Community Buildings/Halls
Defra: Village Hall Improvement Grant Fund
Community Buildings/Halls Tuesday March 31st, 2020The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra)’s Village Hall Improvement Grant Fund, managed by Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE) supported by the ACRE Network, awards funds up to 20% of eligible costs, with a minimum grant of £10,000 and a maximum grant of £75,000 payable. This means overall scheme costs would…
Co-op Foundation: Loans for Community Spaces
Community Buildings/Halls LoansThe Co-op Foundation offers interest-free loans of up to £50,000 for enterprising ideas to improve community spaces. Venues such as parks and community centres need regular income so they can continue to meet the needs of people who use them, love them, and rely on them for local services and social contact. If your community organisation is…
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation
Arts & Culture Community Buildings/Halls Education & Employment Health & Social Care HeritageThe Trusthouse Charitable Foundation awards grants to small, well-established charitable organisations (annual income under £500,000) who address local issues in areas of extreme urban deprivation, or in remote and fragile rural communities. Rural Issues Projects that look to support communities in cities, towns, villages and areas with 10,000 or less inhabitants which are classified in the latest…
The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust
Arts & Culture Community Buildings/Halls Health & Social Care Older People YouthThe Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust award grants to UK registered charities with projects that address specific categories set out by the Trust each year. The Trust operates on a three-year rotation of categories for grant applications. The categories are as follows: 2018: Medical (non research) and Community. 2019: Children and Young People. 2020: Music and…
Veolia Environmental Trust: Landfill Communities Fund
Community Buildings/Halls Environmental Local Grants SportsThe Veolia Environmental Trust funds constituted, not-for-profit organisations through the Landfill Community Fund. Grants of between £10,000 and £75,000 are available for capital improvement projects at a single site with discrete start and end dates in one of the following categories: Community buildings and rooms: community centres; village halls; community spaces within religious buildings, Scout…
Brett Landscaping
Arts & Culture Community Buildings/Halls Environmental Health & Social Care Heritage Local Grants Older People Sports YouthBrett Landscaping’s Community Engagement scheme supports small charities and community and voluntary groups with cash (up to £250) and product donations, such as concrete, bricks or paving slabs. Organisations wishing to apply must be working within the vicinity of a Brett Landscaping plant (Cliffe or Sturry, Kent). Projects renovating public outdoor spaces are favoured, but…
Ibstock Enovert Trust: Landfill Communities Fund
Community Buildings/Halls Environmental Heritage Local GrantsIbstock Enovert Trust (formerly Ibstock Cory Environmental Trust) supports community and environmental not-for-profit projects that have as big a positive impact on the community as possible. These include improving community halls, the creation of new play areas, enhancement of sports facilities, and restoring green spaces. The Trust funds projects (up to £15,000 approximately), through the Landfill Community…
Enovert Community Trust: Landfill Communities Fund
Community Buildings/Halls Environmental Local GrantsThe Enovert Community Trust (formerly Cory Environmental Trust in Britain) awards grants of up to £50,000 (guide amount) to not-for-profit organisations under the terms of the Landfill Communities Fund. Funding is to a support a broad range of community and environmental projects that fulfil at least one of the Trust’s objectives: Funding of high-quality projects which bring maximum impact to…
SUEZ Communities Trust: Landfill Communities Fund
Community Buildings/Halls Environmental Heritage Local GrantsThe SUEZ Communities Trust awards grants of up to £50,000 through the Landfill Community Fund to not-for-profit organisations within in a two and a half mile radius of a SUEZ Recycling and Recovery UK waste processing location (West Lane, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 3TT) and within a ten miles radius of any licensed landfill (Kemsley Mill Landfill,…
Viridor Credits Environmental Company
Community Buildings/Halls Environmental Heritage Local GrantsViridor Credits Environmental Company funds community, heritage and biodiversity projects through the Landfill Communities Fund. They offer three funding schemes in England: Small Grants Scheme: up to £20,000. Main Grants Scheme: between £20,001-50,000. Large Grants Scheme: between £50,001-100,000 (the most competitive scheme). To be eligible to apply, not-for-profit organisations must be within a ten miles of an active…
Biffa Award
Community Buildings/Halls Environmental Local Grants SportsBiffa Award’s Main Grants Scheme awards grants (through the Landfill Communities Fund) to projects that provide or improve biodiversity, community spaces, cultural facilities, and places for outdoor recreation. See previously funded projects in Kent. You may have a building that needs improvement in order to increase the range of services on offer to the local community.…
