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Community development grants in North East

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

217grants
£3.9mtotal awarded
£7,000median grant
15funders

Top funders

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

FunderGrantsTotalMedian
Community Foundation North East141£1.6m£5,500
The Ballinger Charitable Trust21£936k£50k
Point North32£306k£4,996
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation1£250k£250k
Virgin Money Foundation2£200k£100k
Rank Foundation4£182k£31k
Garfield Weston Foundation4£145k£40k
A B Charitable Trust4£120k£30k
The Greggs Foundation1£40k£40k
The Veterans' Foundation1£30k£30k

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 North82022 to 202617 Mar 2026
High Sheriff AwardsPoint North32023 to 20266 Jan 2026
Stanley Community FundPoint North32022 to 202513 Nov 2025
Migrants and RefugeesA B Charitable Trust22013 to 202621 Jul 2026
Volunteer and Connect FundVirgin Money Foundation22024, 2025, 20269 Apr 2026
Northern GasPoint North22025, 202626 Mar 2026
WelfareGarfield Weston Foundation22017 to 202620 Mar 2026
Banks Property Grassroots FundPoint North22024, 2025, 202619 Mar 2026
CEO SleepoutPoint North22024, 2025, 20262 Mar 2026
Small Grants ProgrammeThe Clothworkers Foundation22018 to 202510 Dec 2025

Open government schemes charities can apply for

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

SchemeFunderGrant sizeCloses
DCMS Place-Based Philanthropy Community of PracticeDepartment for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport£996k to £997k9 Nov 2026
Economic research on the returns to R&D investment (Grant)UK Research and Innovation, Economic and Social Research Council£1 to £308k19 Nov 2026
Sustainable Medicines Manufacturing Innovation: CR&D Round 2Innovate UK£500k to £1m2 Dec 2026
Gambling harms research grants (Grant)UK Research and Innovation, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Medical Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council£1 to £2m8 Dec 2026
Condition Improvement Fund (CIF)Department for Education£20k to £4m15 Dec 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, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Garfield Weston Foundation, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Point North, Rank Foundation, The Ballinger Charitable Trust, The Clothworkers Foundation, The Dulverton Trust, The Greggs Foundation, The Veterans' Foundation, Virgin Money Foundation: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). 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.