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Free grant snapshot · last 12 months

Education and training grants across the UK

Grants made 23 Oct 2025 to 23 Oct 2026 by UK trusts and foundations that publish through 360Giving to charities registered for education and training.

1,956grants
£80.7mtotal awarded
£10kmedian grant
57funders

Top funders

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

FunderGrantsTotalMedian
Steve Morgan Foundation10£13.5m£416k
Wolfson Foundation48£9.5m£100k
John Lyon's Charity49£5.5m£59k
London Marathon Foundation17£3.9m£69k
A B Charitable Trust112£3.6m£25k
Garfield Weston Foundation75£3.4m£30k
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation37£3.1m£15k
Freemasons’ Charity58£2.8m£60k
Comic Relief5£2.6m£199k
Community Foundation North East256£2.5m£5,000

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 Impact GrantsBenefact Trust652023 to 202618 May 2026
Migrants and RefugeesA B Charitable Trust512013 to 202624 Aug 2026
Donor FundsCommunity Foundation for Surrey412019 to 202630 Jun 2026
Building GrantsBenefact Trust362023 to 202618 May 2026
StandardThe Veterans' Foundation322023 to 202629 Jun 2026
Main GrantJohn Lyon's Charity282019 to 202611 Mar 2026
The Criminal Legal system and penal reformA B Charitable Trust272013 to 202623 Jul 2026
WelfareGarfield Weston Foundation272017 to 202618 Jun 2026
Small Grants ProgrammeThe Clothworkers Foundation272018 to 202510 Dec 2025
Access to JusticeA B Charitable Trust262017 to 20266 Aug 2026

Open government schemes charities can apply for

6 open schemes on Find a Grant in related sectors (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
Purchase mid-range equipment for biomedical research: MRC Equip (Grant)UK Research and Innovation, Medical Research Council£200k to £1m5 Nov 2026
Doctoral focal award: chip design and verification (Grant)UK Research and Innovation, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council£1 to £6m2 Dec 2026
People and ResearchHistoric England£250 to £300k1 Apr 2027
Youth Jobs GrantDepartment for Work and Pensions£3,000 to £25m1 Nov 2028

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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, Allen Lane Foundation, Benefact Trust, CHK Foundation, Cambridgeshire Community Foundation, Camden Giving, Charles Hayward Foundation, Cheshire Community Foundation, Cloudesley, Comic Relief, Community Foundation North East, Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside, Coop Foundation, Devon Community Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Essex Community Foundation, Forever Manchester, Freemasons’ Charity, Garfield Weston Foundation, Heart of England Community Foundation, Herefordshire Community Foundation, John Ellerman Foundation, John Lyon's Charity, Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, Leeds Community Foundation, London Marathon Foundation, Making a Difference Locally, Northamptonshire Community Foundation, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Point North, Quartet Community Foundation, Rank Foundation, Steve Morgan Foundation, The Ballinger Charitable Trust, The Berkeley Foundation, The Clothworkers Foundation, The Dulverton Trust, The Fore, The Foyle Foundation, The Greggs Foundation, The Leathersellers' Foundation, The Three Guineas Trust, The True Colours Trust, The Veterans' Foundation, Trust For London, United St Saviour's Charity, Virgin Money Foundation, Westminster Foundation, Wolfson Foundation, Youth Music: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Data from City Bridge Foundation, Community Foundation for Surrey, The Pilgrim Trust: Open Government Licence v3.0. Data from Architectural Heritage Fund, Barnwood Trust, Community Foundation for Calderdale, Oxfordshire Community Foundation: Creative Commons Zero (CC0 1.0). 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.