Haslemere Challice
Community Fund
Specifically for the benefit of residents of Haslemere and the surrounding villages.
What is Haslemere Challice Community Fund?
The fund was established in partnership with the Challice Trust, originally established from a bequest made to the Haslemere community by Mrs Ruth Challice Bush in 1962. By working together we offer a fund that enables and encourages local giving so that we can develop a greater capacity to respond to local needs.
Since establishing the Fund has built an endowment of over £1million to support Haslemere and its residents. We have awarded over £499,919 in grants to a wide range of local charities and community organisations.
Why support the Haslemere Challice Community Fund?
As a town our needs are very specific, and local people are often faced with reduced access to facilities and funding. Our dedicated panel of local residents award grants to:
Help older or disadvantaged residents combat isolation and stay happy, healthy and included
Increase facilities, training, skills and experience for young people
Support local activities, services and community focal points
Fund projects that improve and preserve the village heritage, culture and environment
Examples of Haslemere Challice grants:
Shottermill Infant School Play Therapy – £2,400
Play Therapy to support pupils in coping with adverse needs in school. Play Therapy helps children to process their thoughts and feelings surrounding complex issues, making their time in school easier.
Music in Hospitals and Care – £7,378
Funding to continue a regular programme of live music at Holy Cross Hospital. Staff report that patients experience respite from emotional pain and distress, are less bored, feel more connected to other people around them, and are able to enjoy music that reminds them of the past.
Men Walk Talk – £2,500
Funding providing scope for a men’s mental health service which encourages opening up and talking to improve mental health and reduce male suicide.
To discuss how you can get involved, please contact the Community Foundation for Surrey directly, giving@cfsurrey.org.uk
Apply for Funding
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.
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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.