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.

Want to know our deadlines?

Find our deadlines for our Main Grants round, and all other rounds

Still have questions?

Register for one of our upcoming 30 minute Q&A sessions, hosted on Zoom.