
Funding and Grants
Southampton Voluntary Services is committed to helping charities, groups and organisations within the City's voluntary sector to acquire the funding and support needed to continue their work. Below is a list of the current funding opportunities, news and updates in Southampton.
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Funding News and Updates

The Bright Ideas Fund: opening soon!
The Bright Ideas Fund supports new community business ideas through the start-up and planning stages with tailored business support, to the implementation stage with grants of up to £15,000. The fund

Southampton Healthy Homes – Cold Weather Support
Gale* was signposted by Adult Services after her old back boiler was condemned by a gas engineer who came to service it. We visited Gale in her home and, after

Greggs Foundation – Breakfast Club Scheme
Everybody knows the benefits of a healthy breakfast, but not every child gets one before the start of the school day. The Greggs Foundation started the breakfast club programme in

The PRS Foundation
The PRS Foundation’s Open Fund for Organisations supports new music projects led by promoters, talent development organisations, venues, festivals, curators and large performance groups. Not for profit organisation in the

Music For All Funding
If music is the food of love… here are some funding streams that may interest you: Making music changes lives. At the Music for All Charity they believe that everyone

Help the Homeless grants
Help The Homeless makes grants to UK registered charitable organisations with the aim of helping homeless people return to the community and enabling them to resume a normal life. Grants

Lloyds bank funding
Registered charities or CIOs can apply to Lloyds Bank Foundation for a grant of a minimum of £30,000 to a maximum of £100,000, delivered across three years. You can apply for either

New programme launches to improve third sector access to European funds
Civil Society Involvement (CSI) is a new programme recently launched to help voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations across England to access European funding for the remaining 2014-2020 programme. The

VCSE health and wellbeing fund for improving children’s mental health
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC link) is inviting applications from existing schemes in the VCSE sector to trial a new approach to helping children and young people with

Launch of Pocket Parks Plus
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is providing a £1 million fund to support the development of new pocket parks and to refurbish existing parks that have