The Great Shelford Village Charity focuses on practical, place-based support for people in need in Great Shelford and the surrounding South Cambridgeshire area. It makes very small grants to individuals and families for essential household items or urgent needs, and to local community organisations that help children, young people, older people, and other vulnerable residents. Its giving is highly local, modest in size, and oriented toward immediate, tangible benefit rather than large projects.
Small, local grants that rarely exceed a few hundred pounds; awards are made to both individuals and community groups for urgent needs or short-term support. The charity appears to accept direct requests for local assistance rather than running a large formal grant program.
Applicants should be based in Great Shelford, Shelford, or the surrounding South Cambridgeshire area and clearly show immediate local need. Keep requests modest, specific, and tied to essential items or direct community benefit; the charity’s grants are small and practical, so explain exactly how the funding will help and why it is urgent.
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Who can apply: Applicants may include youth groups, schools, pensioner groups, religious groups, other charities, community support groups and nursing organisations. Grants must benefit local people and are for specified items, services or travel. No retrospective funding.
Who can apply: Applicants must be local people on low incomes. Grants are for essential practical items or services and must be for future expenditure only. Applications are processed by John Huntingdon's Charity in Sawston, whose support workers can assist applicants.
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