Latest funding
Big Bike Revival Summer 2025
The aim of the Big Bike Revival is to make cycling accessible for everyone. It provides funding to community and voluntary organisations to deliver free events that encourage people to start cycling, cycle more often or to take up cycling again if they have lost their confidence.
If your organisation can run sessions to encourage more people to cycle, you can apply for a grant of up to £3,500. Your activities should be for people returning to cycling, complete beginners or people cycling non-regularly and should include fixing bikes, teaching cycle and maintenance skills, and taking people on bike rides on local routes.
Funding in this round is for events delivered between 18 April 2025 and 31 October 2025.
Applications are accepted from volunteer-led groups, not-for-profit organisations and social enterprises that can engage with non-regular cyclists and people in need in terms of social, economic and health deprivation.
Focus of fund/fund aims:
To encourage adults to take up cycling for pleasure and as a sustainable transport option
Application deadline:
14 July 2025
Fund description:
https://www.cyclinguk.org/bigbikerevival/delivery-partners
Youth Music
Youth Music gives grants for music projects that help to provide equal access to music. The current funds are as follows:
Youth Music Trailblazer Fund
Grants of £2,000 to £30,000 to run projects for children and young
people (25 or under) to make, learn and earn in music. Your work must
cover one of the following themes: early years; disabled, d/Deaf and
neurodivergent young people; youth justice system;
young people facing barriers; young adults; organisations and the
workforce. Apply by 11 April 2025
Youth Music Catalyser Fund
Grants between £30,001 and £300,000 for programmes that support children
and young people who face barriers to make, learn or earn in music, and
aim to make music activity accessible to everyone. Expressions of
Interest by 2 May 2025
To apply to the Trailblazer or Catalyser funds, your organisation must be legally constituted. Schools and academies cannot apply.
Youth Music NextGen Fund
If you are aged 18 to 25 and you are a musician or see your future in
the music industry, you can apply for up to £3,000 for your own creative
project. The next round opens on 29 August 2025.
Application Access Fund
You can also apply for support from the Application Access Fund to cover
any additional access costs that might be required for you to make an
application to one of Youth Music’s main grant funds.
Focus of fund/fund aims:
Funding for projects that improve access to music for young people
Application deadline:
Refer to individual funds
Fund description:
https://www.youthmusic.org.uk/funding
Persimmon Community Champions
The Persimmon Community Champions programme provides support to community organisations that make a real difference to people’s lives. Each of Persimmon’s 30 offices makes a donation of up to £6,000 every quarter to local organisations. The £6,000 is usually shared between three or four organisations such as charities, voluntary groups, healthcare organisations including hospices, sports clubs and schools.
Projects in Devon can be funded by the South West office or the Cornwall and West Devon office. Applications are made online and directed to the appropriate office for consideration.
Focus of fund/fund aims:
Small grants to support community organisations that are doing good work in their local area
Application deadline:
Apply at any time
Fund description:
https://www.persimmonhomes.com/community-champions
Sports Foundation for the Disabled
Grants up to £5,000 are available to enable people with physical disabilities and visual impairments from South West England and Wales to take part in sport, physical activities and sporting challenges.
The Sports Foundation for the Disabled provides funding for organisations that support people with disabilities and for individuals with physical disabilities or visual impairments. Organisations must be not-for-profit and can include local community sports clubs, community groups, parish/town councils, charities and youth organisations. Individuals must be part of a sports club, sporting pathway or linked to a National Governing Body.
The funding can be used for:
- new equipment and kit specifically for disability sport activities
- training courses
- costs relating to a sport project for people with physical disabilities or visual impairments
- costs relating to sporting challenges including travel, equipment, sustenance and accommodation
Focus of fund/fund aims:
Grants to support disabled individuals and groups from South West England and Wales to access sporting opportunities and complete sporting challenges.
Application deadline:
Apply at any time
Fund description:
https://www.sportsfoundationforthedisabled.org/
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25th March 2025