Crisis funding

Fund Priorities

This funding is available to charitable organisations facing urgent financial difficulties to provide limited emergency support to help organisations bridge short-term cash flow gaps, ensuring they can continue operating while developing long-term sustainability.

Applicants must be able to demonstrate that:

✔ The funding will make a material difference to their ability to continue operating.
 ✔They have taken steps to diversify income and/or made savings cuts up to and including making redundancies
✔ They have a clear plan for sustainability and securing future income.
✔ The crisis is a temporary funding gap rather than an ongoing financial issue.

Please note: We cannot award a grant if there is no strategy in place to improve financial sustainability.

Who can apply?

Crisis grants may support:

• Registered Charities

• Registered CIOs

In either case, they will be organisations which have previously been funded by us, at the Community Foundation for Surrey.

The Priority for Crisis grants is

• Charities/CIO which can demonstrate the impact of their work in terms of need and disadvantage.

• Where the loss of the organisation would also have a wider impact on other organisations and their beneficiaries

• Organisations where there is no credible alternative provider in their market. 

How to apply

If your organisation is experiencing a financial crisis and meets the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible at grants@cfsurrey.org.uk to discuss your situation.

Our team will assess applications on a case-by-case basis, prioritising those where funding will have the greatest impact in stabilising the organisation and enabling it to move towards long-term resilience.

We are here to help Surrey’s charitable sector remain strong, adaptable, and sustainable.