Grants

The Community assets and services grants programme made available by DCLG through The Social Investment Business is available to organisations wanting to use the new Right to Bid.

Find out about grants for asset transfer and the running of a local service.

Right to Bid:

Pre-feasibility grants

Pre-feasibility grants are for amounts up to £10,000 and are for organisations to build their internal capacity to prepare to take receipt of an asset transfer or, else, a bid to buy land and buildings of community value.

Guidance to assist groups applying for pre-feasibility grants.

Feasibility grants

Feasibility grants will be made available to organisations that demonstrate they have the potential to meet local needs through the acquisition and management of land and buildings. These grants are mixed capital and revenue for amounts of up to £100,000 and can be used by organisations to develop investment proposals and carry out feasibility studies equipping them to take ownership of assets through discounted transfer or, else, bid to buy land and buildings of community value.

Guidance to assist groups applying for feasibility grants.

For more information on the criteria in applying for a grant please visit The Social Investment Business’s website, you will be required to discuss your proposal with our advice service before applying.

Other grants available

Reaching Communities supports projects that improve or replace existing buildings where a wide range of community activities take place. Reaching Communities funds projects that help people and communities who are most in need. To support this aim Reaching Communities buildings will only support buildings or sites based in the most deprived ‘Lower Super Output Areas’ inEngland.

Communitybuilders has £2.5 million in some of the best, most promising examples of sustainable, community regeneration projects inEngland.

Awards for All offers small grants and aims to improve local communities and the lives of people most in need.

Funding Central is a useful online guide to over 4,000 grants, contracts and loans.

The National Community Land Trust Network has just launched a new grants programme for peer to peer learning.