Dormant Assets for All

This funding is for voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations in Northern Ireland.

It helps organisations to:

• build skills and capacity

• be more resilient

• prepare for future challenges

We fund projects that strengthen your organisation.  This might include improving:

• confidence and skills in digital technology

• how you track and measure your impact

• financial management

• governance and leadership

• volunteer recruitment and management

We’ll only fund work that makes your organisation stronger

We do not fund the delivery of activities in your community. For example, we cannot fund expanding an existing service into new areas.

Amount: £300 to £20,000
Programme status: Open to applications

Further information available here

Housing Executive Social Investment Grant applications now open

Open Monday 19th January – Friday 20th February 2026.

Application deadline is 16:00 on 20th February, no late applications will be accepted.

The Housing Executive’s Social Investment Strategic Plan 2025-2030 People, Place & Prosperity sets out to provide assistance to organisations and social enterprises in Housing Executive communities. Investment in social and community enterprises that are primarily based in or serve Housing Executive communities is an important aspect of the strategic plan.

We are looking to support applications that meet the following:

• Social Enterprise activity

• Community Wealth Building

• Social Value

• Employment and apprenticeships

The awards categories are:

• Think It – up to £5000

• Boost It – up to £10,000

• Grow It – up to £35,000

Full Criteria is contained within the application link. Please click Here for application. https://nihe.tfaforms.net/43

For more info contact: socialinvestments@nihe.gov.uk

Grant Aid & Bursary Funding – 2026/27

Fermanagh and Omagh District Council provides funding to voluntary clubs, societies, community groups, social enterprises and sporting organisations for grant aid.  Bursaries are also available to individuals in the area of Culture and Sport.  Applicants must be based within the Fermanagh and Omagh District Council area.

Applications for the following funding streams opened on Wednesday, 7 January 2026,

the Closing Date has been extended to Wednesday, 18 February 2026 at 5.00pm

Grant Aid:

• Community & Wellbeing :- Guidance Notes 

• Community Premises Support : – Guidance Notes 

• Ending Violence Against Women & Girls – Local Change Fund:- Guidance Notes

• Good Relations : – Guidance Notes 

• Irish in the Community: – Guidance Notes 

• Summer Schemes 2026 – July/August : – Guidance Notes 

• Ulster Scots in the Community : – Guidance Notes 

• Verti-Draining:- Guidance Notes: Guidance Notes 

Bursaries:  Guidance Notes 

• Irish Language (Academic)

• Irish Language (Gaeltacht), Minors, Adult, Family

 Projects/Activities/Events must take place during the 2026/2027 financial year.

For more information, please visit Grant Aid & Bursary Support - NOW OPEN – Fermanagh & Omagh District Council

MSE Charity’s Winter Application Round to Open 19 January

Funded by Money Saving Expert, the MSE Charity offers a small number of grants twice a year to small not-for-profit organisations based and working in the UK. The funding is to help them deliver activities within the UK which make a lasting impact on how people think, behave and manage their money.

Grants of between £2,000 and £10,000 are available. It is anticipated that less than 10 grants will be awarded in the winter round.

The funding can be used for activities related to increasing personal financial capability. Some examples are:

• Money management workshops.

• Training volunteers to deliver workshops or to provide peer-support to others.

• Upskilling existing staff to access financial capability training to support their clients directly.

• Providing access to financial inclusion activities for people who are disadvantaged in any way such as by age, disability, ethnicity or gender.

UK registered charities, community interest companies (CICs), credit unions, not-for-profit companies limited by guarantee, and social enterprise companies can apply.

Applicants must be UK based, established and active for at least 18 months, have a total annual income of between £10,000 and £600,000, a governing document, a governing body of at least three unconnected individuals and a bank account in the group’s name.

There are two funding rounds per year (winter and summer).

There is a two-stage application process.

