Community Fund for Reigate and Banstead

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We are a Community Fund dedicated to our local area providing support to charitable projects tackling identified local needs across the borough.

We are a Community Fund dedicated to our local area providing support to charitable projects tackling identified local needs across the borough.

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The easiest way to donate to the Reigate and Banstead Coronavirus Appeal is via the Fund’s Enthuse Giving page.

The easiest way to donate to the Reigate and Banstead Community Fund is via the Fund’s Enthuse Giving page.

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"I'm honoured to be Patron of the Reigate and Banstead Community Fund and lend my support to this fantastic initiative."
BBC Newsreader and Fund Patron

"I'm honoured to be Patron of the Reigate and Banstead Community Fund and lend my support to this fantastic initiative."
BBC Newsreader and Fund Patron

The Need

Despite being one of the wealthiest boroughs in England, Reigate and Banstead has unseen pockets of hardship and need in areas such as mental health, care for the elderly, poverty, homelessness, and domestic abuse. The borough also contains the most deprived ward in Surrey and many, often underfunded, sports and community clubs.

The Fund and How to Give

The Community Fund for Reigate and Banstead is a growing philanthropic fund set up in 2018 by a group of local volunteers that provides support specifically to local projects which tackle need, disadvantage, and community participation across the borough of Reigate and Banstead.
Run by volunteers, and managed by the Community Foundation for Surrey (CFSurrey), the Fund, comprising donations from individual residents and local companies, has a long-term endowment fund for future growth, and a grants fund from which disbursements are made to local charities and good causes on a regular basis.

Please donate to help your local community at this critical time, by clicking the following button:

Beneficiaries of the Fund

We are delighted to have been able to distribute more grants to local good causes:

Stripey Stork – support for the ‘school days’ project which provides school uniform, new school shoes and bags to families who cannot afford them. Each school bag comes equipped with a water bottle and stationery for the new term. Stripey Stork have been supplying these items to school children from pre-school age to secondary school age for several years through their professional referral partners. In 2022 they supplied 1,194 filled school bags, 608 pairs of school shoes and 733 bundles of school uniform. Referrals are distributed through the network of professional referral partners who ensure they are distributed to the most vulnerable families in the community.

Look Good Feel Better – confidence boosting workshops in East Surrey Hospital and Redhill for people experiencing the effects of cancer treatment.

Sparkfish – Youth worker provision for schools in East Surrey to deliver mental health and emotional wellbeing support through one-to-one mentoring, lunchtime activities, small group courses on emotional wellbeing, and assemblies on self-care and self-esteem.

Kinetic Foundation – funding for October half-term sports provision to run engaging and active sport sessions for 6-12 year old children in two areas of deprivation in the Borough: Preston and Redhill West reaching 200 young people in key stages 1 and 2 who otherwise would not be able to afford to attend holiday clubs or participate in activities.

YMCA East Surrey – Beatz programme working with disadvantaged young people aged 11-25, teaching them to compose and record music. The young people will learn new musical skills as well as developing life skills such as teamwork, organisation, and communication skills. They will have access to a fully operational music studio at the Family and Young People Centre in Horley, where they can compose and record music, play musical instruments and sing, as well as broadcast on the radio.

Our Grants Fund Panel

Our independent grant making panel is supported by the Community Foundation for Surrey, Crispin Blunt MP for Reigate, and Reigate and Banstead Borough Council, and is made up of local stakeholders and donors with a knowledge and interest in the community.

No matter how much or how little you give, your donation will go to a really important local good cause.

The Community Foundation for Surrey thanks SES Water, Concept Financial Planning and Reigate and Banstead Borough Council for their generosity towards this local area fund, and is delighted to be able  to support even more vital local causes with this funding!

“As a small local company deeply embedded in the communities we serve, we are not seen as just a supplier of water and we don’t want to just deliver great service for our customers – we want to play an active part in improving the areas we are privileged to serve.”

– Cat Holland, Head of Communications at SES Water

If you have a project in the area of Reigate and Banstead that needs support, submit your interest today.

More information

More information about the Reigate and Banstead Community Fund can be found within the Fund’s Brochure here. If you are interested in donating to the Fund, please email us at giving@cfsurrey.org.uk


 

Crispin Blunt MP presents 2020 winner of Reigate and Banstead Writes competition with her prize – Monday 15th June

Orla McNally, a pupil at Reigate Grammar School, is the winner of R&B Writes 2020. Orla received her prize, sponsored by the Community Fund for Reigate and Banstead, from Crispin Blunt MP. Read more here!


How to Give


The Reigate and Banstead Community Fund is a long-term fund that people can either donate to now, or leave a legacy to in the future. 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 donate is via our donation page (click here) a simple and secure method of online giving via the Enthuse platform. If you would like to make a bank transfer, please contact us for more information.

Don’t forget Gift Aid! Using Gift Aid means that for every pound you give, the Reigate and Banstead 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.

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