Funding Opportunities

Current funding opportunities available for Coaction Training courses

1. New The National Archives Community Heritage skills Bursary

Awarding Body: The National Archives

Amount available: up to £1,000

Awarding period: Sept 2025 - Sept 2027

Eligibility: Open to applicants at any stage of their personal or professional journey

The National Archives via their Spaces, Places and Belonging Community Hub is offering a new Bursary to grow expertise “to make innovation and learning from community-facing projects more sustainable, transferable, and accessible” in the UK’s GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) and heritage sectors.

Their Skills Bursaries provide grants of up to £1,000 for people seeking to grow their expertise in community heritage work. Open to applicants at any stage of their personal or professional journey, these bursaries can be used for training, mentoring, attending workshops, or other professional development activities related to heritage and community engagement to be determined by you.

Funding is available on a rolling application basis and can be used to access many of our courses - read the assessment criteria before applying.

More details can be found HERE

2. Wales Flexible Skills Programme Funding - Ends March 2031

Awarding Body: Welsh Government

Amount available: up to 50% of course fees

Awarding period: Open until March 2031

Eligibility: Your business must be based in Wales, solvent and you must commit to release staff to undertake the requested training by the end of March in each financial year. 50% grant available for low energy and Passivhaus training courses.

This funding can be applied to the following courses offered by Coaction Training CIC:

  1. Introductory Level: Passivhaus Low Energy Design for design teams.
  2. Intermediate level: Certified Passivhaus Tradesperson for contract managers
  3. Intermediate level: Certified Passivhaus Designer for professionals who will be designing, consulting or delivering buildings to the Passivhaus standard
  4. Intermediate level: Passivhaus in Practice apply Passivhaus theory hands-on to real-world scenarios. Note this course is in-person at BE-ST, G72 0AH
  5. Intermediate level: Introduction to THERM (16 PHI credit points)
  6. Advanced level: Retrofit Delivery (16 PHI credit points) for designers and contractors working on deep retrofit projects.

Funding is available until the end of March 2026.

More details can be found HERE

3. CITB Local Employer Networks - 50% Funding

Awarding Body: CITB

Amount available: up to 50% of course fees, depending on size of organisation

Awarding period: Currently open

Eligibility: Applicable for GB regions only, you must be a CITB registered business, contractor or subcontractor. Capped annual limits for micro to medium employers with a separate scheme for Large Employers. 50% grant available for low energy and Passivhaus training courses.

This funding can be applied to the following courses offered by Coaction Training CIC:

Introductory Level: Passivhaus Low Energy Design for design teams.

  1. Intermediate Level: Certified Passivhaus Tradesperson for contractor managers.
  2. Intermediate level:  Certified Passivhaus Designer for professionals who will be designing, consulting or delivering buildings to the Passivhaus standard.
  3. Intermediate Level: Passivhaus in Practice apply Passivhaus theory hands-on to real-world scenarios. (in-person at BE-ST, Scotland G72 0AH)
  4. Advanced Level: Retrofit Delivery (16 PHI credit points) for designers and contractors working on deep retrofit projects.

More details can be found HERENote: This list is not exhaustive, details may change at short notice.

We review and update this page regularly but if you know of any grant funding that we haven't listed, please send an email to suppot@coaction.org.uk telling us about it!