Our new Thriving Communities Fund offers grants of up to £5,000 for projects to benefit customers

We are thrilled to launch our new Thriving Communities fund which is aimed at supporting not-for-profit groups and organisations to deliver cohesive, sustainable, and resilient communities. We will be awarding grants from £1,000 up to £5,000 for initiatives and projects that actively support the communities we work in.

We will prioritise groups that operate within communities where we have homes and whose work will directly benefit customers. The funding will support a range of activities but particularly those focusing on youth, health and well-being, ageing-well, social Inclusion (including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)), environment and place, customer voice, employment support, food insecurity, digital inclusion and skills, money matters and debt advice.

Successful projects should be able to clearly demonstrate how they will address the issues faced in their local communities and how SNG customers will benefit as a result of their activities. We want to see how your organisation’s work will have a positive and long-lasting impact on the local community.

Organisations applying to the fund must be either local not-for-profit groups, community organisations, or registered charities and must be able to demonstrate how they will engage with and benefit SNG customers. We're working with Action Funder to distribute the Thriving Communities Fund.

Matt Buckham, Managing Director of SNG’s Community Foundation, commented: “We’re really pleased to be launching this fund which underpins our core purpose by supporting people with the foundation for a better life. We look forward to supporting some fantastic organisations making a difference in our communities with this investment. This fund offers a taste of what’s to come as we work on launching our Community Foundation which will deliver £100m of investment across our communities over the next decade.”

To find out more and to apply, please click here or the button below to visit our Thriving Communities webpage.

Click here for all the details on our Thriving Communities fund