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Shaping the Future Together: Join us for the GVS AGM & Strategic Planning Workshop 2026
GVS is pleased to announce that its AGM and accompanying Strategic Planning Workshop will take place on Friday 16th October 2026 at CF61 in Llantwit Major, CF61 1ST.
MARINE Fund Cymru - Call for Ideas Survey
MARINE Fund Cymru is seeking ideas and insight to help inform the future design and focus of the Fund. Closing date to submit your ideas is 14th August 2026.
Jean Sainsbury Animal Welfare Trust
Dedicated to supporting charities that rescue, rehabilitate, release, and rehome animals in need.
Amount: £10,000
Round deadlines: 1st August, 1st December and 1st April
Small unrestricted grants
8 x £250 unrestricted grants available. Chosen at random so everyone gets an equal oppourtunity to recieve unrestricted funds.
Deadline: Rolling
Good Place to Live: New Beginnings Fund.
Lloyds Bank Foundation’s first step in ensuring that everyone in England and Wales has a home that’s a good place to live.
Amount: Unrestrictive £200,000 up to 4 years
Deadline: 09th September 2026
Centre for Sustainable Energy - Funding
We’re offering funding to grassroots organisations to provide energy saving advice and support to vulnerable households to help them stay safe and warm.
Amount: £14,000
Deadline: 11am Monday 10 August 2026.
Find volunteering opportunities that suit you with Volunteering Wales
Want to volunteer but don’t know where to start? Volunteering Wales can connect you with the organisations that need you.
Dewch o hyd i gyfleoedd gwirfoddoli sy’n addas i chi gyda Gwirfoddoli Cymru
Eisiau gwirfoddoli ond ddim yn siŵr ble i ddechrau? Gall Gwirfoddoli Cymru eich cysylltu chi â’r mudiadau sydd eich angen.
Cylchlythyr The Index – Rhifyn Haf 2026, Rhifyn 50
Mae The Index yn Dathlu Cyhoeddi Ei 50fed Cylchlythyr
The Index Newsletter – summer edition
The Index Celebrates the Publication of its 50th Newsletter
Benthyg Penarth Encourages Community Sharing This Summer
The Summer of Sharing campaign aims to make it easier, cheaper, and more sustainable for households to get the household items they need.
Family and Friends Support at Recovery Cymru
Free, confidential peer support for anyone affected by a loved one’s alcohol or drug use.
Do you know a volunteer-run community growing project that's making a real difference?
Nominate by Tuesday 21st July, 9am and help give your local community champions the recognition they've earned:
https://www.farmgarden.org.uk/social-farms-gardens-community-management-awards
Nature Networks Fund (round six)
Awarding grants from £250,000 to £1million, this fund aims to strengthen the resilience of Wales’ network of protected land, freshwater and marine sites and build organisations’ capacity to accelerate nature’s recovery and engage communities.
Amount: £1million
Deadline: EoI deadline of 12 noon 5th August 2026.
£5m Upgrading community spaces in Wales
£5 million is being made available to upgrade and transform spaces where people in communities gather across Wales.
Amount - Large: £300,000. Small: £25,000
Deadline: Ongoing
Scottish Power Foundation Annual Grants Fund
The Scottish Power Foundation is committed to helping achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), and all the projects funded through our grant giving must contribute towards at least one of the goals.
Amount: £100,000
Deadline: Noon 24th July 2026 OR when 350 applications have been submitted
GSK Community Health
This programme is open to registered charities that are at least a year old with a total annual income between £20,000 and £150,000 and tackling health inequalities.
Amount: Up to £10,000
Deadline: Monday 10th August 2026
Medium Grants - National Churches Trust
This fund is for churches, chapels or meeting houses for church maintenance, urgent repair work or project development.
Amount: Up to £10,000
Next Deadline: Tuesday 18th August 2026
The Austin & Hope Pilkington Trust
The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust gives grants to registered charities that work in the UK.
Amount: £1000
Deadline: 31st July
The Woodroffe Benton Foundation
Grants available for activities that improve access to the natural world for people with physical or learning disabilities.
Amount: £500 - £2,500
Open and Deadline: 1st -31st August 2026