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General charitable purposes grants in East Midlands

Grants made 23 Oct 2025 to 23 Oct 2026 by UK trusts and foundations that publish through 360Giving to charities registered for general charitable purposes with a registered address in East Midlands.

65grants
£1mtotal awarded
£3,800median grant
15funders

Top funders

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

FunderGrantsTotalMedian
Comic Relief1£250k£250k
Northamptonshire Community Foundation38£133k£3,000
Wolfson Foundation2£124k£62k
Freemasons’ Charity2£115k£58k
Garfield Weston Foundation4£100k£25k
The Veterans' Foundation1£75k£75k
The Greggs Foundation2£73k£36k
Rank Foundation2£62k£31k
The Dulverton Trust1£40k£40k
Benefact Trust6£30k£4,100

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
Colleagues of Barclays Northampton 'Say No To Poverty'Northamptonshire Community Foundation52025, 20261 Sept 2026
Constance Travis Endowment Fund for NorthamptonshireNorthamptonshire Community Foundation52022 to 202613 Aug 2026
Queens InstituteNorthamptonshire Community Foundation42020 to 202612 May 2026
Community Impact GrantsBenefact Trust42023 to 202627 Apr 2026
St Giles Charitable TrustNorthamptonshire Community Foundation42020 to 202518 Nov 2025
Winwick Wind Farm FundNorthamptonshire Community Foundation22020 to 202625 Jun 2026
WelfareGarfield Weston Foundation22017 to 202618 Jun 2026
Health and DisabilityWolfson Foundation22018 to 202610 Jun 2026
Building GrantsBenefact Trust22023 to 202618 May 2026
Wind Farm Community Benefit FundNorthamptonshire Community Foundation22020 to 202625 Feb 2026

Open government schemes charities can apply for

13 open schemes on Find a Grant covering East Midlands 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 Benefact Trust, Comic Relief, Freemasons’ Charity, Garfield Weston Foundation, Herefordshire Community Foundation, Making a Difference Locally, Northamptonshire Community Foundation, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Rank Foundation, The Dulverton Trust, The Greggs Foundation, The Veterans' 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.