chapman Charitable Trust | 31 Aug 2026 | £2,000 | London | Health & Wellbeing Mental Health Arts, Music & Activities | Grants are available for charities that support wellbeing, the natural environment and the arts through activities located in North Wales, London or South East England. |
| Emerton-Christie Charity | Emerton-Christie Charity | 31 Aug 2026 | £3,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Arts, Music & Activities | A very small number of one-off grants are available for registered charities in the UK undertaking projects in the areas of health, supporting those who are disadvantaged, or the arts.A very small number of one-off grants each year. |
| HDH Wills Charitable Trust | HDH Wills 1965 Charitable Trust | 31 Aug 2026 | £20,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grants are available to support registered charities that are concerned with strengthening local communities and the preservation of wildlife and the environment.Strengthening local communities is one of its two strands. |
| James Tudor Foundation - Mental Health Grant | The James Tudor Foundation | 31 Aug 2026 | £25,000 | UK-wide | Mental Health | Grants are available to UK registered charities addressing mental health issues affecting children and young people, and adults.Covers adults, not only children and young people. |
| James Tudor Foundation - Physical Health Grant | The James Tudor Foundation | 31 Aug 2026 | £25,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing | Grants are available to UK-registered charities addressing physical health issues. |
| Wise Music Foundation | Wise Music Foundation | 31 Aug 2026 | £5,000 | UK-wide | Arts, Music & Activities Health & Wellbeing Food & Shopping | Grants for small organisations in the UK to address education, cultural activities and arts & heritage, health issues, food banks and other worthy causes. |
| Woodroffe Benton Foundation - Small Grants Programme | Woodroffe Benton Foundation | 31 Aug 2026 | £2,500 | UK-wide | Older People Hardship Grants | Grants are available to smaller UK registered charities for relief of hardship, care for the elderly, environment and conservation.Care for the elderly is a named priority. |
| Green Hall Foundation | Green Hall Foundation | 2 Sep 2026 | £10,000 | UK-wide | Capital & Equipment Older People Health & Wellbeing | Grants for UK registered charities to fund special projects or the purchase of equipment that will benefit their charitable purposes.Will fund the outright purchase of equipment. |
| Better Community Business Network (BCBN) Grant Initiative | Better Community Business Network | 7 Sep 2026 | £3,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs Hardship Grants | A small number of grants are available each year to small not-for-profit groups with projects that address a community issue or support a local community initiative; and provide benefits to the local community. |
| Scops Arts Trust | Scops Arts Trust | 15 Sep 2026 | £30,000 | UK-wide | Arts, Music & Activities | A limited number of grants are available to charities across the UK for new high quality projects that provide opportunities for people from all backgrounds to access, enjoy and participate in the arts.Access to and participation in the arts for people from all backgrounds. |
| Britford Bridge Trust | The Britford Bridge Trust | 30 Sep 2026 | Discretionary | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Arts, Music & Activities Hardship Grants | Grants are available to UK registered charities involved in the prevention or relief of poverty; the advancement of education; the advancement of health or the saving of lives; and the advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science. |
| Fat Beehive Foundation | Fat Beehive Foundation | 30 Sep 2026 | £2,500 | UK-wide | Digital & IT Core Costs | Grants are available to small UK registered charities to help them improve their digital presence.Grants specifically for small charities' websites and digital presence. |
| Groundwork – Grassroots Grants | Postcode Local Trust | 30 Sep 2026 | £2,000 | England | Core Costs Hardship Grants | Grants are available for small, grassroots charities, community interest communities (CICs), and voluntary and community groups across England to deliver vital services that benefit their local communities.Aimed squarely at small grassroots organisations delivering frontline services. |
| London Catalyst - Hardship Grants | London Catalyst | 30 Sep 2026 | £2,000 | London | Hardship Grants Advice & Information | Small grants are available to front line agencies, social work professionals, charitable and community groups, that are working directly with people in need in London and that have the expertise to assess need, offer welfare rights advice and distribute hardship grants on the charity’s behalf.FiSH would hold and distribute the money on behalf of members in immediate need. |
| London Catalyst - Main Grants | London Catalyst | 30 Sep 2026 | £10,000 | London | Health & Wellbeing Loneliness & Befriending Hardship Grants | Grants are available for charities and voluntary and community organisations working in Greater London to fund initiatives that will tackle the effects of poverty and ill health and make a difference.Names isolation among the factors it funds work on. |
