Community foundation · Registered charity 1156082
Hertfordshire Community Foundation: grants and who they fund
Hertfordshire Community Foundation published 424 grants to organisations from 3 Oct 2023 to 21 Mar 2025, worth £3.5m in total. The typical (median) grant was £5,000, and East Hertfordshire 007D was the area funded most often.
Stated aims
What the charity says it does (Charity Commission register):
Hertfordshire Community Foundation has five main areas of activity: * Development and management of charitable funds * Grant making * Capacity building, community support and cross section liaison * Research * Other services relating to the development and delivery of philanthropy.
Charitable objects (governing document):
A. The promotion of any charitable purposes for the benefit of the community in the county of hertfordshire and its immediate neighbourhood and in particular the advancement of education, the protection of good health both mental and physical and the relief of poverty and sickness; b. Other exclusively charitable purposes.
Where it operates (Charity Commission register):
- Hertfordshire
Grant sizes
Grants to organisations from 3 Oct 2023 to 21 Mar 2025. Smallest £50, largest £237k, average £8,229.
| Grant size | Grants | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Under £1,000 | 49 | 12% |
| £1,000 to £4,999 | 146 | 34% |
| £5,000 to £9,999 | 154 | 36% |
| £10,000 to £49,999 | 67 | 16% |
| £50,000 to £99,999 | 4 | 1% |
| £100,000 to £249,999 | 4 | 1% |
| Year | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | £171k |
| 2024 | 301 | £2.9m |
| 2023 | 83 | £386k |
Grant programmes
Programmes named most often in the published grants.
| Programme | Grants | Median grant |
|---|---|---|
| HCC Community Spaces (HCC Cool and Warm Spaces) | 76 | £2,000 |
| Household Support Fund (previously HCC Covid Winter Grants) | 75 | £5,000 |
| HCF Grants up to £5k | 73 | £4,750 |
| HCF Grants up to £10k | 57 | £6,500 |
| Hertfordshire Educational Fund | 44 | £444 |
| HCC Opportunities | 36 | £23k |
| HCF Multi-Year Grants | 13 | £5,000 |
| St Albans Fund for the Future | 12 | £5,000 |
Example recipients
Registered organisations that received grants, largest first. Organisations only: grants to individuals are never shown.
| Organisation | Grants | Total | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Watford & Three Rivers Trust | 6 | £246k | 3 Mar 2025 |
| Age UK Hertfordshire | 1 | £237k | 23 Apr 2024 |
| Guideposts Trust | 2 | £158k | 23 Apr 2024 |
| DRUM | 1 | £144k | 23 Apr 2024 |
| Age UK Dacorum | 1 | £99k | 23 Apr 2024 |
| Health & Independent Living Support | 3 | £79k | 27 Jan 2025 |
| Cuffley Care Day Centre | 1 | £62k | 23 Apr 2024 |
| Centre in the Park | 1 | £60k | 23 Apr 2024 |
| Watford Sheltered Workshop Ltd | 4 | £54k | 23 Apr 2024 |
| Watford & District Mencap Society | 2 | £50k | 23 Apr 2024 |
| North Herts Minority Ethnic Forum | 4 | £50k | 5 Dec 2024 |
| Herts Disability Sports Foundation | 3 | £47k | 27 Feb 2025 |
| HAWA Multicultural Services CIC (formerly Hertfordshire Asian Women's Association) | 3 | £45k | 17 Mar 2025 |
| Everyone Active - SLM CT (formerly WFLCT) | 1 | £44k | 23 Apr 2024 |
| Supported Activities Programme | 1 | £43k | 23 Apr 2024 |
Areas funded
Beneficiary locations given in the grant data, by number of grants.
| Area | Grants |
|---|---|
| East Hertfordshire 007D | 10 |
| St Albans 012B | 10 |
| St Albans 017B | 9 |
| East Hertfordshire 017D | 9 |
| Watford 009D | 8 |
| Dacorum 010C | 8 |
| St Albans 015A | 7 |
| Dacorum 015D | 6 |
| East Hertfordshire 012C | 6 |
| North Hertfordshire 008A | 5 |
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Source: grants data published by Hertfordshire 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: 424 grants to organisations awarded 3 Oct 2023 to 21 Mar 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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire Community Foundation.