£1,000-£5,000

The Community Plus Fund, formerly known as the Housing Plus Fund, is a partnership between West Berkshire Council, Sovereign Housing, A2 Housing Group, Catalyst Housing Group and Testaway Housing. West Berkshire Council administers the scheme on behalf of its partners.

The Fund aims to provide small but positive changes to help enhance the lives of local people living in housing association areas.

The Fund offers two levels of grant assistance:
• Small grants of up to £500.
• Large grants of up to £4,000.

The Community Foundation Serving Tyne and Wear and Northumberland manages a variety of different funds. Funding is intended to support local groups who 'deliver valuable opportunities, support and help to the people in their communities' in Tyne and Wear and Northumberland.

The Community Foundation is particularly keen to support people who experience discrimination or disadvantage for whatever reason.

Stevenage Borough Council offers the Local Community Budget Grant Scheme to support local community groups and organisations to deliver projects and services that will be beneficial to local residents and will improve the neighbourhood.

Each ward Councillor has a total of £2,500 to distribute throughout the year.

South Somerset District Council provides its Community Grants scheme as part of its support to local voluntary and community groups and organisations and other not-for-profit organisations working for the benefit of South Somerset.
This funding is aimed at local not-for-profit projects that will improve the local quality of life in the District.

Grants of up to 50% of the project costs with a maximum of £12,500 per project are available.
Larger awards of over £12,500 may be available for particular projects or to groups providing services across South Somerset

Saffron Community Foundation is the charitable arm of Saffron Housing Trust.

Saffron Community Foundation supports projects that are aimed at improving the quality of life and wellbeing of groups and communities in the areas in which Saffron Housing Trust has stock.

Grants should:
• Benefit the local community.
• Encourage local people to get involved.

Grants are awarded to individuals and groups in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk for community projects aimed at improving quality of life and wellbeing.

Rushmoor Borough Council offers grants to not-for-profit voluntary and community groups which are providing, or trying to improve, services that benefit the people of Rushmoor. (Organisations outside Rushmoor may apply if they can show that their work benefits Rushmoor residents.) Groups must be able to show that they need the grant in order to proceed with their projects.

One-off grants are available in the following areas:
• Voluntary Organisations.
• Arts.
• Sports.
• Youth.

The scheme is administered and provided by the Northamptonshire Community Foundation.

The general grants programme intends to benefit the whole community and fund a wide range of projects. It aims to help the young and old, those with disabilities, projects which develop the cultural and creative life of a community, healthy living and the environment, as well as sports and recreation.

Small Grants are available for between £250 and £3000 to not for profit groups in Northamptonshire who want to develop the cultural and creative life of their community.

This Haslemere Challice Community Fund aims to help make a significant contribution to meeting the charitable needs of the Haslemere area.

The fund is a partnership between the Challice Trust, originally established from a bequest made to the Haslemere community by Mrs Ruth Challice Bush in 1962, and the Community Foundation for Surrey.

The maximum grant awarded is £2,500.

The Grants for Sports, Arts, Leisure and Community Groups scheme is provided and administered by Epping Forest District Council. Under this programme, the Council offers the Major Grants and Three-year Revenue Grants.

Funding is intended to assist local voluntary and community groups and organisations that are providing services in line with the Council's objectives and targets.

The priority areas are as follows:

Grants are available to local not-for-profit groups and organisations for arts, crafts and design projects within Worcestershire and Herefordshire.