# Co-op Local Community Fund applications close next month

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2024/06/26/co-op-local-community-fund-applications-close-next-month/
- Published: 2024-06-26T12:31:53+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The Co-op Local Community Fund is still open for applications. It is looking for“
some amazing new causes to support”. **

Since 2016, the fund has supported nearly 40,000 local causes. Its next funding 
round starts in October 2024, when it will donate a total of **£5 millio**n to communities
across the UK.

“This means there’ll be **£6,000 to share between three local causes in each community**“,
explains Kevin Duffy, Local Community Fund Advisor.

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The fund is open to projects that support “people or our planet” in the following
ways.

## People

The fund is looking for projects that enable people to play a part in their community’s
future by:

 * Supporting young people to fulfil their potential
 * Helping older people feel connected
 * Improving people’s mental wellbeing

## Planet

It is also looking for projects that help to protect our planet by:

 * Tackling climate change
 * Reducing waste and resource use
 * Protecting nature

Across both themes the fund particularly welcomes applications from projects that
promote and celebrate diversity and inclusion.

Applications to the [Co-op Local Community Fund](https://causes.coop.co.uk/) close
at **midnight on 7 July 2024**.

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