Seed Funding
Our seed funding programme offers grants to help Transition groups build capacity, increase impact in your local community and do something that might otherwise be impossible. Our grants are there to enable groups to work with your community to reimagine and rebuild more socially just and resilient future where everyone can thrive.
This current round is our largest ever, with £270,000 to disperse to support work for community-led change. Please note this round of grants is the last for which we have confirmed funding at this stage.
We are grateful to National Lottery players and The National Lottery Community Fund for the funding that makes these grants possible.
Build the Alternatives
Maybe you’ll use your grant to launch a new project like a community hub to develop a food growing and sharing scheme; to kickstart a local visioning conversation or for a fantastic event? Or it could help develop your group by supporting coordination or staff costs, help you build relationships and networks, or work in solidarity with under-resourced groups in your community. Perhaps you’ve always wanted to explore what a sustainable local economy might look like, and a grant could help create new livelihoods, a co-op or try a social enterprise.
We are really open to hearing your ideas, so even if they don’t come under these themes please do apply. Find out more about the amazing things unlocked by the last round of seed funding in our article below, and at our Seed Funding Stories event on 2 November.
To cover small project costs such as facilitator fees, a zoom account, tools or travel.
To support you to set up new projects, cover core staff costs or launch community led social enterprises.
To support you to work in partnership with other Transition groups to achieve a shared goal. Could have a regional or a thematic focus.
How to Apply
This seed funding is for Transition groups or Hubs in England, Wales and Northern Ireland registered with Transition Network. (Our partners SCCAN offer their own funding programmes in Scotland.)
To register on the Transition Network site, please follow this link. For groups just starting, we are offer a short Launch workshop on 18 November and 2 December – find out more and join in here. More information on eligibility and the criteria for becoming a transition group is here.
We have tried to make this application process as simple and easy as possible, using short online forms, videos and screen readable content. Groups can make more than one application and can apply for more than one type of grant.
Please do read our All You Need to Know guide before applying. Join our ‘Ask the Team’ webinar on 27 November if you have further questions.
The deadline for applications is 11.59pm on 7 January 2024.
Seed Funding News
“Runner Beans Not Runways” Forest, art and community in Heathrow’s flight path
9 November 2023
7 minute read
How seed funding nourishes community action
19 October 2023
8 minute read
United by the flow of the River Exe
4 October 2023
7 minute read
Orchard, forest, a fruit tree for every home: communities planting trees for the future
27 April 2023
9 minute read
Creating space for community imagination
9 January 2023
8 minute read
Seed Funding stories: Vertical Farming in Guildford
17 October 2022
1 minute read
How to re-imagine a city
3 October 2022
9 minute read
Seed Funding stories: Solar Gennie
29 September 2022
1 minute read
Seed Funding stories: Hubren
20 September 2022
1 minute read
Portland 4 the Planet sow seeds of local change
6 September 2022
7 minute read
Seed Funding goes live: From tiny seeds, Transition groups grow bountiful harvests
28 July 2022
8 minute read
“Hope with its sleeves rolled up” blooms in Wellington
12 April 2022
8 minute read
Transition Wilmslow’s gardens grow and grow
16 February 2022
7 minute read