Community Grants

Walton Charity awards community grants to local charities, schools and social enterprises who are tackling poverty and inequality in Elmbridge.

Our key themes include:

• Tackling the root causes of child poverty

• Alleviating financial poverty

• Promoting personal health and wellbeing – particularly mental health

• Addressing isolation and loneliness for those on low incomes

• Facilitating access to affordable housing

• Improving educational attainment for disadvantaged children and young people

We are particularly interested in funding projects which help to improve the life chances of children and young people from low-income families across Elmbridge.

We are committed to open and flexible grant-making. Read more about our commitment to being a #FlexibleFunder here.

“Walton Charity has always been very supportive of our charity and clearly recognises the needs of the people that we are trying to help.”

Current funding priorities

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on local charities, really stretching their resources. Now, with reduced reserves, decreasing donations and rising costs, charities are really feeling the financial impact.
If your organisation is looking for additional funding to keep services going or to campaign for more support for your clients, get in touch to discuss your application.
We accept requests for core funding from well-managed charities working in Elmbridge. These can be one-off or multi-year grants.
We offer funding to locals schools to help disadvantaged and underachieving children.
Note, grants should complement and not duplicate any statutory funding.
Grants are available for schools and other local organisations who provide mental health support for those on low incomes, with a particular focus on children, young people and their families.
We are particularly interested in ways innovation can lead to transformative change.
This could be reaching new audiences, developing new delivery models, or creating new areas of work. Ideas can be completely new idea, or may involve testing a proven approach from elsewhere in a new context.
We offer small grants up to £5,000 to support local charities, social enterprises and schools for projects or initiatives linked to our priority areas listed above.
Our small grants are only open to organisations with an annual income of less than £200K.
This funding stream is open all year round.
We will continue to consider grant requests outside the priority areas listed above where there is potential for high impact in areas of need, particularly where they tackle child poverty or improve access to affordable housing across Elmbridge.