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The Prince’s Countryside Fund provides grants for projects from across the UK which are working to create resilient rural communities. This fund will support community-led projects that are pursuing innovative and strategic solutions to the challenges facing their rural area and improving the long-term viability and resilience of their community.

Successful projects will do one or more of the following:

• Support people to resolve existing and emerging community issues, circumstances, and priorities
• Build rural community resilience
• Develop innovative and replicable projects
• Enable leadership and community planning

Successful projects will demonstrate how they are addressing one of more of the following objectives:

• Improving the economic or social resilience of a UK rural community
• Reducing isolation for people living in rural areas through improving service provision
• Creating a rural community fit for the future.

The fund has paused the current grant programme and won’t be accepting applications in the coming months. They are planning to launch a new, reshaped grant programme in the autumn.

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Geographical areas funded: UK

Fund type

Type of funding:

Grant

Type of cost:

Revenue

Fund award sizes

Maximum:

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Annually awarded:

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Who can apply

Applications are encouraged from properly constituted, community-led organisations with a turnover under £500,000 per year, who can demonstrate how beneficiaries will be drawn directly from the local rural community.

Maximum annual income:

£500,000

When to apply

Currently closed. Will be launching a new, differentiated UK-wide grant scheme on Friday 10th January 2025.

How to apply

Apply online via the Countryside Fund website.

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Exclusions

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Activites funded: Advice and information Citizenship and community involvement Community development and regeneration Community facilities Community safety Transport Education and training Employability services Environment Social care and welfare

Beneficiaries funded: Economically/socially disadvantaged Rural communities

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