KCC grant schemes

Local Member Schemes

Member Community Grants 

Each of our 84 county councillors can provide financial support of up to £10,000 each year for projects that benefit local communities. This funding has helped a wide range of projects including youth groups, environmental projects and facilities for older people.

Small Community Capital projects 

This scheme can consider bids up to £20,000 for larger capital projects.

Local Schemes Grant 

Awards for revenue or minor capital projects meeting the council's strategic objectives.

Participatory Budgeting

Community voting scheme

For more information contact your local Community Engagement Manager.

Sports projects

Small Capital Grant Scheme for Sport 

This scheme aims to encourage the development of sports in the county by offering grants to sports organisations to improve facilities and widen participation.

For more information email Chris Metherell or call 01622 605004.

Sportsaver (Kent Reliance Building Society) and Pfizer Sports Fund

Both give grants of between £50 and £500 to community sports projects in Kent. The Pfizer Fund focuses solely on East Kent.

For more information visit Kent Sports Development website, email Andrea Murphy or call 01622 605064

Village halls

Village and community hall grants

This scheme supports capital projects to improve an existing facility or build a new one that meets an identified need in the community. The maximum available is £50,000 or 25 percent of project costs (whichever is the smaller amount).

For more information email Mark Reeves or call 01622 694721.

Young People

Kent Trust for Youth Sport

Supports young people to access sports opportunities. Grants:up to £500 for individuals and up to £1,000 for organisations.

For more information email Kent Sports.

Kent Youth Service Partnership Award

Please note that funding for the Partnership Awards (Umbrella and Direct Delivery) is committed for 2012 - Umbrella org. (up to £50k); direct delivery (up to £50k) & voluntary youth organisations new work projects (up to £2k).

For more information email Andy Jones or call 01622 696602.

Hugh and Montague Leney Trust

Awards for educational travel (this usually takes up some or all of a student's gap year) are available for pupils who are over the age of 16 and are attending schools in Kent, Medway, Bexley or Bromley, or have left such a school within the previous 12 months
 
For further information email: Leah Ford

Social Enterprises

Kent Big Society Fund

Loans of between £10,000-£100,000 to support social enterprise organisations whose work benefits the local community.

For further information visit the Big Society pages of the Kent Community Foundation website.