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July opportunities for social enterprise
Here’s this month’s roundup of grants, fellowships, awards and accelerators. See what’s on offer and apply in good time.
UK Social Enterprise Awards
Deadline: 7 July 2025
Each year, the UK Social Enterprise Awards organised by Social Enterprise UK shine a powerful spotlight on the pioneering organisations transforming lives and communities across the country. If your organisation is situated in Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales, please apply directly to your national awards in the relevant category.
LabStart Fellowship – U.S. Climate Venture Support
Deadline: 7 July 2025
The LabStart Fellowship supports diverse leaders in the USA who are developing climate ventures with breakthrough technologies. Fellows receive up to USD 100,000 in funding, part-time discovery training, full-time launch support and access to top laboratories, investors and partners. The programme is designed to help underrepresented entrepreneurs bring climate technologies from lab to market.
RIoT Accelerator Program
Deadline: 7 July 2025
The RIoT Accelerator Programme is a twelve-week, cost-free, equity-free scale up running at Perch Coworking in Pittsboro, North Carolina. Founders join weekly workshops, receive one-to-one mentoring from a pool of more than two hundred advisors and tap into a network of investors and corporates that has already helped alumni raise over USD 400 million and create one thousand jobs. Benefits also include office space, curated networking events and lifetime alumni support. Technology-driven start-ups from any sector may apply, provided at least one founder can attend the weekly sessions.
GHAI Budget Advocacy Accelerator
Deadline: 7 July 2025
The Global Health Advocacy Incubator invites civil society organisations in Africa and Asia to a twelve-month Budget Advocacy Accelerator aimed at unlocking domestic finance for priorities such as non-communicable disease control, mental health, nutrition, road safety and epidemic preparedness. The cohort takes part in nine to ten webinars and up to two regional workshops covering public financial management, domestic health financing and strategic communication, then designs a capstone budget campaign with seed funding and close mentoring. Each organisation sends two committed staff members and gains entry to a global network of policy advocates.
Reach for Gold Social Impact Fellowship
Deadline: 11 July 2025
Reach for Gold seeks up to one hundred changemakers aged 18 – 35 for a global leadership and capacity building fellowship. Fellows take part in online mentoring, peer learning and expert-led workshops. After that, they design and deliver a community capstone project in fields such as education, health, infrastructure and economic empowerment. Applicants must show a record of volunteerism or civic leadership, commit to all sessions, have a good level of English for training and be able to produce regular progress updates and a final project report. The programme is open to students, early career professionals, non-profit founders and volunteers from any country and covers all training at no cost.
PSEA Outreach Fund
Deadline: 11 July 2025
UNHCR and ICVA have launched the 2025 round of the Interagency Community Outreach and Communication Fund on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA).The Fund will provide rapid, targeted financial support up to USD 20,000 to national and local NGOs to develop and disseminate PSEA outreach and communication materials. Projects must take place in one of 23 focus countries and finish within six months. Outputs are added to the global PSEA database so other agencies can use them.
ChangemakerXchange AI Upskilling Programme
Deadline: 13 July 2025
Young changemakers from Latin America and Europe can join a nine-month blend of online masterclasses, tailored mentoring and an in-person gathering that helps social ventures adopt ethical artificial intelligence tools. The initiative is free and welcomes founders ready to increase their AI readiness and impact.
North Yorkshire Social Enterprise Micro-Grant
Deadline: 14 July 2025
York and North Yorkshire Growth Hub, in partnership with Social Vision, offers a fixed GBP 500 grant to help idea-stage social entrepreneurs test and refine new ventures within the North Yorkshire Council area. For early stage individuals or sole traders with turnover under GBP 20,000, no more than five staff, a profit-driven income stream and clear plans to tackle an identified social need. Acceptable spend includes materials, equipment, consultancy or other itemised start-up costs, but the grant must fully cover the proposed activity. Applicants must operate exclusively in North Yorkshire. Charities and established businesses are not eligible.
Call for abstracts: Global Leadership in Social Business Innovation Sustainability, Science & Technology and Entrepreneurship
Abstract deadline: 15 July 2025
Chulalongkorn University’s Social Research Institute will host the International Conference on Global Leadership in Social Business Innovation in Bangkok on 28 – 29 August 2025. The programme promises more than fifteen sessions with global thought leaders, networking with changemakers worldwide and live pitches that spotlight AI, climate technology, fintech and other social innovations. The organisers are seeking students, researchers, entrepreneurs and anyone with fresh ideas for social business to submit abstracts. Participants will be eligible for the Yunus prize in social business and selected papers will be published in a journal special issue indexed in Scopus.
Moonshot Awards 2025
Deadline: 15 July 2025
Open worldwide to innovators aged 15-30, the Moonshot Awards offer equity-free grants of up to USD 10,000, admission to the immersive Moonshot Camp and access to mentors and more than one hundred global partners. Winners also gain invitations to United Nations seminars and the awards ceremony in New York.
Western Union Global Fellowship Program
Deadline: 25 July 2025
This fully funded, 16-week virtual fellowship from Watson Institute and Western Union supports entrepreneurs who come from—or work with—refugee, displaced or otherwise marginalised communities in 16 priority countries. Fellows devote about 8–10 hours a week to live workshops. Benefits include tailored one-to-one mentoring, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence, a stipend to run a 1–3-day community “Basecamp” workshop, a professionally recorded pitch video and lifetime access to the Watson alumni network. Both non-profit and for-profit ventures that already serve beneficiaries and are ready to scale are eligible.
Ignite 2025 Impact Accelerator
Deadline: 31 July 2025
Catalyse your social enterprise with up to GBP 20,000 equity-free funding. The Ford Family Foundation welcomes student and graduate founders from UK universities whose ventures tackle social or environmental challenges. Eligible ventures may be CICs, charities or mission-driven for-profits. Winners enter a tailored programme that offers pitch coaching, expert mentoring, live stage exposure and access to a GBP 50,000 grant pool.
Social Shifters Global Innovation Challenge
Deadline: 29 August 2025
This worldwide call backs young founders aged 18 to 30 whose ideas tackle at least one Sustainable Development Goal. Winners secure grants from USD 3,000 to USD 15,000 and every finalist receives free pitch coaching, online founder training and year-round access to opportunities like funding and paid work. Projects may be early-stage or already trading and must be led by youth holding most decision-making power. A single application makes you eligible for several funding streams, widening your chances of support.
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