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COVID19 Funder List - Version 3
The Charity Excellence Framework (CEF) platform enables any UK based non-profit to increase its
impact and financial resources, but is very quick and simple to use. Demo video (4 mins). Everything
is free. The other toolkits below, can be downloaded from the CEF Home Page.
Responding To The Crisis Building Sustainability
• Organisational response plan.
• Financial assessment and action plan.
• Building resilience & creating a fundraising recovery
plan. Video Version.
• Financial sustainability assessment and action plan.
For free funding finders, fundraising guides and non-COVID19 funder lists, go to the fundraising
page.
If you want the daily coronavirus updates, connect with me on LinkedIn, Twitter, or Face Book.
Are You Reading The Latest Update?
This Version 3 (up to 13 April). It is updated each Monday. I plan to install a free, much more
powerful database in the next week or so. The latest list and recovery toolkits can be downloaded
from the Charity Excellence Framework website.
The latest entries are in italics, with the date the entry was made at the end. The list within the CEF
itself (income generation questionnaire) is updated daily. Register.
How To Use The Funder List
• How It Works - sections begin with funders that cover all areas, with sections underneath for
specific areas. Within each entry relevant words are in bold and those in larger font size (in the
middle) are other funder lists. New entries are in italics, about 50.
• How To Use It - check UK Wide then your country (if you’re in Scotland, NI or Wales). If you’re in
England, check England Regions, then England Local. Click through to suitable funds.
• How To Be Successful - you must check eligibility. If you do not, you will have zero chance. To
maximise your chance of success, download ‘4 steps to funding bid success’, from the Ideas &
Resources section of the fundraising page. And here’s a really good guide to writing successful
COVID19 applications by Dan Fletcher, Moore Kingston Smith charity team.
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• How To Find Even More - many funders have repurposed their funding so, check with yours. Or
use the funder lists on the fundraising page. If you want to analyse where grant funding is going,
enter COVID19 into the 360 Giving funder tool.
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• UK Wide - General, Animals, Art, Disability & Mental Health, Individuals, Sport, Veterans and
Women.
• UK Countries - Scotland, Ireland, Wales, English Regions (including major cities) and English Local
and Government Financial Support.
• Rest Of The World - Global, Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, New Zealand and the US.
Some of these include funding available for the UK and/or relevant to UK IDOs.
• Specialist Funding Streams - niche funders, including for data, comms, logistics & media.
Now Closed or Paused
1. CAF Coronavirus Emergency Fund - organisations with income of £1m or less, up to £10k to
support day-to-day activities, or your emergency response activities. Paused 6 April, seeking
additional funding.
2. Martin Lewis - £1m, £5k to £20k to small registered UK charities for UK coronavirus-related
poverty relief projects. Currently closed to new applications.
UK Wide
3. Alpkit - prioritising funds for projects that demonstrate an immediate impact on those
affected. £500 grants.
4. Antonio Carluccio Foundation - £500k, grants up to £20k, emergency feeding and other
initiatives. 8 April.
5. #ArtInAid - for every acquisitions of artworks, Le Dame Art Gallery will donate 30% on sales to
a charity of your choice.
6. Asda - £5m to its partners FareShare and the Trussell Trust. This will provide over 4 million
meals to families in poverty, as well as more than 3000 charities access to free food over the
next 3 months.
7. Audio Content Fund - special funding round, for content that will support radio audiences
during the coronavirus crisis; £200,000 for ideas that will improve the quality of listeners’ lives
during restrictions in place. 10 April.
8. Barclays Foundation – initially to provide a COVID-19 Community Aid Package of £100 million
to charities working to support vulnerable people. 9 April.
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9. Big Give - #donateyourcommute - first £200k will be doubled through match funding provided
by the Reed Family. Funding will go to NET.
10. Big Society Capital – £100m emergency loan fund for charities.
11. Cadent Foundation - Midlands, North West England, South Yorkshire, East of England and
North London. Committed £240k to the Trussell Trust, ready to support other worthy causes.
12. Clothworkers Foundation - small capital grants of up to £5,000 for essential capital items to
adapt or increase services. Not open to charities whose beneficiaries are based in London.
London initiative to be announced soon. 3 April.
Coronavirus Funding Monitor - a centralised portal of current funding
opportunities for the research community.
13. Elton John Aids Foundation –to support community-based organisations to implement
lifesaving interventions for people with HIV. Deadline 23 April. That man is an absolute
diamond.
14. Emergency Surplus Food Grant - to assist redistributors in obtaining surplus food from food
businesses and distributing this to people in need or those considered vulnerable. 8 April.
15. Environmental Finance - brought forward local community benefit payments and is targeting
them now to provide emergency grants. 7 April.
16. Co-op - £1.5 million of essential food products to Fare Share’s 23 regional centres, and then
supplied to a network of local community groups across the country.
17. Crisis - local groups financially affected by additional demands on their resources and have
expanded their provision for those experiencing homelessness: £5k short-term response,
£50k longer-term.
18. Dulverton Trust – UK registered charities, to deliver services to vulnerable communities or existing
grantees to overcome funding challenges: youth opportunities, general welfare, conservation,
preservation, Africa or peace and humanitarian support.
19. Greggs Foundation - funding for emergency food parcels, hardship payments and other
support to schools and community hubs.
20. Halifax Foundation - prioritising Covid-19 related grant applications, will now consider
constituted groups not yet registered as a charity.
21. Hymans Robertson Foundation - new hardship fund, only charities already funded: £500 to
£5,000. 8 April.
22. Indigo Trust - has donated £1m to the Trussell Trust for food banks.
23. John Lewis & Waitrose - £1m Community Support Fund distributed by Waitrose shops to local
communities, and a support fund to aid staff facing additional costs.
