Woking Community Fund

Supporting local communities to develop and thrive by supporting voluntary effort, not just for a single cause, but across all sectors.

What is Woking Community Fund?

The fund was set up in 2012 by local business people and has been run by a team of volunteers ever since. It supports a wide range of sectors, including isolated older people, those with long-term illness or disabilities, the environment, sports, young people, families, and community facilities.

How we help people

The Woking Community Fund makes it easy for local residents to support the breadth of local needs by:

  • Exclusively supporting local community projects

  • Pooling donations from companies, individuals and families to make a bigger impact

  • Providing a sustainable source of funding to support the evolving community needs

  • Developing the capacity to respond to local issues as they arise

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Woking Community Fund awards grants to support the following:

  • Supporting projects or improving facilities which combat social isolation and disadvantage;

  • Helping people to gain confidence and raise aspirations through training and development of new skills;

  • Providing counselling, advice, respite and support; and

  • Supporting people who are experiencing difficult circumstances due to an illness, injury, disability, bereavement or financial difficulty.

Grants may fund existing services or facilities and new initiatives and can contribute to either capital costs such as funding new equipment or support on-going running costs.

Make a donation.

Donations can be made at any level, either as one-off donations or spread over a period of time. They can be donated as gifts of cash, legacies, shares, property or land.

The easiest way to give is through the form at the top of the page, which will direct your donation directly to Woking Community Fund. If you would prefer to make a bank transfer, please contact us.

Don’t forget Gift Aid! Using Gift Aid means that for every pound you give, the Woking Community Fund will receive an extra 25p from HM Revenue & Customs, helping your donation go further.
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Apply for funding

Applying for funding is easy. Simply fill out a quick Expression of Interest Form (EOI) to start the application process.

Tell us what you want to do, and how much you would like to apply for. The EOI is designed to save you time and provide us with a little more information about your funding needs prior to making a full application.

The grants team will then review your EOI against our fund criteria and advise you if we can invite you forward to make a full application.