| Riverhorse Trust | Riverhorse Trust | 30 Sep 2026 | £5,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grants are available for small UK registered charities with limited resources who are working to deliver frontline services in their communities.For small charities with limited resources delivering frontline services. |
| The St Lazarus Charitable Trust | The St Lazarus Charitable Trust | 30 Sep 2026 | Discretionary | UK-wide | Hardship Grants Disability | Grants are available to charitable organisations based in England and Wales for projects that relieve poverty and sickness, provide support to the disabled and advance Christianity throughout the world. |
| Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Foundation - Small Change Big Difference Fund | Yorkshire Building Society | 30 Sep 2026 | £2,500 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Hardship Grants | Grants to support registered charities and good causes in local communities across the UK to alleviate poverty, improve health and save lives. |
| The Happiness Fund | Laughology | 2 Oct 2026 | £5,000 | UK-wide | Mental Health Health & Wellbeing Loneliness & Befriending | Grants are available to support grassroots, neighbourhood-based community projects in the UK which improve mental health, wellbeing, inclusion, and skills development in local communities.Grassroots neighbourhood projects improving wellbeing and inclusion — close to a description of FiSH. |
| CLICK Arts Foundation Grants | CLICK Arts Foundation | 31 Oct 2026 | £2,000 | UK-wide | Arts, Music & Activities Health & Wellbeing | Funding for UK-based registered charities and eligible national organisations to deliver charitable projects that improve wellbeing through increased access to the arts.Wellbeing through access to the arts — fits Tuesday Talks and the music sessions. |
| Concertina Charitable Trust | The Concertina Charitable Trust | 31 Oct 2026 | £250 | UK-wide | Arts, Music & Activities Older People | Small grants are available to registered charities in England and Wales to provide musical activities and related facilities for the elderly community in need.Exists specifically to fund musical activities for elderly people in need. Unusually precise fit. |
| The Fore | The Fore | 2 Dec 2026 | £45,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs Unrestricted | Unrestricted grants are available to enable small charities in the UK to grow, strengthen or become more efficient or resilient.Unrestricted funding plus pro-bono expert support, designed for small charities that need to strengthen. The most useful shape of money for an organisation replacing a donor. |
| W.G. Edwards Charitable Foundation | W.G. Edwards Charitable Foundation | 4 Dec 2026 | £1,500 | UK-wide | Older People | Grants are available to UK-based charities that can demonstrate how they are making the lives of people over the age of 65 years better.Funds only work that makes life better for people over 65. |
| Chrysalis Trust | Chrysalis Trust | 15 Dec 2026 | Discretionary | UK-wide | Hardship Grants Disability | A small number of grants are available for UK registered charities with projects that are less popular and harder to fund that focus on the trust’s priorities of relieving poverty and disability and providing access to shelter, education, healthcare and water.Explicitly backs work that is less popular and harder to fund elsewhere. |
| Rose Foundation | Rose Foundation | 31 Mar 2027 | £10,000 | London | Buildings Capital & Equipment | Grants and professional expertise are available to registered charities and exempt bodies for building projects in London.Building projects under £200,000, with free professional design and construction advice attached. |
| The Span Trust | The Span Trust | 29 Jan 2029 | £20,000 | London | Older People Buildings Disability | Grants are available to London based charities for projects that alleviate poverty, disability, age or ill health and advance urban regeneration through the improvement of the built environment.Relieves poverty, disability, age or ill health, and funds building improvements. |
| Access Foundation – Digital Divide Grants | The Access Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | £50,000 | UK-wide | Digital & IT Older People | Grants are available for charities and not-for-profit organisations in the UK for projects that benefit disadvantaged people, including those left behind – or at risk of being left behind – by increasing digitisation in society.Digital exclusion is sharpest among the over-75s, so a tablet or IT-support offer for members reads well here. |
| Adint Charitable Trust | The Adint Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £10,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs Older People | Grants are available for registered charities in England, Wales and Scotland to assist with general charitable causes. |
| Albert Gubay Charitable Foundation | Albert Gubay Charitable Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs Hardship Grants | Grants are available for registered charities serving disadvantaged/in-need communities in England, Wales, the Isle of Man, and the Republic of Ireland, so that they may maintain their meaningful work. |
