Colchester City Council

Charity/fund	What the fund offers	Closing date
Energy efficiency grants	Grant funding for energy efficiency/decarbonisation improvements in the home.
City Bridge Trust	Advice for those affected by debt and money inequalities, employment problems, housing and immigration status.
The Morrisons Foundation	Supporting projects that help improve lives, including children’s hospitals, homeless shelters to hospices and others.
Henry Smith Charity - Strengthening Communities	Support for small community based organisations working in deprived areas within the UK.
Henry Smith Charity - Improving Lives	Provides grants to charities that help people when other support has failed or is not an option.
Edith Murphy Foundation	Supporting organisations that tackle poverty, hardship, distress or are in need.
The Laing Family Trusts	Funds projects tackling poverty or distress, especially those concerning children, and growth of the evangelical Christian faith.
Benefact Trust - Methodist Grants (UK)	Offers grants to christian charities and organisations across the UK and Ireland that help vulnerable families, homelessness and poverty, climate change and cultural cohesion.
Leeds Building Society Foundation	Funding is available for charities working to provide homeless young people with safe accommodation, fuel poverty assistance, debt advice, home adaptations. This can include capital expenditure.
Royal Society of Chemistry - Outreach Grants (UK)	Funding a vast range of projects and organisations that link communities and chemical sciences.
The Andrew Wainwright Reform Trust	Working for a just and democratic society and to rectify political and social injustices. For organisations that don't qualify for charitable funding because they are too political or radical to fall within the Charity Commission’s guidelines.
The Thomas Wall Trust	Interested in groups supporting those experiencing multiple deprivation or major barriers to employment.
D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust - Medical Welfare (UK)	The charity aims to help progress the arts, health and medical welfare and environmental protection or improvement. The Trust supports a diverse range of charities looking to help and improve people’s lives.	Next round closes 23 May 2024.
The Clothworkers Foundation	The foundation offers grants for capital purchases (including equipment and minibuses for example) for organisations.
The Albert Hunt Trust	Supports UK registered charities that provide hospice care, support for the homeless or promote health and well-being.	Currently closed for capital grants, contact for other funding requests.
The Swire Charitable Trust	Provides grants to charities protecting our environment and heritage, and those supporting some of the UK’s most vulnerable people.
Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation	Supporting projects for veterans, the elderly, ex-offenders, those in prison and schemes that enable people with mental and physical disabilities to live fuller lives in the community.
The Newby Trust	The Newby Trust funds local, regional or national charities registered and operating in the UK focusing on education, health and social welfare.
The Dulverton Trust	Supports UK charities and charitable incorporated organisations tackling social issues, protecting the environment, and preserving heritage crafts.
The Sobell Foundation	Supports causes benefiting children, the sick, elderly, needy and disabled. The Trustees aim to support a mix of Jewish charities (operating principally in the U.K. and Israel) and non-Jewish charities operating in the UK.	Only accepting applications from charities who have received a grant from them in the last five years. Charities who have never received a grant are not eligible to apply.
The Percy Bilton Charity	Supporting disadvantaged youth, people with disabilities, people with mental health conditions and older people.
The Yapp Charitable Trust	Our grants go towards running costs and salaries for small, registered charities in England and Wales so they can continue their work.
The Hodge Foundation	Provides grants of up to £100,000 to UK registered or exempt charities such as special needs schools and universities.
Spacehive	Spacehive can help you develop your project, offering helpful tips and resources so you are set up for success and ready to crowdfund.
Shanly Foundation (South East)	Supporting causes helping individuals and the local community, including support for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, the homeless, those with mental health issues and people with physical disabilities, injury or life limiting illness.

Funding opportunities

Funding opportunities that cover multiple areas