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 19th May. 

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

Upcoming deadlines for 2025

EOIs open

2025-26 MR2 9am 06/01/25

2025-26 MR3 9am 19/05/25

2026-27 R1 9am 08/09/25

Deadline for EOIs

MR2 9am 17/02/25

MR3 9am 07/07/25

R1 9am 27/10/25

Applications open for invited groups

MR2 Close of play 03/03/25

MR3 Close of play 21/07/25

R1 Close of play 10/11/25

Deadline to submit applications

MR2 9am 14/04/25

MR3 9am 01/09/25

R1 9am 12/01/26

Notification of decisions

MR2 W/C 11/08/25

MR3 W/C 01/12/25

R1 W/C 04/05/26

CFSurrey funding supports community groups, charities, and other members of the VCSE sector but not the public sector or private companies. See eligibility criteria.

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