| Allen Lane Foundation | Allen Lane Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | £15,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs Older People Loneliness & Befriending | Grants are available to small registered charities, voluntary groups and charitable organisations in the UK for work that makes a difference to people's lives as opposed to simply alleviating the symptoms or current problems and should aim to reduce isolation, stigma and discrimination.Deliberately funds causes others find unfashionable, including isolation among older people. Small organisations only. |
| Ancaster Trust | Ancaster Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £300 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Hardship Grants | Small grants are available for charitable organisations based in the UK, undertaking medical, social welfare or community projects. |
| Anton Jurgens Charitable Trust | The Anton Jurgens Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £10,000 | UK-wide | Disability Older People Hardship Grants | Grants are available to UK based charities for projects that support people of all ages who are socially disadvantaged and/or have disabilities.Explicitly people of all ages, unlike most disability funders that stop at 25. |
| Arnold Clark Community Fund | Arnold Clark | Rolling / no fixed date | £2,500 | UK-wide | Hardship Grants Core Costs | Grants are available for UK registered charities and other not-for-profit organisations for projects, including those whose work directly supports those most affected by the cost-of-living crisis, which are embedded in the communities in which Arnold Clark operates.Cost-of-living framing. |
| Arts Council England - National Lottery Projects Grants | Arts Council England | Rolling | £100,000 | England | Arts, Music & Activities | Grants are available for individual artists, community and cultural organisations to support arts, museums and libraries projects that engage people in England with arts and culture.Could fund a music or reminiscence programme, but needs a credible artistic lead. |
| Ashendene Trust | Ashendene Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | London | Older People Core Costs | Grants are available for charitable organisations undertaking charitable projects in Greater London, West Berkshire, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire.London-wide, names elderly and older people as a target group, and prefers small organisations where a grant makes a visible difference. |
| Bernard Sunley Foundation | Bernard Sunley Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Capital & Equipment Older People Transport & Mobility | One-off capital grants are available to registered charities in England and Wales for projects in the areas of community, education, health and social welfare.One-off capital grants, and a long-standing funder of community minibuses. |
| Cayo Foundation | Cayo Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grants are available to registered charities for projects taking place in England and Wales that are charitable in nature. |
| Cecil Rosen Charitable Trust | Cecil Rosen Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Older People Disability Hardship Grants | Grant for voluntary and community organisations undertaking charitable projects for the relief of people in need in the UK and Jewish charities.Long-standing focus on frail and elderly people. |
| Charles Hayward Foundation | Charles Hayward Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | £75,000 | UK-wide | Older People | Grants are available to UK registered charities for projects in the following categories: Social and Criminal Justice; Overseas; and Older People.Runs a dedicated Older People programme alongside its other two. |
| Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust | Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Capital & Equipment Buildings | Grants are available to registered charities for work in the fields of medicine, education and welfare, especially for capital or fixed term projects, and with particular, but not exclusive, regard to the needs of the Jewish community.Prefers capital or fixed-term projects over open-ended revenue. |
| Clothworkers' Foundation | Clothworkers' Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Capital & Equipment Older People Disability | Capital grants are available to UK registered charities working in the UK in one of the following areas: communities experiencing racial inequalities, disabilities, domestic and sexual abuse, economic disadvantage, homelessness, LGBT+ communities, older people facing disadvantage, prison rehabilitation, substance misuse and addiction, and young people facing disadvantage.Capital only: vehicles, building works, equipment. |
| Coral Samuel Charitable Trust | Coral Samuel Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £5,000 | UK-wide | Arts, Music & Activities Hardship Grants | Grant for registered charities carrying out educational, welfare and cultural projects. |
| COSARAF – Hardship Grants | COSARAF Charitable Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | £2,000 | UK-wide | Hardship Grants Advice & Information | Grants are available for third party social organisations to support individuals and families across the UK who are in financial need and have exhausted all other sources of funding.FiSH would apply on behalf of a member in financial crisis rather than for itself. |
