How to Apply
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation provides grants and other support to groups and individuals, thanks to the donors who choose to give through us. We match applications from groups and individuals to our donors’ interests.
We support a wide range of people and causes across two Core Grant Programmes; Improving Lives and Improving Communities.
If you are seeking funds, there are two steps to follow:
- Confirm that your group is "grant ready" by considering the details set out on 'Is your group ready to apply?' page. Please do not apply if you are an unincorporated voluntary body or not-for-profit Limited Company and have annual income over £5,000 UNLESS you are set up as one of the recognised not-for-profit structures we support.
- If you are "grant ready", work through the decision matrix below - you must do this sequentially - which offers guidance on if you should complete an Online Grant Application Form, if you should apply directly to a particular fund, or if we are unable to help you.
Grant application decision matrix
| No. | Question | YES | NO |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Are you undertaking a charitable project? | Yes - Go to 1.1 | No - Sorry, we are unable to help you |
| 1.1 | Is your organisation "Not for Profit"? | Yes - Go to 1.2 | No - Sorry, we are unable to help you |
| 1.2 | Is your annual average income greater than £5,000 per annum? | Yes - Go to 1.3 | No - Go to 2 |
| 1.3 | Is your legal status as a registered charity, an exempt charity, an excepted charity, a Parish Council, a community interest company (CIC), a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO) or Community Amateur Sports Clubs (CASC)? | Yes - Go to 2 | No - Sorry, we are unable to help you |
| 2. | Are you seeking a capital sum (towards for eg a building improvement)? | Yes - Go to 3 | No - Go to 5 |
| 3. | Is the capital sum greater than £40,000? | Yes - Sorry, we are unable to help you | No - Go to 4 |
| 4. | Is the capital sum between £10,000 and £40,000? | Yes - Check if you are eligible for funding from the Amey Community Fund, otherwise we are unable to help you | No - Go to 5 |
| 5 | Are you seeking betwween £10,000 and £40,000 for the conservation of a specific species or a specific habitat where it naturally occurs? | Yes - Check if you are eligible for funding from the Amey Community Fund, otherwise we are unable to help you | No - Go to 5.1 |
| 5.1 | Are you seeking less than £10,000? (noting most grants we award are for less than £3000) | Yes - Go to 6 | No - Sorry, we are unable to help you |
| 6. | Does the project take place outside Cambridgeshire/Peterborough? | Yes - Go to 7 | No - Go to 8 |
| 7. | Does the project serve residents living in a 6km radius of the Wryde Croft Wind Farm (which is situated north east of Thorney, between Crowland and Parson Drove and north of the A47)? | Yes - Read details of the Wryde Croft Wind Farm Community Fund | No - Go to 7.1 |
| 7.1 | Are you seeking between £250 and £750 for a project working with children, young people & families, or aiming to improve health and work in one of these counties- Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Bedfordshire, or Hertfordshire? | Yes - Read details of the Ridgeons Community Fund |
No - Go to 7.2 |
| 7.2 | Are you seeking between £250 and £750 for a project that will take place in Newmarket, Haverhill or Saffron Walden? | Yes - Read details of the Cheffins Community Fund |
No - Sorry, we are unable to help you |
| 8. | Are you running a charitable project which is seeking to improve the health and well being of people living in Fenland? | Yes - Read details of the Healthy Fenland Fund | No - Go to 8.1 |
| 8.1 | Are you looking for a grant of ~£150 to help disadvantaged children (0-18 yrs) in Cambridgeshire within families on very low income and facing other factors such as the aftermath of domestic violence, mental health issues or addictions? | Yes - Read details of Cambridgeshire Children's Fund | No - Go to 9 |
| 9. | Are you seeking funds to support additional social action opportunities for young people, whereby the young people contribute to their community and learn new skills. | Yes - Read details of The Local Youth Social Action Fund | No - Go to 10 |
| 10. | Does the project aim to divert young people away from a life of crime? | Yes - Read details of the Police and Crime Commissioner Youth Fund for Cambridgeshire |
No - Go to 11 |
| 11. | Does the project aim to empower local people, enabling them to create lasting change in their communities? | Yes - Read details of Comic Relief Fund |
No - Go to 12 |
| 12. | Does the project aim enrich the lives of, or improve the employability, of disadvantaged people? | Yes - Read details of Microsoft Research Limited Fund |
No - Go to 13 |
| 13. | Does the project take place in Peterborough? | Yes - Go to 14 | No - Go to 17 |
| 14. | Does the project help local young people with a learning disability? | Yes - Read details of Olive and Jesse Palmer Fund |
No - Go to 15 |
| 15. | Does the project benefit the residents of the new development Parson's Prospect, Eye? | Yes - Read the details of The Larkfleet Homes Community Fund | No - Go to 16 |
| 16. | Does the beneficiary (or beneficiaries) need support for health care? Does the beneficiary live in Peterborough or the area covered by Peterborough and Stamford hospitals? Or does the project carry out medical research in the UK? | Yes - Read details about the Harry Cureton Charitable Fund |
No - Go to 22 |
| 17. | Does the project serve people living in a 5 km radius of the Wadlow Wind Farm (nr Balsham in South Cambs) ? | Yes - Read details about the Wadlow Wind Farm Community Fund |
No - Go to 18 |
| 18. | Does the project serve residents living in the residential areas up to 3km from the Cotton Wind Farm (in the parishes of Offord D'Arcy, Graveley, Toseland, Great Paxton and Yelling)? | Yes - Read details about the Cotton Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund |
No - Go to 19 |
| 19. | Does the project serve residents living in a 5 mile radius of the Burnthouse Farm Wind Farm (which is located outside Turves, Cambridgeshire)? | Yes - Read details about the Burnthouse Farm Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund |
No - Go to 20 |
| 20. | Does the project take place in the Parish of Diddington? | Yes - Read details about the Diddington Village Community Fund | No - Go to 21 |
| 21. | Does the project take place in the Parishes of Alconbury, Alconbury Weston, Barham and Woolley, Buckworth, Easton, Ellington or Spaldwick? | Yes - Read details about the Woolley Hill Community Fund |
No - Go to 22 |
| 22. | Does the project serve residents living in Cambridgeshire within a 6km radius of the Wryde Croft Wind Farm (which is situated north east of Thorney, between Crowland and Parson Drove and north of the A47)? | Yes - Read details about the Wryde Croft Wind Farm Community Fund |
No - Go to 23 |
| 23. | Does your project - seek to make positive changes for those suffering with the impact of domestic violence, people with severe mental health problems, isolated older people, children and young people in care, young people with a disability, young carers, elderly victims of crime, or those that are homeless? | Yes - Please complete an Online Grant Application Form | No - Sorry we are not able to help you |