Grants available

Our Grant Portal

Most of our grants are now available through our Grant Portal. It’s a single entry point enabling you to access our funding opportunities. The process starts with answering some simple questions to confirm your eligibility, followed by the completion of an Expression of Interest form outlining your project proposals. It should take no more than ten minutes to complete.

We will then match your project funding requirements with our current funding opportunities and invite you to complete a full application or contact you for further information.

Depending on application volumes it can take up to fifteen working days to come back to you, but usually, it’s a lot sooner than that.

We have funding available for a wide range of community purposes. For example, emergency and crisis support, addressing the effects of the cost of living crisis, crime prevention, enhancing the natural environment, improving physical health and wellbeing, supporting young people, elderly people and people with a disability and developing social enterprises.

So, tell us about your ideas and we’ll confirm which of our programmes best fits your requirements.

Details of a small number of programmes that can be accessed directly are also provided below:

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Our grant portal

Our grant portal is the first step for most of our grants.

For the expression of interest form and we will match your project funding requirements with our current funding opportunities.

Core costs & project costs

open

£5,000

01/01/2021

Our grant portal is a rolling service, We are delighted to receive expressions interest year round.

More info & apply

Cornwall’s Social Enterprise Fund

To support both the creation of new social enterprises and the development of existing social enterprises in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, we are excited to launch the Cornwall Social Enterprise Fund.
The aims of this Fund are to:
1. Create employment, apprenticeships and training opportunities.
2. Enhance skills, leading to the development of services and products which increase trade and reinvestment.
3. Make a positive contribution to sustainability.

Core costs & project costs

open

Start up - The average grant under this strand is £5,000. Step-up - The average grant investment available under this strand is £20,000. Higher awards are available.

08/04/2021

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

More info & apply

Cornwall Women’s Fund

The Cornwall Women's Fund aims to support community projects in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly where women and girls will be the main beneficiaries, and to inspire ambition and enable achievement.

Project costs

closed

Grants range from £500 to a maximum of £5,000

06/02/2023

01/05/2023

The panel will meet on the 12th June 2023

More info & apply

Crisis Fund

Enables charitable organisations to hold a pot of funds to distribute small grants to individuals in crisis

Individuals

open

Charitable organisations reaching people in Crisis can apply for an initial £500 to distribute small amounts, usually no more than £100 when there is a need for immediate help, to alleviate destitution or poverty. Top-up requests can be requested after the initial reporting has been received.

01/01/2021

Open all year round

More info & apply

Emily Bolitho Trust

To support the wellbeing of individuals, especially those faced with hardship through poor health or low income living within the old borough of Penzance including Gulval, Mousehole, Paul, Newlyn, Ludgvan, Marazion and Madron.

Individuals

open

Grants are awarded up to £500

01/01/2021

Open all year round

More info & apply

South West Enterprise Fund

The South West Enterprise Fund is a new fund aiming to support a variety of young Cornish people aged between 18 - 30 years old who do not have the initial starter funds to get their business ideas off the ground. The fund is for 2 sets of young people:
1. Those who have already shown some initiative in getting their new business off the ground
2. Those who have an idea and need some funding to get their idea off the ground.

Individuals

open

Grants range from £200 to £2,000, donations will vary depending on individual requirements

25/01/2022

Applications will be reviewed on a monthly basis

More info & apply

Welcome Fund

The Welcome Fund aims to raise money to offer financial support to refugees in Cornwall. Organisations can apply for a sum of funds between £500 – £2,000, depending on capacity, and distribute at their discretion to refugees in their local area. Usually, individuals or families will be known to the organisation through their service delivery. We ask that no more than £250 is made available to any one individual.

Individuals

open

Grants range from £500 - £2,000

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis

More info & apply

Young and Talented Cornwall

The Young and Talented Fund, now headed by Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall Colonel Edward Bolitho OBE, strives to help those young individuals who have demonstrated an outstanding talent in a particular field – such as sport, the arts and science – but are struggling to achieve their ambition or progress in their chosen career because of hardship or disability.

Individuals

open

Although larger sums are sometimes given, most grants are in the range £500 - £1,500

12/04/2023

31/07/2023

The next awarding panel meeting is to be arranged

More info & apply

Young and Talented Cornwall Creative Writing Award

The Young & Talented Cornwall Creative Writing Award aims to support and encourage young writers in Cornwall, between the ages of 16 and 23. They are especially hoping to support those from disadvantaged and challenging backgrounds. The award will be a mix of both mentoring with an established writer based in Cornwall (face-to-face sessions supported by email contact) and a cash award of up to £1,000 together with a reading award of £150 worth of books. The mentoring support is offered for a period of up to a year.

Individuals

open

Up to £1,000 together with a reading award of £150 worth of books

12/04/2023

31/07/2023

The next awarding panel meeting is to be arranged

More info & apply