£130m Grassroots Grants

The Office of the Third Sector have launched a Grassroots Grants scheme, through which they are making £130m available over the next three years.  The scheme will be managed by the Community Development Foundation.  A total of £80m will be available for small grants to grassroots organisations in grants of between £250 and £5,000.  If you are a community group interested in trying to access some of this funding you’ll need to contact one of your local funders to find out more - I’ve just scanned the list and these are England only.  The other £50m will be available to enable local funders to generate additional donations to invest in endowments, with a view to making the funds last longer and do more.  It’s great to see this longer term thinking being planned into the fund, and it will be interesting to see how it works.