The Wessex Youth Trust is interested in supporting projects which provide opportunities to help, support and advance children and young people up to the age of 21 years only. Preferential consideration is given to appeals received from self-help organisations and to charities requiring support to 'prime the pumps' for development and more extensive fund-raising initiatives. Also specific project funding requests are preferred to more general 'pot-filling'.

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Marvellous Family Grants are for families facing financial hardship while caring for a child with a serious illness. They provide support to help families cope, from funding specialist equipment and creative therapies to hospital travel expenses.

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The fund has been set up to support community projects which reduce knife crime and have a positive impact on young people at risk of carrying a knife and committing crime. The first round of the fund was launched in October 2017 and we are now making available up to £1 million to be spent by end of March 2019.

The fund is open to voluntary and community sector groups and we are inviting bids for funding for projects of up to £30,000 although bids will be considered for greater funding for projects with collaboration between partners.

DM Thomas Foundation is dedicated to helping disadvantaged and vulnerable young people and children transform their lives. Their priority is to make a difference through targeted grant support, helping local and regional community groups and charities across the UK and Europe to deliver projects which provide access to opportunities and improve wellbeing.

From June communities will be able to apply for fully funded grants to purchase Remembrance Silhouettes to hold their own remembrance event, thanks to a new programme from the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust.

The Woodward Charitable Trust primarily funds charitable organisations (charities, social enterprises and community interest companies) in the UK and can make grants for overseas projects usually via UK charities. Priority is given to projects make good use of volunteers, encourage past and current users to participate, ensure that funds awarded are being well used and fall within the following areas:

The St James's Place Charitable Foundation offers grants to hospices to support projects that will make a tangible difference to people who provide unpaid care for terminally ill friends or family. (i.e. informal carers or care givers). Grants of up to £40,000 will support projects running over a period of 18 months that will help hospices to initiate or build on a hospice enabled approach to supporting carers by, for example:

Schools, colleges and youth groups can receive up to 80% towards the costs of providing environmental outreach education for groups of disadvantaged young people through the Field Studies Council's Kids Fund.

The Field Studies Council is an independent educational charity committed to raising awareness about the natural world and works through a network of residential and day Centres in the UK to provide outreach education and training.

A £23 million programme to help the brightest pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds to reach their educational potential has been announced by the UK government.

Opening in Autumn 2018, state-funded schools and multi academy trusts, charities and research organisations, independent schools and universities will be eligible to apply.

Funding through the Future Talent Fund will support projects delivered in in non-selective, state-funded secondary schools in England.

Trial projects will begin in January 2019 and the scheme will run until 2020. 

Schools and local community groups can apply for funding of up to £2,000 for projects that improve the local physical environment and also benefit the wider community.

The Greggs Foundation Environmental Grant Scheme is funded by the 5p levy on carrier bag sales in Greggs shops.