Applications are open soon for our Wessex Water Foundation Community Fund.
We’re looking to help projects that are at the heart of the communities we serve, and this fund aims to support community-based activities or projects that meet a local need and seek to improve the lives of local people who are most in need of support. These activities or projects should be informed by the people or community they serve and have considerable reach, with priority given to work that fulfils one of more of the following:
- Takes place in areas of multiple deprivation or rural isolation where people lack access to local services.
- Helps build stronger communities - enabling people to work together and create solutions to local challenges.
- Helps people take steps to manage or avoid debt and build their financial capability. This can include activities that raise awareness and take up of utility affordability support such as the Wessex Water schemes.
In 2022-23, more than 67 local groups and charities benefited from grants totalling £176,000 from our Community Fund.
Some of those fantastic beneficiaries included:
- Somerset-based charity organisation, Love Glastonbury, who were awarded £3,000 to fund a new community fridge and pantry to help those experiencing food poverty.
- Wiltshire-based charity, Crosspoint, who were awarded £2,825 so it can start providing a new quality-assured debt advice service for local people who need help.
Grants of up to £4,000 are available for our latest round of funding and we work in partnership with Quartet (Bath, Bristol, and South Glous), Somerset, Dorset, and Wiltshire Community Foundations to make sure the funds go to where it’s needed most.
If you have a charitable or community activity that could benefit from our Community Fund, let them know that we’d love to hear from you.
Applications open for a month from Monday, 25 September 2023, and close on Monday 23 October 2023. Information on how to apply can be found on the Wessex Water website.
