National Funders Days 2 and 3 Tuesday 18th March and Wednesday 19th March
Following our previous online funding fairs, we’re building on the success of these and will have our 2025 Funding Fair on March 17th –19th. We had over 2000 bookings across the 3 days last year and hopefully will be able to help and inspire more this year. These are the National Funders (days 2 and three of the Funding Fair). All sessions are online and free.
How this will work is each funder has been allocated a 30 minute session using Zoom to explain what funding they have and also how the application process works. There will also be an opportunity to ask questions. You will need to book separately for each session you wish to attend.
To book sessions – click on the title of the session in the list below.
National Funders Day 2 Tuesday 18th March
11:00 – 12:00 Easyfundraising (18th March)
Easyfundraising is the UK’s biggest charity shopping site where you can raise money for your good cause when your supporters shop on line. easyfundraising turns everyday online shopping into free donations for your cause – your supporters shop as normal (but start on your easyfundraising cause page), and then retailers will make a small donation to say “thank you”.
If you would like to set up your free easyfundraising page before the session, you can do that here
12:30 – 13:30 Heritage Lottery Fund (18th March)
We believe that understanding, valuing and sharing our heritage brings people together, inspires pride in communities and boosts investment in local economies. We distribute National Lottery grants from £3,000 to £5million and over, funding projects that sustain and transform the UK’s heritage Increasing resilience.
14:00 – 15:00 Key Fund (18th March)
The Key Fund offers flexible loans and grant/loan packages to help the community and social enterprises to start up, become sustainable, or grow.
15:30 – 16:30 Lloyds Bank Foundation (18th March)
We have committed to funding at least 700 charities at any one time, for longer, more flexibly and with more money. We will provide a wide range of developmental support, including training, consultancy and mentoring alongside our funding to strengthen charities.
National Funders Day3 Wednesday 19th March
10:00 – 11:00, Groundwork (19th March)
Groundwork have a number of grant programs including Tesco bags of Help.
11:30 – 12:30 Clothworkers Foundation (19th March)
The Clothworkers’ Foundation improves the lives of people and communities – particularly those facing disadvantage, deprivation and/or discrimination – through grant-making. The Foundation was set up in 1977 to be the primary vehicle of charitable giving for The Clothworkers’ Company. Since then, The Foundation has awarded more than £152 million in capital grants to charities registered in the UK or not-for-profit organisations working across the nine areas of priority defined in its Main and Small Grants programme.
13:00 – 14:00 People’s Postcode Lottery (19th March)
Six community focused trusts award funding from £500 up to £20,000 to support smaller charities and local community groups that are working for the benefit of people and planet.
14:30 – 15:30 Benefact Trust (19th March)
Benefact Trust (formerly Allchurches Trust) was established to empower Christian churches and charities across the UK and Ireland, giving them the means to make a positive difference in the lives of the people and communities they serve. Our support of churches and Christian charities in the UK and Ireland is more than just the preservation of history and heritage, it’s the preservation of hope, it’s a potential lifeline for many of our most disadvantaged communities. Since 1972 we have awarded over £235 million to churches, Christian charities and the communities they serve – £100 million in the last 5 years alone. Although Christian causes are at the heart of our giving, the wider social impact of what we do reaches much further.
15:45 – 16:45 Bernard Sunley (19th March)
A family grant making foundation which supports charities in England and Wales working to raise the quality of life and provide greater opportunities for the young, the elderly, the disabled and the disadvantaged.