Collective Funds

Do you have a local issue that you feel passionately about? Would you like to pool your giving with other donors so that you make more impact?

Collective funds are giving vehicles that allow multiple donors to contribute toward a common purpose.

At the Community Foundation for Surrey, these funds enable us to combine resources from individuals, families, businesses, and other partners to support targeted, high-impact grantmaking across the county.

Our Collective Funds are grouped and listed by theme below.

Collective Fund by Theme

Support health and wellbeing in all of our communities

  • Supporting the scale-up of effective preventative programmes to improve the mental health of young people aged up to 30.

    Learn more about the Mental Health Scale-Up Fund here.

  • Supporting older people through local projects which combat social isolation, loneliness and disadvantage.

    Learn more about our Elder Companionship Fund here.

  • The Fund aims to enable access to sport for all by supporting projects which encourage participation and remove barriers to taking part in sports.

    Learn more about our Surrey Sports Fund here.

Grow more resilient, equitable and integrated communities

  • Supporting organisations in helping sanctuary seekers of all ages (refugees, asylum seekers, displaced persons, unaccompanied children).

    Learn more about the Surrey Sanctuary Seekers Fund here. 

  • A group of funds interested in helping charities and community organisations to undertake significant changes in how they operate – through new processes, relocation, partnerships or mergers.

    Learn more about our Strategic Transformation programme here.

  • We currently have 17 active area funds, each of them a collective fund.

    Learn more about our Area Funds Network here.

  • Funds projects in Surrey which respond to the most urgent and pressing needs affecting Surrey.

    Learn more about the Surrey Community Fund here.

Encourage pride and connection with Surrey’s local communities, natural landscape, culture and heritage

  • Supporting organisations using arts, culture and heritage to improve wellbeing in people of all ages.

    Learn more about the Creative Wellbeing Fund here.

  • This fund is being used as a trial run for the Creative Wellbeing Fund. Funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund enables us to build capacity in local Heritage organisations and enables them to engage a wider community

    Learn more about the heritage For All Fund here.

  • Supporting projects which enable wider participation in Music and which are life enhancing. In particular, the Fund supports music projects which enable people to benefit that would not  otherwise have the opportunity to participate.

    Learn more about the Surrey Community Music Fund here.

  • Enabling access to and engagement with the natural landscape of the Surrey Hills by people of all ages who might face barriers to access.

    Learn more about the Surrey Hills Fund here.

  • Helping children and young people to build confidence and develop new skills, and access education and employment, with particular focus on skills gaps in the county.

    Learn more about the Surrey Education Fund here.

  • Grants of £300-800 to disadvantaged young people aged 18-24 which help ensure access to training & opportunities for young people in need. Grants include covering the costs of equipment for apprenticeships and college courses, or paying for qualifications to help a young person progress into their desired field of interest.

    Learn more about the Surrey Young People’s Fund here.

Improve life skills, education, employability and enterprise

Address economic disparity and inequality

  • Grants to individuals (given via delegated pots of funding to organisations) which help overcome barriers to work for people with disabilities (e.g. travel costs, clothing, specialist kit, etc).

    Learn more about the Surrey Supported Employment Fund here.

  • Surrey Care Leavers Seekers Fund was created to support organisations working with care-leavers and to provide financial support directly to young care-leavers.

    Click to learn more here

  • Supports organisations providing practical support to address poverty in Surrey – from emergency food, clothing or rent, to help for people to access employment or training.

    Click to learn more here

How to give

Collective funds are an effective way for donors to collaborate, amplify their giving, and create lasting change.

Don’t forget Gift Aid! Using Gift Aid means that for every pound you give, the Pooled Fund you are donating to, will receive an extra 25p from HM Revenue & Customs, helping your donation go further.

If you would like to donate to any one of our Pooled Funds, please email us at: giving@cfsurrey.org.uk