Stage one proposals will be accepted from 19 January to 26 January 2026 (17:00). For more information, please visit Home

Which? Fund Accepting Applications for 2026 Funding Round

Which?, the UK’s consumer champion, is offering grants to UK-registered charities, universities with exempt charitable status, and not-for-profit Community Interest Companies registered in the UK, to support research projects aiming to improve understanding of the specific consumer harms that diverse and disadvantaged communities experience, and develop evidence-based solutions.

This year, Which? Has made £75,000 available for proposals specifically in two policy areas:

• Next-generation energy business models supporting the clean energy transition.

• Online choice architecture.

In each of these areas, Which? is interested in funding work that: 

• Improves understanding of consumer harms affecting diverse and disadvantaged communities in relation to these topics.

• Identifies and tests evidence-led, pragmatic solutions to consumer harm experienced by diverse and disadvantaged communities in these areas.

• Develops partnerships and encourages collaborative work around these topics.

There is no set minimum or maximum grant. It is anticipated that a small number of high-quality projects will be funded.

There is a two-stage application process. Groups should submit a stage one application form, being shortlisted to complete a full application.

The deadline to submit a Stage One application is 30 March 2026. For more information, please visit The Which? Fund - Which? Policy and insight

The Brian Conlon Foundation

The Brian Conlon Foundation is an independent Charitable Trust set up in Brian’s memory to continue his legacy by supporting causes that were close to his heart and that he was passionate about.

Brian was hugely successful in many walks of life – a high achiever in education, entrepreneurship, sport and in business. When a knee injury ended his budding Gaelic football career, Brian turned his attention to business, setting up First Derivatives from his mother’s spare bedroom in 1996. Now one of Ireland’s most successful companies, it employs nearly 3,000 people with fifteen offices globally. Thousands of local graduates have passed through the company’s HQ in Newry, many of whom ended up being deployed to large financial institutions throughout the world.

Brian was immensely proud of his roots and his hometown of Newry, and, despite all of his success, he remained a humble and generous individual throughout, supporting numerous people and deserving causes, often quietly.

Grants will be awarded to community associations and groups in the Newry area, who are working to advance education, amateur sport, provide opportunities for young people, and assisting communities in the local area.

Grants up to £3,500 will be open for applications.

Fund criteria

The Brian Conlon Foundation will support the provision of support for projects based in Newry City – view boundary map here

The fund will focus on the following priorities: 

• Advancement of Education

• Advancement of Amateur sport

• Opportunities for young people from the local area

• Assistance for communities in disadvantaged areas

For more information please visit The Brian Conlon Foundation - Community Foundation Northern Ireland

Inishative Community Benefit Fund

This local community benefit fund was set up by Gaelectric in 2016 and is now managed by CGN Europe – a wind energy and energy storage company that believes in a sustainable future. CGN is committed to ensuring that their wind farms, whilst having obvious environmental benefits, also provide significant economic benefits to the local community.

The Inishative Community Benefit Fund is available for local community projects within a 6-mile radius of the wind farm.* Applicant organisations must be located in this area. Priority is given to applicant organisations based within the Carrickmore (3.5 miles), Galbally/Cappagh (4-5 miles) and Sixmilecross (6 miles) areas.

The fund aims to encourage:

• Stronger more inclusive communities by ensuring that local people have ownership and involvement in the design and delivery of the project.

• Partnership working with community, voluntary and statutory agencies to ensure a coordinated approach.

• Sustainable solutions that address local issues.

• Projects that improve the utilisation of existing community space in each of the above areas.

• Particular emphasis will be placed on funding activities/services that are specifically aimed at older people, people with disabilities, children and teenagers (including pre-school children), providing skills development of local people and promoting health related activities or services.

• Given the remoteness of some of these locations, the isolation and lack of statutory transport provision consideration will be given to local transport initiatives.

• Projects and programmes offering invaluable advice and information and signposting on key rural issues e.g. Farm Support Services, Welfare & Benefits and Parenting/Family issues etc.

• Outdoor/Environmental projects will also be considered in terms of encouraging a healthier and active community as well as protecting and enhancing the local environment.

• Finally, wider community events and programmes that encourage greater community interaction (including cross community aspects) encompassing the local rich and varied cultural aspects of music, drama, dance and sport.

