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Click here for a summary list of all our current grant programmes.
To print either the grant guidelines or application form, please click on the relevant 'pdf abode' icon and not the adjacent text. This will open a separate window in pdf format. Choose the print icon for a hard copy. Please complete application forms by hand and return to the address at the bottom of this page.
** Electronic application forms are not currently accepted other than for the Community Grants Programme**
This fund aims to help young people who have demonstrated a desire and capacity to accomplish great things but who are in danger of being held back by personal or family hardship or disability. Fields of talent could include sport, academics, arts, voluntary service, music, science or enterprise.
For beneficiaries up to 25 years old
Grants up to £5000 with an average award of £800
LLFY grant guidelines 
LLFY application form
An initiative of Comic Relief. This fund aims to use sport and exercise to tackle the exclusion and isolation experienced by some of the poorest and most disadvantaged communities. Sport Relief will fund work which uses sport and exercise to strengthen communities and provide opportunities for people who are excluded or disadvantaged. This may be through low income, rural or social isolation, age, disability, race, sexuality or gender.
The criteria are themed:
Grants from £1000 (minimum) - £10000 with an average award of £3000
*** All monies for 2007/8 have been allocated. We hope to announce details of future Sport Relief funding in the Winter of 2008. Applications are therefore not currently being accepted ***
Encouraging initiatives that aim to reduce crime and anti social behaviour with youth led projects and co-ordinated activities for young people.
Grants from £250 - £1000 with an average award of £500
*** Monies for 2008 have been allocated. We hope to announce details of future funding in the Winter of 2008. Applications are therefore not currently being accepted ***
Grants are made to charitable organisations and agencies to benefit people in crisis who are urgently in need of small, one off amounts of money.
Topup grants of £250
Please contact Cornwall Community Foundation if your organisation would like to become a grant recipient.
Awards are granted to support projects that improve the quality of life of older people specifically increasing access to services, helping to regain confidence & self esteem and encouraging older people to participate in activities which bring communities together.
Grants from £250 - £500
BOP grant guidelines 
BOP application form
For the benefit of a single parent or carer, living alone with a child/children who is experiencing need, hardship or distress, in particular single parents.
Grants are awarded to sponsors on behalf of their beneficiaries. Sponsors include health visitors, doctors, teachers, CAB, police, Sure Start and representatives from voluntary agencies.
Monies are limited so not all eligible applications will be funded. We can therefore only support beneficiaries in most urgent need, approximately 20 applications per year in total.
*** Applications are currently only being received for beneficiaries residing in the old Borough of Penzance i.e. Heamoor, Gulval, Newlyn, Mousehole, Paul, Madron and Penzance. We are hoping applications for all other areas can be received again later in 2008 ***
Grants from £50 - £250
Morwenna grant guidelines 
Morwenna application form
Grants for the benefit of organisations and causes which bring people together in their local community.
Grants up to £1000
BBC Radio Cornwall will make announcements of their Appeal on air.
C100 is a corporate philanthropy scheme and is offered to any size of organisation in Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly. A minimum donation of £1,000 is given to CCF per annum, for 3 consecutive years, from each participant 50% of which will be allocated to this new grants programme. Our target is to sign up 100 organisations.
Grants are aimed at small, community & voluntary groups throughout the County for projects which address any number of 7 themes – transport, poverty & crisis, older people, communities & local environment, young people, the disabled and minority groups e.g. migrant workers and travellers.
Chair of the Fund Panel, Mr Ian Taylor of Coodes Solicitors said of the programme:
“When finances are at issue it is often difficult to know which charities and worthy causes to support and which to reject. By joining the Cornwall 100 you can be assured that not only does every penny stay in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly to benefit Cornish people, but also that each grant made is carefully researched and followed up to ensure the money is spent wisely and to the maximum benefit.
Joining Cornwall 100 shows a clear commitment to the community in which we all live and work both for current projects and to provide a sustainable fund for the future. Membership is something of which we can all be duly proud of.
If you only make one charitable donation a year – make it one which will really count.”
Awards will typically range from £500 to £5,000
Cornwall 100 Grant Guidelines 
Cornwall 100 Application Form
Grants for the benefit of small voluntary & community groups who are volunteer led and work in the community.
Grants range from £250 - £5000
Restrictions apply including:
See the Grant Guidelines below for full details. Please note separate application forms exist for grant requests above and below £900 so please choose the correct version.
Grassroots Grants Guidelines 
Grassroots Application Form - grants less than £900
Grassroots Application Form - grants more than £900
A grant programme to offer opportunities to grass roots community and voluntary groups in the area currently known as Caradon District to receive grants so they may create and/or deliver projects for the benefit of their community. Examples of funding could include the purchase of equipment, an outing, volunteer training etc.
Grants range from £250 - £500
Restrictions apply including:
Caradon Area Community Fund Grant Guidelines 
Caradon Area Community Fund Application Form
Selected grants are made to any of the original themed projects as above. In addition Lord St Levan has recently very generously extended the criteria for this Fund to include; those who are disadvantaged e.g. unemployed, help alleviate poverty, older people and carers e.g. respite breaks.
From £150 - £1000 but exceptions will be considered
Please contact Cornwall Community Foundation for details of how to apply.
A Cornwall Garden Society programme where grants are awarded to people who have demonstrated a desire and capacity to accomplish great things in the field of gardening and horticulture but who are in danger of being held back by personal or family hardship or disability.
Grants are awarded up to a maximum of £3000 however most range between £200 and £1000. Application forms are only available from the participating Colleges; University College Falmouth and Duchy College, Rosewarne.
Min. age of 17 years
This fund is aimed at prevention and to help people aged 16 years and over who need extra support, to live as independently as possible. The focus of projects must be on social inclusion and integration. Examples of beneficiaries could include older people, carers and/or people with a disability. The type of disability a person may have could include learning, physical, sensory or mental health issues for example. Small community & voluntary groups can apply.
Grants range from £250 to £5000
Restrictions do apply. Full details are listed in the grant guidelines below:
Adult Social Care Fund Grant Guidelines 
Adult Social Care Fund Application Form
Community Grants Programme - ESF
The programme is aimed at supporting projects that “assist the disadvantaged or excluded to move closer to the labour market by improving their access to mainstream provision/ESF and domestic employment and skills provision”. The programme is aimed at supporting voluntary and community organisations with charitable aims, to deliver projects that will achieve some of the following outcomes for the beneficiaries.
Grants range from £1,000 to £12,000 p.a.
Restrictions do apply e.g. beneficiaries must be unemployed & an organisation can receive no more than £12,000 maximum in a year (although longer projects will be considered e.g. a 2 year programme, but £12k maximum still applies in each year).
For details of this programme please use the following links:
For an Application form please contact our grants team by telephoning 01566 779333.
If you would like any further information on any of these grants please contact the Cornwall Community Foundation on 01566 779333, or email: grants@cornwallfoundation.com, or write to CCF at The Orchard, Market Street, Launceston, Cornwall, PL15 8AU.
