Apply for a grant

The grant for protecting and improving the environment and combatting climate change.

You can apply for funding for:

• Climate action and environment education projects
• Activities to remove carbon from the atmosphere (tree planting, heathland restoration or supporting algae farms)
• Remediating polluted areas (litter picking or clean-ups)
• Research or development work to enhance or protect biodiversity
• Improvement of public community spaces to help people get outdoors

Our equality grant is aimed at driving greater equality for disadvantaged groups in our society. 

As an inclusive grant, our goal is to help a wide variety of communities, where they face a struggle for equality such as BME, LGBTQ+, Disability, Women’s and Men’s rights groups. 

You can apply for funding for:

• Mentoring
• Skill building
• Educational workshops
• Employability
• Peer support groups
• Advocacy groups
• Health support
• Assistive technology

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Equality grant factsheet PDF

The grant for responding to emerging needs

This grant is for charities who aren’t eligible for our community grants programme. For example, if you earn more than £500,000 a year. This grant allows us to respond to situations that need funding as they arise, such as projects impacted by the cost of living crisis.

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Flexible grant factsheet PDF

The fund that allows our members and colleagues to nominate a charity.

If you have a charity that's close to your heart, you can nominate them to receive funding as part of our Winter of Giving. The charity will have to follow our eligibility criteria and you must be a Wesleyan member or colleague to nominate.

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You can apply for this grant if your charity offers wellbeing activities designed to support doctors, dentists or teachers.

You can get funding for:

• Peer support groups
• Webinars
• Workshops
• The development of technology
• Projects which will improve the working practices/wellbeing of our professions

On top of the specific funding activities, all our grants have the following criteria: 

• Applications must fall in to one of the following categories: registered charities, community groups, social enterprises/community interest companies, a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee, constituted community groups, an educational institution such as school or college.
• All the above must be able to provide two years of accounts and will need to pass due diligence checks. 

We will not fund:

• Individuals or sole traders, organisations who have indicated poor management of any previous grants or who present poor financial health.
• Activities that are being undertaken to offset carbon footprints or applications to buy carbon credits on behalf of that organisation.

We have different grant panels that assess and approve applications. During the application process, you may be asked clarification questions or to present to a panel.

Unfortunately, we can't help every area in the UK. If your location isn't listed for the Community Grants Programme, then you can't apply for a grant at this time. However, you may be eligible for our Flexible Grant.