| David and Ruth Lewis Family Charitable Trust | The David and Ruth Lewis Family Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Older People | Grants are available for charitable projects, particularly in the areas of medical research, child and social care, support for the elderly and Jewish religious support in England and Wales.Support for the elderly is one of four named areas. |
| De Brye Charitable Trust | de Brye Charitable Trust (Stanley Smith General Charitable Trust) | Rolling / no fixed date | £5,000 | UK-wide | Older People | Grants are available for charitable organisations that provide care and housing for the aged, orphans and neglected children or aid physically disabled children and the blind.Care for the aged is a named area. |
| Didymus Fund | Didymus | Rolling / no fixed date | £30,000 | London | Arts, Music & Activities | Grants are available for small to medium UK-based registered charities to widen access to and participation in the arts across Yorkshire and Greater London.Social inclusion through the arts, small and medium charities only. |
| Dischma Charitable Trust | Dischma Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £3,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Arts, Music & Activities | A small number of grants are available for UK registered charities concerned with health and social welfare, arts and culture, wildlife and conservation, and animal welfare. |
| Dixie Rose Findlay Charitable Trust | Dixie Rose Findlay Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £4,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grants for charitable organisations in the UK for general charitable purposes. |
| Djanogly Foundation | The Djanogly Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Arts, Music & Activities Core Costs | Grants are available for registered charities undertaking education, arts or social welfare projects in the UK and/or Israel. |
| Douglas Arter Foundation | Douglas Arter Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | £2,000 | UK-wide | Disability Dementia & Parkinson's | Grants are available to UK registered charities for projects for the benefit of people of all ages with physical and mental disabilities within the UK.Covers people of all ages with physical and mental disabilities. |
| Drapers' Charitable Fund | Drapers' Company | Rolling / no fixed date | £25,000 | London | Hardship Grants Loneliness & Befriending | Grants are available for UK registered charities working to help improve the quality of life for people and their communities in Greater London by targeting the disadvantaged and socially excluded in the fields of social welfare; education and young people; and textiles and heritage.Greater London, aimed at people who are socially excluded. |
| DWF Foundation | The DWF Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs Hardship Grants | One-off grants are available to registered charities in the UK for projects that enable communities achieve their full potential. |
| E C Sosnow Charitable Trust | E C Sosnow Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £5,000 | UK-wide | Hardship Grants | Grants for charitable organisations in the UK carrying out a variety of social welfare activities. |
| Energy Resilience Fund | Architectural Heritage Fund | Rolling / no fixed date | £250,000 | England | Capital & Equipment Transport & Mobility | A mixture of grant and loan funding is available to support community organisations and social enterprises in England to install energy saving measures or technology and purchase energy efficient or environmentally friendly vehicles or equipment.Grant and loan mix that covers energy-efficient vehicles — relevant if a bus is coming up for replacement. |
| Esmée Fairbairn Foundation - Grants | Esmée Fairbairn Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs Loneliness & Befriending | Grants are available to organisations doing legally charitable work in the UK that focuses on the Foundation's funding priorities of improving the natural world, securing a fairer future, and strengthening the bonds in communities in the UK.The strengthening communities strand. Large and competitive, but it does fund core costs. |
| Fitton Trust | Fitton Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £350 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Small grants for charitable organisations in the UK undertaking general charitable activities. |
| Foux Foundation | Foux Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Hardship Grants | Grants are available for registered charities across the United Kingdom and Ireland to deliver a variety of projects and activities that address health, education, youth opportunity, and the relief of poverty. |
| Frenkel Topping Charitable Foundation - Groups and Communities | Frenkel Topping Charitable Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Disability | Grants are available for charitable organisations to support events, activities and projects that help groups of 10 or more people who have had a life changing illness, accident, or medical condition.For groups of ten or more people living with a life-changing illness or condition — fits a stroke or Parkinson's group. |
| Friends of the Elderly - Grants for Older People | Friends of the Elderly | Rolling / no fixed date | £600 | UK-wide | Older People Hardship Grants Digital & IT | Small grants are available to support older people living on low incomes in England and Wales with the costs of home essentials, unexpected large bills, living costs and getting connected online.Small grants for older people on low incomes covering home essentials, bills and getting connected online. Applied for on a member's behalf. |
