A short summary of funding opportunities that have came to our attention this week.
The Prudence Trust's Strength in Data 2025 Fund
The Prudence Trust has launched a new funding opportunity for charities to enhance their ability to gather and make use of data from their work and to utilise this in improving their services. The Strength in Data 2025 Fund will make £1 million available to award 5-6 grants of varying sizes over a three-year term.
Eligible organisations can apply for grants to cover salaries, software, consultancy fees, and training expenses.
To qualify, applicants must be UK-registered charities or Community Interest Companies (CICs) with an annual income exceeding £250,000 and at least two years of published accounts. They should work exclusively with young people aged 10-30, provide direct mental health support—such as talk therapy or socially prescribed activities for those experiencing anxiety or depression—and already collect mental health or wellbeing data.
The primary purpose of the grant is to build monitoring and evaluation capacity within these organisations, enabling them to harness their data to improve services effectively. This includes upskilling staff responsible for monitoring and evaluation, funding dedicated data roles, and acquiring necessary software or hardware to enhance data infrastructure.
Current deadline: 3rd March 2025
To read more: New Funding Opportunity from The Prudence Trust
Material Focus' Electricals Recycling Fund
Material Focus, a UK-based not-for-profit organisation, is offering £750,000 in grants to support projects that make it easier for people to reuse and recycle old and unwanted small household electricals. The Electricals Recycling Fund aims to grow existing collection methods or test new creative approaches for recycling household electricals.
Applicants can apply for up to £100,000 for projects seeking to grow or develop existing household collection services, while innovative new approaches can receive up to £50,000 in funding. The grant is open to a wide range of registered organisations, including charities, local authorities, waste partnerships, private waste contractors, other private companies, and compliance schemes.
The purpose of the grant is to reduce the environmental impact of waste electricals by making it easier for people to reuse and recycle. Material Focus is particularly interested in projects that will test creative, practical, and scalable new methods for collecting electricals that could deliver significant environmental benefits.
To read more: Electricals Recycling Fund - Material Focus
The Trusthouse Charitable Foundation
The Trusthouse Charitable Foundation provides grants for voluntary sector organisations delivering family support services across the United Kingdom. These grants range from £10,000 to £100,000, with an annual maximum of £50,000, and can be awarded for project periods spanning one to three years.
Funding can be allocated towards core operational expenses, including salaries, running costs, and project-specific activities, with project costs limited to 50% of the total project budget. The foundation specifically targets organisations with annual incomes up to £500,000, prioritizing those working in the most economically disadvantaged areas - defined as the most deprived 15% of urban regions or 50% of rural areas, as measured by the Index of Multiple Deprivation.
To read more: Major Grants | Trusthouse Charitable Foundation
The National Lottery Heritage Fund
Not-for-profit organisations across the UK can now apply for grants of between £250,000 and £10 million from the National Lottery Heritage Fund for projects connecting people and communities to UK heritage.
The funding can be used to support a broad range of activities and project costs, such as:
Volunteer expenses, new staff posts and training costs
Capital works, repair, maintenance and conservation
Professional fees, event costs and activities to strengthen organisations
Acquisition of heritage and costs associated with the purchase
Costs to join Fit for the Future, a UK-wide environmental sustainability network
Projects must take into account the National Lottery Heritage Fund’s four Investment principles:
Saving heritage
Protecting the environment
Inclusion, access and participation
Organisational sustainability
Current deadline: 26th February 2025
To read more: National Lottery Heritage Grants £250,000 to £10million | The National Lottery Heritage Fund
The Strategic Legal Fund
Not for profit organisations and private law firms assisting young migrants can apply for grants from the Strategic Legal Fund (SLF) for Vulnerable Young Migrants.
These grants aim to support strategic legal work that benefits disadvantaged migrant children and young people (under 25 years old) who are living in poverty and facing significant disadvantage or discrimination due to their immigration status.
The SLF funds two types of strategic legal actions:
The research and development of cases pre-litigation, including gathering evidence to test a hypothesis or research to establish authorities' policy and practice, identifying potential plaintiffs/applicants/appellants, researching whether to proceed, translating relevant material, and evaluating a litigation strategy.
Third party "interventions" in existing cases, which allow a non-party intervener to assist the court in arriving in its decision in a case, acting as an amicus curiae, a friend of the court.
The maximum grant amount is £30,000, but applicants are encouraged to request lower amounts due to limited funding. The average grant size is approximately £12,000.
Current deadline: 31st March 2025
To read more: About the SLF - Strategic Legal Fund
Our past Funding Bulletins will also have grant opportunities that are still open!
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