Grant funders

Essex Community Foundation

Community foundation

United Kingdom

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Given in 2025 £2.4m
Typical grant £7,000 Middle half £5,000 to £10k
New grantees in 2025 29% first grant from this funder

Giving by year

29% of 2025 grantees were new to this funder 65% of grantees are funded again within three years

Amount and number of grants we hold records for in each year, which can be less than everything the funder gave. The current year is incomplete.

Where it gives

East of England 1,983 grants · typical £7,860
London 122 grants · typical £7,500
South East 27 grants · typical £7,000
West Midlands 7 grants · typical £7,119
East Midlands 5 grants · typical £6,500
South West 3 grants · typical £6,000
North West 2 grants · typical £11k
Yorkshire and The Humber 2 grants · typical £12k

Top local authority areas

Colchester 301 grants · typical £8,000
Chelmsford 261 grants · typical £8,400
Southend-on-Sea 249 grants · typical £7,000
Tendring 177 grants · typical £8,000
Maldon 160 grants · typical £9,040
Braintree 140 grants · typical £7,500
Basildon 127 grants · typical £7,992
Harlow 110 grants · typical £7,350
Uttlesford 88 grants · typical £7,500
Thurrock 73 grants · typical £7,450

All years we hold. Grants with no recorded place are left out.

Latest grants made

Pioneer Sailing Trust Pioneer Sailing Trust £34k 26 Mar 2026
Kool Carers South East Limited Kool Carers South East Limited £10k 26 Mar 2026
Divine Assembly Ministries Divine Assembly Ministries £13k 24 Mar 2026
Rafiki Community CIC Rafiki Community CIC £10k 24 Mar 2026
Colchester Nepalese Society (CNS) Colchester Nepalese Society (CNS) £7,273 24 Mar 2026
Maldon & District Community Voluntary Services Maldon and District CVS £14k 20 Mar 2026
Fresh Start Future Enterprises Limited Fresh Start Future Enterprises Limited £5,000 5 Mar 2026
Uttlesford Citizens Advice Uttlesford Citizens Advice £15k 5 Mar 2026
Bar 'n' Bus Trust Bar n Bus Trust £6,000 3 Mar 2026
Colchester united community foundation Colchester United Community Foundation £5,000 19 Feb 2026

Data: Contains public sector information from the Charity Commission for England and Wales register of charities, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. (Open Government Licence v3.0); Contains grants data published by UK grantmakers via 360Giving GrantNav. Each award names its publisher and licence. (CC BY 4.0, OGL v3.0 or CC0 1.0, as published by each funder (CC BY-SA data excluded)); Essex Community Foundation, via 360Giving GrantNav