Wesleyan Foundation: Community Grants
Created: 04/09/2025
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The Community Grants programme supports grassroots charities across the UK to deliver vital community services.
Applicants' activity should include one of the following:
- Projects that support mental health
- Projects that support disabilities including learning disabilities and autism
- Bereavement support
- Projects that are helping with the cost of living, such as cooking workshops, community kitchens, skills, or object shares
- Personal social education
- Domestic violence support, including women's refuges
- Isolation, befriending, and listening services
- Projects that support the vulnerable and elderly
- Projects that support dementia and quality of life
- Social prescribing to alleviate the pressure from the NHS
- Re-skilling people, actively preparing people for a new job/career, interview prep etc.
- Education projects for any age
- Projects that are challenging discrimination, supporting BAME/gender/LGBTQ+ groups
- Climate action and environmental education projects
- Activities that remove carbon form the atmosphere such as tree planting, heathland restoration, or supporting algae farms
- Remediating polluted areas by litter picking
- Improvement of public community space to stimulate people getting more frequent access to outside space and wildlife
Who can apply?
Registered charities, constituted community groups, companies limited by guarantee with charitable aims, community interest companies, cooperatives, registered community benefit societies, registered industrial and provident societies, and social enterprises.
Your organisation must have been running for at least two years.
Maximum annual income: £500,000
How to apply
Complete their online application form.
The closing date for applications is Monday 15 September 2025.
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