| Frognal Trust | Frognal Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Older People Disability | Grants are available for registered charities who are working with people with disabilities, old people, youth, medical research and environmental heritage.Old people are a named category. |
| G M Morrison Charitable Trust | G M Morrison Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Hardship Grants | Grant for registered charities undertaking projects in the fields of education, social welfare or medicine in the UK. |
| G S Plaut Charitable Trust Limited | G S Plaut Charitable Trust Limited | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grants are available to charities registered in the UK that are established for charitable purposes. |
| Garfield Weston Foundation | Garfield Weston Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs Capital & Equipment Buildings | Grants are available to charitable organisations in the UK who are working in the areas of arts, community, education, environment, faith, health, museums and heritage, welfare and youth.Major generalist funder. Welfare and community are both in scope and it will fund core costs. |
| Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust | Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs Disability | Grants are available for charities for general charitable purposes in Great Britain. |
| Hadley Trust | Hadley Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs Hardship Grants | A small number of grants are available for small to medium-sized registered charities who are working to help people who are disadvantaged to improve their situation, either by involvement in project and support work or research into the causes of, and means to alleviate, hardship. |
| Hedley Foundation | The Hedley Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | £5,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Disability | Grants are available to smaller charities operating across the spectrum of social need in the UK.Smaller charities across the whole spectrum of social need. |
| Hodge Foundation (Jane Hodge Foundation) | Hodge Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Hardship Grants | Grants are available to UK registered or exempt charities for projects that address the objectives of the Foundation which are welfare, education, medical treatment and research, and religion. |
| John Ellerman Foundation | John Ellerman Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | £180,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grants for core costs for charitable, changemaking organisations in the UK to support the wellbeing of people, society and the natural world.One of the few large funders that leads with core costs rather than projects. |
| Joseph Strong Frazer Trust | Joseph Strong Frazer Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £2,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grant for registered charities in England and Wales carrying out a range of charitable activities. |
| Lambert Charitable Trust | Lambert Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Older People Disability Hardship Grants | Grants are available for charitable organisations in the UK assisting those in need. |
| Langdale Trust | Langdale Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £5,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Hardship Grants | Grants are available for UK-registered charitable organisations carrying out medical, social welfare or youth projects. |
| London Community Foundation | London Community Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | London | Core Costs Hardship Grants | Grants are available for charities in London to support a wide variety of local community projects that will create opportunities and change lives across the capital.Richmond CVS points to LCF as the route into Richmond-wide grants. Worth registering interest even between rounds. |
| Lord Barnby's Charitable Foundation | The Lord Barnby's Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | £12,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grants are available for charitable organisations undertaking general charitable purposes in the UK. |
| Lord Faringdon Charitable Trust | Lord Faringdon Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | London | Older People Health & Wellbeing | Grants are available to charities working in Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, West Berkshire, Wiltshire and throughout London for a range of charitable causes.Care and assistance of the aged and infirm is a listed purpose. |
| Marsh Charitable Trust | Marsh Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £2,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Arts, Music & Activities Hardship Grants | Grants are available for UK registered charities that are working in the fields of social welfare, healthcare, arts and heritage, environmental causes and animal welfare, and education and training. |
| Matthew Good Foundation - Grants for Good Fund | Matthew Good Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | £5,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | A small number of grants are available for small and growing local charities, voluntary groups or social enterprises that are making a big impact on communities, people or the environment.For small and growing local charities. |
