Our mission is to transform how funding flows to communities across Gloucestershire.

A group of school children from 'The Door' in Dursley posing together in front of a brick wall during an outdoor activity.
The Door Charity, Dursley

The current funding system is resource intensive for both funders and applicants alike.

For many Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) organisations and community groups, finding and applying for funding can feel like a full-time job, diverting vital resources away from the work that matters most.

Our services for applicants and funders are designed to simplify the funding process for everyone involved.

We provide a grant application platform and a neutral fund-holding service, offering efficiency gains to applicants and funders alike.

For Applicants

Less repetition. More time delivering impact.

Fund Gloucestershire's simple online platform offers VCSE organisations and community groups a clear and consistent way to find and apply for a variety of funding opportunities.

Create an account on our platform to store your core organisational information and documents securely, find relevant funding opportunities as they are shared and track your applications and impact in one place.

For Funders

Less administration. More time for decision-making.

Our Fund Administration service lifts the administrative burden from funders, so that you can focus on the change you would like to make. Our neutral Fund Stewardship service holds funds until you are ready to distribute them.

With clear, targeted and trusted processes baked in, we help you reach the communities and organisations best placed to make a lasting local impact.
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In Gloucestershire, we estimate approximately 1,500 organisations spend at least 17.5% of the grant funding they raise on making applications for those funds.

According to estimates from Understanding and Reducing the System Costs of Foundations’ Application Processes (Caroline Fiennes, Gemma Bull, Sarah Sandford 2022)

Our digital platform enables VCSE organisations to spend less time on the process of finding funding and more time making a difference in Gloucestershire.

An aerial view of Gloucester showing the cathedral and surrounding buildings
View across Gloucester to the Cathedral

Funding Simplified

Our free-to-VCSE digital platform brings funding opportunities together in one place, with clear and consistent processes for applicants and funders. We want to make it easy for even the smallest of VCSE organisations or community groups to find and apply for funds.

For Local Impact

By reducing the administration involved in giving and receiving funding, we help funding to go further, so that VCSE organisations and community groups can spend less time on paperwork and more time creating impact across Gloucestershire.

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