WARBURTONS FAMILY MATTERS COMMUNITY GRANTS PROGRAMME

GRIN #3827 – Friday 9th May 2025

In today’s bulletin (you can click on the title of the grant provider below to go directly to their website or to the Charity Commission for those that do not have a website):

o 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. The current funding round opened to applications on Thursday 8th May with a deadline of Monday 4th August 2025. Decisions are expected to be announced by Friday 12th September 2025.
o THE FINNIS SCOTT FOUNDATION (SUMMER 2025 GRANTS ROUND) – capital and revenue grants of up to £10,000 are available to UK registered charities, Charitable Incorporated Organisations, Community Interest Companies, Hospices and Parent Teacher Associations for projects in the areas of gardening and plant sciences, art history and fine art. The next application deadline is 4pm on Monday 18th June 2025 for the trustee’s meeting on Thursday 17th July 2025.
o THE LANGDALE TRUST – grants, generally for up to £5,000, are available to UK registered charities for a broad range of charitable purposes, including the arts, health and the environment. Applications may be made at any time in writing,

On our website today (scroll down to the ‘Latest News‘ section):

o GRANT PROGRAMMES WITH AN UPCOMING APPLICATION DEADLINE – a list of national grant programmes with an application deadline over the next couple of weeks. Today’s listing covers the period Monday 12th May to Sunday 25th May 2025. The direct route to today’s website article is via this LINK.
__________

FRIDAY’S LOCAL GRANT SCHEME – SOUTHERN ENGLAND

o THE HALL AND WOODHOUSE 2025 COMMUNITY CHEST – applications are invited from any voluntary or community organisation that is based, or works in, the Hall and Woodhouse Brewery trading area across the south of England, from Devon to Sussex and in the north from Bristol to Twickenham. A total grant pot of £60,000 is available during 2025. Groups with an annual income of under £200,000 can apply for a grant of between £300 and £3,000 for projects and activities that improve their local area such as youth work, health and social care, arts and culture, conservation and the environment. Grants can be used towards things such as equipment and furniture, training, transport, professional assistance, specific project resources and/or operational costs. The 2025 Community Chest application process will open on Tuesday 13th May and close on Sunday 13th July. Applications will be considered by the judging panel in the autumn 2025, with funding to be issued at an awards evening in January 2026. Further information is available on the Hall and Woodhouse website.

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.
__________

o Application deadline: MONDAY 4th AUGUST 2025. (The programme opened to applications on Thursday 8th May 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.
___________

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 round has just opened to applications (on Thursday 8th May) with a deadline of Monday 4th August 2025. Decisions are expected to be announced by Friday 12th September 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.org