Funding opportunities

Global Affairs Canada – ActionAid Nigeria – Feminist Hub Strategic Opportunity Grant

Interventions that advance the rights of women and girls in Nigeria. Applicants may apply to one of the following categories: Emergency Intervention Fund -this category supports responses to urgent or unforeseen situations such as natural disasters, conflict related crises, political instability, or sudden policy changes that negatively impact women and girls. Critical Intervention Fund  – this category supports short term advocacy and strategic opportunities that can influence policy change, amplify women’s voices, and strengthen women’s movement building efforts. Women Human Rights Defenders Intervention Fund – this category provides protection and emergency assistance to women human rights defenders facing threats, intimidation, or violence due to their activism, supporting their safety, wellbeing, and continued engagement in advancing women’s rights.

European Endowment for Democracy

EED’s support is based on a principle of fostering – not imposing – democracy and facilitating local actors’ initiatives. It primarily seeks to support groups and activists that cannot be supported by existing EU instruments or other programmes.

The Batchworth Trust

Whilst the Trust maintains a policy of considering applications from a wide variety of charities, the emphasis has been to mainly support medical research, youth charities and welfare both here and abroad. Grants to smaller charities remained a priority of the Trust during the year and in many cases the distributions made were provided to support an innovation or a critical issue. Support for larger or national charities was predominantly to support either the ongoing work of the organisation or a particular initiative.

Oceans 5

Oceans 5 is a funders’ collaborative, includes new and experienced philanthropists with a common inspiration for collaborative, results-oriented grant making. The collaborative shares the desire to secure tangible improvements in global ocean health, while also strengthening ocean conservation philanthropy. We prefer time-bound efforts involving multiple organizations working toward common policy objectives. Our work focuses on projects to stop overfishing and to establish marine reserves, the two highest ecological priorities identified by marine scientists. We are inspired by opportunities, particularly ones that can bring lasting benefits to coastal communities. Whilst they do not accept unsolicited applications, they welcome inquiries and ideas for potential projects.

The Paristamen Charity

Unrestricted grants under the Charity’s Responsive grants is support of small to medium-sized charities where we believe a small grant is likely to make a difference. Focus areas are broad. We do not currently support organisations or projects where the main object is: advancement of education advancement of arts, heritage, culture or science sport animal welfare work linked to the armed forces.

Balkan Fund Travel Grant

Connecting People, Ideas, and Institutions for a Democratic Western Balkans. Travel grants enable activists and group members to step out of their local silos and engage with the broader regional or international community. Eligible costs include travel, accommodation, and participation fees for conferences, high-level advocacy meetings (e.g., in Brussels or regional capitals), and specialized training workshops. These grants aim to build the social capital of movements by connecting them with peers and decision-makers.

Beatrice Gilmore Trust

The Trust funds charities that are looking to run locally led projects in Africa and the Indian sub-continent. We will only consider making grants to a those charities with objectives that enable the following: The prevention or the relief of poverty; The provision of services to improve the educational attainment and opportunities for those who are most disadvantaged; The provision of health services; To enable those who are vulnerable because of their youth, old age, ill health, disability or financial hardship to take greater control over their lives; The support of the communities of those who are most disadvantaged.

Deadline: 3 August. They are not currently accepting any new applications until 1st June so please do not apply before this date.

John Ellerman Foundation UK Overseas Territories Fund

We welcome funding applications for practical conservation activities in support of the protection and restoration of habitats and species on land and in the sea. We will also consider funding organisational capacity building, policy related work, acquisition of land with intrinsic conservation value, and advocacy for the creation and implementation of legislative frameworks. Our preference is to support core costs but we can support project funding requests where an organisation has identified that this would be more beneficial for their environmental impact aims.

The Canada Fund for Local Initiatives

Small-scale, high-impact projects in developing countries which align with Global Affairs Canada’s thematic priority areas: Inclusive governance; Peace and security; Growth that works for everyone.