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Charity grants in North East

Grants made 23 Oct 2025 to 23 Oct 2026 by UK trusts and foundations that publish through 360Giving with a registered address in North East.

551grants
£9.4mtotal awarded
£5,000median grant
22funders

Top funders

Trusts and foundations that gave the most in North East in the last 12 months. Names link to their free funder profile where we have one.

FunderGrantsTotalMedian
Community Foundation North East354£3.3m£4,932
The Ballinger Charitable Trust40£2.1m£40k
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation6£678k£96k
Point North84£609k£4,701
Garfield Weston Foundation8£584k£25k
Benefact Trust13£340k£13k
Rank Foundation9£310k£31k
The Leathersellers' Foundation2£200k£100k
Virgin Money Foundation2£200k£100k
Freemasons’ Charity4£190k£60k

Open and recurring programmes

Funder programmes behind these grants that have made grants in at least two years, so are likely to run again. Check each funder's website for current deadlines.

ProgrammeFunderGrants (12 months)Years with grantsLatest grant
Community Grants Funding ProgrammePoint North142022 to 202617 Mar 2026
Banks Property Grassroots FundPoint North122024, 2025, 202619 Mar 2026
High Sheriff AwardsPoint North82023 to 20266 Jan 2026
Building GrantsBenefact Trust62023 to 202627 Apr 2026
Community Impact GrantsBenefact Trust62023 to 202627 Apr 2026
Small Grants ProgrammeThe Clothworkers Foundation62018 to 202510 Dec 2025
Darlington Building SocietyPoint North62022 to 202513 Nov 2025
Stanley Community FundPoint North62022 to 202513 Nov 2025
NHS Cancer AlliancePoint North52024, 202518 Dec 2025
NHS NENC Community ConnectorPoint North42024, 20259 Dec 2025

Open government schemes charities can apply for

68 open schemes on Find a Grant covering North East (live Grant Radar list). The 5 closing soonest:

SchemeFunderGrant sizeCloses
Focal award: EPSRC and MHCLG Fire Engineering Skills Hub (Grant)UK Research and Innovation, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council£1 to £5.9m3 Nov 2026
DRIVE35 Scale-up Fund Drawdown 5Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will work with the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) and the Advanced Propulsion Centre UK (APC)£2.5m to £20m4 Nov 2026
Access to Elected Office FundCabinet Office£1 to £500k4 Nov 2026
Purchase mid-range equipment for biomedical research: MRC Equip (Grant)UK Research and Innovation, Medical Research Council£200k to £1m5 Nov 2026
Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) in Schools Grant SchemeDepartment for Education (DfE)£10k to £1m9 Nov 2026

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Source: grants data published by each funder through 360Giving (GrantNav), grants awarded 23 Oct 2025 to 23 Oct 2026 to registered charities, companies and other organisations (grants to individuals are left out). Cause and region come from the recipient charity's entry on the Charity Commission register (its registered charitable purposes and the postcode area of its registered address), so cause and region snapshots cover recipients registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Open government schemes are from Find a Grant (UK Government) via Grant Radar. "Recurring" programmes have grants in at least two calendar years. Figures are our own summary.

Licences: each funder publishes its data under its own open licence; we use only data licensed CC BY 4.0, CC0 or the Open Government Licence. Data from A B Charitable Trust, Benefact Trust, Charles Hayward Foundation, Community Foundation North East, Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Freemasons’ Charity, Garfield Weston Foundation, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Point North, Rank Foundation, The Ballinger Charitable Trust, The Clothworkers Foundation, The Dulverton Trust, The Greggs Foundation, The Leathersellers' Foundation, The Three Guineas Trust, The Veterans' Foundation, Virgin Money Foundation, Wolfson Foundation: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Data from Community Foundation for Surrey, The Pilgrim Trust: Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains public sector information from the Charity Commission for England and Wales, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Find a Grant: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Last updated: 23 October 2026. Information only, not funding advice; check each funder's own guidance before applying. Brightbench is not connected to these funders.