Funds for Groups

Here is a list of all our current fund programmes from which we award grants to Dorset based groups.

To find our more about each fund's criteria and to apply please click on the individual fund pages.

Arts Council England Let’s Create Jubilee Fund

Supporting voluntary and community groups to develop creative and cultural activities as part of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations in June 2022.

Wessex Water Community Fund

The fund supports community cohesion and organisations promoting the use of water to promote stronger communities.

Wessex Water Environment Fund

Nationwide Building Society was founded to help people into homes of their own.

Made By Sport Clubs in Crisis Fund

The aim of the fund is to award grants to small voluntary sector organisations and sports clubs delivering Sport for Development (see definition below), who have been adversely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, either operationally or financially, and which require funding to save, resume or adapt their activity. Grants must benefit children and young people […]

BCP Living Legacy Fund

BCP Living Legacy Funding programme is now closed. Eligibility Organisations must work in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and priority will be given to those based in the area. We do not fund national charities but can fund local branches if they are managed separately and financially independent. Applications made by organisations with annual expenditure over […]

NHS Charities Together – COVID-19 Community Partnership Grants

NHS Charities Together – COVID-19 Community Partnership Grants The Community Partnership Grants Programme recognises the vital work that voluntary and community groups deliver in community settings to support the work of the NHS and the health of local communities who have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Summary criteria Eligible local voluntary sector groups may […]

Surviving Winter Fund

Small grants for projects that provide a range of support activities to older people throughout the winter.

Neighbourhood Fund

The Fund will supports older people's projects helping them maintain active and independent lives.

The Graham Burrough Fund for Mental Health

We are very pleased to launch this new mental health fund which was set up via a trust transfer from a closing down charitable trust.