See the relevant funding opportunities available to North Tyneside voluntary and community organisations.
Football Foundation: Changing Pavilions and Clubhouses Funding
Grassroots football organisations are invited to apply for Football Foundation funding to improve changing pavilions and clubhouses. Grants of up to £25,000, covering up to 75% of project costs, are available for refurbishment, modernisation, and new-build projects. Funding can support improvements to changing rooms, toilets and clubhouses that enhance facilities, improve safety, reduce operating costs and help increase participation in football. Eligible applicants include not-for-profit clubs, charities, local authorities, educational establishments with community access, and other community organisations where grassroots football is a key part of their offer. Applicants are encouraged to speak with their County FA or a Football Foundation Delivery Manager before submitting an application. For full eligibility details and application guidance, visit the Football Foundation website.
AIM Museum Fundamentals Grants
Small and medium-sized museums across the UK can apply for grants of up to £20,000 through the Museum Fundamentals programme from the Association of Independent Museums (AIM), delivered in partnership with the Julia Rausing Trust and the Pilgrim Trust. The funding is available to museums with fewer than 50,000 visitors per year and is designed to strengthen core activities, improve collections care, and help organisations meet Accreditation standards. Projects can include professional expertise, staff and volunteer training, environmental surveys, collection management planning, emergency planning, conservation work, environmental monitoring equipment, pest management, and storage improvements. Funding can also support building improvements that benefit collections, collections management software, documentation materials, collections research, online access projects, new displays and interpretation, staff costs, and volunteer recruitment and expenses. The programme operates through a two-stage application process. Organisations must first submit an expression of interest before being invited to complete a full application. Autumn round:
The Jean Sainsbury Animal Welfare Trust
The Jean Sainsbury Animal Welfare Trust is inviting applications from registered charities for grants of between £1,000 and £10,000 to support animal welfare projects in the UK and overseas. Funding is available for projects and activities that benefit and protect animals, relieve animal suffering, support wildlife conservation, or promote a greater understanding of animals. Grants can be used towards both revenue and capital costs. The programme supports a wide range of activities, including: Rescue, rehabilitation and rehoming of domestic, wild and exotic animals. Direct protection of endangered species. Feeding, capturing, neutering and releasing feral cats and dogs. Veterinary and neutering costs for animals owned by people on low incomes. The purchase or improvement of property and fixed buildings used by charities, subject to eligibility criteria. To be eligible, organisations must be registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales, the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, or the Charity
GSK Community Health Programme Grants
Small charities tackling health inequalities can now apply for the GSK Community Health Programme, delivered by The King’s Fund and supported by GSK. Up to 10 charities across the UK will receive up to £10,000 in unrestricted funding, plus a place on a leadership development programme worth £5,000. The programme is open to registered charities that: Have an annual income between £20,000 and £150,000 Have been established for at least one year Are based and working in the UK Can demonstrate how they are addressing health inequalities in their community Applications are particularly encouraged from organisations led by and supporting under-represented and disadvantaged communities, including ethnic minority communities, disabled people and LGBTQ+ communities. Deadline: 5pm, Monday 10 August 2026 For full guidance and application details, visit: GSK Community Health Programme | The King’s Fund.
The Squires Foundation
The foundation’s objectives are to support: Social welfare, particularly the relief of need, hardship and distress Community development Work which supports children, young people and the elderly, local hospitals and hospices Christian activities The arts Environmental projects Grants can be one-off or recurrent and are made primarily in Tyneside and Northumberland. You can apply in writing to info@thesquiresfoundation.com. Although there are no deadlines, the Trustees meet twice a year, usually in May and November, with applications needing to be received by the beginning of April and October.
Henry Smith Foudation’s New Career Ready Fund
The Henry Smith Foundation has launched the Career Ready Fund, offering up to eight grants of £200,000 (£50,000 per year over four years) to charitable organisations supporting young people with learning disabilities into employment. The fund will support projects that embed trained job coaches within mainstream and SEND schools, provide structured careers education and vocational profiling, create meaningful work experience opportunities, and build clear pathways into supported internships, employment and paid work. Eligible applicants include registered charities, CIOs, not-for-profit CICs and other charitable organisations working in the UK. Organisations must have an annual income of £3 million or less and at least one year of audited or independently examined accounts. Applications begin with an online eligibility checker, with Expressions of Interest accepted from 22 July 2026. Expressions of interest will be accepted from 22 July (9am) until the deadline of 2 September 2026 (17:00). Apply to Career Ready – Henry