Favourite Funders for specific projects and new activities

Our Favourite Funders are funders that are particularly useful for small community groups based in Brighton & Hove. Some of them also fund organisations in other areas.

Here is a list of funders that give grants for new projects and activities.

We try to keep Favourite Funders information as up to date as possible. If you notice something is out of date or wrong, please let us know. If you have successfully applied for funding from an organisation that is not listed, and think it may be a useful funder for other Brighton & Hove groups, please let us know.

Access to the Funds Online database of UK trusts is available for local groups via Community Base – just contact them to request the password to access the database on-line.

Click on the Links tab above for more useful sources of information about funders.

• Allen Lane Foundation

  Grants available for: Local voluntary groups or registered charities with an annual income below £100,000.
  Size of grants given: £500 to £15,000 per year
  Deadlines: No deadlines; trustees meet 3 times a year to consider applications

• Asda Green Token Giving

  Grants available for: not for profit organisations
  Size of grants given: Up to £500
  No deadlines

• Awards for All (National Lottery)

  Grants available for: not-for-profit groups. Community projects that will run for up to six months.
  Size of grants given: £300 to £10,000
  No deadlines.

• BBC Children in Need Small Grants

  Grants available for: projects that support disadvantaged young people
  Size of grants given: Up to £10,000 per year over 1-3 years (overall maximum £30,000).
  Next deadline: to be announced

• Brighton & Hove City Council Communities Fund: Resilience Fund

  Grants available for: Community and voluntary groups in Brighton & Hove
  Size of grants given: Up to £10,000
  Next deadline: Expected April/May 2022

• Brighton & Hove Legacy Fund

  Grants available for: community groups and charities supporting children and young people up to age 25
  Size of grants given: up to £5,000
  Next deadline: 7th January 2022

• Brighton & Hove City Council Communities Fund: Engagement Fund

  Grants available for: Community and voluntary groups in Brighton & Hove with annual income under £20,000 (current round open to BME groups only)
  Size of grants given: Up to £2,000
  Next deadline: 10th December 2021 (for BME groups only)

• Brighton District Nursing Association Trust

  Grants available for: relief of sickness for persons in need in Brighton & Hove.
  Size of grants given: £1,000 to £10,000.
  Next deadline: June 2022

• Brighton Soup

  Grants available for: Projects which benefit the local community in Brighton
  Size of grants given: Varies – tens or hundreds of pounds – not thousands.
  No deadlines.

• Cameron Grants for Innovation in Mental Health

  Grants available for: Not for profit groups and individuals in the UK
  Size of grants given:  £100 – £2,500
  Next deadline: to be announced

• Clarity Environmental

  Grants available for: charities and community groups around the UK
  Size of grants: usually £500 – £1,500
  No deadlines

• Covid-19 grants

  Many funders have now resumed their normal grants and deadlines, instead of offering Covid-19 emergency grants. See our “favourite funders” pages for details of these grants. This page lists remaining grants that are available specifically for support around the Covid-19 outbreak:

• East Brighton Trust Fund

  Grants available for: Community groups in East Brighton.
  Size of grants given: Up to £500
  Next deadline: to be announced

• Edge Fund

  Grants available for: unfunded grassroots communities, campaign groups and activists struggling for social, economic and environmental justice.
  Size of grants given: Up to £3,000
  Next deadline: tba

• Enjoolata Community Grants

  Grants available for: registered charities, Community Interest Companies, and individuals funding non-profit projects in Brighton and Lewes
  Size of grants given:  up to £10,000
  Next deadline: to be announced

• Food Security in East Sussex fund

  Grants available for: projects in East Sussex working with people who are facing food insecurity
  Size of grants given: up to £10,000
  Next deadline: No deadline

• Gatwick Airport Community Trust

  Grants available for: to support community projects that protect and enhance the social and environmental well-being of the community, particularly those affected by operations at Gatwick Airport.
  Size of grants given: £250-£5000. Most grants are £1,000-£2,000
  Next deadline: to be announced (expected spring 2022)

• Hall and Woodhouse Community Chest

  Grants available for: Community groups in the South of England
  Size of grants given:£400-£4,000
  Next deadline: to be announced

• Healthy Neighbourhood Fund

  Grants available for: Health and wellbeing related community activities in selected neighbourhoods in Brighton & Hove
  Size of grants given: up to £500
  Next deadline: to be announced

• Hilden Charitable Fund

  Grants available for: Work relating to asylum seekers and refugees, homelessness, penal affairs, and community based initiatives benefiting disadvantaged 16-25 year olds.
  Size of grants given: Average grant size is around £5,000
  Next deadline: to be announced

• Hilden Summer Play Scheme fund

  Grants available for: Community run summer playschemes
  Size of grants given: £1500
  Next deadline: TBA, likely to be in late May 2022