24. Legal & General - £500,000 emergency fund, charities and voluntary organisations, income
under £1.5m pa, supporting elderly and vulnerable people: £5k - £10k, closes 20 April.
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25. Leathersellers Company - UK registered charities supporting the homeless or those at risk of
becoming homeless, provision of food and essential supplies, victims of domestic violence,
nursing care to vulnerable patients.
26. New Government Funding - £370m for smaller organisations delivering essential frontline
COVID-19 related services for vulnerable people, National Lottery Community Fund. Any
organisation under £1m. Applications up to £100k, and consortia applications are
permissible. Organisations with reserves will be permitted to apply, but Govt will be pragmatic
about this.
27. New Government Funding - £360m to support their existing voluntary sector partners, ie CAB,
St Johns Ambulance etc
28. National Zakat Foundation - people whose financial situation is badly affected.
29. Neighbourly - micro-grants of up to £400, for good causes that are helping communities.
30. National Emergencies Trust – appeal for those most effected. They collaborate with charities
and other bodies to raise and distribute money at the time of a domestic disaster.
31. Pears Family Foundation – 50% increase in expenditure this year, up to approximately £30m.
Allocated to work with existing partners. All of the Foundation’s new funding for this year will be
allocated to core costs. 9 April.
32. Persimmon Community Champions Each of the 31 businesses and head office donating £2000
each, every month. From 1st April for the foreseeable future, organisations that support the over-
70s. 7 April.
33. Princes Trust - £5million fund, entrepreneurs aged 18 to 30, grants and tailored support to
maintain core business operations and meet existing financial commitments.
34. Skills For Care - User Led Organisations (ULO): identify the development requirements and
training needs of individual employers and PAs, and deliver, or organise, purchase and
support training for individual employers and PAs.
35. Standard Life Foundation - work directly related to crisis, addressing challenges & helping to
contribute to social change which tackles financial problems and improves living standards.
36. Steel Charitable Trust – follow normal application process for emergency funding. 7 April.
37. Social and Sustainable Capital - £26m for provision of homes for vulnerable people; target for
further investment ££100 million. Maybe not one for now, but perhaps for your recovery
planning.
38. Sylvia Adams Charitable Trust - announced, no details yet. Works with young people.
39. Tesco - £30 million support for local communities. Bags of Help COVID-19 Community Fund
grants of £500, including women’s refuges, food banks, hospices, homeless charities, social
isolation groups, schools, charities supporting the elderly.
40. The Fore - fast-track emergency grants up to £5k to organisations in its portfolio – with the
option to apply for more than one grant.
41. UK Research & Innovation - short-term projects addressing and mitigating the health, social,
economic, cultural, and environmental impact.
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42. Vo Tech Now - part of Ufi’s response to support the vocational learning sector.
43. William Morris Big Local – local people, groups and organisations; up to £1k. 8 April.
44. Yapp Charitable Trust - small UK charities, grants up to £3k. Registered charities in England
and Wales, with a total annual expenditure of less than £40k; core costs and staffing.
Animals
1. Kennel Club Charitable Trust – funding for canine charities may be available soon.
2. Support For Adoption Pets - grants totalling £400,000 to local pet rescue centres.
3. Pets At Home - £300,000, as part of its VIP Lifelines scheme, to over 750 animal charities.
Arts, Culture & Heritage
1. Art Fund - Museum Network - adapting programmes, being flexible, open to funding all types
of activity, even those that would ordinarily be ineligible, decisions very swiftly.
2. Arts Council England - emergency funding package and support for funded organisations and
individuals announced.
Creative Scotland – 100+ entries
help, resources and funding for the creative community.
3. Heritage Fund - £50million to support the heritage sector: £3k to £50k.
4. Youth Music Network - music-making organisations; up to £10k.
More funders in Individuals and Scotland below.
Disability & Mental Health
1. Mind - £5m public funding for charity sector, to support people struggling with their mental
health, including telephone and online support services.
2. Tech Force 19 - innovators who can support the elderly, vulnerable and self-isolating to apply
for government funding of up to £25,000 to test their solution.
3. Thomas Pocklington Trust - sight loss sector organisations providing critical services for the
physical and emotional well-being of blind and partially sighted people. Up to £10k.
Individuals
1. Authors Emergency Fund – professional authors who are resident in the UK or British subjects
– including all types of writers, illustrators, literary translators, scriptwriters, poets, journalists
and others.
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2. Book Trade Charity - hardship grants to booksellers. 10 April.
3. CaRe20 – Caring for Retail - £10m appeal, financial, emotional, physical and vocational
support to store workers who may be ineligible for government support.
4. Care Workers Crisis Grants - grants to care workers.
5. Cavell Nurses Trust - additional funding for grants to help nursing and midwifery professionals
support their living costs like rent and utility bills.
6. Drinks Trust - those on zero hours contracts or who have been made redundant or notice of
redundancy. Priority to those struggling with significant financial hardship. 3 April.
7. Fashion and Textile Children’s Trust - parents and carers who have worked in the fashion or
textile industry.
8. Help For Musicians – guidance and hardship fund.
9. Hospitality Action - one-off grant £250.
Hospitality Industries Funders – 6 funders,
those without work as a result of coronavirus lockdown.
10. Film and TV Emergency Relief Fund - £1m donation from Netflix for anyone impacted in the
industry by shutdown.
11. Film & TV Charity - up to £500 to cover urgent and immediate needs: general living costs,
essential white goods, urgent repairs or medical costs.
12. Licence Trade Charity - grants £50pw to £100pw.
13. Make A Difference Trust - small pockets of financial assistance to those in theatre
experiencing unexpected financial hardship due to theatre closures.
14. Middlesborough Council - Crisis and Community Support grants to individuals.
15. Museum Freelancers Fund - hardship fund, grants of £200.
16. Musicians Union - hardship fund.
17. National Benevolent Society - people with dependants on a zero hours contract and who have
lost their jobs or have had their income substantially reduced. Up to £300.
