Grant website helps find £1.6m for local projects

The total, which involves 420 applications to

includes nearly £500,000 to refurbish or replace around 70 community spaces; £155,000 in public donations, £130,000 from the trust matching public donations, £31,500 in Gift Aid, £280,000 in reactive grants and £1.2m in grants from the trust.
Meanwhile, the trust’s distribution committee and West Berkshire Partnership has just agreed the autumn round of reactive grant funding, with 60 applications gaining a share of £160,000.
Applicants will soon be able to access a new raft of funding after Englefield Charitable Trust, Newbury Town Council, Greenham Parish Council, Sovereign Housing and others have committed to use findmeagrant.
If you want to register your organisation to apply for funds on findmeagrant or you are a grant maker interested in managing and distributing your charitable income through the system, please call Julian May on (01635) 817407, or email