The Know Your Neighbourhood Fund
This funding programme, spread over three years, is being targeted at people who have not had opportunities to volunteer before, or who are experiencing loneliness.
About the 'Know Your Neighbourhood' Fund
We are delighted to be partnering with the Department for Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS) to distribute £14 million of the Know Your Neighbourhood Fund. Funded groups and activities are enabling meaningful and impactful volunteering and tackle loneliness.
This funding is being targeted at people who have not had opportunities to volunteer before, or who are experiencing loneliness. They are being supported to access enriching opportunities that will help to improve their wellbeing, skills, confidence and social connections.
Through our funding, participating community foundations are developing an understanding of what works to improve wellbeing and pride in place across 9 local authority areas. This is being done by independently evaluating the funding of community initiatives that aim to increase volunteering and tackle loneliness.
The Know Your Neighbourhood Fund will run until 31st March 2025. The nine areas being focused on are: Wolverhampton, South Tyneside, Kingston-Upon-Hull, Blackpool, Stoke-On-Trent, Great Yarmouth, Fenland, County Durham, and Barrow-in-Furness.
The latest round of funding has closed for applications
We are in the implementation phase of this fund and community foundations are working with the already-funded groups to support their efforts as our independent evaluation takes place.
To learn more about how the fund is supporting communities, find links to the participating community foundations below:
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation
Community Foundations for Lancashire and Merseyside
Community Foundation for Tyne & Wear and Northumberland
County Durham Community Foundation
The Community Foundation for Staffordshire
Two Ridings Community Foundation
Heart of England Community Foundation
"What's really important for us to make sure this fund works really well is the partnership with UKCF.
It's local organisations, embedded in the community, that are going to make this fund work, be really effective and, importantly, reach more people."
- Former Minister for Civil Society and Youth, Stuart Andrew
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