WARBURTONS FAMILY MATTERS COMMUNITY GRANTS PROGRAMME
Micro-grants up to £400 are available for not-for-profit organisations in England, Scotland and Wales for projects that benefit children and families.
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o Application deadline: TUESDAY 4th NOVEMBER 2025. (The programme opened to applications on Monday 11th August 2025.)
o Funder: Warburtons Limited, a private limited company (company number 00178711) is the well-known manufacturer of bread and pastries. Its Family Matters Grants Programme is managed by the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) on behalf of Warburtons Limited.
o Who can apply: not-for-profit organisations in England, Scotland and Wales. Employees of Warburtons may also apply on behalf of an organisation if they are actively involved with the applicant as a sponsor, trustee or in a voluntary capacity.
o Key Words: Employment Skills, Environment, Children and Families, Life Skills, Mental Health, Open Space, Physical Health, Scotland, Wales, England.
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The Warburtons Family Matters Community Grants programme provides small grants up to £400 (with no matched funding requirement) to not-for-profit organisations across Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland) for projects that benefit families and meet one or more of the following themes.
1. Health – supporting families to care for each other and lead healthier lives:
o Improving physical health, and/or
o Improving wellbeing.
2. Place – supporting families to flourish in communities that are safer, greener and more inclusive:
o Making spaces safe and inclusive, and/or
o Connecting communities with the environment.
3. Skills – supporting families to gain useful skills for life and work:
o Developing useful life skills, and/or
o Developing useful skills for employment.
Grants of up to £400 can be used to support projects and activities and organisations that will directly benefit families and have a noticeable social impact on people’s lives.
Funding is not available for:
o Activities that are for sponsorship, advertising and promotion alone, which primarily generate commercial returns.
o Activities that benefit Warburtons’ commercial business.
o Activities that discriminate on the basis of race, creed, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, or national origin.
o Activities that have already taken place.
o Activities that have a negative impact on the environment.
o Individuals.
o Organisations that are unable provide appropriate registration and financial documents, bank details and personal details of trustees/directors.
o Organisations that are unable to report back on outcomes.
o Organisations that mainly focus animal welfare.
o Organisations that promote political or religious viewpoints to their beneficiaries.
o Organisations that provide grants, bursaries or financial donations to other organisations or individuals.
o Organisations that may be harmful to the Warburtons brand, or
o Salaries.
Further information and access to the application form is available on Warburton’s website (you’ll need to scroll down to the foot of the page).
The current funding opened to applications on Monday 11th August with a deadline of Tuesday 4th November 2025. Decisions are expected to be announced by Friday 19th December 2025.
Contact details for the Fund are:
CAF Grant Making
The Charities Aid Foundation (CAF)
25 Kings Hill Avenue
Kings Hill
West Malling
Kent
ME19 4TA
Email: grantmaking@cafonline.