Funding Update

Welcome to our Funding Alert – We are able to offer specialist advice, detailed funding searches based on the specific need and help you write your funding application. We are always happy to read through a proposal and give you feedback ahead of submission. This free support is available to the VCSE sector of Portsmouth by simply email grants@hiveportsmouth.org.uk   to arrange a call. If you are interested in finding out more or applying to any of the funders below, get in touch to find out what support we can offer via grants@hiveportsmouth.org.uk

If you have a successful bid, do let us know and we can share your good news!

Crowdfund Portsmouth Small Business Fund:  Grants are available for not for profit organisations who can raise their initial funding through a crowdfunding campaign to deliver projects that will improve the City of Portsmouth and make it a great place to live and work.  The Portsmouth CIL Transformation Fund is provided by Portsmouth City Council. Please note this is a match-funding initiative delivered in partnership with Crowdfunder and thus not a traditional grant scheme (funds awarded are conditional upon applicants first securing crowdfunding via Crowdfunder’s platform). Grants of up to £5,000 are available

Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis. You can click here to find out more information. 

KFC Foundation- Community Grants:  The KFC Foundation provides grants to support grassroots organisations in the communities where KFC’s restaurants are located. The Foundation works with organisations who are empowering young people in the UK to fulfil their potential by providing safe social spaces, mentoring or work, and social skills. Grants of up to £2,000 are available

Deadline for Submissions is 13th March 2022. You can click here to find out more information. 

PRS Foundation:  The PRS Foundation is an independent charitable foundation set up in 2000 by PRS for Music, the performance rights collecting society for composers, songwriters and music publishers. The Foundation aims to stimulate and support the creation, development and performance of new music in the UK. The scheme is intended to help support, sustain and promote the growth of the new music infrastructure in the UK. The Foundation's funding priorities are; to support the creation and performance of outstanding new music in any genre; to enable the UK’s most talented music creators to realise their potential; to inspire audiences at a local, regional, national and international level. Grants of up to £10,000 are available

Deadline for Submissions is 15th March 2022. You can click here to find out more information. 

Thomas Wall Trust: The trust views communication skills as critical capabilities for people who want to improve their employment prospects, self-confidence, resilience, and life chances. This funding is for registered charities that are working to develop communication skills for people from disadvantaged groups who want to improve their employment prospects. Grants of up to £5,000 are available.

Deadline for Submissions is 2nd May 2022. You can click here to find out more information. 

Pink Ribbon Foundation: Grants are available to breast cancer charities in the UK that assist people affected by breast cancer and organisations that work on breast cancer research and prevention.  This opportunity funds projects that supports to UK charities to relieve the needs of people who are suffering from, or who have been affected by breast cancer or who work to advance the understanding of breast cancer, its early detection and treatment. Grants of up to £ 5,000 are available

Deadline for Submissions is 27th May 2022. You can click here to find out more information.