• Funding will be considered for costs associated with running/administration costs and for purchasing additional equipment to expand services/activities in each of the areas.

• Priority will be given to projects which demonstrate the ability to collaborate, network and share best practice.

Grant size: Grants up to £2,000

Closing date: 12th Feburary 2026

For mor information please visit Inishative Community Benefit Fund - Community Foundation Northern Ireland

Cregganconroe Community Benefit Fund

This local community benefit fund was set up by Gaelectric in 2016 and is now managed by CGN Europe – a wind energy and energy storage company that believes in a sustainable future. GCN is committed to ensuring that their wind farms, whilst having obvious environmental benefits, also provide significant economic benefits to the local community.

Cregganconroe wind farm is based just off the Loughmallon Road, Pomeroy, Co Tyrone.  The areas located within a 6-mile radius of the wind farm are largely rural, having a rugged mountainous terrain within the Sperrin Mountains and comprises dispersed rural settlements including the hamlets and villages of Cappagh, Galbally,  Pomeroy, Carrickmore, Kileenan  and the Rock.

The fund aims to encourage:

• Any programmes/projects that address marginalisation and help tackle rural isolation.  In particular, support will be considered for transport solutions that allow a greater sharing of local community resources and to allow for improved mobility for the most isolated.

• Projects that have a particular emphasis on maximising community space by providing minor capital works that bring premises or facilities up to modern standards and in line with current building control regulations.

• Activities/services that are specifically aimed at children and young people and older people; provision of local educational classes/training courses and health related initiatives and arts/cultural activities.

• Projects designed to improve and develop local environmental schemes.

• Priority will be given to beneficiaries within the Pomeroy area given their close proximity to the wind farm.

• Projects that encourage greater cross community interaction at a local level with a focus on improving relations between nationalist and unionist communities in the area.  Consideration will be given to activities and events designed to encourage this interaction and cohesion e.g. – Open Days, Festivals and other Community Events including programmes of shared culture, music, sport, drama and dance.

Grant size: Grants up to £2,000

Closing date: 12th Feburary 2026

For more information, please visit Cregganconroe Community Benefit Fund - Community Foundation Northern Ireland

Applications Open for ACE Mental Health Projects

UK registered charities can apply now for grants of up to £25,000 for projects that help children and young people recover from Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), plus support parents affected by ACEs, mental illness or addiction.

Application will be considered from UK-registered healthcare charities with an annual income below £20 million and at least five years’ audited or independently examined accounts. Charities can be either regionally or nationally based.

Projects should be evidence-based, trauma-informed interventions that will overcome and prevent ACEs. The programme supports children and young people affected by ACEs, plus parents (to help break the cycle of trauma across generations):

• Children and young people

• Only charities that have a specialist, single focus on one or more of the following are supported: childhood sexual abuse; living in a household where there is domestic violence, and/or physical and/or emotional neglect; living with a parent who has a mental illness and/or substance abuse. Charities must have a 'children first' approach.

• Parental support

• Specialist charities that solely focus on supporting parents and complex family challenges by delivering: help for parents to confront their own ACEs and help to break the intergenerational cycle of trauma and abuse; and help for families where a parent or caregiver has a mental illness or substance addiction (and is at risk of harming their children). 

The funding is flexible, designed to contribute towards overall service delivery. However, grants can also be made for a specific project.

The deadline for applications is 6 February 2026. For more information please visit Mental Health Support Grant | James Tudor Foundation

James Tudor Foundation’s Physical Health Grants Open for UK Applications

The Foundation offers grants of up to £25,000 to support UK charities working in physical health, with a focus on therapeutic interventions, health information and direct healthcare.

Through this programme, the Foundation supports:

• Evidence-based physical therapies for:

• People living with degenerative physical conditions

• People living with physical disabilities

• People recovering from life-changing injuries

• Specialist, single-condition charities – typically these are national charities that provide information about a specific condition via nurse-led helplines and via digital and print materials. 

