Grants of up to £2000 Available to Local Organisations

Local community and voluntary organisations can now apply for grants of up to £2,000 from the Tandridge Together Community Fund.

The grants will be awarded early in 2022 to local charities and voluntary groups which demonstrate the work they do improves the health and wellbeing of people living in the district.

Eligible organisations are invited to apply for funding of up to £2,000 towards initiatives which will directly benefit residents in the district through one or more of the following activities:

• Support people to be able to live independently for as long as possible.
• Support people to improve their emotional and physical health.
• Target services at under-represented and / or hard to reach groups.
• Effectively safeguard people from abuse, neglect or poor treatment.
• Reduce social isolation.
• Help reduce reliance on alternative, higher cost state interventions.
• Support and enable carers to carry on caring for as long as possible.

The application form is now available and applications must be submitted by midnight on Tuesday 30 November. The grant allocations will be decided by the Tandridge Health and Wellbeing Board in January 2022.

The overall fund available is raised by people buying weekly tickets for the Tandridge Together Lottery.

Tandridge Together Lottery LogoTandridge Together Lottery is a weekly online lottery, with a chance to win £25,000 as well as support good causes and local voluntary groups with fundraising.

Lottery tickets costing £1 are available at www.tandridgelottery.co.uk. Anyone buying a ticket can select the cause they want to support from those registered on the website. 50p of the £1 ticket price goes directly to the chosen good cause, with 10p in every pound going into a fund for the Council to distribute in the form of small grants, to a wide range of good cause projects who apply for support in the Tandridge district.

The rest of the money goes towards prizes and administration costs. There is no cost to the charities, projects and groups who sign up.

For more details on the grant and how to apply please click here 

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