18. PBA COVID-19 Relief Fund - licensed beauty professionals unable to work or experiencing
financial hardships
19. Racing Welfare - hardship grants for racing community facing financial difficulties. Single
people £150 and a family £210. Immediate basic needs such as food and heating. 3 April.
20. Rory Peck Trust - professional freelance journalists whose only source of income is from
journalism and significantly affected by the pandemic.
21. Seafarers Trust - grants to benefit seafarers and maintain seafarers’ welfare services in
difficulties.
22. Teaching Staff Trust - financial support for individuals in education, including teachers,
teaching assistants, nursery workers, caretakers and lunch supervisors for bills, household
costs, travel or other essentials. 10 April.
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23. Turn2us - £500 crisis grant, a financial life line for people who meet the simple eligibility
criteria; paid into people’s bank accounts as soon as possible. 10 April.
Support for Theatre Professionals -
24 funds and sources of advice or support.
20. Young Classical Artists Trust - COVID19 hardship fund.
More funders in Scotland below. Turn2Us - benefits calculator updated to reflect Government
initiatives in response to the coronavirus.
Sport
1. Comic Relief - some of the money raised through Sport Relief 2020 will go to organisations on
the frontline. Support for grantees through adapting activities, reviewing timeframes, or re -
budgeting remaining funds.
2. Sport England: Community Emergency Fund - including those not currently supported by us,
who have a role in supporting the nation to be active but who are experiencing short-term
financial hardship or the ceasing of operations: £300 to £10,000.
3. Sport England: Sector Partner Fund - Active Partnerships and national governing bodies, on
bespoke measures for any instances of immediate financial distress.
4. Sport England: Sector Stimulation Fund - will be rolled out in coming weeks.
More funders in Wales below.
Veterans
1. The Veterans’ Foundation - organisations helping serving and retired members of the armed
forces, qualifying seafarers, and their dependants. Rapid grants in response to the crisis. Up
to £30k, over 1 to 3 years. 6 April.
2. Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust - launching an emergency programme in April. Up to
£20,000 for projects focused on supporting veterans who are isolated and unable to access
services or have limited social contact. 7 April.
Women
3. Rosa – appeal launched. Funding to be distributed to small, specialist women’s organisations.
9 April.
4. Young Women’s Trust - young women aged 18-30 facing financial crisis: essentials such
as food, utilities and rent for themselves and their families will receive £150 each.
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Scotland, NI and Wales
Scotland
1. Aberdeenshire County Council - Constituted community groups, resilience groups and
volunteering organisations.
2. The Scottish Government - £350m to support welfare and wellbeing, including a £20m 3rd
sector Resilience Fund.
3. Creative Scotland Open Fund: Sustaining Creative Development - to help individuals and
organisations to sustain themselves, £1k and £50k to enable organisations to explore ways of
working to adapt and to the current changing circumstances
4. Creative Scotland - Bridging Bursary Fund - individual artists and freelancers who have lost
income, £500 and £2500 for immediate needs.
5. Emergency Art Workers Support Fund - micro grants for individuals with no other current
financial support or savings, immediate loss of income from freelance work.
6. Enterprising Provan - local organisations to help people in Provan: £100 – £1,000.
Contact [email protected].
7. Faith In Community Scotland - local faith groups and related community organisations to
provide immediate support for individuals and families: up to a few hundred pounds.
8. Foundation Scotland - local charities and grassroots organisations across Scotland
9. Gordon & Ena Baxter Foundation - charities based in Moray local authority area. Up to £500.
10. Inverclyde Community Fund - community and voluntary sector; up to £250.
11. Museums Galleries Scotland - two new funds. The Urgent Response Fund and Digital
Resilience Fund will open by 8 April. 6 April.
12. North Highland Initiatives Community Support Fund - education, conservation and community
service and support sectors: Caithness, Sutherland and Ross & Cromarty; up to £1000.
13. One Community Foundation – Kirklees, up to £1,000 to organisations helping those most
affected.
14. Screen Scotland - Bridging Bursary Programme - freelance or self-employed screen
practitioners working in all parts of Scotland’s screen sector who have lost work and income,
£500 to £2500 for immediate needs.
15. Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks - repurposed Resilient Communities Fund, up to
£3,000. Open to Community Councils in SSEN’s north of Scotland network area. 7 April.
16. Social Investment Scotland - £2m Credit Union Resilience Fund to support credit unions with
their working capital and liquidity.
17. Kilt Walk - bringing forward the distribution of the funds it raises for its postponed Glasgow
and Aberdeen events to help charities whose incomes have been hit hard by coronavirus.
18. William Grant Foundation – revenue grants converted to unrestricted for the current year.
19. Youth Scotland Action Fund - to help youth groups and youth workers meet the needs of
young people.
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You can find a collated list of the responses from Scottish foundations here.
Northern Ireland
1. Bread & Butter Fund – artists, 'gig' fee of £200 on a first come first served basis.
2. Community Foundation's Acorn Fund - £50,000, Derry and Strabane, delivery of support and
bolster vital community services.
3. Community Foundation NI - Community Fund for community organisations: older people and
those at increased risk.
4. Covid-19 Community Support Grant – Mid and East Antrim, £1000, food banks £2000.
5. Enkalon Foundation - limited funding, community groups in Antrim.
6. Fermanagh and Omagh District Council - community and social support to vulnerable and
isolated persons.
7. North West Volunteer Centre NI - community organisations - older people (aged 50 and over).
8. Cookstown and Western Shores Area Network (CWSAN) - small grants of £150 each to assist
very localised and isolated communities in rural areas throughout Mid Ulster.
