By Vedat Mizrahi, Co-founder · 2 July 2026

Two funder deadlines passed this week. Here’s what closed, what happens next, and the one-week window opening 8 July

Ten days ago we published a list of UK grants closing in late June and asked readers to diary three dates. Two of those dates have now passed. I’m Vedat Mizrahi, co-founder of GrantNest. This is the follow-through: what actually closed this week (verified on the funders’ own pages on 1–2 July 2026), what it means if you missed the deadline, and the unusual one-week application window that opens next Wednesday.

1. Severn Trent Community Fund — Core Funding: closed 30 June, next window November 2026

The Severn Trent Community Fund’s Core Funding window closed on 30 June 2026, exactly as scheduled. This is a window-based fund, not a rolling one, so “closed” here is routine rather than bad news: on the funder’s own pages, the next window opens in November 2026.

If you were preparing an application and didn’t submit in time, the sensible move is to keep the draft warm: eligibility for the November window is likely to be similar, and applications written in a hurry against a deadline are usually weaker than ones finished early. Our Severn Trent funder guide carries the current status and will be updated when the new window opens.

2. Henry Smith Foundation — Early Years Parenting Fund: EOI closed 1 July at 5pm

The first Expression of Interest round for Henry Smith’s new Early Years Parenting Fund (£56,250 a year for four years — £225,000 total — for charities with income between £100k and £5m) closed on 1 July 2026 at 5pm and the Fund is now closed to new Expressions of Interest.

For those who submitted: invited full applications are due in August 2026, with decisions expected in October 2026. For those who missed it: this is a long-term programme and the 1 July round was its first, so a further round is plausible — but the funder has not announced one, and we won’t list it as open until it genuinely is. Status and eligibility detail are on our Henry Smith funder guide.

3. Opening next week: The Fore’s one-week registration window, 8–15 July

The most time-critical item on this page is not a closure. The Fore — one of the few UK funders making unrestricted grants of up to £45,000 over 1–3 years to small charities and social enterprises (annual income under £500k) — runs registration windows of just one week, a pattern we covered in our piece on one-week grant windows.

Checked on the funder’s own site (most recently re-verified 25 June 2026): the Autumn 2026 registration window opens at 12:00 on Wednesday 8 July and closes at 12:00 on Wednesday 15 July. Confirmation of places follows on 16 July, the application deadline is 7 September, and decisions land in December. If your charity fits, put 8 July in your diary now — miss the week and the round is gone.

What’s still open: 30 programmes, only one dated deadline

After this week’s two closures, the GrantNest open-grants list stands at 30 UK programmes verified open on the funders’ own pages. Twenty-nine of them are rolling — among them Garfield Weston (Regular and Major), the National Lottery Community Fund’s main programmes across all four nations, Esmée Fairbairn, three Paul Hamlyn funds, BBC Children in Need, Trust for London, and the Fund for Wales. The only dated deadline in the whole set is the National Lottery Heritage Fund’s £250k–£10m programme, closing 6 August 2026. The full picture going into July is in last week’s open-grants round-up, and the live list itself is on our open-grants page.

The point: a funding list is only honest if it also says “closed”

Both of this week’s closures were marked closed on GrantNest the same day they lapsed — the guide pages, the open-grants list, and this blog all now say so. That’s the whole product, really: most directories are good at telling you a grant exists and slow to tell you it’s gone, which is how charities lose a week to an application that was never possible. Every entry we publish carries a plain-English status and a last-checked date, verified at source. If you’d like each week’s changes — what opened, what closed, what’s about to — sent to you on Fridays, the weekly email below is the simplest way to stay current.