Grants & Funding -
Funding for Charities and Community Groups

VAST send out a directory of funding opportunities in our weekly bulletin and in our bi-monthly newsletter. If you would like to receive this information please download & return our Membership application form available from our Membership page.

VAST can help you with setting up a charity in Stoke-on-Trent and surrounding areas and can advise & support your organisation with charity grants, charity funding, charity applications, charity tenders, charity fundraising, etc.

At VAST we have access to J4B grants for both business and community and voluntary organisations. Whatever your need we can help to show you how to use this tool so that you have the skills to find suitable funders for your projects

There are over 3,500 funders in the UK, some of them are well know such as the Lottery and others are virtually unheard of. We can help you gain access to these funders through our funding library of books, internet, email, briefings and

There are various options when looking for funding, the most time efficient and accurate being funding search sites.

At VAST we have GrantNet which allows you to search for for funding by answering a series of questions. This includes businesses, community and voluntary and a separate Trust funders search facility.

Others include grantnet which can be found via the link or www.stoke.gov.uk/grantnet please click here for instructions.

We have downloadable documents below which may assist you:

Government Funding - PDF download
Lottery Funding - PDF download
PCT Contracting - PDF download
Funding for projects working with schools - PDF download
Funding for research projects - PDF download
Small Grants Funding - PDF download