Digital funding for charities: Unrestricted

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Leathersellers’ Foundation Small Grants

Closing soon

The Leathersellers' Foundation

Leathersellers gives small charities a one-off unrestricted grant of up to £5,000 with no reporting afterwards. Unrestricted means you can spend it on your website or digital tools. Have your application ready before 10am on opening day: only 40 are accepted per round.

Typical award
Up to £5,000
Opens
October 8, 2026
Deadline
Closes October 22, 2026
  • United Kingdom
  • Community
  • Inequality
  • Unrestricted
View fund Checked September 2026

The 1989 Willan Charitable Trust

Open

Willan Charitable Trust

Typical award
£1,000–£10,000
Deadline
Closes November 15, 2026
  • County Durham
  • Gateshead
  • Newcastle
  • North Tyneside
  • Northumberland
  • South Tyneside
  • Sunderland
  • Tees Valley
  • Unrestricted
View fund Checked October 2026

The Fore

Opens 25 Nov

The Fore

Typical award
Up to £44,998
Opens
November 25, 2026
Deadline
Closes December 2, 2026
  • Unrestricted
View fund Checked July 2026

Grants for Good

Open

Matthew Good Foundation

Typical award
£2,000–£5,000
Deadline
Rolling deadline
  • United Kingdom
  • Unrestricted
View fund Checked July 2026

John Ellerman Foundation

Open

John Ellerman Foundation

John Ellerman is a core costs funder for national changemaking charities. If most of your work fits its priorities, you can apply for unrestricted core funding of up to £180,000 and decide for yourself where it goes, including digital. It isn’t for local-only organisations.

Typical award
Up to £180,000
Deadline
Rolling deadline
  • United Kingdom
  • Human Rights
  • Inequality
  • Unrestricted
View fund Checked September 2026

Steve Morgan Foundation

Open

Steve Morgan Foundation

Typical award
£250,000–£500,000
Deadline
Rolling deadline
  • Cheshire
  • Merseyside
  • North Shropshire
  • North Wales
  • Unrestricted
View fund Checked October 2026

Swire Charitable Trust

Open

The Swire Charitable Trust

Swire funds charities working on opportunity for vulnerable people, UK nature and heritage. It awards many grants unrestricted and will pay for core costs and capital spend, so a website or digital project is fair game if your work fits one of its programmes.

Deadline
Rolling deadline
  • United Kingdom
  • Animals & Wildlife
  • Children & Young People
  • Inequality
  • Unrestricted
View fund Checked September 2026
The Long Version

How to get a website funded

Funders rarely say yes to “we need a new website”. They say yes to outcomes.

Every fund in this directory can pay for a website or digital project; the application just needs to lead with what the website delivers, not the website itself.

1. Get a quote before you apply

A written quote shows funders you’ve planned properly and budgeted realistically.

2. Fund the outcome, not the object

Write your application around reach, access or service delivery, and let the website be the means.

3. Check eligibility first

Before you draft anything, check the fund’s income band, region and deadline. Most funders offer a quick eligibility checker on their own site.