Community foundation · Registered charity 1143711
Cheshire Community Foundation: grants and who they fund
Cheshire Community Foundation published 529 grants to organisations from 18 Oct 2023 to 18 Dec 2025, worth £5.4m in total. The typical (median) grant was £4,986, and Cheshire East was the area funded most often.
Stated aims
What the charity says it does (Charity Commission register):
The main area of our charitable activities is the distribution of grants to not-for-profit organisations based in the county of Cheshire in the local community on behalf of donors and fund holders.
Charitable objects (governing document):
3 the charity's objects ("objects") are specifically restricted to the following:3.1 the promotion of any charitable purposes for the benefit of the community in the county of cheshire and its immediate neighbourhood; and3.2 other exclusively charitable purposes in the United Kingdom and elsewhere which are, in the opinion of the directors, beneficial to the community with a preference for those in the area of benefit
Where it operates (Charity Commission register):
- Cheshire East
- Warrington
- Cheshire West & Chester
Grant sizes
Grants to organisations from 18 Oct 2023 to 18 Dec 2025. Smallest £100, largest £200k, average £10k.
| Grant size | Grants | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Under £1,000 | 55 | 10% |
| £1,000 to £4,999 | 210 | 40% |
| £5,000 to £9,999 | 96 | 18% |
| £10,000 to £49,999 | 152 | 29% |
| £50,000 to £99,999 | 12 | 2% |
| £100,000 to £249,999 | 4 | 1% |
| Year | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 230 | £2.1m |
| 2024 | 240 | £2.6m |
| 2023 | 59 | £632k |
Grant programmes
Programmes named most often in the published grants.
| Programme | Grants | Median grant |
|---|---|---|
| Cheshire and Warrington Small Grants up to £2500 | 139 | £2,500 |
| Building Brighter Futures EMR | 52 | £10k |
| Donor Directed Payments | 40 | £5,000 |
| Assura Hertfordshire and West Essex ICS Grants Programme | 33 | £7,790 |
| Bentley Advancing Life Chances Fund | 29 | £18k |
| SWEF Enterprise Grants | 26 | £500 |
| Fund it Forward 2024 | 24 | £10k |
| Radius Programme | 23 | £2,500 |
Example recipients
Registered organisations that received grants, largest first. Organisations only: grants to individuals are never shown.
| Organisation | Grants | Total | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home-Start Warrington & Cheshire | 7 | £434k | 18 Dec 2025 |
| Koala North West (formerly Home-Start Wirral) | 7 | £358k | 18 Dec 2025 |
| National Association for Voluntary and Community Action (NAVCA) | 3 | £188k | 23 Jul 2025 |
| Pure Insight 1628 | 7 | £150k | 16 Dec 2025 |
| North Herts and Stevenage CVS | 1 | £125k | 12 Sept 2025 |
| Warrington Wolves Charitable Foundation | 2 | £115k | 18 Sept 2024 |
| Warrington Voluntary Action | 3 | £112k | 18 Dec 2024 |
| Manchester Community Central | 1 | £105k | 4 Nov 2025 |
| Wishing Well Project | 6 | £101k | 11 Nov 2025 |
| Youth Federation | 6 | £82k | 18 Sept 2025 |
| Nottingham Community and Voluntary Service | 1 | £75k | 9 Sept 2024 |
| Voscur (on behalf of BNSSG VCSE Alliance) | 1 | £75k | 24 Aug 2024 |
| Voluntary Organisations' Network North East (VONNE) | 1 | £75k | 7 Oct 2024 |
| Warrington Youth Zone Limited | 6 | £71k | 12 May 2025 |
| Ruby's Fund | 3 | £62k | 7 Nov 2025 |
Areas funded
Beneficiary locations given in the grant data, by number of grants.
| Area | Grants |
|---|---|
| Cheshire East | 20 |
| Warrington 018F | 16 |
| Cheshire East 039B | 14 |
| Cheshire East 043B | 13 |
| Cheshire East 039A | 11 |
| Cheshire West and Chester | 11 |
| Warrington | 11 |
| Cheshire West and Chester 029C | 9 |
| Cheshire East 037A | 7 |
| Cheshire East 009D | 7 |
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Source: grants data published by Cheshire Community Foundation through 360Giving (GrantNav data, fetched 23 Oct 2026), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Figures are our own summary of that data: 529 grants to organisations awarded 18 Oct 2023 to 18 Dec 2025. Stated aims, charity number and areas of operation are from the Charity Commission register.
Licence: Contains public sector information from the Charity Commission for England and Wales, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Open Government Licence v3.0. Grants data from Cheshire Community Foundation, CC BY 4.0.
Last updated: 23 October 2026. Information only, not funding advice; check the funder's own guidance before applying. Brightbench is not connected to Cheshire Community Foundation.