Open all yearPossibly, with conditions
BlueSpark Foundation grants
- Amount
- Most grants are under £2,000; none are more than £5,000
- Deadline
- Open all year, no fixed deadline
Tesco Stronger Starts: can it pay for a STEM workshop?
Short answer
Cannot pay for a workshop
Open all yearOpen all year, no fixed deadline
The strand the funder currently promotes, Fruit & Veg Grants, is explicitly for improving access to healthy, nutritious food, not children's activities or equipment, so it cannot pay for a STEM workshop. The wider Stronger Starts strand has, in past cycles, funded children's activities and equipment, but its current live status could not be confirmed on the funder's own page today, so no promise can be made on that route either.
Checked on the funder's website on 10 November 2026. View the funder's page (tescostrongerstarts.org.uk)
Key facts
- What it is
- A Tesco-funded community grants programme administered by Groundwork. The strand the funder's own site currently promotes as open is the Fruit & Veg Grants strand, aimed at improving children's access to healthy food, not general children's activities or equipment.
- Next round
- The funder's apply page currently shows only the Fruit and Veg Grants strand.
- Amount
- Up to £1,500 (Fruit & Veg Grants strand, currently open)
- Who can apply
- School, Charity, PTA, OtherSchools, registered charities and not-for-profit organisations supporting children and young people can apply directly to the Fruit & Veg Grants strand; a governing document is required.
- Phases
- Primary, Secondary
- Where
- England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
- Funder
- Tesco, administered by Groundwork