Grant Holder Support

We want to deliver a package of funding and support to address the most common challenges that communities face. We’ve committed £150 million of funding to this until 2030. This funding will help increase the knowledge, skills and resilience of civil society organisations.

So there will be more opportunities for funding and support to come.

We’re now choosing a partner to lead the development stage of this package of support. We’re offering £2.1 million in funding for this development stage from spring 2025 to spring 2026.

The lead partner will deliver support to our grant holders and organisations that need it most.

To do this they’ll:

• bring together a range of community, civil society and infrastructure organisations. Particularly organisations that represent communities who experience poverty, disadvantage and discrimination.
• bring in other partners that have specialist knowledge. Like organisations who help others to reduce their environmental impact, or increase inclusion. Or who can help others benefit from using data or digital approaches better.
• involve both emerging and established civil society organisations. For example, organisations that have been around a long time and those that are new or not mainstream.

The development process might include workshops and community engagement sessions. The lead partner will find out what existing and future customers need, and what support would help them. And identify what matters most to communities. Then use this to provide appropriate support in this development stage.