If you are a care-experienced adult that is beig supported by Surrey County Council you may be eligible to apply. 

Examples of what grants may be used for or towards include:  Course fees and examination costs; Travel costs for education, training or employment; Childcare for short-term education or training; Equipment, materials or tools; Work- or training-related clothing; Volunteering/work placement costs ; Online learning

If you are 15 years old but turning 16 in the next 1-2 months you are eligible to apply. Please submit your age as 16 here. 

Applicants will be experiencing financial disadvantage and tend to be in one of the following groups: ⬧ People who have achieved or are likely to achieve fewer than 5 GCSEs at grades 4-9  ⬧ People not in full-time employment ⬧ People with disabilities or restricted by health conditions ⬧ People with mental health conditions ⬧ People in or leaving care ⬧ Carers (including Surrey Young Carers) ⬧ People who are at risk of, or have been in trouble with the law ⬧ People who are or were eligible to receive free school meals ⬧ People who are in receipt of college bursaries ⬧ People who occupy low-paid roles ⬧ Refugees 

The people who make decisions about how you operate - trustees or directors. The majority should be unrelated.

We can only fund work which has a charitable purpose

Your organisation's total income in the last financial year

Our funding supports the residents of Surrey, we cannot fund work where the purpose is to support people outside this area

How long your organisation has been operating

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2026 Main Round 3 - Application Form

This application has two stages:

Expression of Interest (Stage 1): Complete Sections 1-3 to tell us briefly about your organisation and funding request. We will review your Expression of Interest and contact you to let you know if we are able to invite you to proceed to Stage 2.

Full Application (Stage 2): Sections 4-13 allow you to provide more detailed information about your organisation, project plans, budget, and supporting documents.

About this two-stage application process

Main contact for this application - Forename(s)

Main contact for this application - Surname

Main contact for this application - Job title /Role

Main contact for this application -  Email address

Main contact for this application -  contact phone number

Website

Select the type of your organisation or group.

What type of organisation/group are you?

A short, descriptive name for the work you are seeking funding for.

Funding Request name - short name for the work you are seeking funding for.

Provide a detailed description of what the funding is needed for (maximum 200 words).

Please describe what you are seeking funding for

The specific amount of funding requested from the Community Foundation for Surrey in GBP.

How much funding are you requesting?

The total amount that the whole project is estimated to cost in GBP.

What is the total cost of the activity, provision or organisational work for which you are seeking support? 

The total amount of funding raised for this project so far in GBP.

How much funding towards this proposal have you raised or secured to date? 

The anticipated start date for spending the funding. Retrospective grants cannot be awarded.

When will you start spending the funding? This should be from 1st May 2027 

Select the primary local authority in Surrey where the activity will take place.

Which local authority in Surrey will the activity primarily take place in?

Provide specific details about the ward, village, or area of project delivery.

Specify the ward / village / specific area the project will take place in if possible:

Provide a representative Surrey postcode for the geographical area benefiting from your project. We cannot fund work which does not benefit Surrey residents.

Please provide a postcode IN SURREY which represents the geographical area you will benefit.

Please select the theme that best represents the main purpose of the work being funded. Where your work covers multiple themes, choose the one that is most central to the project.

Which theme most accurately describes the primary purpose of the work for which funding is requested?

Select the age group(s) of people who will be supported by this activity or project.

What age group are the people who will be supported by this activity/project?

Indicate how you learned about the Community Foundation for Surrey.

How did you hear about us?

Opt-in to receive the grants e-bulletin with information about future funding opportunities and application deadlines. By ticking the box, you agree that we can contact you via email and hold your data.

Would you like to receive our grants e-bulletin?

Address - Building Number/Name and Street

Town/City

County

Postcode

Your organisation's general or office email address.

General/Office email

Indicate if your organisation is part of a larger regional or national entity.

Are you part of a larger regional or national organisation?

The year your organisation was established.

What year was your organisation established?

Your organisation's total income over the last accounting year in GBP.

Income over last accounting year

Your organisation's current unrestricted reserves in GBP.

What are your current unrestricted reserves?

Describe your involvement in local networks, partnerships, and how your work complements other providers (maximum 300 words).

Please tell us about any local networks you are involved in or partners you work with. Tell us how your work fits in with other charities and providers addressing this problem.

Provide the number of individuals in each staffing and volunteer category.

How many of each of the following are involved in the organisation?

How many full time staff / workers

Part time staff / workers

Number of trustees or management committee members.

Trustees / Management committee

Number of volunteers (excluding trustees/management committee).

Volunteers (excluding trustees/ management committee)

Bank name

Bank sort code

The name on your organisation's bank account.

Bank account name

Bank account number

Describe the problems, disadvantages, and/or needs faced by the people your work supports (maximum 300 words).

The "Problem" - What problems do the people you work with face?

Describe the work you are seeking funding for, addressing where, when, what, how, who, and why (maximum 250 words).

Please tell us about the work you would like funding for which addresses this problem.

Explain the intended positive changes, how lives will improve, and the wider community benefits (maximum 250 words).

The change you want to make - How does this work help to solve the problem?

Describe how you will measure and report on the outcomes and impact of your work (maximum 200 words).

Outcomes and Impact - How will you measure and report on the positive changes made for people?

Provide a case study illustrating how your organisation has previously helped an individual and the resulting change (maximum 200 words).