• Lions Clubs

  Grants available for: local charitable causes
  Size of grants given: No set limits, grants generally £50-£1000
  No deadlines

• Lush Charity Pot

  Grants available for: small, grassroots charities and campaign groups working in animal protection, the environment, and human rights.
  Size of grants given: Up to £10,000, most grants around £4,000
  No deadlines

• National Lottery Grants for Heritage

  Grants available for: Projects that connect people and communities to the national, regional and local heritage of the UK. Heritage can be anything from the past that you value and want to pass on to future generations.
  Size of grant available: £3,000 – £10,000
  No deadlines

• National Lottery Reaching Communities England

  Grants available for: Community organisations, charities and not-for-profit companies that serve communities in England
  Size of grant available: Over £10,000
  Next deadline: no deadlines

• Nationwide

  Grants available for: Projects & causes local to Nationwide premises.
  No deadlines.

• Neil Smith ‘Gold’ Food Grants

  Grants available for: Community food projects for children, families or young people (up to age 25)
  Size of grants given: up to £850
  Next deadline: to be announced

• One Stop Community Partnerships

  Support available for: local projects addressing food poverty or supporting the elderly
  Type of support given: can include funding, volunteering support, fundraising and raising awareness
  Deadlines: no deadlines

• Patcham Community Fund

  Grants available for: Groups working to improve quality of life for residents in the Patcham area, including Hollingbury and Withdean.
  Size of grants available: Up to £1000
  No deadlines

• Pebble Trust

  Grants available for: Organisations in Brighton and Hove
  Size of grants given: Most grants are for £500-£5,000
  Next deadline: February 2022 (exact date tba)

• Postcode Society Trust

  Grants available for: Small groups and charities in the south of England
  Size of grants given: £500 – £2,000 (up to £20,000 for registered charities)
  Deadline: to be announced

• Rampion Fund

  Grants available for: projects that benefit the local community, in particular those with links to environment and ecology, climate change and energy and improving the sustainability of community facilities.
  Size of grants given: Up to £10,000
  Next deadline: Expected to be Spring 2022

• Rotary Club of Brighton

  Grants available for: charitable causes in Brighton and Hove and surrounding areas, and internationally
  Size of grants given: any size, but generally £100-250
  No deadlines

• Sanctuary Housing Covid-19 Fund

  Grants available for: projects that will make a positive difference to the lives of Sanctuary Housing residents in communities impacted by Covid-19.
  Size of grants given: Unspecified
  No deadlines.

• Southern 360 Community Bounce Back grants

  Grants available for: organisations and groups helping Southern Housing Group residents recover from the Covid-19 pandemic
  Size of grants available: Up to £5000
  No deadlines.

• Southern 360 Gardening Neighbours

  Grants available for: Southern Housing residents to improve their scheme through a gardening project.
  Size of grants available: Up to £500
  No deadlines.

• Southern 360 Making Lives Better grants

  Grants available for: Southern Housing Group residents and local community groups
  Size of grants available: Up to £1000
  No deadlines.

• Sport England Return to Play small grants

  Grants available for: to support projects addressing the challenges coronavirus (Covid-19) has posed to people taking part in sport and physical activity
  Size of grants given:  £300 to £10,000
  Next deadline: no deadlines

• Sport England Small Grants

  Grants available for: Not-for-profit organisations and statutory organisations delivering sports projects for people aged 5 and over
  Size of grants available: £300 – £10,000.
  Deadlines: this fund is currently closed to new applications

• Sussex Community Foundation

  Grants available for: Not for profit groups based in Sussex
  Size of grants available: £500-£5000
  Next deadline: 7th January 2022

• Sussex Gardens Trust

  Grants available for: Any group or organisation that manages or owns a park or open space within Sussex.
  Size of grants given: up to £1,000
  No deadlines

• Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner Community Safety Fund

  Grants available for: Local community groups that help reduce or prevent crime in Sussex
  Size of grants given:  up to £5,000
  Next deadline: to be announced (expected early 2022)

• The Homity Trust

  Grants available for: small groups in Sussex
  Size of grants given: most grants under £1000
  Next deadline: 28th February 2022

• The Southern Co-operative: Love your neighbourhood fund

  Grants available for: Charitable or not-for-profit groups who benefit local communities
  Size of grants given: Up to £500
  Next deadline: No deadlines

• Trust House Charitable Foundation Small Grants

  Grants available for: Small charities and not-for-profit organisations with incomes under £250,000, working in rural areas or areas of urban deprivation.
  Size of grants given: £2,000-£10,000 for one year.
  Deadlines: No deadlines.

• Waitrose Community Matters

  Grants available for: Welfare organisations, community groups, schools, local divisions of national charities, local charities.
  Size of grant available: £1000 shared between 3 organisations. Proportion decided by customers.
  No deadlines.