The ASDA Foundation Cost-of-Living Grant programme
Grants of between £500 and £2,000 are available to local community organisations across the UK to cover core running costs, food for people struggling with the cost-of-living and Warm Banks, providing a comfortable place for people to go who are unable to heat their homes.
Who can apply: locally-based, not-for-profit organisations across the United Kingdom.
Key words: Cost-of-Living, Organisational Running Costs, ‘Warm Banks’, Food, United Kingdom.
The Cost-of-Living programme offers grants to local community organisations across the UK. The programme has two main priorities:
- Funding to cover rent and utility costs, especially where this relates to ‘Warm Banks’ where groups are aiming to keep their facilities open for longer to provide local people with a warm, safe place to be rather than heating their homes or living in a cold property (for example, drop in and day centres), and
- Funding food for community cafes, food parcels, delivered meals, soup kitchens, etc.
UK-based local not-for-profit community groups may apply for a grant of between £500 and £2,000, providing they meet the following criteria:
- Beneficiaries must be groups of people in a local community.
- The applying organisations must have a presence in the local community, and
- The applying organisation must provide services that benefit the local community.
Please note that Cost-of-Living, Under-18 Better Start and Empowering Local Communities Grants may all close earlier than the scheduled deadline of Friday 24th May 2024 if they become over-subscribed. Early application is therefore advised.