# Funding offered for local charities from Cambridge Building Society Community Fund

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2025/02/05/funding-offered-for-local-charities-from-cambridge-building-society-community-fund/
- Published: 2025-02-05T23:48:53+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Charities near Cambridge that provide support for people with housing and shelter
needs can apply for grants of up to £20,000 through The Cambridge Building Society’s
Community Fund.**

Charities within a 15-mile radius of one of The Cambridge’s branches can now apply
for a grant of between £2,500 and £20,000 to support eligible projects. Applications
are accepted until **1 May 2025**.

## 175th anniversary

The Cambridge is marketing its 175th anniversary by **donating £175,000 annually**
from its profits to charities.

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Charities, community groups and organisations are now able to apply for:

 * single grants
 * multi-year grants of up to £10,000 per year for up to three years (£30,000 total)
 * and one-off capital donations of up to £20,000 for larger projects.

**Citizens Advice Rural** is one of the many good causes to have benefited from 
the funding provided by The Cambridge, with the grant enabling them to increase 
the hours of a specialist housing adviser who supports vulnerable people with housing
needs.

![Citizens Advice Rural. Source: Cambridge Building Society](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.
cloud/2025/02/citizens-advice-rural.png)

Citizens Advice Rural

Helen Spriggs, Deputy Chief Officer at Citizens Advise Rural, said:

“The funding has allowed us to help individuals with some of the hardest housing
issues that they’ve faced. The grant has been fantastic and enabled us to employ
a specialist housing advisor for an additional day per week to help the most vulnerable
people.”

## How to apply

[The Fund](http://www.cambscf.org.uk/funds/cambridge-building-society) is managed
by the Cambridgeshire Community Foundation and can be accessed by local worthy causes
via a twice-yearly grant application programme.

Before applying, charities should check they are eligible to receive a grant from
The Foundation and can explain how their project meets the criteria of The Fund .

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