9. Mid And East Antrim - open to all constituted groups.
10. ChangeX - funding and spreading grassroots projects aimed at strengthening Ireland’s
response. The Web Summit has pledged €1m.
Wales
1. Angelsey - Y Gymdeithas to provide vital funding. Initial £200k - poverty, illness and hardship.
2. Caring Communities Fast Track Fund - projects in Ceredigion that build community capacity
and resilience to support communities: up to £250.
3. Clocaenog Community Fund – £100 to £5000.
4. Community Foundation for Wales - focus on grass roots and small local groups.
5. Covid-19 Resilience Innovation Project - innovative projects to fund the purchasing of specific
equipment, adjustments to existing processes, implementation of new processes.
6. Federation of Museums and Art Galleries of Wales - £325,000 in funding to create a COVID-19
Resilience grant scheme for Welsh museums and heritage attractions. 6 April.
7. Moondance - charities working in Wales - staff retention, current activities and services in
jeopardy, evolution of services to adapt to the crisis.
8. Oakdale Trust - for the duration of the crisis, support to registered charitable organisations in
Wales working to mitigate the impact on communities. 10 April.
9. Pen y Cymoedd Wind Farm Community Fund - emergency cashflow funding for organisations
at risk of closure, additional services that meet immediate community needs.
10. Social Investment Cymru - fast-track loans to voluntary sector organisations to support cash
flow, purchase replacement assets and to help cover costs until you receive insurance claims.
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11. Sport Wales - emergency funding of £400,000 for community sport.
England - Regions
1. Action Together Community Response Fund - voluntary, community, faith and social
enterprise sector in Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside & Glossop: either up to £200 or up to
£1,000.
2. Bedfordshire & Luton Community Foundation - support from £180k in corporate donors.
3. Berkshire Community Foundation – up to £5k, examples, volunteer/community response
coordination, volunteer costs, activities that help vulnerable people self-isolating,
IT/communications. 7 April.
4. Ballinger Charitable Trust - has paused its grant applications. Instead it has small amounts of
money to grant to current and past grantees who are actively responding to help the North
East England community. 9 April.
5. Brighton & Hove COVID-19 emergency fund - short term and emergency support to
community and voluntary organisations supporting the most vulnerable residents.
6. Cambridgeshire Coronavirus Community Fund - £1k - £5k, older people (aged 60 and over)
and other vulnerable people, including the need for self-isolation, financial hardship, potential
for hunger, lack of shelter, further exacerbation of health issues, loneliness and isolation.
7. Cheshire Community Foundation - activities that help vulnerable people self-isolating, provide
funding to coordinate community response and support volunteers, and increase capacity for
organisations providing emergency support, such as foodbanks or benefits advice.
8. Cheshire Police & Crime Commissioner - community organisations, voluntary groups and those
in the non-for-profit sector, vulnerable people; up to £1k.
9. City Bridge Trust - up to £15,000 to all of the small charities it currently supports, with income
of less than £500,000. 10 April.
10. Childhood Trust - Champions for Children - match funding campaign June to raise unrestricted
funding for charities working with children and young people across London.
11. Community Foundation Tyne & Wear and N'berland - Two stages. Response - organisations
supporting older people and other vulnerable groups. Recovery - a wider group of local
charities and community organisations whose operations and finances have been affected.
12. Community Foundation for Calderdale - grants of £1000 to local charities to help the most
vulnerable.
13. Community Foundation for Merseyside - foodbanks, food/care package to vulnerable people,
services for the vulnerable, such as older people, emotional and mental health wellbeing,
financial inclusion, support to access benefits and debt advice.
14. Community Foundation for Staffordshire - organisations that support vulnerable members of
our communities, which are finding it difficult to operate.
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15. Cornwall Community Foundation - Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, working with those affected
to cover the costs for additional work and members or beneficiaries . 6 April.
16. County Durham Community Fund - local groups: the most vulnerable people in our
communities.
17. Cumbria Community Foundation - charitable projects supporting people, helping to keep
them safe and supported in their homes and reducing pressure on the NHS.
18. Community Southwark - community organisations and local charities, for £5k-20k for specific
coronavirus poverty relief projects.
19. Derbyshire Foundation - £1k for food banks. 7 April.
20. Devon Community Foundation - local charities and community organisations, in two stages:
response, then recovery.
21. Doncaster Fighting Back Fund - voluntary, community and faith sector organisations. Priority
will be given to organisations providing support to the most vulnerable. 7 April.
22. Dorset Coronavirus Community Fund - charities, community groups and organisations who
support vulnerable groups.
23. Essex Community Foundation - priority to those delivering vital services to older and
vulnerable people, helping to relieve pressure on public services or co-ordinating community
response. 8 April.
24. Evelyn Trust - £40,000 emergency funding for up to 8 projects from Cambridgeshire charities working on health and well-being. 10 April.
25. Exeter COVID-19 Community Action Fund - up to £1,000, meet urgent needs, supplies for food
banks, transport costs, help people to stay connected and informed, help people maintain and
support mental health and wellbeing. 7 April.
26. Forever Manchester - grassroot community groups responding to help those most affected.
Up to £1,000.
27. Foundation Derbyshire’s Coronavirus Fund - community groups and organisations - initial
focus on food banks and befriending services.
28. Langtree Trust - £50 to £1,000, local voluntary sector agencies and community groups in
Gloucestershire. Priority given to church projects, youth groups, disabled and disadvantaged
people.
29. Give Bradford Resilience Fund - charities and community groups across Bradford.
30. Gloucestershire Community Foundation - coordinated volunteer programmes, and those
picking up extra demand such as foodbanks, counselling services, advice organisations and
befriending services. Max grant £5k.
31. Heart of Bucks Community Foundation - people and charities in Buckinghamshire who are
most affected and vulnerable.
