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Recreation grants in North West

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 North West.

79grants
£1.5mtotal awarded
£3,750median grant
21funders

Top funders

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

FunderGrantsTotalMedian
Westminster Foundation4£359k£3,750
Steve Morgan Foundation1£300k£300k
A B Charitable Trust5£130k£25k
Garfield Weston Foundation2£125k£63k
Freemasons’ Charity2£120k£60k
Youth Music1£100k£100k
Forever Manchester27£100k£2,000
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside15£98k£5,000
Rank Foundation1£31k£31k
Charles Hayward Foundation2£25k£13k

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
Together Energy FundForever Manchester162023, 2024, 202510 Dec 2025
Migrants and RefugeesA B Charitable Trust52013 to 202623 Jul 2026
Other GrantsWestminster Foundation32018 to 202631 Jan 2026
DF Capital FoundationForever Manchester22025, 202627 May 2026
Building GrantsBenefact Trust22023 to 202618 May 2026
Merseyside Womens FundCommunity Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside22023 to 202616 Mar 2026
CEO SleepoutPoint North22024, 2025, 202610 Mar 2026
BIBAs FoundationCommunity Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside22024, 202626 Jan 2026
High Sheriffs TrustCommunity Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside22023, 202518 Dec 2025
NextGen FundForever Manchester12025, 202624 Jun 2026

Open government schemes charities can apply for

12 open schemes on Find a Grant covering North 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
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, Allen Lane Foundation, Benefact Trust, Charles Hayward Foundation, Cheshire Community Foundation, Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside, Forever Manchester, Freemasons’ Charity, Garfield Weston Foundation, Heart of England Community Foundation, London Marathon Foundation, Making a Difference Locally, Point North, Rank Foundation, Steve Morgan Foundation, The Clothworkers Foundation, The True Colours Trust, The Veterans' Foundation, Westminster Foundation, Youth Music: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Data from Community Foundation for Calderdale: 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.