Grants of up to £2,500 are available to local community groups and charities to help towards supporting borough wide community initiatives in 2025/26. A budget of £50,000 has been secured by Cabinet to coincide with the 50th anniversary year of Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council.
The fund aims to support innovative projects that achieve at least one of these goals:
- Helping vulnerable communities through the cost-of-living crisis
- Supporting healthy lifestyles
- Improving community safety
- Helping people gain skills to access the workplace
- Supporting environmental and carbon reduction initiatives
We will consider applications for core funding to support the on-going work of voluntary and community groups but will give higher priority to those applications seeking funding for a specific project or purchase.
Who can apply?
This fund is open to applications from any community organisation or charity which:
- is based in the borough and/or is providing a direct service to residents of the borough in line with community priorities
- provides services that will promote or improve the economic, social or environmental wellbeing of the area for the benefit of residents
- is in the community, not for profit or voluntary sector
- has a constitution or set of rules setting out its aims and objectives
- has a bank or building society account in its own name
- can provide externally examined, or signed accounts for the previous financial year
- only applies for one grant from this fund (we will not fund multiple projects from the same organisation)
How to apply
Please read the guidance notes carefully before applying.
Your application must be completed in one sitting, as there is no option to save and return to your form at a later point. Therefore, we advise you to have all responses and documentation ready before starting your application, including uploading the following:
- A copy of your latest set of audited or signed accounts
- A copy of the constitution of your organisation
Apply for the 50th Anniversary Grant Scheme
Please note, decisions on applications are made by the grant panel only after the deadline.
The scheme is open to applications from 2 January until midnight on 2 March