Wessex Water Community Fund

The Wessex Water Community Fund supports community-based activities or projects that meet a local need and seek to improve the lives of local people who are most in need of support. The fund is being delivered across the South West by Quartet, Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire Community Foundations. The programme aims to support activities that are informed by the people or community it seeks to serve and have considerable reach and wide community benefit. Priority is given to work that takes place in areas of multiple deprivation or rural isolation where people lack access to local services, helps build stronger communities by enabling people to work together and create solutions to local challenges, and helps people take steps to manage or avoid debt and build their financial capability. This programme is targeted at groups and organizations where a small amount of money can make a significant difference, with grants of up to £4,000 available for new activity or continuing existing work. Activities funded must start within six months of the award and groups have up to 12 months to spend the grant. The fund particularly welcomes applications from groups led by diverse and ethnically minoritised communities.