Main Grants Programme
The Community Foundation has a family of over 80 funds which contribute to our main grant programme. The funds have different criteria and areas of interest and come together to fund work supporting the breadth of social welfare needs.
We run three regular application rounds through the year. Applicants may be considered by one or several of our family of Funds, you don’t need to research all of our Funds or specify which Fund you want to apply to; just send an Expression of Interest (EOI) and we will advise if we can invite a full application.
Please note we are experiencing high demand and smaller applications of £7k or less are more likely to be successful than larger requests.
Expressions of Interest
Expressions of Interest to the Main Grant programme are now closed. We will reopen for EOI to the next main grants round of 2025 on Monday 7th July.
Due to some unexpected staff shortages, we’re having to take the highly unusual step of making a few changes to the timing of our grant rounds this year.
We understand how challenging the current funding environment is, especially with many funders pausing their grant-making. Please rest assured that we remain committed to supporting our local community and will continue to make grants. The next round of Expression of Interest for the Main round will now open on 7th July We’re really sorry for any inconvenience this delay may cause.
We are sorry to those applicants who will now have a slightly longer time until their funding decision. We haven’t taken the decision lightly. We continue to see a success rate at full application of over 75% and we will continue to ensure this is monitored and maintained at about this level so that you know you have a very good chance of securing funds when you submit your full application.
For our Main Programme, the EOIs received before each deadline will be considered together. We will invite the strongest matched EOIs to our Fund-holders, and will provide a link to the full application form at least a month before the application deadline.
Deadlines
CFSurrey funding supports community groups, charities, and other members of the VCSE sector but not the public sector or private companies. See eligibility criteria.