32. Herefordshire Community Foundation - Volunteer costs for new and existing organisations,
additional costs of working remotely and adapting services, emotional support, mental health
and bereavement support.
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33. Hertfordshire Coronavirus Disaster Relief Fund - local charities supporting local people facing
a range of social issues: social isolation, food poverty, poverty and poor mental health.
34. Hampshire & Isle of Wight Community Foundation (HIWCF) - those facing distress and
hardship.
35. Johnson Foundation - social isolation, deprivation, healthcare and education/young people in
Liverpool city region. Must be registered charity, email Kate Eugeni –
36. Leicestershire and Rutland Community Foundation - constituted charitable and community
organisations. Priorities of the fund older people (over the age of 70), vulnerable people with
medical conditions and people who are isolated: £500 - £2,500.
37. GMCA COVD-19 - 60 micro commissions to be given to artists and creators, based in Greater
Manchester, across all artforms.
38. Heart of England Community Foundation - local communities and projects. West Midlands &
Warwickshire.
39. Kent Community Foundation - constituted community groups, annual income less than £200K,
supporting isolated older people.
40. LCRCares - the most vulnerable people in Liverpool.
41. Leeds Community Foundation Resilience Fund - charities and community groups.
42. Leicestershire Council - Charities, constituted voluntary and community organisations and
social enterprises; up to £25,000. 10 April.
43. Leicestershire Communities Fund - constituted voluntary and community organisations and
social enterprises to support vulnerable people. £5,000 - £25,000.
44. Leicestershire & Rutland Community Foundation - constituted charitable and community
organisations working with local people facing the most hardship: £500 to £5,000. 10 April.
45. Lincolnshire Community Foundation - the most vulnerable, help local community
organisations to respond and develop advice and support initiatives.
46. London Community Foundation - grass roots charities and community groups.
47. London Funders - £2m fund for organisations: immediate financial pressures, increasing
demands for services, higher staff absences, fewer volunteers and lower donations. Wave 1
Grants open - costs in supporting communities, focus on food and essentials.
48. London Landmarks - Local Landmarks Challenge. Runners identify their own local landmark,
run a 5k, a 10k or a half marathon around it and raise money for charity. They have time until
3 May, anyone can participate, even if they could not secure a ticket for the main event.
49. Maanch Response Fund – including corporate and high net worth donors. Join platform (it’s
free), then call them to discuss. Includes UK charities working internationally – elderly,
children, food banks, mental health, medical research.
50. Manchester Community Support Fund - constituted community groups in Greater
Manchester: up to £1k.
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51. Manchester Wellbeing Fund - groups developing new ways of keeping in touch with the most
vulnerable.
52. Maudsley Charity - South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) patients and
staff: hospital and community services across Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark – and
Bethlem Royal Hospital, Bromley.
53. Newcastle upon Tyne Community Foundation - small, local charities and community
organisations and which have previously received support: vulnerable groups. Will not be
accepting applications.
54. Norfolk Community Foundation - up to £1,000 to support community action to help
vulnerable people.
55. Northamptonshire Community Foundation - rapid support to charities and community
organisations providing care and support for elderly and vulnerable people.
56. Northern Broadsides - 9 commissions worth £1,000, aimed at theatre makers struggling to
make ends meet in these difficult times. Northern England. 8 April.
57. Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner - sustain delivery of crucial community projects;
£200k available for organisations, with the PCC office taking applications of grants of up to
£5,000.
58. Oxford Community Foundation - to meet new needs appearing, new ways of meeting existing
needs, to recover, if operations or income are interrupted.
59. Oxfordshire Community Voluntary Action - Police and Crime Commissioner have opened this
round of the Police and Property Act Fund early. Applications from organisations across the
Thames Valley. 7 April.
60. Oxfordshire County Council - immediate support to the social care market. 7 April.
61. The P H Holt Emergency Fund – registered small- and medium-sized Merseyside charities, to deliver
new programmes to reach people affected, or keep vital charity services running; £1000 to
£10,000. 9 April.
62. Quartet Community Foundation - West of England: up to £5k - elderly, people with disabilities
and/or underlying health difficulties, homeless people, low income families, refugees and
asylum seekers, people experiencing food poverty.
63. Severn Trent - £1m emergency fund for charities and community groups. Midlands. 7 April.
64. Steve Morgan Foundation - £1m per week to charities in North Wales, Merseyside and
Cheshire to help the most vulnerable members of society.
65. Suffolk Community Foundation - older people at risk (typically over the age of 70), vulnerable
people with medical conditions, those that have limited support networks, those picking up
extra demand – such as food banks, telephone befriending, and advice services, good
neighbourhood schemes.
66. Surrey Coronavirus Response Fund - groups responding to the needs of vulnerable people.
67. Surrey PCC - £500k to organisations supporting the most vulnerable. 8 April.
68. Sussex Community Foundation - local charities and community groups.
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69. Somerset Community Foundation – grants on a rolling basis, beginning as soon as funds
become available.
70. Staffordshire COVID-19 Support Fund - each county councillor has £2,500 to support
community groups in their area.
71. The Community Foundation for Stoke & Staffordshire – individuals and organisations with the
immediate and unexpected costs.
72. Two Ridings Community Foundation - up to £2k, community organisations preparing to
respond, development of advice and support initiatives, groups that provide vital community
support. North East England.
73. United in Hammersmith & Fulham - micro grants directly to groups. Focusing on the extra
needs of at-risk groups, including people with complications severe enough to require
hospital care, unable to cope with isolation, living in poverty.
74. Wiltshire and Swindon Coronavirus Response Fund - prioritise groups supporting individuals
who are most affected by the outbreak, particularly those facing issues brought about by
isolation or loss of income.
75. West Berkshire & North Hampshire - Greenham Trust - £250,000, charities and voluntary
organisations supporting the elderly and vulnerable people.
76. Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Foundation - smaller charities, £250 and £2,000, helping
communities, including running, staff and travel costs as well as volunteer expenses. 6 April.
England Local
1. Andover Town Council - organisations and community groups within Andover.
2. Billericay Town Council – community groups, up to £100. Essex.
3. Bolton Resilience Grant - small grants fund, community and voluntary groups.
4. Bridge Renewal Trust - up to £5,000, Haringey, vulnerable people, changing service provision to online and/or telephone, vital local services and meeting increasing demand, collaboration and partnership working. 7 April.
5. Community Response Fund – Cheshire West and Chester - £500 to £2000. 6. Community Chest Fund - Runcorn, projects and initiatives to tackle any emerging challenges
the virus is creating.
7. Cottsway Housing association – Witney, Oxfordshire.7 April
8. Coventry City of Culture Trust - £60,000, to support individuals and organisations in the arts
and cultural sector, facing urgent pressures caused by loss of work. 8 April.
9. Croydon Council - VCS groups above and beyond their normal activities and as a result, are facing
financial challenges; services directly to residents, additional supplies, volunteer expenses,
additional staffing costs. Up to £10k. 7 April.
10. East End Community Foundation - Hackney, City of London and Tower Hamlets.
11. East Suffolk Coronavirus (COVID-19) Community Funds – £50 and £2,500, larger requests
under exceptional circumstances.
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12. Hackney Giving - small organisations: most vulnerable, including older people, the homeless,
refugees and those with mental health needs or in poverty.
13. Hammersmith and Fulham - grants £100 - £1000.
14. Havering Council - smaller charities, not-for-profit organisations, social enterprises and
unregistered charities, most vulnerable residents; up to £5,000. 10 April.
15. Maidenhead - Louis Bayliss Trust, grants of up to £1k. Deadline 9 April.
16. Merton Giving - charities helping isolated households and those at risk.
17. Milton Keynes Emergency Response Appeal - charities and community groups; vulnerable
people.
18. Morecambe Bay Foundation Appeal Fund - details to be released.
19. Newcastle Round Table - up to £2,000, charities in Tyneside.
20. Relief In Need - residents in Swaffham.
21. Salford CVS - VCSE organisations - up to £500: food and household items to vulnerable
groups, phone-based and other practical support to vulnerable groups/self-isolated
households, emotional wellbeing and mental health support.
22. Sefton 4 Good - local voluntary, community and faith sector organisations. Merseyside.
23. Southend Emergency Fund - the most vulnerable, in the Southend borough, anywhere from
Leigh to Shoebury. 9 April.
24. Test Valley (Andover) Community Grant - voluntary groups, informal groups, parish and town
councils and schools: of up £500.
25. Watford Borough Council (WBC) and Hertfordshire County Council (HCC) - £3,000 to £10,000
for charities and voluntary and community sector organisations.
26. West Mercia PCC - local Parish Council and community groups who have enlisted volunteers to
provide assistance to vulnerable people. 8 April.
27. Worthing Community Chest - up to £250 for small, ad hoc, neighbourhood projects.
28. WightAID - those in the most critical need, including homelessness, mental health and
bereavement charities working on the Isle Of Wight.
29. Young Barnet - brilliant people, so no surprise they've created a task force of charities to build
a fund to support Barnet grassroots organisations in providing frontline support.
30. WightAID - those in the most critical need, including homelessness, mental health and
bereavement charities working on the Isle Of Wight.
UK Government Financial Support
Coronavirus Financial Support – comprehensive list here,
including funding support flow chart.
1. Local Authority Funding - £2.9 billion to support vulnerable people, including people who are
homeless.
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Coronavirus Tax Relief – Charity Tax Group Coronavirus hub.
2. Gift Aid - We fail to claim £600m in Gift Aid each year and we now need that money more
than ever. Unlike funding bids, as long as you qualify, the money is certain. There are
different types. Are your claiming everything you're entitled to? This Charity Excellence
resource will give you what you need to get yours.
3. Other Tax Reliefs – There are many charitable tax reliefs and you can claim up to 4 years
retrospectively - you can find links to all of them on the Charity Excellence website tax reliefs
page. Join us and complete the 30 min Finance & Resources questionnaire. It will enable you
to identify all the tax and other savings there might be.
Rest Of The World
Global
Eater – funds that will support restaurant and bar staff,
with links to about 20 local funds in cities globally.
1. ACT Alliance - developing a Global Appeal to respond to the emerging needs and aid the
development and implementation of COVID-19 programs, US$ 12m.
2. Sweden’s Action Against Corona - startups or projects from around the world, up to €1m.
Read more here.
3. Binance Charity Foundation - Crypto Against COVID, $5m, money from the broader digital
currency and blockchain community; medical supplies for countries, including Italy, Germany
and the U.S.
The Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE):
50 grants, loans and other cash available to entrepreneurs
everywhere.
4. Call for Code Global Challenge - IBM initiative, asks the world's developers to build solutions
for COVID-19 and climate change. Interests include crisis communication, remote education,
and community cooperation.
5. Elton John Aids Foundation – grants for people with HIV.
6. Face Book COVID 19 Solidarity Response Fundraiser - matching up to $10 million in donations
to prevent, detect and respond to the outbreak around the world.
7. Forcit – Non-profit venturing program. Extended for an unlimited time and fully open for non-
profits and initiatives that need guidance, experts to build solutions in this crisis.
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Funds4NGOs - global grant funders, about 2 dozen.
7. Gates Foundation - up to $100 million to improve detection, isolation and treatment efforts;
protect at-risk populations in Africa and South Asia; and accelerate the development of
vaccines, drugs and diagnostics.
Grant Station (175) – deadline specific, international,
US national and US regions.
