Chiddingfold Community Fund
Dedicated to the village and its residents, especially supporting local heritage, training for young people, and social isolation.
What is Chiddingfold Community Fund?
The Chiddingfold Community Fund encourages local giving to develop a greater capacity to respond to village needs.
Managed by the Community Foundation for Surrey, the Chiddingfold Community Fund is part of a network of borough and district Area Funds across the county.
Why support the Chiddingfold Community Fund?
The Fund enables people who love Chiddingfold to donate money for the exclusive benefit of the village and its people. With your help we can help build a stronger community by supporting local causes that can make impact and that will empower Chiddingfold to help itself now and in the future.
Chiddingfold Community Fund objectives
The fund's main goals are to:
Help older or disadvantaged residents combat isolation and stay happy, healthy and included
Increase facilities, training, skills and experience for young people.
Support village activities, services and community focal points such as the Village Hall
Fund projects that improve and preserve the village heritage, culture and environment.
To discuss how you can get involved, please contact the Community Foundation for Surrey directly, or a local Fund Panel Member:
James McClean: 07799 640082
Our fund is geared towards supporting initiatives that directly benefit our community. Recent grants include:
St Mary’s School: Funding towards the refurbishment of the school’s accessible toilet and first aid room, meaning that staff, students and visitors have a safe and hygienic facility.
The Chiddingfold Surgery: Three ambulatory blood pressure monitors to be replaced with funding, to the benefit of all who need them locally.
Whether it's funding new equipment or covering ongoing operational costs, our grants support both existing services and innovative new ventures.
Leave a legacy or gift in your Will.
You may choose to support your local area by making a gift in your Will.
Every charitable gift in a will is entirely exempt from inheritance tax.
Additionally, the inheritance tax rate reduces from 40% to 36% if at least 10% of your estate goes to charity. Choosing to give in this way is an extraordinary act of compassion and commitment - one that will continue to make a lasting difference in the lives of people and communities across Surrey for generations to come.
Apply to Chiddingfold Community Fund
A small grant can make a big difference
Applying for a small grant (less than £2500) is easy.
Simply click the link below to send us a quick email. You will be asked to say a few words about your organisation and what you want the funding for – keep it short.
The Fund Panel will then review whether they have any funding available and if they’d like to invite you to apply, they will send you a link to the online application form.
If you’re invited to apply, the application will be processed within a month.
If you need more than £2,500 you should apply as usual via our main grants round.
Our small grants process is designed to respond to local, urgent needs, and particularly to support the small grassroots organisations that provide much-needed support to the most vulnerable in our communities.
We therefore welcome applications that prioritise addressing the needs of residents at disadvantage because of economic or health circumstances, living with poverty or other need or inequality.
Make a donation.
Donations can be made at any level, either as one-off donations or spread over a period of time. They can be donated as gifts of cash, legacies, shares, property or land.
The easiest way to give is via the link below which will direct your donation directly to Chiddingfold Community Fund. If you would prefer to make a bank transfer, please contact us.
Don’t forget Gift Aid! Using Gift Aid means that for every pound you give, the Chiddingfold Community Fund will receive an extra 25p from HM Revenue & Customs, helping your donation go further.
Apply for funding
Applying for funding is easy. Simply fill out a quick Expression of Interest Form (EOI) to start the application process.
Tell us what you want to do, and how much you would like to apply for. The EOI is designed to save you time and provide us with a little more information about your funding needs prior to making a full application.
The grants team will then review your EOI against our fund criteria and advise you if we can invite you forward to make a full application.