Warburtons Family Matters Community Grants Programme

The Warburtons Family Matters Community Grants programme provides small grants up to £400 (with no matched funding requirement) to not-for-profit organisations across Great Britain (England. Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland) for projects that benefit families and meet one or more of the following themes.

1. Health - supporting families to care for each other and lead healthier lives:
o Improving physical health, and/or
o Improving wellbeing.

2. Place - supporting families to flourish in communities that are safer, greener and more inclusive:
o Making spaces safe and inclusive, and/or
o Connecting communities with the environment.

3. Skills - supporting families to gain useful skills for life and work:
o Developing useful life skills, and/or
o Developing useful skills for employment.

Grants of up to £400 can be used to support projects and activities and organisations that will directly benefit families and have a noticeable social impact on people's lives.

Funding is not available for:

o Activities that are for sponsorship, advertising and promotion alone, which primarily generate commercial returns.
o Activities that benefit Warburtons' commercial business.
o Activities that discriminate on the basis of race, creed, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, or national origin.
o Activities that have already taken place.
o Activities that have a negative impact on the environment.
o Individuals.
o Organisations that are unable provide appropriate registration and financial documents, bank details and personal details of trustees/directors.
o Organisations that are unable to report back on outcomes.
o Organisations that mainly focus animal welfare.
o Organisations that promote political or religious viewpoints to their beneficiaries.
o Organisations that provide grants, bursaries or financial donations to other organisations or individuals.
o Organisations that may be harmful to the Warburtons brand, or
o Salaries.

Further information and access to the application form is available on Warburton’s website (scroll down to the foot of the page).

The next deadline for applications is Monday 8th May 2023.

Contact details for the Fund are:

CAF Grant Making
The Charities Aid Foundation (CAF)
25 Kings Hill Avenue
Kings Hill
West Malling
Kent
ME19 4TA
Tel: 03000 123 334
Email:grantmaking@cafonline.or