8. #GivingTuesdayNow - day of Global Action for Giving on 5 May. Committing $200,000 to
launch The Starling Fund to support its existing network, with priority to leaders in the regions
of greatest crisis or lowest resource.
9. Global Giving - Coronavirus Relief Fund – medical staff to communities, equipment, deliver
essential items to struggling people, feed children, support hygiene awareness efforts. Micro
grant $1000, apply here.
10. Hispanics in Philanthropy (HIP) has two emergency funds - Latino organisations for
unexpected costs – one focused on migration, another on civic participation.
11. HSBC COVID-19 - USD25 million, relief and recovery efforts around the world.
IFACCA - redirected & new funds (13 countries) and emergency
support (11)- arts and cultural organisations, listed by country.
13. IKEA Foundation - up to €10 million, primarily with existing partners.
KFF – funding internationally, nearly 100 listed – donors, amounts,
purpose and countries, including section for non-profits.
14. Kahane Foundation - CHF 4m to combat Covid-19: Europe, Turkey, Middle East and North
Africa. Not accepting applications.
15. Met Life Foundation - $25m, both short- and long-term relief efforts, with a first round of
grants supporting: emergency food, childcare, and healthcare needs, as well as direct
financial assistance. As part of the commitment, pledged $4 million to relief efforts in Asia,
Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and the US.
16. MIT SOLVE is seeking solutions for prevention, accurate detection, and rapid response of
outbreaks; $10,000 grants. Deadline 18 June.
17. Netflix - $100m to help creative community, including “third parties and nonprofits offering
emergency relief to out-of-work crew and cast, where Netflix has a big production base.”
18. New Media Ventures - invests in entrepreneurs and activists wrestling with the biggest
challenges facing our democracy. Call extended in light of COVID19, Closes 4 May.
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19. Open Road Alliance, a US-based fund - social enterprises in difficulty, 4 loan products
and grants of up to $100,000 to organisations tackling the virus.
20. Orange Foundation – Euro 2.5m plus Euro 3m from Orange to support healthcare and
preventive initiatives, and essential supplies in all 26 countries in which the Group is present,
including Africa, Middle East and Europe.
21. Peace Foundation - Rapid Response Grants, young people aged between 13 and 25.
22. Freelancing platform PeoplePerHour is offering small businesses £10m worth of credits to
hire one of its 2.4 million freelancers.
23. PRS For Music - PRS members globally - grants of up to £1000 each, depending on need.
Research Connect – Research funding, about 30.
24. Entrepreneur and investor Sam Altman is looking to fund startups or projects directly helping.
25. Santander Fund - financed by a reduction in senior management pay, : medical equipment
and supplies. Initial value of the fund at least €25 million.
26. Start Fund COVID 19 - virus-related humanitarian needs in low-income countries. IKEA
Euro1.5m start-up funds.
27. Transform Fund – Early stage innovative ideas and the scaling of innovations, seed money for
innovators, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs and institutions. $500m for ideas that curb the
spread of COVID-19, minimise the socio-economic impact of the pandemic and build the
resilience of the Bank’s member countries
28. The WeFunder accelerator - startups with bright ideas to tackle any area that's affected,
with $50,000 in immediate funding and help to raise up to $1m.
29. Unilever - UK and International NGOs in running public awareness campaigns for
handwashing, including Kenya, Ghana and Bangladesh.
30. Wellcome Epidemic Preparedness: currently closed to new expressions of interest while
proposals received are reviewed.
31. WHO COVID 19 - Solidarity Response Fund - essential supplies, track and detect the disease,
access to information, prevent infection and care for those in need, accelerate efforts to fast -
track lifesaving vaccines, diagnostics and treatments.
Africa
1. Africa-China Reporting Project – journalists, up to $1,500 for investigations focused on public
health and related issues.
2. CAF South Africa - funding to help NPOs who render essential services to the most
marginalised individuals, groups and communities in society.
3. COVID 19 Relief Fund South Africa - athletes and entertainers who have been affected by
COVID-19 restrictions in the country.
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4. Covid-19 National Trust Fund - Karpowership Ghana Company Limited has made a
contribution of ¢300,000.
5. European Union - €15 million allocated in Africa, including to the Institute Pasteur Dakar,
Senegal to support measures such as rapid diagnosis and epidemiological surveillance.
6. Nigeria - $1.2 bn fund.
7. South Africa - Solidarity Fund, R500m, action to “cushion” the impact for the most vulnerable,
support communities, and unite South Africans. Health support to health-care centres,
humanitarian efforts and the Solidarity Campaign.
8. Urgent Action Fund Africa - grants and technical support to women’s rights organisations,
women's human rights defenders and activists who identify strategic and time sensitive
opportunities to advance women's rights in Africa.
9. Visual Arts Network South Africa - project managers, event organisers, producers, freelancers,
in all cultural & creative industries.
Asia
1. Africa-China Reporting Project – journalists, up to $1,500 for investigations focused on public
health and related issues.
2. Give2Asia - partners with local nonprofits that have capacity and knowledge to respond.
3. Asian Development Bank - $1.6 billion for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises,
domestic and regional trade, and firms directly impacted. 3 April.
4. Cambodia - Metfone has been raising a charitable fund named “Metfone’s Fighting Covid-19
Fund”.
5. Hindustan - Shah Rukh Khan contributes to PM-Cares.
6. Omidyar Network India - to fund proposals that support the lower 60% of India’s income
distribution in managing and mitigating the challenges.
7. Startup India - innovative technologies and solutions for precautionary as well as treatment-
related interventions.
Australia
1. 2020 Resilience Fund - emergency relief to support the livelihoods, practice, and operations
of artists, groups, and organisations.
2. Australian Government - $1.1billion package, mental health services.
3. Chief Minister’s Charitable Fund - community organisations working with vulnerable people in
Canberra area.