| Mercers' Company and Philanthropy - Older People and Housing | Mercers' Company | Rolling / no fixed date | £120,000 | London | Older People Loneliness & Befriending | Grants are available to not-for-profit organisations for projects that support older people to lead a healthy and connected life in London and Norfolk.A London programme dedicated to older people leading a healthy and connected life. Among the closest strategic matches here. |
| Miss Jeanne Bisgood's Charitable Trust | Miss Jeanne Bisgood's Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Older People | Grants are available for registered charities in the UK, particularly those working to benefit residents of Bournemouth, Dorset or Poole and older people.Older people are a stated interest alongside its Dorset geographic preference. |
| Mortgage Advice Bureau Foundation (with Crowdfunding) | Mortgage Advice Bureau Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | £5,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grants are available for registered charities and Community Interest Companies who can raise their initial funding through a crowdfunding campaign to support sustainable community projects based across England, Scotland and Wales.Needs a crowdfunding campaign to unlock the grant. |
| Mrs F B Laurence's Charitable Trust | Mrs F B Laurence's Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Hardship Grants | Grants are available for registered charities undertaking projects with a focus on social welfare and disadvantaged people. |
| National Lottery Awards for All - England | National Lottery Community Fund | Rolling / no fixed date | £20,000 | England | Core Costs Health & Wellbeing Unrestricted | Grants are available for charities, voluntary groups, schools and local authorities in England to carry out projects that will improve their local community.£300 to £20,000 on a short application. The standard first port of call for a project this size. |
| National Lottery Community Fund - Reaching Communities | National Lottery Community Fund | Rolling / no fixed date | £20,000,000 | England | Core Costs Loneliness & Befriending | Grants are available for not-for-profit organisations, including schools, statutory or public bodies, serving communities in England for activities that support places, people or communities experiencing poverty, disadvantage or discrimination and support people and communities to shape the decisions that affect their lives.£20,000 and up over as much as five years. The most realistic single route to replacing a large lost donor. |
| P F Charitable Trust | P F Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Older People Health & Wellbeing Hardship Grants | Grants are available to UK registered charities for a wide range of charitable purposes in Great Britain. |
| Parkinson's UK - Physical Activity Grants Programme | Boost Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £3,000 | UK-wide | Dementia & Parkinson's Physical Activity Older People | Grants are available for activity providers, communities, networks and organisations across the UK to develop new opportunities for people with Parkinson's to become and stay active or help increase their levels of physical activity.Directly matches the Parkinson's support work. |
| Percy Bilton Charity - Grants for Organisations | The Percy Bilton Charity | Rolling / no fixed date | £5,000 | UK-wide | Older People Disability Capital & Equipment | Grants are available for UK registered charities whose primary objectives are to assist disadvantaged young people, those who have a disability and older people.Older people are one of three named beneficiary groups. |
| Queen Elizabeth Trust | Queen Elizabeth Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Buildings Capital & Equipment | Starting from 2027, grants will be available to strengthen communities across the UK by funding local community spaces, with an emphasis on restoring, renovating or updating existing spaces.Opens in 2027 to restore and update community spaces. One to diarise rather than act on. |
| Rachel Charitable Trust | Rachel Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Hardship Grants | Grant for charitable organisations in England and Wales undertaking social welfare activities. |
| Rest-Harrow Trust | Rest-Harrow Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £1,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs Hardship Grants | Small grants are available to registered charities in England and Wales for general charitable purposes.Small general-purpose grants. |
| Rhododendron Trust | Rhododendron Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £2,000 | UK-wide | Hardship Grants Arts, Music & Activities | Grants are available to UK registered charities who are working for the welfare of the disadvantaged in the UK (and overseas), plus cultural and wildlife projects. |
| RJ and AH Daniels Charitable Trust | RJ and AH Daniels Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £2,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grants are available for charitable organisations in England and Wales undertaking general charitable activities. |
