The programme supports projects that will make a positive and transformative impact on lives and communities. This includes growing congregations and Christian communities, addressing social challenges facing communities, enabling wider community use of church building, schools and educational institutions.
Community Impact Grants
Benefact Trust’s Community Impact Grant programme supports projects that will make a positive and transformative impact on lives and communities.
The programme has four key objectives:
- Growing congregations and Christian communities (e.g. faith development, engaging young people, church planting and construction of new chapels for hospices).
- Addressing social challenges facing communities (projects addressing a broad range of social issues, e.g. homelessness, food poverty and mental health).
- Enabling wider community use of church buildings (projects resulting in a clear increase in use of church buildings by the wider community, e.g. new or expanded facilities for use by new groups or for new services). Requests for essential building improvements should come through our Building Improvement Grants programme.
- Schools and educational institutions. (new spaces or facilities to improve collective worship or spiritual reflection, e.g. chapels and outdoor worship spaces).
Through this programme, we fund new or expanded work only and we make contributions to capital and revenue projects.
Full details on the objectives and other criteria can be found in the Community Impact Grant programme guidance below, which all applicants are advised to read.
The Community Impact Grants programme is a rolling programme which is open for applications
throughout the year. To make an application, you will need to register on our online application
portal, which you can access via our website.
Once your application has been successfully submitted, you will receive a confirmation email.
If you are not sure which of our grant programmes is right for your project, please contact us for a
discussion.
Visit: Community Impact Grants | Community Grants & Funding for more information