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: Community First Prime Opportunities Fund
The Community First Prime Opportunities Fund, managed by Two Ridings Community Foundation, supports projects helping disadvantaged young people aged 11 to 19 overcome barriers and reach their full potential. Priority is given to projects supporting young people from...
VCSE Funding: CAP Bursary Programme – Finance for Growth Review
The CAP Bursary Programme - Finance for Growth Review offers growing charities a fully funded review of their finance function, designed to help organisations develop financial operations alongside their growth and ambitions. The review is worth £2,000 and is fully...
VCSE Funding: Good Place, Warm Place Fund
The Good Place, Warm Place Fund supports community organisations across York to provide warm, safe and welcoming spaces for local people during the colder months. A total of £40,000 is available to support organisations already running, or planning to run, Warm...
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...
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: City of York Council Ward Grants
City of York Council’s Ward Grants provide funding for community projects that benefit residents within individual wards across York. Projects should help meet local ward priorities and provide opportunities or services for people living in the area. Funding proposals...
VCSE Funding: Gilly’s – The Gillian Stevenson Charitable Trust
Gilly’s, the working name of The Gillian Stevenson Charitable Trust, provides development grants to small charities across North Yorkshire that improve the lives of disadvantaged children, young people and adults. The fund is particularly interested in helping small...
VCSE Funding: One Stop Community Partnership
The One Stop Community Partnership provides small grants to local community groups and organisations delivering projects that benefit people in their communities. Funding is available for organisations working within two miles of a One Stop store and supporting...
VCSE Funding: Historic England – Places of Worship Renewal Fund
Historic England's Places of Worship Renewal Fund supports urgent repairs and essential improvements to listed places of worship in England, helping to keep buildings safe, open and in public use. Funding can support capital works including: Urgent repairs to roofs,...
Quick links
Local funds:
National funds:
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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