The Screwfix Foundation

Capital grants of up to £5,000 are available to local and national charities and not-for-profit organisations, including Community Interest Companies (CICs), across the UK to fix, repair, maintain and improve properties and community facilities for people in need.

Who can apply: UK registered charities and not-for-profit organisations for projects in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Applicants can include Community Interest Companies, Community Benefit Societies, Cooperative Societies and other forms of not-for-profit organisation.

Key words: Capital, Environmentally-friendly Building Projects, Community Centres, Village Halls, Housing, People in Need, United Kingdom.

Yeovil, Somerset-based the Screwfix Foundation provides grants up to £5,000 for capital projects with no matched funding requirement to UK registered charities and not-for-profit organisations to fix, repair, maintain and improve properties and community facilities for people and communities in need. This can include repairing run-down buildings and decorating the homes of people living with illness and disability.

Projects, which should be environmentally friendly, should:

• Help people in need faced by financial hardship, sickness, distress or other disadvantages in the UK, and
• Support projects that relate to the repair, maintenance, improvement or construction of homes, community buildings and other buildings.