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Asda Foundation Outdoor Community Spaces Fund 🌳
💰 Funding Amount: £500, £1,000 – £3,000
📅 Deadline: Apply by noon on 11 February
For projects that:
- Transform outdoor areas into greener and more engaging community spaces 🌿
- Create or enhance community growing projects 🌱
- Enable community clean-ups ♻️
Projects should:
- Increase access to outdoor spaces, particularly for marginalised or vulnerable groups 🌍
- Bring local communities together 🤝
- Make a lasting and demonstrable difference to an outdoor space 🏡
- Enable groups to undertake a project that truly enhances a local space 🌺
KFC Youth Foundation
💰 Funding Amount: Grants of up to £3,000 per year for up to 2 years
📅 Deadline: Apply by 14 February
For projects that:
- Benefit young people aged 11-25 years old 👦👧
- Support those in a position of economic disadvantage (e.g., care leavers, homeless, young carers, young parents, refugees, and young people at risk of the criminal justice system) 🏚️
- Empower young people to fulfil their potential, offering spaces where they feel safe and secure, helping them unlock talent, build life skills, and improve their chances of gaining meaningful employment 🌟
- Demonstrate positive results from their project within 12 months of receiving KFC funding 📈
The KFC Foundation Community Grants
Bentley’s Advancing Life Chances Small Grants Programme
💰 Funding Amount: Varies
📅 Deadline: Apply by 31 March
Grants to support charitable organisations working with vulnerable, disadvantaged, or under-represented communities. Focus areas include:
- Access: Removing barriers and improving access to services, education, and employability 📚
- Empowerment: Developing life skills to enable self-confidence and success 💪
- Quality of Life: Supporting physical and mental health 🧠💪
- Better Future: Improving the environment, driving community spirit, and addressing nature-deprived areas 🌍🌱
- Social sustainability: Promoting long-term positive change 🌍
Social Sustainability – Bentley Motors
Tree Council Network Rail Community Tree Planting Fund 🌲
💰 Funding Amount: £2,500 – £15,000
📅 Deadline: Apply anytime
For projects that:
- Have strong community involvement in their design and delivery 🤝
- Demonstrate robust establishment and aftercare plans to ensure successful tree establishment 🌳
- Aim for biodiversity net gain upon completion 🌱
- Focus on river and riparian themes, including flood prevention or SUDS in urban communities 🌊🏙️
Network Rail Community Tree Planting Fund – The Tree Council