If you’re thinking about digitally transforming your organisation or you want to create digital projects or services for the people and communities you support, you may be able to access financial help. Check out these funding opportunities and see what support is available to you now.
| Company offering funding | Grant name | Grant available | Key messages | Additional information | Deadline | Link to information (if available) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Access Group Foundation | Grants from £25,000 to £100,000 | Available to registered charities, CICs, educational establishments and CIOs for projects to fix the digital divide by offering data, devices, or learning to disadvantaged and vulnerable people. | Rolling | Apply - The Access Foundation (theaccessgroupfoundation.com) | ||
| Believe Housing | Bridging the gap community grant | £500 | The Bridging the Gap community grant is a new fund to assist our communities with projects addressing the Energy and Cost of Living crises. | Improving digital access- groups can receive support for opportunities to access the internet for free in the community. Funding can be used to deliver workshops offering support to people to use the internet. | N/A | £500 small community grant | believe housing |
| Chance to win £500 from the National Digital Inclusion Network | £500 | A chance to win £500 Currys gift card from completing the survey. | Complete the survey on the Good Things Foundation's website | |||
| Clothworkers' Foundation digital infrastructure grants | For larger projects (£100,000+), the Foundation generally funds 10% or more of the balance to be raised. | The Clothworkers’ Foundation has recently expanded the eligibility criteria for their open grants programmes and now offer capital grants for digital infrastructure projects and will consider applications for products and software (such as websites, databases and apps). | For smaller projects (with a balance of less than £10,000), the Foundation generally funds between 50% and 100% of the balance. | Rolling | Clothworkers' Foundation grants. | |
| County Durham Community Foundation | Community Grants | Up to £5000 | Covers a broad range of themes. | Can apply for an additional £500 to "green your project". | N/A | Run a funding phone in session every Thursday lunchtime - Book via the website: www.cdcf.org.uk/apply-for-a-grant/grants-for-groups/ |
| County Durham Community Foundation | Poverty Hurts (small grant) | Up to £2000 | Poverty related projects: food, isolation (can be digital) , energy support, advice | Your centre can apply for a Poverty Hurts small + Poverty Hurts large + Community | N/A | Run a funding phone in session every Thursday lunchtime - Book via the website: www.cdcf.org.uk/apply-for-a-grant/grants-for-groups/ |
| County Durham Community Foundation | Poverty Hurts (large grant) | Up to £10,000 | Same themes as poverty hurts small | Max of £1000 can be used to fund items to distribute, including food. The focus of the grant is on the running costs of your project. | N/A | Run a funding phone in session every Thursday lunchtime - Book via the website: www.cdcf.org.uk/apply-for-a-grant/grants-for-groups/ |
| Durham 4 Community | A one stop shop for community funding in County Durham. The site allows you to search by organisation type, category or using a keyword, to find a wealth of opportunities both locally and nationally. Improving your digital presence, providing support for digital skills and projects that mitigate the digital divide are just some of the initiatives you could get funding for. | https://www.idoxopen4community.co.uk/durhamcc?bcr=MTIzNA | ||||
| Friends of the Elderly | Grants for Older People | Maximum value £500 | Small grants are available to support older people living on low incomes in England and Wales with the costs of home essentials, unexpected large bills, living costs and getting connected online. The funding is intended to support older people who are of, or over, state pension age (66 years) and living on low incomes in England or Wales and facing financial difficulties. | N/A | Friends of the Elderly | |
| Karbon Homes | Community Funding | Maximum value £4,000 | Grants are available for local not-for-profit and voluntary community organisations, as well as local schools, to support local community projects which have a positive impact on the lives of Karbon residents in North East England. The Community Funding programme aims to support projects that make a real difference to people's lives and wellbeing within the communities in which Karbon Homes works. | N/A | Community Funding | |
| Material Focus | Material Focus - Electricals Recycling Fund | Up to £100,000 | Grants are available to support recycling, reuse or repair organisations that test creative and practical methods for collecting unwanted electricals within the UK. | N/A | Material Focus - Electricals Recycling Fund | |
| National Lottery Awards | Groups can apply for funding under £20,000, or over £20,001, depending on what they want to do. | The National Lottery Community Fund has doubled the amount of funding available to grassroots projects, in what it’s calling the biggest change in National Lottery funding for a generation. Awards for All now has a maximum limit of £20,000 and has doubled the funding period to two years. | Ongoing. Apply at least 16 weeks before you want to start the activities or spend any of the money. | Home | The National Lottery Community Fund (tnlcommunityfund.org.uk). | ||
| North East Business Support Fund | maximum grant of £3,200 | Provides small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in County Durham with 40% funding for business improvement projects costing between £2,500 and £8,000 (maximum grant of £3,200). The grant can be used towards almost any business support including social media, website design and marketing. | Rolling | https://nebsf.co.uk/grant-funding/business-grants-in-county-durham/ | ||
| WCIT | WCIT – IT4Good Grant Programme | maximum grant of £15,000 | Grants are available for not-for-profit organisations across the UK to deliver IT projects and activities that support the themes of education, inclusion, IT for charities, and understanding of IT. | 10/02/2025 | https://wcitcharity.org.uk/ | |
| Point North | Point North - Community Grants Programme | maximum grant of £5,000 | The Community Grants Programme is made up of a number of funds managed on behalf of donors by Point North, previously County Durham Community Foundation. The organisation announced that it was changing its name in August 2024. The name change and rebrand of the organisation comes as it reaches its 30th anniversary in 2025. Point North remains part of the UK Community Foundations network. | N/A | https://pointnorth.org.uk/grants/community-grants-programme/ | |
| Key Fund | Key Fund | up to £300,000 | The Key Fund is a Social Enterprise which provides development and investment support to social businesses that create positive community, environmental or social impacts. It offers accessible finance in the form of flexible loans and loan/grant packages to support the development of new and existing enterprising activity. Once finance is repaid it is re-loaned and re-invested back into the community. The team works pro-actively across the North England and the Midlands, encouraging and helping to spread the culture of social enterprise. | N/A | https://thekeyfund.co.uk/ | |
| Point North & DCC | Welcome Spaces 2024 | grant £750 to £3,000 | Durham County Council is working alongside Point North to offer funding to the voluntary and community sector to create a network of places where people feel safe, warm, and included. Participants in the Welcome Spaces scheme will be asked to sign up to a simple charter, setting out standards for the scheme, and to display a window poster highlighting their involvement. Community groups and organisations that receive support will also be offered training on a range of topics, including basic mental health, food safety and safeguarding, with grants able to cover a range of expenses such as utility bills, volunteer expenses or staff time, equipment and furniture. | N/A | www.pointnorth.org.uk/grants/welcome-spaces-2024 |
