Welcome to Friday Funding - Hive is here to help with funding searches and questions
Would you like support with bid writing or feedback on your applications?
Would you like us to run a funder search based on the needs of your group?
Contact us at: grants@hiveportsmouth.org.uk
If you are interested in applying to any of the funders below, get in touch to find out what support we can offer
If you have a successful bid, do let us know and we can share your good news!
National Lottery Awards for All - A quick way to apply for smaller amounts of funding between £300 and £10,000
With the COVID-19 pandemic still with us, we'll continue to support people and communities most adversely impacted by COVID-19.
We can support you to:
continue to deliver activity - whether your community needs crisis response, recovery or business as usual activity
change and adapt, becoming more resilient to respond to new and future challenges.
In order to support communities to thrive, we aim to:
build strong relationships in and across communities
improve the places and spaces that matter to communities
help more people to reach their potential, by supporting them at the earliest possible stage.
Application deadline – Ongoing
Find out more here
Alpkit - £500 Focussing on those affected by COVID 19.
Being active in your local community to help elderly or vulnerable people, Minimising the impact of self-isolation for those in quarantine and need access to food, medicines or social care, Supporting foodbanks and increasing the number of meals on wheels deliveries to support the elderly, Supporting those who are homeless or in temporary accommodation, Bringing adventure indoors and overcoming the obstacles that prevent us benefiting from going outdoors.
Application deadline – Ongoing
Find out more here
Ancaster Trust – small grants of up to £300 for groups undertaking medical, social welfare or community projects.
The Trust will consider funding projects in the following areas: General charitable purposes, The advancement of health or saving of lives, Disability.
This Trust does not maintain a website. Further information is available by either calling or writing to the Ancaster Trust.
Enquiries, Ancaster Trust
c/o Sayers Butterworth LLP
3rd Floor, 12 Gough Square
London, EC4A 3DW
Tel: 020 7936 1910
Application deadline – Ongoing
Andor Charitable Trust - The scheme aims to fund a wide range of charitable projects, including those focusing on: Medical and ancillary services (including medical research), Education, Helping the disabled, Helping the aged, Providing sheltered accommodation, Relieving poverty, Developing the arts.
Maximum grant available £3000
Application deadline – Ongoing
The Trust does not have a website or a standard application form.
Organisation should contact the Andor Charitable Trust for information on the application process.
Enquiries, Andor Charitable Trust
Blick Rothenberg LLP
16 Great Queen Street
Covent Garden, London, WC2B 5AH
Tel: 0207 544 8865
Email: robin@blickrothenberg.com
Application deadline – Ongoing
Peter Harrison Foundation - The Foundation makes grants under four programmes:
Opportunities through Sport
Special Needs and Care for Children and Young People
Opportunities through Education
Trustees' Discretion
The Foundation is still considering applications, and they should be made using the online application system as normal. However, applicants should note that due to the Coronavirus pandemic the Foundation's grant giving budget is likely to be affected by general reductions in investment income.
Find out more here
The Matthew Good Foundation has launched a Grants for Good Fund to support small charities, groups and individuals who are passionate about making a difference to people, their community or the environment. The fund is open to brand new projects with innovative ideas as well as established charities whose average income is less than £50,000 per year.
A total of £10,000 will be made available every three months, and five shortlisted organisations will each receive a share. Funding awarded will be based on the number of votes received by employees from John Good Group, in the following order:
First place - £3,500
Second place - £2,500
Third place - £2,000
Fourth place and fifth place - £1,000
Find out more here
Cameron Grants for Innovation in Mental Health - The objectives of the Cameron Grant Memorial Trust are to raise awareness of suicide, to urge all who are suffering in silence to speak up and ask for help, and to support people, especially young people, who are fighting to overcome poor mental health.
Maximum grant of £2500. Ideas would typically fit into one of the following categories: Destigmatising Mental Health, Reducing Barriers to Mental Health Care and Improving Mental Well Being.
Application deadline – Ongoing
Find out more here
The Pixel Fund - Grants are available for UK-based charities and community interest organisations to support projects that promote the mental health and wellbeing of children and young adults.
The Fund generally offers first grants of between £500 and £5,000. However, no single grant is ever more than 5% of annual income.
The Pixel Fund is a small charity which distributes grants to other charities in its field of interest. Its focus is the mental health and wellbeing of children and young adults.
Applications may be made at any time.
Find out more here
Comic Relief – Supporting and Sustaining Specialism Funding Programme
A limited number of grants are available to not-for-profit organisations led by and for Black and minoritised women acting to end violence against women and girls in England.
Grants of between £30,000 and £250,000 are available for 12-15 months of service delivery (July 21 to Sept 22)
It is expected that around 15 grants will be made.
The Supporting and Sustaining Specialism Funding Programme is administered by Comic Relief in partnership with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). The £1.2 million fund has been made available through a grant from the Tampon Tax Fund.
The programme supports Comic Relief’s vision that women and girls should have equal power and agency in decision-making at all levels. To this end, Comic Relief has been funding organisations working to end gender-based violence.
The funding is intended to support organisations in England led ‘by and for’ Black and minoritised women and providing frontline services responding to violence against women and girls.
The deadline for applications is 5 March 2021
Find out more here
