Hertfordshire Community Foundation is a place-based funder that channels local philanthropy and public funding into small charities, community groups, schools, and frontline providers across Hertfordshire. Its grants tend to support practical, community-level solutions—improving access, reducing isolation, helping families in crisis, and strengthening local wellbeing, with a strong emphasis on underserved groups and hyperlocal needs. The foundation also runs several targeted funds focused on music access, community transport, warm/community spaces, green transition capacity, and emergency household support.
Primarily small, rolling grants to local charities and community groups, often with decision times of around 1-2 months; some funds are closed or time-limited and several are restricted to invited or professional-referral applications. Typical awards include small project grants and crisis-relief grants up to £500, with some community grants reaching up to £10,000.
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Check the specific fund page carefully, as many opportunities are rolling but some are closed or seasonal. Several programs are geographically restricted to Hertfordshire or even specific parishes, and the crisis funds require professional referrers rather than direct applications, so applicants should confirm eligibility and routing before applying.
Current and upcoming funding from Hertfordshire Community Foundation that your nonprofit may be able to apply for.
Who can apply: Projects addressing need and deprivation in Hertfordshire. Further eligibility varies by specific grant round.
Deadline: £5,000 grants: Open and rolling with no deadline. £10,000 grants: Next listed deadline 24th August 2026.
Who can apply: Groups transporting residents to local community activities in Hertfordshire.
Deadline: Rolling with an approximate 2-month turnaround
Who can apply: Applicants must be disadvantaged individuals/families permanently housed or with secure offer of housing in the specified parishes; applications via professional referrers only.
Deadline: Decisions made on a rolling basis
Who can apply: Local VCSE organisations in Hertfordshire working to improve sustainability.
Deadline: Rolling
Who can apply: Organisations working to improve access to music for children and young people in Hertfordshire.
Deadline: Rolling with an approximate 2-month turnaround time
Who can apply: Community groups in Hertfordshire seeking to run community spaces.
Deadline: Rolling with an approximate 2-month turnaround time
Who can apply: Families in crisis; applications via professional referrers only. One white good item per family.
Deadline: No public deadline stated; decisions approximately 1 month
Who can apply: Only professionals can make referrals; HCNS will assess clients.
Deadline: Referral deadline for professionals: rolling
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