Funding

Community Emergency Fund (£20m) will support organisations promoting sports and activities who are not currently supported by Sport England with grants of between £300 and £10,000.

Arts Council England are launching a variety of COVID 19 emergency funding packages for arts focused organisations.

CAF has launched this rapid response Fund to help smaller charitable organisations affected by the impact of Covid-19. Grants of up to £10,000 are available and will help to continue to deliver much needed support to communities.

What funding is available now?

Wave 1 Small Grants: This first wave of funding is for urgent needs so that you can cover costs that you are incurring right now to support communities affected by the covid-19 outbreak and the move to social distancing, with a focus on food and essentials. Groups have told us that they are incurring additional expenditure to meet short-term needs around food and essential items such as mobile phones and data, and cleaning products in these initial weeks. This funding is intended to enable you to cover these essential and urgent costs so that you can carry on providing support to Londoners. You can apply now for a grant up to £5,000 for these immediate and urgent needs.

The Big Lottery's Awards for All programme welcomes applications for small to medium grants up to £10,000 from charitable organisations

The National Emergencies Trust will distribute funding to charities and grassroots organisations in response to a COVID 19 emergency appeal. More information about this will be launched later this week.

M&S, Lidl, Aldi, Danone and Coca-Cola European Partners have partnered with Neighbourly to create the Neighbourly Community Fund to channel microgrants directly to community organisations helping those most at risk. For existing members of Neighbourly in UK and Ireland only.

The John Lewis Partnership has announced a £1m Community Support Fund to help communities across the UK to help those in need.