| Robert McAlpine Foundation | Robert McAlpine Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | £10,000 | UK-wide | Older People | Grants for registered charities in the UK undertaking projects for the benefit of children, youth, the elderly, social and medical research.The elderly are a named beneficiary group. |
| Ruth and Stuart Lipton Charitable Trust | Ruth and Stuart Lipton Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs | A limited number of small grants are available for charitable organisations undertaking general charitable activities in the UK. |
| Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts - Headley Trust | Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Arts, Music & Activities | Funding for registered charities in the UK for projects in the following areas: arts and heritage UK, cathedrals and major churches, arts and heritage overseas, developing countries, education, and health and social welfare. |
| Sir Edward Lewis Foundation | The Sir Edward Lewis Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | £5,000 | London | Core Costs | Grants are available to UK registered charities for a range of charitable work taking place in London and Surrey.London and Surrey — Barnes sits comfortably inside its area. |
| Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Ann Rylands Small Donations Programme | Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £5,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Older People Carers Core Costs Unrestricted | Unrestricted grants for small UK registered charities that work exclusively to provide health and care services who are providing practical and emotional support to people with physical or mental ill health, people living with a disability, and their families and carers within the UK.Unrestricted grants for small charities giving practical and emotional support to people with ill health or disability. Very close fit. |
| Spear Charitable Trust | Spear Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grants are available for charitable organisations undertaking general charitable activities in England and Wales. |
| Sport England - Movement Fund (with Crowdfunding) | Sport England | Rolling / no fixed date | £15,000 | England | Physical Activity | Grants are available for formally constituted not-for-profit organisations in England who can raise their initial funding through a crowdfunding campaign for projects that improve physical activity for people and communities who need it most with particular interest in opportunities for groups facing barriers to activity.The crowdfunding route into the same fund as the entry below. |
| Sport England – Movement Fund | Sport England | Rolling / no fixed date | £15,000 | England | Physical Activity Older People | Grants and other resources are available for community groups, local sports clubs and grassroots organisations across England with ideas of how to tackle inequalities and help get more people active as well as new initiatives that improve both environmental sustainability and physical activity opportunities for those who need it most.Targets the least active people, and the over-75s are among the least active groups in the country. |
| St. Jude’s Trust | St. Jude’s Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £2,000 | UK-wide | Disability Hardship Grants | Grants are available for individuals and charitable organisations helping those who are disabled or disadvantaged in the UK. |
| Sterry Family Foundation | Sterry Family Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | £3,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Arts, Music & Activities | A small number of grants are available to UK registered charities for the advancement of education, arts and culture, amateur sports, the promotion of good health and relief for sickness in England and Wales and parts of Africa. |
| Stuart Halbert Foundation | Stuart Halbert Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs Hardship Grants | Grants are available to UK registered charities and other charitable organisations for projects that support disadvantaged people, animal welfare, the Armed forces or local communities. |
| Sydney Black Charitable Trust | Sydney Black Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Hardship Grants Older People | Funding is available for social welfare, education and the advancement of religion in England and Wales. |
| The Access Foundation | The Access Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | £50,000 | UK-wide | Digital & IT | Grants are available to registered charities, CICs (limited by guarantee), educational establishments for exclusively SEND pupils and CIOs for projects that mitigate the digital divide by making computing facilities, support and/or learning available to disadvantaged and vulnerable people.Computing facilities and support to close the digital divide. |
| The Astor Foundation | Astor Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | £1,500 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Core Costs | Grant for registered charities in the UK undertaking a variety of charitable activities. |
| The Bothwell Charitable Trust | The Bothwell Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Disability Core Costs | Grants are available to registered charities for charitable organisations undertaking projects that address children’s causes, disability, social work, and other charitable causes in Great Britain. |
