Community Power
- Project location: England
- Amount: £50,000 to £80,000
- A decision in: 0 weeks
- Programme status: Closed to applications
Important: Expressions of interest for the development phase of Community Power closed on 5 February 2025.
But there are many other funding opportunities to come.
We’ve committed to a £100 million, 10 year Community Power fund. By community power, we mean local communities being able to influence and change the places they live. As well as the services they use, and decisions that affect their lives.
We aim to launch the broader programme in 2026. This development phase will shape how the broader programme runs. We’re going to work with 10 to 15 partners in the development stage. We have up to £1.2 million funding available over one year.
We’ll fund each partner organisation between £50,000 and £80,000 for the development stage. We expect this stage to run between spring 2025 and spring 2026.
Partners will deliver activities in and with communities to increase their agency, power and control. This can be new or existing work.
This development phase will also require partners to work with us, and each other, to understand what works to increase community power. Including what the barriers are. And what support and learning is needed to improve community power activities over the long term.
We plan to work with a mix of partners. Including smaller community groups as well as larger or national organisations.