Grants for groups

We support local charities, community and voluntary groups in Surrey whose work benefits our communities.

The grant funding we award is made possible by local Fund Holders, spread across 85+ Funds. When considering your application, we will match it with the criteria our various Funds have set across the county.

The Process

  • You can check our eligibility criteria here

  • Tell us what you want to do and how much you would like to apply for. Our Grants Team will review your EOI against our Fund’s criteria and will advise you if we can invite you to make an application. We will send you the full application form at least a month before the deadline.

  • After reviewing your EOI our Grants Team will contact you. If we are able to invite you to apply we will send you a link to the online application form and give you a deadline for your application. Complete the online application form and attach your supporting documents.

  • Once we have received your full online application and supporting documents we will process your application. Our Grants Team will complete due diligence checks and review the content of the application. Applications will then be shared with our Donors who will make the final decision. Your application may be considered by several of our Donor Fund. We will notify you of the funding outcome by the date provided for the round, typically within 3 months of the full application being submitted.

  • If you receive a grant we will ask you to send us an End of Grant report. This report not only shows that you completed your project but helps us tell the world how you are improving our community.

Deadlines

For our Main Programme, the EOIs received before each deadline will be considered together. We will invite the strongest matched EOIs to our Fund Holders, and will provide a link to the full application form at least a month before the application deadline.

Upcoming deadlines for 2024

Deadline for EOIs

9am Mon 8 July

9am Mon 14 Oct

Applications open for invited groups

9am Mon 22 July

9am Mon 28 Oct

Deadlines for our Mental Health Scale Up Fund

The deadline for EOI closed on Monday 5th February 2024. Grants will be awarded in April 2024. Please use the programme EOI form on the Fund Page.

Deadline to submit applications

9am Mon 2 Sept

9am Mon 9 Dec

Notification of decisions

9am Mon 2 Dec

9am Mon 24 Mar 2025

Deadlines for our Strategic Programme

The Strategic Transformation Programme does not have fixed deadlines and operates as a rolling programme. We will review EOIs as they are received and come back to you with more guidance as quickly as possible. Please use our main EOI to let us know of your needs.

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