£27 million of new European Social Fund (ESF) money will be invested in innovative projects to help people improve skills and stay in work, or develop new skills and find a new job.

Eligibility
Each application must include at least one partner from another EU Member State.

Red Nose Day Programmes is Comic Relief's biggest grants fund.
 

Age Concern is offering grants towards new or expanding services or activities which directly benefit older people.

Eligibility
The Small Grants programme is open to most voluntary organisations in England who have an income or turnover of less than £250,000 per annum.

The Charles Hayward Foundation have recently reviewed their grant-making policy in order to focus on a narrower range of activities.

The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation supports projects which are genuinely original in their field and also favours those which take place outside London.

Eligibility
Proposals of a charitable kind, from registered charities or similar not-for-profit organisations.

Comic Relief runs three grant programmes.Red Nose Day is their biggest grants fund.

Eligibility
For work taking place in the UK we will consider applications from registered charities and voluntary organisations with charitable purposes.

The Gulbenkian Foundation Social Change Programme is looking for applications which explore radical, experimental but well-thought-through approaches to three key areas: Financial Inclusion, Environmental Awareness and Older People.

The Allen Lane Foundation makes grants to voluntary not-for-profit organisations (which need not be registered charities, provided the work carried out is charitable) which are small (as its grants are small) and where the work benefits groups of people who are unpopular in UK society today.

Older People; The Charles Hayward Foundation support a number of policy areas, including Older People.

Eligibility
They will normally make grants to UK registered and exempt charities only.
The following areas in this category are excluded:

Almshouses
Meals on wheels
Lifelong learning
Workshops, events and productions for older people