| The February Foundation | The February Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing | Grants are available to UK registered charities for a range of charitable projects, including end-of-life care, healthcare and patient support, and education.Healthcare and patient support is a named area. |
| The Francis Winham Foundation | Francis Winham Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Older People | Grants are available for registered charitable organisations in England whose work benefits older people in England.Exists solely to fund work benefiting older people in England. |
| The Hedley Denton Charitable Trust | Hedley Denton Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £2,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grants are available for voluntary and community organisations in the UK carrying out a range of charitable projects. |
| The Lennox Hannay Charitable Trust | Lennox Hannay Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grants are available to UK registered charities in England and Wales in support of a variety of charitable causes. |
| The Master Poulter’s Pelican Trust | The Worshipful Company of Poulters of London | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | London | Hardship Grants Health & Wellbeing | Small grants to charitable organisations for work which relieves poverty, sickness and distress within the City of London and other London boroughs.Small grants across the London boroughs. |
| The Maurice Hatter Foundation | Maurice Hatter Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Hardship Grants Core Costs | Grants are available for charitable organisations in the UK undertaking general charitable activities, particularly projects which support education and social welfare. |
| The Salters' Charitable Foundation | The Salters' Charitable Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | London | Hardship Grants Core Costs | Grants are available for a range of projects and activities for a range of causes across Greater London that make a positive contribution to society and affect wider change. |
| The Worshipful Company of Innholders – Charity Grants | The Worshipful Company of Innholders | Rolling / no fixed date | £5,000 | London | Older People Core Costs | Grants are available for smaller charities in England and Wales, with a preference for London, for work with the young, the elderly, and the hospitality industry.Smaller charities working with the elderly, with a preference for London. |
| Truemark Trust | Truemark Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £5,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs Loneliness & Befriending Hardship Grants | Grants are available for small, locally based charitable organisations addressing social distress and disadvantage, with a preference for neighbourhood-based community projects and for innovatory work with less popular groups.Prefers neighbourhood-based community projects and innovative work with less popular groups. An unusually good structural fit. |
| UK Community Foundations | UK Community Foundations (UKCF) | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs Hardship Grants | Grants for projects in all sectors of the local community. Each foundation has its own character appropriate to the location and grants may be made to a wide range of activities including: health; children and young people; arts and culture; the environment; services.Umbrella body — for Richmond the member foundation is London Community Foundation. |
| Vinehill Trust | Vinehill Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £100,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Arts, Music & Activities | Grants are available for UK based charitable, educational and ecclesiastical organisations to support health, heritage and music in the UK and abroad. |
| Ward Blenkinsop Trust | Ward Blenkinsop Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Core Costs | Grants are available for registered charities and voluntary bodies undertaking general charitable activities in England and Wales. |
| Womble Bond Dickinson Foundation | Womble Bond Dickinson Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | £5,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grants are available for registered charities across the UK to deliver projects and activities that make a strong, positive impact in local communities. |
| Workplace Charging Scheme (WCS) | Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV) | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Transport & Mobility Capital & Equipment | A scheme to provide eligible applicants with voucher support towards the upfront costs of the purchase and installation of EV chargepoints in the UK.Vouchers towards EV chargepoints. Only relevant if the bus fleet goes electric. |
| YAPP Charitable Trust | YAPP Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £3,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs Older People Disability | Grants to support the running costs of small registered charities in England and Wales working with elderly people, children and young people and people who have disabilities or mental health challenges, or working in the areas of social welfare or education and learning.One of very few trusts that funds running costs, and elderly people are a named group. |