Councillor Community Grants Scheme

Our Councillor Community Grant scheme provides funding of up to £3,000 to voluntary and community organisations operating and delivering services in our borough to help them make a difference to people’s lives, bring communities together and help us to tackle climate change.

Our priorities for this scheme link to the Council Plan and particularly aim to support small, local projects which will help us to achieve:

• a place where people can have pride in their communities and the borough
• a borough where we protect, restore, reconnect and enhance our natural environment
• a council that delivers high-quality services for our residents

Applications for this scheme are made via borough councillors. Each councillor has a total allocation of £2,000 which they can use to support organisations providing services or facilities that benefit the residents in their ward.

Councillors choose how they want to spend their allocation, they can:

• individually support applications for grants of between £250 and £2,000
• choose the option to pool some or all of their allocation with one or two other councillors from the same or different wards within the borough, with the maximum funding available to any one organisation being £3,000.

Applications can be submitted, and are approved, monthly throughout the year so organisations are encouraged to apply early.

No applications will be accepted after the scheme closing date of 2 March 2026 (this means that the application, supporting documentation and evidence of councillor/s approval must be sent to grants@basingstoke.gov.uk by this date).

View Councillor Community Grant Scheme guidance notes