Supporting your Voluntary, Community or Social Enterprise (VCSE) organisation to find, access and get ready to apply for funding
Whether you have a new project or idea you need funding, or you are currently delivering a project that you would like to continue, this page is designed to support you to find the right funding for your organisation.
Free one-to-one support
Our Funding and Development Officer, Jane Granville provides free one-to-one support and guidance to York’s VCSE sector to help organisations identify potential funding sources and develop funding bids. Please get in contact with us via: [email protected] if your organisation needs support.
Live grants and funds
VCSE Funding: Garfield Weston Foundation
The Garfield Weston Foundation provides grants to UK-registered charities working across a wide range of charitable activities. Funding can support core, project and capital costs, although applications cannot request funding for the salary of a specific post. The...
VCSE Funding: IOP Public Engagement Grant Scheme
The Institute of Physics (IOP) Public Engagement Grant Scheme (PEGS) supports projects that engage whole family groups, including parents and carers, to improve their relationship with physics. The scheme supports the IOP's Limit Less initiative by funding activities...
VCSE Funding: Kelly Family Charitable Trust
The Kelly Family Charitable Trust provides grants to charities working with families to tackle problems affecting one or more family members and to help families work together as a cohesive unit. The Trust's funding priorities include: Interventions that support...
VCSE Funding: Wise Music Foundation
The Wise Music Foundation provides financial support to people experiencing hardship, distress and illness, with a particular focus on children, people experiencing homelessness and people living in poverty. The Foundation supports a broad range of charitable causes,...
VCSE Funding: Baily Thomas Charitable Fund – Small Grants
The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund provides grants to voluntary organisations working to support people with learning disabilities (intellectual disabilities), with or without autism. The Small Grants Programme supports appeals of up to £5,000. Funding can support...
VCSE Funding: Barchester Charitable Foundation – Outdoor Mobility Equipment
The Barchester Charitable Foundation provides grants to help older people and adults with disabilities or mental health conditions connect or reconnect with their local communities. Funding can support the purchase of outdoor mobility equipment that helps people get...
York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority – Access to Banking Fund
The York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority has launched the Access to Banking Fund to support projects that improve access to physical banking and cash services across York and North Yorkshire. The fund aims to address the impact of bank branch closures by...
VCSE FUNDING: Small Grants Fund
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Small Grants Fund The Small Grants Fund supports small voluntary and community groups, small charities and other not-for-profit organisations (including eligible CICs and CBSs) with an annual turnover of under £150,000. Priority will...
Who can apply for a grant?
Each grant provider will outline a unique set of criteria to be met in order to apply. Our Funding and Development Officer can support your organisation to get ready to apply for funding. Please contact [email protected] for more information.
Where can I find out about available grants?
Here! You are in the right place, this page lists current grants that are open to York’s VCSE sector. Take a look at the quick links section for more resources to find funding.
I'd like to let you know about a grant for VCSE organisations in York
Fantastic, please email [email protected]. We would love to hear about any grants that can be awarded to York’s VCSE sector.
Expired grants and funding
Grants and funds that have now expired.
VCSE Funding: James Tudor Foundation – Mental Health Grants
The James Tudor Foundation’s Mental Health Grants support charities helping children and young people recover from Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), as well as specialist charities supporting parents affected by ACEs, mental illness or addiction. The fund supports...
VCSE Funding – Learning Through Making Fund
Closing date: 12pm, Friday 11 September The Learning Through Making Fund supports UK-based visual art organisations to bring opportunities for making into their work in art education. Through the fund they want to enable organisations to work in an expansive way...
VCSE FUNDING: James Tudor Foundation – Physical Health Grants
What is the Physical Health Grants Fund? The James Tudor Foundation’s Physical Health Grants support UK charities working in physical health, with a focus on therapeutic interventions, health information and direct healthcare. The fund supports evidence-based services...
VCSE FUNDING: Henry Smith Foundation’s Welcome for Newcomers Fund
What is the Welcome for Newcomers Grant? The Henry Smith Foundation’s Welcome for Newcomers Grant supports local organisations and partnerships across the UK that help newcomers rebuild their lives, feel at home and become active members of their local communities....
Quick links
Local funds:
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National funding databases:
Get in contact with Jane Granville ([email protected]) if your organisation needs support to find funding.
Latest news and information
Keep up to date with the latest news and information about grants and funding for the VCSE sector.
Local VCSE groups receive funding to strengthen support for neurodivergent people in York
Five local voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations have been awarded a share of £5,000 through the VCSE Small Grants Fund for Neurodivergent Community Projects, a...
Reuse in charity digital: free tech support for charities
CAST and The Tech for Good Alliance have been talking to charities about their tech problems - and have discovered that many are facing the same ones, including writing case notes efficiently,...
Are you ready to apply for funding?
This video was created for the Community Mental Health Transformation Grant but provides a great checklist to review whether or not your organisation is ready to apply for funding.
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