Sainsbury's Local Charity Scheme

Every year Sainsbury works together with their customers and colleagues to support a local cause at the heart of the local community. Each store will nominate a long list of local charities that benefit their community.

Sainsbury’s Local Food Donation Programme

Sainsbury’s will donate food free of charge which may include fresh food (within their use by date), that is fit for human consumption to charity. You must help local people in need and be in a position to use donated food to support your beneficiaries.

Scops Arts Trust

The goal of Scops Arts Trust is to help people to understand, participate in and enjoy the arts, particularly the performing arts.

Next deadline: 19 Aug 2025

Scottish Education And Action For Development - SEAD Fund

SEAD provides small grants for individuals or groups for positive action, and campaigning. Focus areas are: women’s rights, young people and their global rights, climate justice, inequality, poverty and health justice.

Sea-Changers - Main and Small Grants Fund

Sea-Changers gives one off grants to a range of UK-based, marine conservation charities and ‘not for profit’ organisations who are carrying out marine conservation related activities.

Next deadline: 30 Sep 2025

Sea-Changers Coastal Fountain Fund

The purpose of the fund is to reduce the impact of single-use plastic water bottles on coastal habitats by funding communities to purchase water drinking fountains and install them for use by the public in busy or environmentally important areas.

Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Ann Rylands Small Donations Programme

Makes small grants to support smaller charities providing practical and emotional support to people with – or at high risk of – physical or mental ill health, people living with disability, and their families and carers.

Skipton Building Society Charitable Foundation

Supports registered charities based in the UK, particularly in areas near the Society's Principal Office or one of its branches. They support projects which benefit children, young people, and the elderly.

Next deadline: 1 May 2025

Social Business Trust

SBT’s mission is to support high growth potential social enterprises to scale-up their impact. They do that by investing cash grants and professional support from seven partner organisations in a carefully selected portfolio of social enterprises.

Souter Charitable Trust

Supports projects for the relief of human suffering in the UK and overseas with a particular interest in projects that also promote spiritual welfare.