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Poverty prevention and relief grants in South West

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 South West.

127grants
£2.3mtotal awarded
£5,000median grant
19funders

Top funders

Trusts and foundations that gave the most to poverty prevention and relief charities in South West in the last 12 months. Names link to their free funder profile where we have one.

FunderGrantsTotalMedian
Comic Relief2£600k£300k
The Veterans' Foundation7£292k£30k
Devon Community Foundation44£259k£5,000
The Clothworkers Foundation2£175k£88k
Freemasons’ Charity5£165k£15k
Garfield Weston Foundation5£165k£25k
Wolfson Foundation1£150k£150k
Quartet Community Foundation36£109k£2,225
Paul Hamlyn Foundation2£104k£52k
A B Charitable Trust3£85k£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
DCC Food Fuel and MoreDevon Community Foundation202022 to 20265 Feb 2026
Donor DirectedQuartet Community Foundation182023 to 202631 Mar 2026
PCC Safer CommunitiesDevon Community Foundation82023 to 202618 Dec 2025
Building GrantsBenefact Trust52023 to 202627 Apr 2026
Express GrantQuartet Community Foundation52023 to 202618 Mar 2026
Catalyst GrantQuartet Community Foundation52023 to 20268 Jan 2026
WelfareGarfield Weston Foundation42017 to 202613 May 2026
StandardThe Veterans' Foundation32023 to 202625 Jun 2026
Smoking CessationDevon Community Foundation32025, 202616 Apr 2026
Supporting the SupportersDevon Community Foundation32023 to 202626 Mar 2026

Open government schemes charities can apply for

13 open schemes on Find a Grant covering South West 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
Sanctuary Services Grants - 2027 - 2030Sanctuary Services, Bristol City Council£100k to £350k16 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

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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, Charles Hayward Foundation, Comic Relief, Devon Community Foundation, Freemasons’ Charity, Garfield Weston Foundation, Heart of England Community Foundation, Making a Difference Locally, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Point North, Quartet Community Foundation, The Clothworkers Foundation, The Dulverton Trust, The Veterans' Foundation, Wolfson Foundation: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Data from Barnwood Trust, 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.