The GrantNest blog
Honest notes on UK charity funding: what's genuinely open, what's changed, and how we verify it.
What that means in practice: grants are checked open on the funder's own page before we list them; tender coverage runs off the government's Find a Tender service rather than every local portal; profile matching is still in beta; and our application help is a checklist and an editable opening draft, not a finished bid.
- How we check a grant is actually open (and why funding databases get it wrong)
11 June 2026 - Five UK grant programmes genuinely open right now (June 2026), and who they actually fit
11 June 2026 - We re-checked four big-name funders this week. Only one is truly open to applications.
12 June 2026 - Some grants open for one week a year. Two UK funders to put in your diary right now (June 2026)
14 June 2026 - Funding for Scottish charities: which grants are genuinely open right now (June 2026)
15 June 2026 - Funding for children's and young people's charities: which UK grants are genuinely open now (June 2026)
16 June 2026 - Grants with no deadline: UK funders you can apply to any time (June 2026), and the ones that only look open
22 June 2026 - UK charity grants closing in the next two weeks (late June 2026)
23 June 2026 - Heading into July 2026: the UK charity grants we re-verified open this week
30 June 2026 - Two funder deadlines passed this week. Here’s what closed, what happens next, and the one-week window opening 8 July
2 July 2026 - UK charity income bands explained
6 July 2026 - What a charity grant matching platform should do
8 July 2026 - Public sector tenders for charities: a practical guide
9 July 2026 - Grant alerts for charities: what actually saves research time
11 July 2026 - What a charity tender search tool should do
14 July 2026 - Funding guides by cause: how UK charities should use them
15 July 2026 - Regional charity funding: a practical guide for UK teams
16 July 2026 - Affordable grant search software for UK charities
17 July 2026 - An application checklist for grants that saves time
18 July 2026 - A bid writing starting template for UK charities
19 July 2026 - 360Giving grant data search for UK charities
20 July 2026 - How to find a tender for charities in the UK
21 July 2026 - Tender research tools review for UK charities
23 July 2026 - UK funding opportunity matching that saves time
25 July 2026 - UK charity grants genuinely open, checked 28 July 2026
28 July 2026 - Who is actually eligible for Foundation Scotland funding
31 July 2026 - When these four 'closed' grants come back - two dates, one promise, one unknown
4 August 2026 - Can a charity pay someone to write its grant application? What four funders actually say
7 August 2026 - Who has funded youth work in the North West? What the grant data actually shows
23 August 2026
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Tender coverage runs off the government's Find a Tender service rather than every local portal, and profile matching is still in beta.