The Screwfix Foundation
Community Buildings/HallsThe Screwfix Foundation offer grants of up to £5,000 to support UK registered charities and not for profit organisations. Projects that will fix, maintain, improve and repair charitable and community facilities for those in need by reason of financial hardship, sickness, disability, distress or other disadvantage in the UK are eligible to apply. Deadline: Continuous rolling…
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation
Arts & Culture Community Buildings/Halls Health & Social Care Older People Sports YouthThe Trusthouse Charitable Foundation offers grants of up to £50,000 for running costs or one-off capital costs to charities and not-for-profit organisations that are working to address local issues such as substance misuse, homelessness or unemployment in areas of urban deprivation or rural communities. Within these overarching themes, the Foundation is interested in three areas: Community…
Defra: Rural Community Buildings Loan Fund
Community Buildings/HallsDefra’s Rural Community Buildings Loan Fund, managed by ACRE, helps community buildings fill temporary gaps in funding, either for specific projects or for urgent work connected with the building. Communities are encouraged to raise funds, knowing a loan could be available to help them meet their target and win funding from other sources. The Fund offers loans…
The Fore
Arts & Culture Community Buildings/Halls Environmental Health & Social Care Heritage Older People Social Enterprise Sports YouthThe Fore is the only open-access funder in the UK offering development funding and strategic support to early-stage charities and social enterprises. Unrestricted grants of up to £30,000 over one to three years and access to business expertise are available to any UK registered charity, social enterprise or community interest company with an annual income less than £1m.…
Garfield Weston Foundation: Regular Grants
Arts & Culture Community Buildings/Halls Education & Employment Environmental Health & Social Care Heritage Religion YouthThe Garfield Weston Foundation’s Regular Grant programme awards grants of up to £100,000 to UK registered charities, CIOs, schools, faith-based organisations that are either exempt under the Charity Commission guidelines or are registered charities, housing associations or museums and galleries with activity in the following areas of Welfare, Youth, Community Arts, Faith, Environment, Education, Health…
Antony Hornby Charitable Trust
Arts & Culture Community Buildings/Halls Environmental Health & Social Care Older People YouthThe Antony Hornby Charitable Trust makes general charitable donations to organisations working in the following causes: education, training and employment; medical, health and sickness; Arts and culture; animals and environment; and community development. Grants are typically around £1,000 and rarely over £5,000, however no maximum amount you can apply for is stipulated. Deadline: Continuous rolling programme.…
Imagine Foundation
Community Buildings/HallsThe Imagine Foundation supports charities and projects that are particularly focused on building community and on empowering participants to reach their potential. At present, the Foundation is primarily focussing on small-scale newer charitable projects and organisations – those that are less than four years old with an annual income of less than £200,000. Applications are only accepted…
The Ove Arup Foundation
Community Buildings/HallsThe Ove Arup Foundation supports projects that are considered to be consistent with the Foundation’s education purposes in the built environment. The Foundation is committed to promoting new thinking in education, and to nurturing engineering of the built environment. Small, one-off donations are occasionally considered for a purpose or activity that the Foundation views as worthwhile…
The Roger De Haan Charitable Trust
Community Buildings/HallsThe Roger De Haan Charitable Trust primarily supports charitable causes and projects in east Kent, and in particular the Shepway District, however projects across Kent will be considered. By focusing on a defined geographical area, and on projects that fit within well-defined criteria, the Trust aims to make a substantial impact on the community where…
Kent County Council: Village & Community Hall Grants
Community Buildings/HallsKent County Council offer grants of up to £50,000 for local communities to improve an existing hall or build a new hall. A grant is conditional upon match funding. We can offer a pound for every pound raised, up to 50% of eligible project costs. Projects supported by the scheme include: building an extension new halls…
Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation
Community Buildings/HallsThe Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation is an independent grant-making charity. Funds are given to charities registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales within a set of carefully considered guidelines. They do not support individuals or overseas projects. Grants are awarded to those specifically applying for assistance towards a capital project: new build, major…