4. Tasmanian Government - a number of funds to support the individuals and organisations
leading Tasmania’s renowned cultural sector.
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Canada
1. Alberta Government - charitable and non-profit organizations helping the vulnerable during
the pandemic: $30m.
2. M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust - first round of grants - $5.4m to non-profits.
Europe
1. Central European Initiative – healthcare and telemedicine, education and e-learning/distance
education, and support to micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises.
2. Coronavirus Fast Response Fund - civic initiatives in the wider Black Sea region to limit the
crisis and counter its negative impact on society, good governance, democracy, rule of law,
and access to free media.
3. Culture Of Solidarity - cultural initiatives that reinforce solidarity and the notion of Europe as a
shared public space in response to the current crisis and its aftershocks. Open to individuals,
collectives and organisations from all sectors
4. Novo Nordisk Foundation - projects to mitigate the health consequences in Denmark.
European Film Agency actions to mitigate impact, including
financial support, by European country; total 25 countries.
New Zealand
1. Organisations and community groups which help feed and shelter the homeless, support disabled
people and help keep families safe from domestic violence will get a $27 million boost.
US
1. 4-CT Charitable Organization - Uniting donors with Connecticut programs responding. 4 April.
2. Artist Trust Relief Fund - rapid response grants supporting critical needs of artists whose
livelihoods have been impacted.
3. Aspen Tech Policy Hub - applications from technologists for projects to mitigate the effects of
Covid-19, winning teams up to $15,000. Deadline 30 March.
4. Bloomington and Monroe County - $333,000, local nonprofits.
Candid – list of nearly 400 non-profit funders,
searchable by US state and county.
4. CDP COVID-19 Response Fund - nonprofits working with the most vulnerable, including social
service organizations.
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5. Columbia Basin Trust - $11.7 million in support funding.
6. Creative Capital - list of resources and hardship funders for artists.
7. Community Foundation of Greater New Britain (CFGNB) - local nonprofits - up to $5,000
through www.cfgnb.org/covid-19.
8. Horizons Foundation - $200,000 to provide emergency grants to LGBTQ organisations in the
Bay Area.
9. J. Paul Getty Trust - $10 million, small and midsize arts organizations in Los Angeles County.
10. Kansas City - operations and services, including, housing support, food insecurity, access to
health care, other critical human services.
11. Camden Property Trust (Houston) - $5 million Resident Relief Fund for Camden residents
experiencing financial losses.
12. Maryland COVID-19 - grant and loan funds for small businesses.
13. Northern Colorado COVID-19 Response Fund - $200,125 to 15 human service groups across
Larimer County, including Allenspark, Berthoud, Drake, Estes Park, Fort Collins, Glen Haven,
Loveland, Wellington, and unincorporated areas of the county.
14. NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund - nonprofit service providers struggling with the
health and economic effects: grants and loans.
15. One Louisville: COVID-19 Response Fund - financial support to households, businesses, and
nonprofit organizations working at the frontlines of the Louisville-area coronavirus outbreak.
16. PH COVID-19 Fund - more than $8 million so far to help Philadelphia-area nonprofits.
17. San Diego COVID-19 Community Response Fund - nonprofit organizations supporting workers
and families.
18. Seattle Foundation - nonprofits working to provide vulnerable communities with emergency
assistance, such as financial support, healthcare, and childcare.
19. Tao Group Hospitality Cares - to help ease the financial burden current and former employees
may face.
The ARTery – 22 funds and resources for artists and non-profits.
20. United Way – for most vulnerable to receive financial and social service support.
Platforms
1. Work For Good - removes membership fees for business donors to encourage them to give to
charities.
2. National Funding Scheme - 3 matched funding appeals for food banks, the homeless and the
elderly. Funding donated to charities.
3. Crowdfunder - fundraising on its platform free for charity and community groups.
4. Give As You Live - cancels donation fees for food banks.
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Other
1. Chapel & York - waiving normal fees to speed up matching donors’ fund with charities.
2. The United Nations Foundation and Swiss Philanthropy Foundation - Solidarity Response
Fund for the World Health Organization’s efforts. Facebook and Google are match funding
donations.
3. BlackRock, the world’s largest investment group, $50m.
4. The Rockefeller Foundation - $20m to create a better tracking and management system for
the virus.
Specialist Funding Streams
The Coronavirus Tech Handbook have done a brilliant job on this, 40+
funders - treatment and research, data scientists and modellers,
innovators, equipment & logistics, engagement & behaviour, comms &
media, policy & strategy, fighting misinformation, non-COVID19 specific
funding, venture capital funding.
Can you help?
The CEF works on a community collaboration basis. It may be used by anyone, but not for
commercial purposes.
Can you help me help others by adding to this resource? If so, e mail [email protected].
Thank You!
Particular thanks to Anna Patton (Pioneers Post) and Karen Ironside (Clare Foundation).
Each of these people/organisations contributed in some way, so thank you to them - ACF, Alex
Leggatt, Alice Evans, Becky Roberts, Calderdale Community Foundation, Charity Tax Group, Charity
Bank, Charles Coldman, Community Action Wirral, Coronavirus Tech Handbook, Dan Fletcher (Moore
Kingston Smith), Daniel Ferrell-Schweppenstedde, Dave Burgess, Directory of Social Change, Halton
& St Helens VCA, Helen Conway, Helen Angharad Fagan, Helen Harvey, Jason Nuttall, Joel Voysey,
Louise Fairbrother, Javed Thomas, Grant Finder, Josh Worral, Max Rutherford (ACF), News From The
Rooftop, Nicola Cobham, Rachel Evans, Richard Exworthy, SCVO, Sports Wales, Support Staffordshire,
Tessa Berridge, UK Fundraising, SCC, SSE, Standard Life Foundation, The FSI and The Leathersellers
Company.
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