Show Me The Money! Grants & Funding - Practical Tips & Support

Revised: December 2025

Ho! Ho! Ho! Wonderful people,

Welcome to a super-stacked Christmas Hamper edition. December brings a huge mix of opportunities across community wellbeing, green innovation, early-years support, digital inclusion, skills development, housing, and neighbourhood regeneration. 

Many funds this Festive period focus on local place-making, frontline workforce development, climate action, children & families, and heritage restoration, plus several national schemes offering capital, capacity building and R&D support. Plus a summary of the Autumn Budget.

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This month’s superheroes: Akil Benjamin, co-founder of COMUZI and DOES, whose community-led incubators have supported 1000’s of founders. Akil always considers the personal wellbeing of entrepreneurship. Charles Rapson, Strategic Lead for Social Economy Growth at WMCA, one of the most influential champions of mission-driven enterprises in the UK. Thanks for securing funding for so many brilliant social entrepreneurs. 

If someone you know isn’t receiving the newsletter, ask them to check their junk folder — sometimes we arrive a little too enthusiastically.

Stay amazing, stay courageous

Drew

Drew Currie

Founder, hibretOne CIC | Interim CEO & Board, iSE CIC

Top Tips for New Subscribers:

●       If a grant or programme is not in your region, many funds listed are for the W Midlands. Search the keywords within the grant, as the programme may be running in your area, under a different name.

●       Use AI to search this document, as some of the grants have a short applications window.

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