Community Foundation Grants

The Main Grants Fund

At the heart of our grant making is the Main Grants Fund. Groups can apply to Main Grants to support a wide variety of project, core and ongoing costs.

The Community Foundation for Wiltshire and Swindon will give grants to benefit local communities and to improve the lives of disadvantaged people in Wiltshire and Swindon.

We aim to fund projects which:

reduce isolation
improve access to skills development
provide access to social & recreational opportunities
improve opportunities for employment
help people move on with their lives

We do not make contributions to large building projects under Main Grants, but can help where our grant will help increase accessibility and you cannot get the funding elsewhere.

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: 26TH MARCH 2012 FOR MAY DECISIONS.

Please be aware that there is a heavy demand for this fund and it is likely that only exceptional applications will achieve the maximum award. We would ask applicants to be realistic about their need for funding.

Wiltshire Police Authority Fund

We are now welcoming applications to the Wiltshire Police Authoity Fund. Grants will support projects which seek to bring communities together to tackle local issues, improving trust and understanding.
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Surviving Winter Update

£28,000 has been raised to date and we are asking older and vulnerable people in need to contact the following organisations to access the extra support that they need.
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Surviving Winter

“Staying warm and healthy in our cold winters is something most of us take for granted. However, when the idea of those more fortunate “handing on” their winter fuel payments to local, vulnerable people was presented, I wanted to pledge my payment to the “Surviving Winter Appeal”. It would be great to think that all those people who are in a position to forego part or all of their own winter fuel payment could join this great scheme and spread a little warmth”. Sir David Jason
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