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Recreation grants in East of England

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

36grants
£1.3mtotal awarded
£5,000median grant
11funders

Top funders

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

FunderGrantsTotalMedian
London Marathon Foundation1£750k£750k
Youth Music1£150k£150k
John Lyon's Charity1£100k£100k
Essex Community Foundation19£80k£4,000
Wolfson Foundation1£70k£70k
Garfield Weston Foundation1£50k£50k
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation7£48k£6,606
The Veterans' Foundation1£30k£30k
A B Charitable Trust1£30k£30k
Northamptonshire Community Foundation2£11k£5,473

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
Warwick and Dominey FundCambridgeshire Community Foundation22023 to 202618 Dec 2025
Cotton Farm Wind Farm Community Benefit FundCambridgeshire Community Foundation22023, 202524 Oct 2025
Strategic PartnershipsLondon Marathon Foundation12014 to 202623 Jun 2026
WelfareGarfield Weston Foundation12017 to 202620 Apr 2026
Main GrantJohn Lyon's Charity12019 to 202611 Mar 2026
StandardThe Veterans' Foundation12023 to 202625 Feb 2026
Building GrantsBenefact Trust12023 to 202617 Feb 2026
Multiple PanelsCambridgeshire Community Foundation12023 to 20262 Feb 2026
Migrants and RefugeesA B Charitable Trust12013 to 202621 Jan 2026
Queens InstituteNorthamptonshire Community Foundation12020 to 202615 Dec 2025

Open government schemes charities can apply for

12 open schemes on Find a Grant covering East of England 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, Cambridgeshire Community Foundation, Essex Community Foundation, Garfield Weston Foundation, John Lyon's Charity, London Marathon Foundation, Northamptonshire Community Foundation, The Veterans' Foundation, Wolfson Foundation, Youth Music: 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.