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.
What do we fund?
access to and engagement with heritage
access to and engagement with the natural environment
capacity building of the voluntary and community sector
community cohesion
digital exclusion
educational opportunity
employability
engaging children and young people with the creative industries and raise aspirations for careers in media and related fields
financial literacy
homelessness
human rights and equality
The Community Foundation supports the broad scope of social welfare. Our purpose is to help make life better for the people of Surrey.
independent living
loneliness and-or isolation
mental health
physical health
response to climate change
sport, exercise and leisure activities
substance misuse and addictions
the impact of poverty
violence and crime
wellbeing
small capital grants are available for organisations providing palliative care or supporting those with long-term illnesses
Expressions of Interest
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. To see when we are open to EOI’s visit our application hub.
Who do we support?
CFSurrey funding supports community groups, charities, and other members of the VCSE sector but not the public sector or private companies. See eligibility criteria.