Case study - To help us understand the difference this work will make please tell us how the organisation has helped an individual in the past and the change made to their life.

Use this field for any additional information you deem important (maximum 200 words).

If the questions in this form have not provided you with the opportunity to tell us what is important to you, please use this field to provide any extra information.

The estimated number of people who will benefit from this funding.

How many people will benefit from this funding?

Select the primary demographic group of people being supported.

What is the primary demographic of people being supported?

Have you recieved a grant from Community Foundation for Surrey in the last 4 years?

Referee forename

Referee surname

Referee company name

Referee position

Email address of the independent referee.

Referee email

Referee phone

Certification

By submitting an application to the Community Foundation for Surrey, the organisation named in the application (referred to as “you” in these Terms and Conditions) agrees, if awarded a grant, that:  

Any grant is awarded on the basis of the information supplied in this application. 

Any and all monies awarded must be used for exclusively charitable purposes as defined on the Charity Commission website https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/charitable-purposes/charitable-purposes.
 
The award is intended only to fund the work specified in your request and only for expenditure incurred after the date of your grant award. 

The award should be recorded as Restricted income in your accounts unless you are specifically notified that the grant is unrestricted. 

You will act lawfully in carrying out your project in accordance with best practice and guidance from your regulators, and follow any guidelines issued by us about the project or use of the grant and let us know promptly about any fraud, other impropriety, mismanagement or misuse in relation to the grant. 

You will inform us of any Serious Incident as defined by the Charity Commission https://www.gov.uk/guidance/how-to-report-a-serious-incident-in-your-charity 

If the project/activity changes in any way from the original application, the Community Foundation for Surrey will be notified immediately. Significant variations may result in the grant being altered or withdrawn. 

If you have been unable to start using the grant within three months of receipt, or it cannot be used for the purpose for which it was awarded you will contact the Foundation as soon as possible. 

You will immediately return any part of the grant that is not used for your project, or which constitutes an unlawful subsidy. 

You will keep accurate and comprehensive records about your project during the project and for five years afterwards and provide us on request with copies of those records and evidence of expenditure of the grant, such as original paper or electronic receipts, invoices, and bank statements. 

An End of Grant report will be completed and returned to the Community Foundation for Surrey within 3 months of completion. 

You will acknowledge Community Foundation for Surrey funding using our logo in accordance with the relevant guidelines for recognising your grant, which can be found on our website https://www.cfsurrey.org.uk/apply-for-funding-3/publicising-your-grant. 

Public information about any grant awarded may be shared in open datasets.  No personally identifying information will be published.


Terms and Conditions

Rate your experience completing the application form.

Feedback on the application form?

Provide feedback on your experience with the application form (maximum 100 words).

We would appreciate your feedback on your experience of completing this application form, to help us make improvements.

Please upload your supporting documents, please note that they are part of your application and must be provided by the deadline. We cannot process incomplete applications.

Supporting Documents

Governing Document

This should cover Children and Young People and/or Adults at Risk, as relevant to your activities, and include clear reporting procedures, a named safeguarding lead and review dates. Your policy must be dated within the last 12 months.

Safeguarding policy and procedures

This should include financial controls and oversight arrangements your organisation has in place to safeguard funds and ensure accountability.

Finance Policy

Your statement should be no more than 3 months old. Transactions should be redacted for privacy

Bank Statement in the name of the applying organisation

Charity Number

Please provide your company registration number.

Company Number

Describe your organisation's mission, goals, and the services it offers (maximum 500 words).

Please describe the overall aims and objectives of your organisation and the activities or services your organisation provides.

Please provide a breakdown of your budget, only include the items to be funded by this grant request

Budget

Please provide information about the difference your work will make. These outcomes are the way you measure your own work and we will ask you to report on them in your end of grant report.

For example 
Outcome - people who report improved confidence
Target - 20
Measurement - we will set a baseline for each participant and interview them at the beginning and end of the programme to record progress
Timeline - within 6 months

Outcomes -  the difference your work will make to people?

If your accounts are more than one year old, please also provide an update on your financial position.

Most recent annual report and accounts. 

Quote for capital greater than £5k

In order to process your Expression of Interest and potentially invite an application we need to record your details on our database. The information will not be shared with any other party without your explicit permission. 

Our full privacy policy can be viewed on our website https://www.cfsurrey.org.uk/privacy-policy?rq=data%20protection



Data protection

We do not fund CICs with PSC as governance needs to be equivalent to charity governance. Many CICs will have created a PSC on Companies House because they believed they had to have one, this is not the case and they can be easily removed.

Do you have any persons with significant control (PSC)?

As well as project funding requests, we welcome and encourage applications for core costs where eligible. Please note that grants for core costs are not available to CICs.

Would the grant be funding project costs, core costs or a combination of both?

Choose the option that best describes the main focus of the activities for which funding is requested.

Which best describes the work for which funding is requested?

Expression of Interest: About You

Expression of Interest: Funding Request

Expression of Interest: Project Scope

Expression of Interest: Referral & Consent

Stage 2 Application: Organisation Information

Stage 2 Application: Grant Application Details

Stage 2 Application: Project Impact

Stage 2 Application: Budget

Stage 2: Bank details

Stage 2 Application: Referee

Please upload your supporting documents. Your application is not complete until you have provided these documents. 