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👑 King Charles III Charitable Fund
💰 Funding Amount: Up to £3,000 per year (for up to 3 years)
📅 Deadline: Apply between 28 January (9am) and 11 February (noon)
For UK-registered not-for-profit organisations with an annual income of £25,000–£500,000.
Focus areas:
- Social inclusion – projects relieving poverty, loneliness, and social exclusion
- Health & wellbeing – improving physical and mental health
Priority given to projects serving the most disadvantaged communities in the UK.
Funding is restricted to project costs; core costs and staff salaries may be included if directly attributable to delivery.
https://www.kccf.org.uk/small-grants
🚀 Firstport – Community Enterprise Fund
💰 Funding Amount: Up to £5,000
📅 Deadline: Apply by 13 February
For community organisations aiming to become more financially resilient and reduce reliance on grant funding.
Supports start-up costs for new or developing social enterprise trading.
https://www.firstport.org.uk/funding
🌱 Let’s Grow Together Fund (Glasgow)
💰 Funding Amount: £500 – £5,000 (capital grants)
📅 Deadline: Apply by 1 March 2026
Supports delivery of Glasgow’s Food Growing Strategy by increasing food growing opportunities across the city.
Previously funded projects include community gardens, orchards, food forests, and school-based growing spaces.
Projects must increase food growing spaces and address one of the following themes:
- Connecting communities with nature
- Food waste reduction and reuse
- Biodiversity enhancement
- Physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing
- Sharing benefits of climate action
- Food growing and recycling in schools
- Urban market gardening and farming
Administered by Glasgow City Council’s Food Growing team.
Queries: glasgowfoodgrowing@glasgow.gov.uk
https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/article/4056/Let-s-Grow-Together-Fund
🔄 Glasgow Climate Action Hub – Climate Skill Swap Fund
💰 Funding Amount: Up to £500
📅 Deadline: Not specified (first come, first served)
Grants for community organisations to run public meetings in Glasgow raising awareness of climate change, its impacts, and how to act.
Priority for excluded communities with no experience of community-based climate action.
https://gcah.scot
Email: info@gcah.scot
💙 The Sasha Foundation
💰 Funding Amount: Up to £10,000
📅 Deadline: Apply by 1 April
For charitable organisations working with young people across the UK.
Preference for projects supporting young people with:
- Depression or mental health issues
- Drug-related challenges
Supports new, ongoing, or one-off initiatives. Priority given to grassroots and small-to-medium voluntary organisations.
https://www.thesashafoundation.org.uk/
ℹ️ For Information
🌍 Keep Scotland Beautiful – Climate & Nature Friendly Communities Network
📅 Registration deadline: 5 April
Free support, mentoring, resources, networking, and national recognition for community growing groups at any stage.
Currently supports 248 groups across Scotland.
Online info session: Tuesday 24 February, 7–8pm (Zoom)
https://www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org/climate-and-nature-friendly-communities-network
🌼 Keep Scotland Beautiful – Volunteers Wanted
Volunteer opportunities for people with gardening experience and a passion for supporting community groups and improving the environment.
https://www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org/about-us/volunteer/its-your-neighbourhood-assessor
🌊 Marine Litter Citizen Science Training
📅 Date & time: 02 February 2026, 12:00–13:00
Training session by the Marine Conservation Society on citizen science projects tackling marine and terrestrial litter in the UK.
https://www.stemambassadors.scot/event-details/marine-litter-citizen-science-training-1