The Seafarers' Charity

The Seafarers' Charity makes a life-changing impact in troubled times. They award grants to organisations support those who work – or have worked – at sea, and their families.

Next deadline: 15 Feb 2027

The Shackleton Foundation

The Shackleton Foundation provides seed funding grants/loans to inspirational leaders and early-stage social enterprises with the potential to make a real difference to the lives of disadvantaged young people.

Next deadline: 2 Nov 2026

The Swan Mountain Trust

They are a very small grant making trust. For the next three years they will focus on organisations concerned with refugees and asylum seekers, with particular emphasis on the mental health of young people in these categories.

The Truemark Trust

Small grants are available to mostly small local charities across the UK for the relief of all kinds of social distress and disadvantage.

The Veterans' Foundation Grant

Supports charities and organisations that provide assistance to serving and former members of the armed forces community, operational qualified seafarers and their immediate families.

The Vinehill Trust

The Vinehill Trust makes grants to charitable, educational and ecclesiastical organisations across the United Kingdom in three areas of special interest: music, heritage, and health.

The Wakeham Trust

The Trust's core goal is to help small groups of people who are getting together to make a difference in their communities. They are especially interested in helping groups that are starting up and need a little seed money to help them get going.

The Wolfson Foundation - Funding for Places

The Foundation's main grants programme provides support for places. They fund capital initiatives across a broad range of organisations working across the fields of education, science and medicine, health and disability and arts and humanities.

Due to open: 30 Nov 2026

The7stars Foundation

Grants targeted to further the potential and opportunity of children and young people who are surviving abuse, at risk of or experiencing homelessness, caring for a loved one, and challenged by addiction.

University of Edinburgh Micro-grant Scheme

The aims of the Edinburgh Micro-grant Scheme are to bring value to new or existing partnerships between the University and local communities; and have a positive social impact.