• Charities that provide direct healthcare services to marginalised communities

• Support is only for charities whose sole focus is to provide direct healthcare to marginalised communities.

• Exceptionally, if funds allow, consideration may given to homelessness charities with already established mobile healthcare clinics.

• Air ambulance charities operating in South West England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland

Applications will be accepted from UK-registered healthcare charities with an annual income below £20 million and at least five years’ audited or independently examined accounts.

Priority is given to:

• Charities that address unmet needs, demonstrate sector expertise, and have a clear, well-defined strategy.

• Charities providing condition-specific information.

• Organisations whose services are delivered by qualified specialist professionals.

The funding is flexible, designed to contribute towards overall service delivery. However, grants can also be made for a specific project.

The deadline for applications is 6 February 2026. For more information, please visit Physical Health Funding | James Tudor Foundation

WCIT Charity: Approaching Deadline

Educational establishments and constituted not-for-profit organisations across the UK have until 6 February to apply for funding to support IT projects and activities.

The WCIT Charity provides grants of up to £15,000 within the themes of education, inclusion, IT for charities, and understanding of IT, such as the development and delivery of new services, solutions, training, apps, analytics, AI, robotics, or accessibility features/hardware. 

Projects that are more likely to be funded include:

• Projects where WCIT is a material or sole funder.

• Projects where WCIT is the sole funder of the IT component of a larger project.

• Organisations that could benefit from pro bono support.

Proposals should demonstrate an innovative use of IT, be scalable for wider replication, and be sustainable over time. Applications are typically considered at four committee meetings per year.

The deadline for consideration at the next committee meeting is 6 February 2026. For more information please visit Home - WCIT Charity

Youth Music's NextGen Fund Open for Applications

The NextGen Fund provided by Youth Music is intended help early-stage musicians and wider music adjacent creatives to invest in their own projects and make their ideas happen. The fund is especially aimed at those whose lack of finance holds them back from pursuing their goals.

The thirteenth round of the programme is accepting applications from 18-25 year old creatives (under-30s who identify as d/Deaf or disabled) in the UK to support the development of a creative project or idea. Applicants may include singers, rappers, songwriters, producers, DJs, A&Rs, managers and agents, right through to roles that have yet to be defined.

Priority will be given to:

• People who do not have the financial means to invest in themselves to get their ideas started.

• People that are too early-stage to be funded by larger grant programmes such as Arts Council England and PRS Foundation.

• Those who might be discriminated against, for reasons that could include gender, race, disability, location or other characteristics.

• People who are creative, entrepreneurial and are multi-disciplinary - even if they do not recognise themselves as such.

Grants of up to £3,000 are available, to support costs linked to training, career development, travel, audience development, marketing, equipment, software and business development.

The deadline for applications is 6 February 2026. For more information, please visit NextGen Fund | Youth Music

Grow Wild Community Programme - Reminder to Apply by 4th February

The Grow Wild Community Programme is offering around 23 grants of up to £2,000 to not-for-profit groups across the UK to transform urban spaces for the benefit of people and wildlife through planting and championing UK native plants or fungi.

Projects should enhance the biodiversity of the urban space with planting and growing as a core activity, be led by groups who care about the environment and will use sustainable materials and practices and have the potential to reach at least 300 people.

In addition, projects need to work with one or more of Grow Wild’s target audience:

• Young people aged 12-25.

• People experiencing some disadvantage or reduced access to services.

• People who are less engaged with others in their local community.

• People who face barriers to connecting with nature.

• Disabled people.

The grant can cover 100% of project specific costs, including seeds plants, soil, materials, events, workshop charges, specialist experts and contractor costs.

Applications will be accepted from not-for-profit organisations in the UK, including:

• Constituted voluntary/community organisations, groups or clubs. 

• Charities

• Not-for-profit companies

• Community Interest Companies (CICs)

• Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIOs)

• Community Benefit Societies

Grants of £2,000 are available and must be spent by the end of October 2026. There is also an opportunity for groups to apply for a £500 follow-on grant for spring 2027, to help support ongoing activities. 

