Grants

We offer the following grant schemes:

  • Community Initiatives in Rural Kent
    Maximum £750 towards community planning exercises and to projects arising from those exercises. 

    Contact Victoria Lawson on 01303 850816.

    Click here to submit an enquiry,
    or request an information pack.

  • Eurotunnel Village Hall Fund
    Maximum £1,000 (half as grant and half as interest free loan) for emergency repairs and to meet legislative requirements to halls in east Kent.

    Contact Jenny Bradbury on 01303 850816.

    Click here to submit an enquiry,
    or request an information pack.

  • Weald of Kent Village Shops Development Scheme
    To help sustain and develop village shops in the Weald of Kent.

    Contact Crispin Davies on 01303 850816.

    Click here to submit an enquiry,
    or request an information pack.

We advise on the following grant schemes:

  • Rural Revival
    Maximum grant of £10,000 for projects that breakdown barriers to employment for disadvantaged or under-represented groups or individuals in rural areas of Kent. 

    Contact Alison Heckle on 01622 221548 or email rural.revival@kent.gov.uk


  • East Kent Coalfield Community Chest
    Maximum grant of £5,000 for social, economic or environmental projects contributing to the regeneration of the East Kent Coalfield.

    Contact Regeneration Officer (Small Projects) at Dover District Council, White Cliffs Business Park, Dover, Kent CT16 3PB.


Your Parish or Town Council has the ability, at its discretion, to provide grants to community projects that benefit its area - or even outside its area. Contact your Parish or Town Clerk for details. Some rural communities have parochial charities operating in their area. Some are organisations undertaking work whilst others have endowments to use for the benefit of the local community. The Charity Commission web site lists all these parochial charities.

In addition to the above we operate a “funding advice service”. This relies on nationally provided computer software that categorises national and regional sources of funds. For further information please contact Victoria Lawson on 01303 850816.

Click here to submit an enquiry, or request an information pack.

 

    Serving Kent's rural communities since 1923
       
    The Rural Community Council for Kent and Medway