Deadline: 28-May-25
The Asda Foundation’s Local Community Spaces Fund Programme to support grassroots community groups to transform spaces at the heart of their local community.
Through the Local Community Spaces Fund, they will continue playing the part in helping to fund safe and welcoming community spaces that bring people together, connect communities and address loneliness and isolation.
Aim
- To repair, renovate, or develop community spaces where people can come together, connect, and take part in local activities and services. These multi-use spaces will help bring communities closer, address loneliness, and boost well-being by creating welcoming and inclusive spaces for everyone to use and enjoy.
Objectives
- Grants are available to grassroots groups, delivering projects which meet at least one of the following objectives:
- Carry out essential repairs to enable the space to continue to function.
- Renovate an existing space to accommodate more users/activities.
- Create a new community space where groups can meet and undertake activities.
- Improve accessibility to, or within, a community building.
Funding Information
- Grants from £10,000 – £20,000
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible to apply for this fund, your community space must be an accessible place where members of the community can interact, seek support and access a variety of services and activities.
- They encourage and will prioritise applications from groups who:
- Will be unable to continue offering their service without this work taking place.
- Can demonstrate a good track record of their ongoing work in a community hub setting.
- Can demonstrate financial stability and provide evidence of need.
- Work in areas of heightened economic and social deprivation.
- Provide well-thought-out costings which are deemed good value for money.
- Have a wide range of users throughout the community, or those who predominantly support at least one of the following demographics: teens and young adults, the elderly, vulnerable, and low-income users.
- They strive for a spread of applications across the UK, applications from the same area will be reviewed together and Asda Foundation.
- Group Eligibility
- The focus of this Fund is on community spaces, where people of all ages and walks of life can meet and take part in activities. They anticipate a high volume of applications, particularly from the groups listed below. If your group type is listed below, to support you with your application and to avoid disappointment, please read the additional associated criteria points carefully.
- Religious Buildings
- They would consider projects for religious buildings which are community hubs for people of all faiths in areas with limited community facilities. They would fund modifications to make the building more usable for the wider community. Religious entities which are part of a larger network or overarching body must be able to provide separate financial accounts and banking.
- Amateur Sports Clubs
- They would consider projects from sports clubs who have diversified their sport offering to wider services that strengthen the community, and whose buildings serve as a community hub, offering a variety of services for a range of groups other than those involved in the main sport being offered. They wouldn’t fund modifications or maintenance of pitches and grounds.
- Scouting, Guiding and Cadets groups (etc.)
- They would consider applications where the space is a community hub in an area with limited community facilities and where the space is used by multiple different group types outside of the Scouts/Guiding/Cadets community.
- Youth Clubs
- They would consider youth groups whose space hosts a range of activities and groups with a large number of service users, particularly groups who provide services in a low socio-economic area.
- Community Gardens/Allotments
- They would consider applications which are renovating or creating a space where people can meet and be together all year round. Spaces should be open to multiple groups in the community. They wouldn’t fund improvements which primarily include plants/planters and tools.
- Village Halls
- They would consider spaces that are used by a wide range of groups, particularly in isolated areas which might have fewer community spaces.
- Religious Buildings
- The focus of this Fund is on community spaces, where people of all ages and walks of life can meet and take part in activities. They anticipate a high volume of applications, particularly from the groups listed below. If your group type is listed below, to support you with your application and to avoid disappointment, please read the additional associated criteria points carefully.
Ineligibility Criteria
- They are unable to consider applications from:
- Organisations based outside the UK or benefitting people/communities outside of the UK.
- Organisations that have previously received an Asda Foundation Investing in Spaces and Places grant
- Groups with an annual income over £250,000
- Groups who don’t currently operate a community space/building.
- Third party grant making organisations (grantees must directly deliver the service/activity).
- Schools or PTAs
- Groups whose services and activities involve alcohol.
- Groups affiliated with a particular political party or agenda.
- Religious organisations whose services are only open to people of a particular faith.
- Animal charities or groups focused primarily on animal welfare.
For more information, visit Asda Foundation.
