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Poverty prevention and relief 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 poverty prevention and relief with a registered address in East Midlands.

58grants
£842ktotal awarded
£3,400median grant
12funders

Top funders

Trusts and foundations that gave the most to poverty prevention and relief 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
Freemasons’ Charity4£139k£35k
Northamptonshire Community Foundation33£114k£3,000
Garfield Weston Foundation3£100k£30k
A B Charitable Trust2£60k£30k
Benefact Trust9£53k£4,400
The Greggs Foundation1£40k£40k
Rank Foundation1£31k£31k
CHK Foundation1£25k£25k
Charles Hayward Foundation1£25k£25k

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 Foundation62025, 20261 Sept 2026
Building GrantsBenefact Trust62023 to 202618 May 2026
St Giles Charitable TrustNorthamptonshire Community Foundation52020 to 202518 Nov 2025
Queens InstituteNorthamptonshire Community Foundation42020 to 202612 May 2026
Community Impact GrantsBenefact Trust32023 to 202627 Apr 2026
WelfareGarfield Weston Foundation22017 to 202618 Jun 2026
Margaret Giffen Community FundNorthamptonshire Community Foundation22020 to 202611 May 2026
UndisclosedNorthamptonshire Community Foundation22023, 2025, 20262 Mar 2026
Constance Travis Endowment Fund for NorthamptonshireNorthamptonshire Community Foundation12022 to 20267 Jul 2026
EnvironmentGarfield Weston Foundation12017 to 202620 Apr 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 A B Charitable Trust, Benefact Trust, CHK Foundation, Cambridgeshire Community Foundation, Charles Hayward Foundation, Comic Relief, Freemasons’ Charity, Garfield Weston Foundation, Making a Difference Locally, Northamptonshire Community Foundation, Rank Foundation, The Greggs 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.