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Opportunities: Equality & diversity

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BBC Children in Need: Pudsey Next Steps

BBC Children in need are offering rants from £1,000 – £15,000 per year for up to three years. Pudsey Next Steps is looking for applicants new to Children in Need working with under-served and marginalised, children and young people in under-served geographic areas across the UK.

Deadline: 15 October 2024

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The Swire Charitable Trust

Grants, generally for up to £50,000, are available for core costs, salaries and capital expenditure for UK registered charities that are directly addressing environmental causes, UK heritage and the challenges faced by the most marginalised and disadvantaged members of society.

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Consortium: The LGBT+ Equity Fund

Grants of between £100 and £25,000 are available to help intersectional LGBT+ organisations in England grow and influence the LGBT+ voluntary sector in more equitable ways

Deadline: 21 November 2024

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The Henry Smith Charity Holiday Grants for Children Grant Programme

Grants to provide recreational trips or holidays for children aged 13 years and younger who live in an area of high deprivation and are experiencing disability or disadvantage.

Deadline: 19 November 2024

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The Edith M Ellis 1985 Charitable Trust

Seed funding grants for innovative ideas in the UK or overseas that offer the potential to bring about a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.

Deadline: 30 November 2024

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Historic England: History in the Making

Grants for projects that enable underrepresented young people aged 13-25 in England to research, discover and mark local history.

The deadline for this opportunity was 2 September 2024

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Barclays Community Football Fund

Grants to make football more inclusive and accessible within communities.  

The deadline for this opportunity was 15 September 2024

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LGBT+ Futures: Equity Fund

Fund to focus on supporting user-led LGBT+ organisations based in England, who are working with targeted under-represented and under-resourced communities.

Deadline: 21 November 2024

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2025 GSK IMPACT Awards & new GSK Community Health programme

The new GSK Community Health programme supports small charities tackling health inequalities with total annual income between £20,000 and £150,000.

The deadline for this opportunity was 12 August 2024

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ROSA’s Stand With Us Fund

One-off grants up to £25,000 are available to frontline women’s organisations across the UK that are governed and led by women and actively addressing violence against women and girls in the UK.

The deadline for this opportunity was 30 July 2024

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The Thomas Wall Trust

Grants of up to £5,000 are available to charities developing communication skills for disadvantaged adults aged 18 and over so that they can improve their employment prospects, self-confidence, resilience and life-chances.

The deadline for this opportunity was 16 September 2024

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The Maypole Fund

Grants up to £1,000 are available for projects by individual women- or women only groups to resource imaginative, non-violent activities by feminist anti-militarist women to proactively challenge patriarchy.

The deadline for this opportunity was 30 June 2024