Including Communities 2025

Including Communities will deliver on HIWCF's core aim of tackling poverty and inequality by helping to build flourishing and connected communities. The program believes that communities thrive when local community activities and services regularly bring people together and when these activities and services are shaped by local people from the target community. This grant program offers 12-month grants ranging from £1,000 to £10,000 for not-for-profit community organisations. The grants are designed to support local community activities and services that help build connected and flourishing communities throughout the region. Grants will only be made to organisations that are based in AND supporting work within Hampshire, Portsmouth, Southampton, and the Isle of Wight. Smaller catchments within any of these geographies are allowed, such as a town, a village, or a housing estate. The program is currently closed and will be re-opening in August 2026.