Knutsford Fund

Cheshire Community Foundation has reopened it's Knutsofrd Fund on a rolling basis. 

This programme is specifically for projects in Knutsford with the aim of achieving the following outcomes:.

Bi-monthly small grants programme

Our Bi-monthly small grants programme aims to support projects across the whole of Cheshire and Warrington for people of all ages.

Grants awarded from £1 to £2500 over one year or less, but during the current crisis this may be more flexible, so please call if you have any queries regarding the amount to apply for.

(NB: for a one off trip or luncheon, the maximum contribution is £250)

Queen's Platinum Jubilee Activity Fund

The Queen's Platinum Jubilee Activity Fund aims to use sport and physical activity as a means of bringing a community together and tackling inequalities. Awards of between £300 and £10,000 are available to non-profit organisations.

Multiple applications can be submitted but organisations can only have awards up to £10k in any 12-month period.

Awards are to help get inactive people get active, or less active people become more active.

HS2 Funds - Phase 2a - Community and Environment Fund

The Community and Environment Fund (CEF) has been created to add benefit to communities along the route that are demonstrably disrupted by the construction of Phase One of HS2 from London to West Midlands and Phase 2a from the West Midlands to Crewe.

There are two types of CEF funding:

CEF Local will focus on quality of life and the environment in individual communities.

Charitable Grant

The Trustees are former friends of Victoria and are interested in supporting areas that would have interested her, namely the arts, in all forms.

ts organisations and groups in the UK are welcome to apply. The Foundation are particularly keen to support initiatives in and around London and in the North of England.

Foundation Grant

The Foundation aims to support projects in the UK that provide care for the sick and elderly, conserve and improve the environment, promote education, and help those in need as a result of disaster or as a consequence of social and economic circumstances.

he Trustees prefer to support smaller charities.

To be eligible, applicants must:

General Grant

 

 

Please note: the Fund was paused in May 2021 due to high demand, but it hopes to restart at the end of January 2022.

The Pixel Fund is a small charity which distributes grants to other charities in its field of interest. Its focus is the mental health and wellbeing of children and young adults.

Grant Making Trust


Only registered charities in the U.K. may apply whose primary objectives are to assist one or more of the following groups:

  • Disadvantaged/underprivileged young people (under 25 years of age)
  • People with disabilities (physical or learning disabilities) or mental health problems
  • Older people (aged over 60)

We do not respond to organisations who do not meet the above criteria.

General Grant

This award is funded by the Barbara Ward Children's Foundation, which is a small grant-making body that helps smaller, non-religious charities. Since its registration with the Charity Commission in December 2001 it has awarded grants of more than £8 million to more than 325 organisations.

The aim of the Foundation is to help small, non-religious charities to serve severely disadvantaged children anywhere in the world. In recent years, the Foundation has provided grants to organisations working on youth projects in the following categories:

Education.

Charitable Trust

The Anton Jurgens Charitable Trust (AJCT) gives grants to registered UK based charities who support people of all ages, who are socially disadvantaged and/or have mental and/or physical disabilities. 

 

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