ESSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — grant history

Registered charity 1052061 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income
£8.5m
Grants listed (FY2025)
50
Listed grants total
£1.8m
Accounts grants total
£4.1m

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

Summarised from www.essexcommunityfoundation.org.uk · www.essexcommunityfoundation.org.uk/about-us/our-fundholders/ · www.essexcommunityfoundation.org.uk/applying-for-support/ on 15/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded
  • General Charitable Purposes (15 grantees)
  • Education/training (14 grantees)
  • Economic/community Development/employment (11 grantees)
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (8 grantees)
  • Disability (8 grantees)
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (7 grantees)
  • Amateur Sport (4 grantees)
  • Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity (4 grantees)
  • Arts/culture/heritage/science (4 grantees)
  • Accommodation/housing (3 grantees)
Where grantees operate
  • Essex (23 grantees)
  • Hertfordshire (6 grantees)
  • Southend-on-sea (5 grantees)
  • Throughout London (4 grantees)
  • Norfolk (3 grantees)
  • Thurrock (3 grantees)
  • Suffolk (3 grantees)
  • Cambridgeshire (3 grantees)
  • Kent (2 grantees)
  • Throughout England And Wales (2 grantees)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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RecipientYearAmountPurpose
CHESS HomelessFY2025£427k
Action for Family CarersFY2025£89k
Citizens Advice EssexFY2025£78k
The Cirdan Sailing TrustFY2025£63k
Citizens Advice Bureau - ChelmsfordFY2025£53k
Anglia Ruskin UniversityFY2025£50k
Hamelin TrustFY2025£48k
Maldon & District Community Voluntary ServicesFY2025£48k
Tendring Community Voluntary ServicesFY2025£44k
Integration SupportFY2025£44k
Active Christian TrustFY2025£44k
Cranfield TrustFY2025£43k
The OuthouseFY2025£38k
Pioneer Sailing TrustFY2025£38k
Welcome to the UKFY2025£37k
Chelmsford Council for Voluntary ServicesFY2025£36k
Ormiston FamiliesFY2025£30k
Refugee, Asylum seeker and Migrant Action CiCFY2025£30k
Rainbow ServicesFY2025£28k
Colchester Life in The UK CICFY2025£27k
CARA Centre for Action on Rape and AbuseFY2025£26k
Burnham on Crouch Rugby Union Football ClubFY2025£25k
The Parochial Church Council Of The Ecclesiastical Parish Of Saffron WaldenFY2025£25k
RAFIKI Community CICFY2025£25k
Debden Parochial Church CouncilFY2025£24k
St. Vincent De Paul Society - SouthendFY2025£23k
Saffron Hall TrustFY2025£22k
St Vincent de Paul Society - Canvey IslandFY2025£22k
Divine Assembly MinistriesFY2025£22k
Lighthouse Furniture ProjectFY2025£22k
Age Concern Southend -on-Sea CIOFY2025£21k
North Avenue Youth CentreFY2025£20k
Blind and Sight Impaired SocietyFY2025£19k
Home-Start EssexFY2025£18k
The Council for Voluntary Service UttlesfordFY2025£17k
Jaywick Sands Revival Community Interest CompanyFY2025£16k
The Change PortfolioFY2025£15k
Essex and Suffolk Youth Enquiry ServiceFY2025£15k
Off the StreetsFY2025£15k
Special Needs and Parents LimitedFY2025£15k
Dance Network AssociationFY2025£13k
Burnham on Crouch u3aFY2025£13k
Kaos Youth ClubFY2025£13k
Refugee and Migrant Forum of Essex and LondonFY2025£13k
Essex Boys' and Girls' ClubsFY2025£12k
Halstead Community ShedFY2025£12k
Waltham Abbey Youth 2000FY2025£12k
Headway EssexFY2025£12k
BOSP Brighter Opportunities for Special PeopleFY2025£12k
Essex Cardiothoracic CentreFY2025£12k

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 1823742 vs reference 4104698 (55.6% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.