What is the Cost of Living Fund?

The Cost of Living Fund (COLF) provides grant funding alongside Recovery Loan Fund (RLF) loans to eligible charities and social enterprises who are supporting people in the 30% most deprived areas of England and delivering products and services to people impacted by the cost-of-living crisis. We determine this by using a measure called the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD), which looks at several key factors in the area.

On 28th May, the government announced the The Platinum Jubilee Village Hall Improvement Grant Fund totalling £3m, which will provide grant funding over three years (to 2025) to support capital improvement projects for village halls, such as installing Wi-Fi, extending buildings and modernising facilities. Details on how the funding will be administered will be announced in due course.

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:.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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:

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.