Posted 17 June, 2026
What we have been funding
Posted 17 June, 2026
Here’s how we supported local people and organisations between July 2025 and the beginning of June 2026.
Over the last year, we gave out individual grants totalling £1,035.657. We awarded grants to families and individuals on low incomes across our local area to help with the cost of:
The number of applications for fuel grants is slightly lower than it was last year at this point (1,937 vs 1,972). This is the first time demand has levelled off year on year since the Covid-19 pandemic. But we’re spending 10% less on fuel grants in 2025/26 to manage the ongoing demand we’ve experienced.
We have given 51 organisations grants totalling £1,313,984, 15 of which are three year grants. Long-term funding is an important part of our approach, and are pleased that this year around a third of the organisations we fund are receiving multi-year grants. Our long-term aim is for this percentage to increase.
Recent community grants
At our Community Grants meeting on 2nd June 2026, Trustees approved 13 grants with a total value of £297,395 including grants to the following community partners:
ADHD Embrace - £12,600 towards core costs.
Brighter Together - £7,350 towards core funding of intergenerational projects at care homes/day centres for the elderly/community venues with nursery schools in the HF area of benefit.
Homelink - £36,750 towards staff costs.
Integrated Neurological Services - £40,000 towards core costs.
MTV Youth Hampton - £25,395 towards core costs.
Richmond Borough Mind - £42,000 towards core salaries.
Shepherd's Star - £10,500 towards core costs supporting those from the Hampton Fund area.
The Purple Elephant Project - £21,400 towards core costs supporting young people and their families in the HF area of benefit.
The Vineyard Community & Richmond Foodbank - £31,500 towards core staff costs supporting, both reactively and preventatively, local people experiencing a complex crisis.
TW Money Advice Service – £8,000 towards staff costs.
Ukrainian Social Club - £18,900 towards core salary costs.
Voices of Hope - £28,000 towards the delivery of the BRITE Box project in schools in the HF area and the establishment of a new satellite of Richmond Woman’s Hub in Hampton.
Woman’s Trust - £15,000 towards the running costs to deliver in the Hampton Fund area of benefit.
Find out more about the impact of our grants in our 2025 Impact Report
