2026 Tewkesbury Borough Council Community Funding Fair Follow Up

Thank you for attending the Tewkesbury Borough Council Funding Fair for Tewkesbury Borough community groups, charities, town and parish councils on Wednesday 29 April 2026. We hope that you found it useful.

Please find below the presentations shared yesterday.

1. National Lottery Community Fund presentation

Relevant programmes (all have rolling application deadlines):

• Awards for All (up to £20,000)
• Awards for All (Environment) (up to £20,000)
• Reaching Communities (from £20,000 to £2 million)

Please note that Reaching Communities is a complex application process, with 40 weeks for decision, and significant criteria for eligibility. Please contact the Community Funding team if you are considering applying to this programme. 

2. Enovert Community Trust Presentation

Funding guidelines are here

• Deadline 29 May 2026 for meeting on 14 July 2026
• Deadline 4 Sept 2026 for meeting on 20 Oct 2026
• Deadline 4 Dec 2026 for meeting on 19 Jan 2027

3. Gloucestershire Community Foundation

Grant programme information is available here

There are numerous programmes with different deadlines. If you are unsure whether you are eligible please do contact the Community Funding officers for support.

4. Barnwood Trust presentation

Grant programme information is available here 

Their project and funded partner programme funding application portal will be open between 8th June – 20th July 2026.

5. National Benevolent Charity presentation

Grant programme information is available here

The next deadline is 24th July 2026.

6. GRCC presentation on Recruiting volunteers

Information about Go Volunteer Gloucestershire is available here.

7. Bromford Grants and Social Value officer presentation on Social Value

8. Attendee Feedback Form

If you did not have a chance to fill this in, please do download it and email a copy to communityfunding@tewkesbury.gov.uk

Further Grant Programmes

Further local funders are listed here. If you are seeking support on finding a grant, please do contact the Community Funding officers who will be able to undertake a funding search and help you identify relevant funders for your work.

We also recommend that you sign up to the Gloucestershire VCS Alliance monthly funding bulletin here.

There are also lots of other ways of raising money! Do contact us if you would like to talk through your fundraising strategy.