Applying for a community grant

We accept requests for core funding from well-managed charities working in Elmbridge. These can be one-off or multi-year grants.

We offer funding to locals schools to help disadvantaged and underachieving children. We also fund organisations delivering programmes in schools linked to our focus areas.

Note, grants should complement and not replace any statutory funding.

Grants are available for schools and other local organisations who provide mental health support or run activities to reduce isolation and loneliness for individuals on low incomes, with a particular focus on children, young people, and their families. We are also interested in supporting initiatives which build connections between different people and communities, especially in areas of local deprivation.

We are particularly interested in ways innovation can lead to transformative change.

This could be reaching new audiences, developing new delivery models, or creating new areas of work. Ideas can be completely new idea, or may involve testing a proven approach from elsewhere in a new context.

We offer small grants up to £10,000 to support local charities, social enterprises and schools for projects or initiatives linked to our priority areas listed above.

Our small grants are only open to organisations with an annual income of less than £200K.

This funding stream is open all year round.

We are keen to support local organisations with:

• evaluation: both process and impact evaluations to find out what works best

• capacity-building: helping organisations to become more effective and sustainable

• participation: supporting organisations to work in partnership with the people they serve

• marketing: to improve awareness of and access to support and services.

We will continue to consider grant requests outside the priority areas listed above where there is potential for high impact in areas of need, particularly where they tackle child poverty or improve access to affordable housing across Elmbridge.