The Hardman Trust is awarding grants to prisoners in the latter stages of long-term sentences who have shown a special commitment to personal rehabilitation or designed a project to prepare them better for return to the community.

HT provides free seaside holidays for groups of disadvantaged children. The holidays are for groups of 12 children aged 8-12 and are based in a centre in Wales. Accomodation, transport and admissions are free, with your organisation only needing to buy food and three adult workers. Application forms are available from September and the deadline is 31 January.

Through its Community Action programme, the HBOS Foundation makes grants of up to £10,000 to support a diverse range of local activities in those communities where the HBOS bank operates. The programme is open to registered charities and has two key themes: money advice and financial literacy; and developing and improving local communities. <http://www.hbosfoundation.org/>

The Help Yourselves Awards fund small, innovative projects, led by young people - or projects that work with children and young people and their ideas. The next deadline for completed applications is 11 July. email helpyourselves@savethechildren

The Townscape Heritage Initiative is a grant-giving programme under which HLF supports schemes led by partnerships of local, regional and national interests, including the voluntary sector, that aim to regenerate the historic environment in towns and cities across the UK.

The fund makes grants to voluntary agencies in the UK and the developing world. Currently the trustees' interests are: homelessness, penal affairs, and minorities.

Young Roots grants are designed specifically for young people aged between 13 and 20 to get involved with heritage. Any not-for-profit group can apply and the HLF is happy to give advice with applications and information about their other funding schemes. There is no deadline and you can expect to have a decision within three months of submitting the application.