Community Chest Funding – Platform Housing

They can consider projects that will make a difference in at least one of the following ways:

• Digital Inclusion – Helping people in Platform communities to access and use the internet safely and effectively. (Examples: IT equipment and training.)
• Health and Wellbeing – Improving physical health and mental well-being for people in Platform communities. (Examples: Exercise classes, well-being workshops, dental health initiatives, holiday hunger initiatives, improvements to physical environments.)
• Community Cohesion – Helping to bring people together and making sure that no groups of people are left out. (Examples:  Community events or activities, particularly if they reach groups who might otherwise be excluded.)
• Skills & Employability – Creating opportunities for Platform customers to develop life skills and skills needed to gain work. (Examples:  Courses, support, other initiatives with learning opportunities.)

They partner with an organisation called Stay Nimble – a career coaching company, who offer free places to theit customers to help with CV writing, job searching, interview skills etc.  Please follow this link to the Stay Nimble page for more information.

• Community Safety – Making Platform neighbourhoods safer for everyone. (Examples:  Neighbourhood Watch schemes, security marking programmes.)

They welcome applications from charities, not-for-profit organisations, clubs, constituted groups and informal groups.

Platform customers can apply but the application must be for the benefit of multiple customers.

They cannot fund profit-making businesses or political parties and can only fund religious groups if they can demonstrate that the funding will be of equal benefit to members of the community who have different faiths or no faith.

Groups who they feel will exclude any members of the community from funded activities on grounds such as ethnicity, gender or disability will not be funded.

If your application demonstrates significant benefits to customers through their scoring system, then more than one application will be considered from the same group, as long as the group has met the expectations outlined in terms of reports, receipts and sharing stories.

However, the total amount awarded is capped to no more than £5,000 in any financial year.

Deadline for applications for 2026.

04/02/2026

03/03/2026