We are launching a new round of Community Fund
Monday 14 April 2025
We are launching a new round of Community Fund for 2025/26, offering financial grants of up to £500 to support local community projects that focus on children, youth provision, and young people (up to the age of 25 with special educational needs and disabilities).
Building on the success of previous rounds, this year’s funding aims to support initiatives that create positive, lasting impacts within our neighbourhoods. The new theme, supporting children, youth provision and young people, encourages applications from projects that deliver on a wide range of youth-focused activities, including summer holiday programmes, extracurricular activities, outreach work, sport, citizenship, social action, and initiatives that promote health, wellbeing, and intergenerational or environmental engagement.
The Community Fund is open to charities, voluntary and community groups, residents’ associations, and other not-for-profit organisations based in the areas where Beyond Housing operates, including Redcar, Scarborough, Whitby, and surrounding communities.
Last year’s fund saw over £10,000 awarded to 21 projects. These included Closer Communities’ Dad’s Behaving Madly group, which provided much-needed support and respite for fathers with caring responsibilities, and the Saabat Gallery in South Bank, which used the funding to maintain its creative warm space for the local community.
By inviting applications that align with this key theme, we continue to champion our mission to invest in local neighbourhoods and create great places to live and work.
Stephanie Lake, Community Partnership & Engagement Manager, Beyond Housing, said: “Offering financial support to local community groups and projects underlines Beyond Housing’s key objective to invest in our neighbourhoods to create great places to live and work. Through this new theme for 2025 in providing a youth focus, we aim to support our younger generation and strengthen our local communities.”
The deadline for applications is 5pm on Friday 2 May 2025.