The deadline for application is 4 February 2026. For more information please visit Community Programme | Grow Wild | Kew

Funding to Help People in NI Improve and Connect with the Local Aquatic Environment

Funding is available to community-focused organisations for projects to help people improve and to connect with Northern Ireland's aquatic environment.

The Northern Ireland Environment Agency has launched the 2026/27 call for applications to the Water Quality Improvement Strand of its Environmental Challenge Fund Competition. The competition is open to applications from constituted not-for-profit organisations and local authorities, with projects beginning from Spring 2026.

All on the ground project activity must take place in Northern Ireland, with the three key themes for funding under this challenge competition as follows:

• Connecting people with the aquatic environment to achieve behavioural change.

• Conservation and restoration of aquatic environments.

• Nature-based solutions, particularly for climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Capital grants of between £5,000 and £30,000 are available to cover up to 85% of eligible project costs. Applicants must be able to demonstrate that sufficient match funding is available to complete their project, and projects must be completed by 28 February 2027.

The deadline for applications is 18 February 2026. For more information please visit Environment Fund 2023 - 2028 | Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs

Stafford Trust Accepting Applications for Autumn 2026 Funding Round

The Stafford Trust is offering grants to support a wide variety of charities across the UK.

Typically grants of between £500 and £5,000 are awarded for projects that fall within the following areas:

• Child welfare.

• Medical research & support.

• Animal welfare.

• Services for personnel welfare.

• Sea rescue.

• Community projects.

• Overseas support.

• Adult welfare.

Funding can be used for a variety of costs, including capital projects, running costs, and salary support.

Registered charities across the UK can apply. However, priority will be given to charitable organisations operating in Scotland.

There are usually two trustee meetings per year, in Spring and Autumn, to consider applications. 

The deadline for applications to be considered at the Autumn 2026 trustee meeting is 30 June 2026. For more information please visit Apply for a grant – Stafford Trust

Hospital Saturday Fund Opens for 2026 Applications

Registered charities with medical/health objectives, hospices and medical organisations based and operating within the UK can apply once per calendar for funding to assist with medical projects, capital projects, medical care or research, hospice/respite care, and in support of medical training. Applications for running costs may also be considered.

There are two levels of awards:

• Standard Grants of £2,000

• Larger Grants of up to £10,000 to be used towards specific projects, research or equipment rather than running costs.

The 2026 deadlines for:

• Standard grant applications are 13 April, 14 July, 8 October 2026, and 5 January 2027

• Large grant applications are 16 March, 16 June, 10 September, and 2 December 2026.

For more information please visit Hospital Saturday Fund – Making Medical Grants to Improve the Health of Communities

Funding for Holiday Activities for Autistic Children and Young People – Opens 2nd February

This grants programme runs once a year.

The 2026 round will only fund autistic-specific holiday schemes. The programme will be for autistic-specific activity programmes that run in the school holidays in the UK, including sessions for siblings.

Not-for-profit organisations in the UK can apply for grants of up to £15,000 which are usually for part of the costs to run the activity schemes.

To be eligible, applicants must:

• Have a safeguarding policy.

• Have Public Liability Insurance.

• If paying staff, have Employer’s Liability Insurance.

• Use professional trained staff and volunteers (not parents/guardians).

• Have bank account with two people to authorise or check on payments.

• Have an income of less than £1 million.

Please note there is a high demand for this programme and last year the grant round closed for applications one day after it opened.

The 2026 round will open for expressions of interest on 2 February 2026 with a deadline of 13 February 2026 (17:00). For more information please visit Holiday activity schemes for autistic children and young people | Three Guineas Trust

Central Good Relations Fund 2026/27 - Open for Applications

Applications for the 2026/27 Central Good Relations Fund (CGRF) funding programme are now open and will close on Friday 30 January 2026 at 4pm.

Successful projects must deliver within the funding year and contribute towards the delivery of one of the Together: Building a United Community (T:BUC) Strategy key priorities.

To help groups apply for funding, the Executive Office will be hosting three ‘CGRF Online Information Sessions’ via MS Teams.

