Grants of up to £5,000 Available to Increase Employment Opportunities for Disadvantaged Adults (UK)
Grants of up to £5,000 are available to registered charities to support projects that equip people (18 or older in order) from disadvantaged groups with the communication skills necessary to gain employment. Priority will be given to projects that target people experiencing multiple deprivation or other groups facing major hurdles to employment, especially women, people with physical, mental, or learning disabilities, refugees and asylum seekers. The funding is being made available through the Thomas Wall Trust, and the deadline for stage 1 applications is the 5th May 2025. Applicants successful at this stage will be invited to submit a stage 2 application.

Grants of up to £75,000 Available to Charities Delivering Specialist Services (England and Wales)
Grants of up to £75,000 are available to small local charities in England and Wales that provide specialist services. The grants are designed to support the development and growth of charities that understand the issues people face and are best placed to make a real difference in people's lives. The funding is available through the Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales’s Specialist Grants Programme. Eligible charities must address one of the Foundation's open themes: addiction, asylum seekers and refugees, care leavers, domestic abuse, homelessness, offending, sexual abuse and exploitation, and trafficking and modern slavery. The deadline for applications is 5pm on the 25th January 2025.