Mushroom Trust

This small trust supports the creation and improvement of green spaces, particularly in urban environments. It sometimes supports activities that promote the advancement of the arts and heritage.

NESTA - Arts & Culture Impact Fund

The Arts & Culture Impact Fund is a £20 million impact investment fund for the UK's arts, culture and heritage social enterprises. The fund offers loans repayable until March 2032.

Nancie Massey Charitable Trust

Grants are made to charities to support the arts, education, health and wellbeing for people and communities primarily in Edinburgh. Applications for medical research are by invite only.

National Churches Trust - Cherish Grants

The Cherish project provides grants to churches, chapels or meeting houses for church maintenance, urgent repair work or project development. They aim to see churches open and in regular use, available to all.

National Churches Trust - Large Grants

The Large Grant Programme can award grants towards major urgent structural repair projects, or the introduction of kitchens and accessible toilets.

Next deadline: 4 Nov 2025

National Churches Trust - Medium Grants

Grants for urgent and essential maintenance and repair work, as well as project development and investigative work.

Next deadline: 16 Dec 2025

National Lottery Heritage Grants

National Lottery Heritage Grants fund projects that connect people and communities to the national, regional and local heritage of the UK.

National Manuscripts Conservation Trust

The NMCT is the only UK grant-giver that focuses solely on the care and conservation of manuscripts in the UK. Grants are towards the cost of repair, binding and conservation and preservation of manuscripts and towards the cost of first stage listing.

Next deadline: 1 Oct 2025

National Memorial Heritage Fund

Funds heritage projects of all sizes to buy anything which is of outstanding importance to the national heritage and either at risk or of memorial character.

North Ayrshire Council - Participatory Budgeting

North Ayrshire's Participatory Budgeting scheme is aimed to provide funding for a group or project to undertake activities that make a difference across three themes: Youth, Locality, and Community Wealth Building

Next deadline: 15 Sep 2025