Community grants

We actively support and encourage our communities with a number of grant opportunities. The types of grant available are summarised below, to find out more and apply, follow the links provided.

Locality budgets

Forest Heath District

Available to community groups for projects or activities that the whole local community can enjoy. For more details on this and restrictions, read: Forest Heath Locality budget Scheme

To apply you will need to contact your local councillor, if you don't know who that is, see Forest Heath District Councillors
For information about which community groups have received locality budget payments in Forest Heath, see our page Open data and transparency, locality budgets

St Edmundsbury Borough

Available to community groups for projects or activities that the whole local community can enjoy. For more details on this and restrictions, read: St Edmundsbury Locality budget scheme

To apply you will need to contact your local councillor, if you don't know who that is, see St Edmundsbury Borough Councillors
For information about which community groups have received locality budget payments in St Edmundsbury, see our page Open data and transparency, locality budgets

Community Chest grants

The Community Chest funding round for 2019/2020 is now open.

Community Chest funding supports voluntary and community groups who make a contribution to improving the quality of life for people in West Suffolk.

Funded activities must help deliver the Families and Communities Approach and Families and Communities Strategy and eligibility criteria apply. The minimum amount that can be applied for is £1,000. This funding can be for one off projects or revenue funds for services.

Please find guidance and application documents below. To discuss your application prior to submission please contact polly.kane@westsuffolk.gov.uk.

Applications close at 5pm on Friday 28 September 2018.

Community Chest Grant allocation

Rural Initiatives Grants Scheme (RIGS) available in St Edmundsbury Borough only

This is a one-off grant for local community projects. The grant ranges in value from £250 to £7,500.

Apply for a Rural Initiatives Grant

Past grant allocations

St Edmundsbury Borough Council RIGS grant allocations 2016-17

Further information

For more information read our Families and Communities strategy You can see our approach to funding illustrated in our Families and Communities funding approach diagram

Other funding sources

Home assistance grants

Funding is available from West Suffolk councils to assist families/residents to make safe, repair and improve their homes and we would like your help to engage with our communities.

We can assist in different ways, through Warmer Homes Healthy People or through the Home Assistance grant (HAG) to help home owners carry out repairs and improvements to their homes to ensure that they are warm, weathertight, safe and secure and have reasonably modern kitchen and bathroom facilities.

To find out more, or to see if one of our other grants could help, see our Housing grants page.

Energy grants

For a wide range of grants and other assistance with energy-saving initiatives for businesses and community venues see the Green Suffolk website

Funding 4 Suffolk

Funding 4 Suffolk is a brand new website which lets you browse available funding by organisation type. There are also hints and tips for completing successful funding applications as well as a section specifically for local funds. You can access Funding 4 Suffolk in the Members Area of Community Action Suffolk (CAS)