Useful links

Access Funds

This site aims to provide the latest funding information from Central Government, National Lottery, devolved governing bodies, EU and quangos.

Apex Scotland

By addressing the employability needs of offenders, ex-offenders and young people at risk, Apex Scotland aims to reduce offending and contribute to safer communities.

Artlink Central

Artlink Central is a registered charity founded in the belief that involvement in the arts is life enhancing and should be available to all.

Basic Skills Agency

Aims to help people of all ages who struggle with words and numbers in their everyday lives.

Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre (BURC)

Promotes the interests and the benefits of the unemployed and other social and economically disadvantaged groups.

Bethany Christian Trust

Aims to help homeless and other vulnerable people.

Big Lottery Fund

The largest distributor of National Lottery funds.

Breathing Space

Free, confidential listening service.

British Association of Settlements and Social Action Centres

A membership network of multi-purpose community organisations.

Business in the Community (BITC)

A group of 700 member companies aiming to improve their impact on society.

CASH-Online

Aims to provide people with the basic financial skills needed to run successful charities and voluntary organisations. CASH-online is published by Community Accountancy Self Help.

CDX

A UK-wide membership organisation for community development.  CDX works to ensure that community development is recognised and supported as a powerful way of tackling inequality and achieving social justice.

Caledonia Centre For Social Development

International network for information, research, technical services and training in poverty relief.

Campaign to Protect Rural England

Campaigners for a sustainable future for the English countryside.

Carfree Cities

Campaign group founded on the principle that private automobiles should not be allowed on city streets.

Carplus

Carplus is the UK's network for car clubs. It is a not-for-profit organisation which works with communities, local authorities and partner associations to promote and support the development of car clubs.

Centre For Education For Racial Equality In Scotland

The Centre for Education for Racial Equality in Scotland (CERES) works with minority ethnic represenatives, racial equality practiioners, teachers and ademics to promote racial tolerance.

Centre for Economic & Social Inclusion

An independent organisation dedicated to promoting social justice, social inclusion and tackling disadvantage.

Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)

Charity campaigning for the abolition of poverty among children and young people in the UK and for the improvement of the lives of low-income families.

Children In Scotland

Children in Scotland is the national agency for voluntary, statutory and professional organisations and individuals working with children and their families in Scotland.

Church Urban Fund

Civic Trust

A charity and umbrella organisation for 750 civic societies.Promotes improvements in the quality of urban, town and village life throughout the UK.

Coalfields Regeneration Trust

An independent grant-making body registered with the Charity Commissioners and dedicated to the regeneration of coalfield communities.

Commission for Racial Equality

A publicly funded, non-governmental body set up under the Race Relations Act 1976 to tackle racial discrimination and promote racial equality. Will be replaced in October 2007 with the Commission for Equality and Human Rights.

Communities Foundation for Northern Ireland

An independent charitable grant-making organisation.

Communities that Care (CtC)

Part of the young people's charity Rainer, CtC is a prevention programme which aims to reduce youth crime, anti-social behaviour, drug abuse, school failure and teenage pregnancy.

Community Development Foundation (CDF)

Set up to help communities achieve greater control over the conditions and decisions affecting their lives.

Community Foundation Network (CFN)

Links, promotes and supports over 60 community foundations throughout England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Community Matters

Nationwide federation for community associations and similar organisations, with 1100 member organisations across the UK.

ContinYou

Creates learning programmes offering fresh opportunities for those who have gained the least from formal education.

Crime Concern

A national crime reduction organisation and registered charity. Provides advice and help to a wide range of professional and voluntary agencies.

Crofters Commission

Concerned with the relationship between the land and the economy, agriculture, environment, heritage, culture and distinctive lifetyles of crofting communities.

Ethnic Minority Foundation

Addresses the needs of Britain's most marginalised communities through research, lobbying, campaigning and developing community centres.

Foyer Federation

Foyers provide accommodation with opportunity for young people, and a health-promoting community in which they can grow and thrive.

FunderFinder

FunderFinder develops and distributes software to help individuals and not-for-profit organisations in the UK to identify charitable trusts that might give them money.

Fundinginformation.org

Online fundraising information resource for charities, voluntary organisations, community groups, local authorities, social enterprises and other not-for-profit organisations throughout the UK.

Green-Works

A charity and social enterprise providing schools and community groups with redundant office equipment.

Groundswell UK

A national charity that supports a network of people and projects committed to inclusive approaches to tackling homelessness, poverty and exclusion.

Groundwork

Environmental regeneration charity working to improve the quality of the local environment in poor areas.

Heritage Lottery Fund

Provides lottery funding to local, regional and national heritage projects.

Homeless Link

Homeless Link is the national membership organisation for frontline homelessness agencies. The organisation is committed to increasing justice, opportunity and choice for all homeless people and for those at risk of homelessness.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is one of the largest independent social policy research and development charities in the UK. It supports a wide programme of projects in housing, social care and social policy.

King's Fund

The King's Fund is an independent charitable foundation whose goal is to improve health, especially in London.

Landscape Design Trust

Landscape Design Trust's mission is: to foster understanding and awareness of the landscape for the benefit of the environment and the community.

Lead Scotland

Lead Scotland, Linking Education and Disability, is a charity that enables disabled adults to access education and learning opportunities.

London Voluntary Service Council

LVSC strengthens voluntary organisations by providing services and a strong voice on policy issues that affect Londoners.

Millennium Commission

Body which gave grants to communities to celebrate the turn of the millennium.

National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO)

The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) works with and for the voluntary sector in England by providing information, advice and support and by representing the views of the sector to government and policy-makers.

National Lottery Fund

Search for information about National Lottery grants.

National Lottery Good Causes

Search stories of past Lottery beneficiaries.