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Community development grants in South East

Grants made 23 Oct 2025 to 23 Oct 2026 by UK trusts and foundations that publish through 360Giving to charities registered for community development with a registered address in South East.

75grants
£1.6mtotal awarded
£10kmedian grant
20funders

Top funders

Trusts and foundations that gave the most to community development charities in South East in the last 12 months. Names link to their free funder profile where we have one.

FunderGrantsTotalMedian
Freemasons’ Charity5£246k£60k
Oxfordshire Community Foundation13£210k£12k
City Bridge Foundation2£199k£99k
A B Charitable Trust7£195k£25k
Community Foundation for Surrey21£160k£5,715
London Marathon Foundation1£150k£150k
Garfield Weston Foundation4£100k£25k
Charles Hayward Foundation3£70k£25k
Benefact Trust4£45k£6,750
Essex Community Foundation1£43k£43k

Open and recurring programmes

Funder programmes behind these grants that have made grants in at least two years, so are likely to run again. Check each funder's website for current deadlines.

ProgrammeFunderGrants (12 months)Years with grantsLatest grant
Donor FundsCommunity Foundation for Surrey192019 to 202625 Jun 2026
Oxfordshire County CouncilOxfordshire Community Foundation42022 to 202615 Dec 2025
The Criminal Legal system and penal reformA B Charitable Trust32013 to 20265 Jun 2026
Migrants and RefugeesA B Charitable Trust32013 to 20265 Jun 2026
Small GrantsThe Leathersellers' Foundation32019 to 202626 May 2026
Main Grant, Social & Criminal JusticeCharles Hayward Foundation32022 to 202526 Nov 2025
Building GrantsBenefact Trust22023 to 202627 Apr 2026
Strategic InitiativesCity Bridge Foundation22008 to 202622 Apr 2026
Didcot PowerhouseOxfordshire Community Foundation22022 to 202623 Mar 2026
General WelfareThe Dulverton Trust22012 to 202611 Feb 2026

Open government schemes charities can apply for

12 open schemes on Find a Grant covering South East in related sectors (live Grant Radar list). The 5 closing soonest:

SchemeFunderGrant sizeCloses
DCMS Place-Based Philanthropy Community of PracticeDepartment for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport£996k to £997k9 Nov 2026
Economic research on the returns to R&D investment (Grant)UK Research and Innovation, Economic and Social Research Council£1 to £308k19 Nov 2026
Sustainable Medicines Manufacturing Innovation: CR&D Round 2Innovate UK£500k to £1m2 Dec 2026
Gambling harms research grants (Grant)UK Research and Innovation, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Medical Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council£1 to £2m8 Dec 2026
Condition Improvement Fund (CIF)Department for Education£20k to £4m15 Dec 2026

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Source: grants data published by each funder through 360Giving (GrantNav), grants awarded 23 Oct 2025 to 23 Oct 2026 to registered charities, companies and other organisations (grants to individuals are left out). Cause and region come from the recipient charity's entry on the Charity Commission register (its registered charitable purposes and the postcode area of its registered address), so cause and region snapshots cover recipients registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Open government schemes are from Find a Grant (UK Government) via Grant Radar. "Recurring" programmes have grants in at least two calendar years. Figures are our own summary.

Licences: each funder publishes its data under its own open licence; we use only data licensed CC BY 4.0, CC0 or the Open Government Licence. Data from A B Charitable Trust, Benefact Trust, Charles Hayward Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Essex Community Foundation, Freemasons’ Charity, Garfield Weston Foundation, Heart of England Community Foundation, London Marathon Foundation, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Point North, The Clothworkers Foundation, The Dulverton Trust, The Leathersellers' Foundation, The Veterans' Foundation, Youth Music: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Data from City Bridge Foundation, Community Foundation for Surrey: Open Government Licence v3.0. Data from Barnwood Trust, Oxfordshire Community Foundation: Creative Commons Zero (CC0 1.0). Contains public sector information from the Charity Commission for England and Wales, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Find a Grant: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Last updated: 23 October 2026. Information only, not funding advice; check each funder's own guidance before applying. Brightbench is not connected to these funders.