The Quartet Community Foundation support small, community-based charities and voluntary groups in the West of England whose work benefits local people. They give grants to a broad range of causes and welcome applications from both new and established groups. The Quartet Community Foundation is a charity that helps donors in Bristol and surrounding area to support the local causes and charities they care about. They manage a range of funds, all of which have their own funding criteria, priorities and closing dates. There are so many different types of funds we recommend you visit their website as these are changing all the time.

Current Quartet grant schemes as of June 2024:

• Express Grant (open all year)up to £5,000– the Express Grant can support charitable and community activities, projects and services that fulfil the following: Aim to improve the lives of local people by addressing specific needs and disadvantages within their communities.
• North Somerset Community Transport Grant– support for community groups and car schemes.
• Stoke Park Group Friends Fund– Grants of up to £3,000 are awarded to individuals and care groups working with people with learning disabilities. The fund is intended to benefit clients who previously enjoyed the facilities provided by the now disbanded Stoke Park Hospital Group and its outreach provisions, and other people with learning disabilities who may have used these facilities, had they still been operating.
• TAP for Bristol Grants – Grants of £5,000 to £10,000 for organisations who provide emergency funding for those experiencing homelessness.
• Bristol Local Food Fund – Grants of £5,000-£10,000 for community food projects that are tackling food insecurity.
• R W Barnes Bursary Grant – Maximum of £2,500 to offer financial assistance to undergraduate students studying Engineering, Maths or Physics (must have lived in Bristol before going to university).
• BCH/NSCP Professional Development Bursary Fund Grant – Awards up to £3,000 to undergraduate students including mature students and those wishing to return to full time education or retrain in the following programmes: Nursing (Adult, Learning Disabilities, Mental Health & Paediatrics), Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Podiatry, Health Visiting, Paramedic, Midwifery
• BCH/NSCP Quality Improvement Bursary Fund Grant – £500-£2,000 for anyone working in the health sector in BNSSG that has a project focused on improving patient/service user outcomes and experiences or ways of working in community health services. Collaborative projects working with voluntary or social care are particularly welcomed.
• Commisioner’s Crime Prevention Fund – Grants of up to £10,000 to help communities become safer. The offer grants to run a project in a particular neighbourhood so that everyone benefits from reduced crime and antisocial behaviour, or for a specific group of people who are at higher risk of being the victims or perpetrators of crime and antisocial behaviour and are based in BANES, Bristol, North Somerset, Somerset, or South Gloucestershire.

How to apply: Most funding streams have their own application form which is downloadable from the website. For more information please phone 0117 989 7701, or Email: info@quartetcf.org.uk or visit https://quartetcf.org.uk/grants-support/