Register to attend an online session:

• Session 1 – Wednesday 7 January 2026 @ 10.30am(external link opens in a new window / tab)

• Session 2 –Thursday 15 January @ 10.30am(external link opens in a new window / tab)

• Session 3 – Tuesday 20 January 2026 @ 2.30pm 

Further information available here

Goodyear Community Fund

The Goodyear Sports & Social Club was set up as part of the old Goodyear factory in Craigavon in 1977 by the factory workers. The club building was opened in 1982 and although the factory closed not long after this date the Sports & Social club was able to provide sports and social facilities to the local Community until the wind down of its activities in June 2024.

The Goodyear Community Fund was set up as a grant-making initiative designed to distribute the net sales proceeds of the original club building to support grassroots organisation’s within the greater Lurgan and Craigavon area.

The focus of the fund builds on the original ethos of the Goodyear Sports & Social Club in ensuring a positive legacy with the continued promotion of sport, arts, health & wellbeing and cross-community engagement.

The fund is launched in recognition and celebration of the contribution of voluntary groups and people locally and the aim is to make it a simple application process.

Grant size

Grants of between £1,000 to £5,000 are being made available to cover project and associated costs for your organisation.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must:

• Be a Not-for-profit organisation or Community Amateur Sports club (CASC) or Charitable body operating within the Greater Lurgan and Craigavon area.

• Demonstrate a clear community benefit, particularly in areas of sport, arts, health & wellbeing and inclusion.

• Provide a governing document and a bank account in your organisation’s name.

• Confirm availability of accounts, and safeguarding policies if required

• Be able to deliver the project within 12 months of receiving funding.

Priority Areas

Funding will prioritise projects and organisations that can outline how they meet one or more of the following priorities:

• Have connected with the Goodyear Sports & Social Club since at any time since its foundation in 1977.

• Promote cross-community collaboration and inclusion.

• Support sports, arts, or charitable activities that enhance health & wellbeing.

• Address local needs.

• Support grassroots organisation’s within the greater Lurgan and Craigavon area.

• Encourage volunteerism and community leadership.

Ineligible Activities

The Foundation will not fund organisations or activities which promote causes that are contrary to our purposes. Causes and activities that are contrary to our purposes include, but may not be limited to, those outlined in our investment policy. We will not therefore fund organisations or activities which we determine are linked to the promotion of armaments, alcohol, human rights abuses, tobacco or pornography.

Timeline

• Applications open: Monday 5th January 2026

• Deadline for submission: Friday 30th January 2026 at 1pm

• Decisions communicated: Within 6 weeks of deadline for submission of applications

• Project delivery: Within 12 months of grant award

For more information, please visit Goodyear Community Fund - Community Foundation Northern Ireland

Connect Fund Round 2

The Connect Fund awards up to £1m over two years (25/26 and 26/27) to strengthen civic East-West collaboration on matters of shared interest, including mutual challenges and opportunities across a range of sectors that directly affect communities in Northern Ireland. Applicants can bid for projects with a value from £300 to £50,000 with a total of £500,000 available for Round 2.

The Connect Fund supports projects that deliver on one or more of the following objectives:

• Strengthen East-West connections by developing long lasting civic relationships;

• Propose an original approach to developing East-West connections;

• Support the development of cultural, sports and people-to-people links;

• Build leadership capability opportunities for community leaders on an East-West basis; and

• Facilitate positive and constructive dialogue on shared opportunities/challenges facing communities in the UK.

Please note a key change from the previous round, Connect Fund Round 2 will feature a single application window from 7 January 2026 - 12 February 2026, unlike the monthly rolling submission process during Round 1. This will allow applicants to deliver their projects between April 2026 and March 2027. For more information visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/latest-connect-fund-round-offers-500000-to-northern-ireland-community-and-voluntary-groups 

The Connect Fund Round 2 Roadshow will provide information to support the generation of strong, high-quality applications and allow an opportunity for interested groups to ask any questions they may have. To book a place please visit Connect Fund Round 2 Roadshow Registration