The Thriving Communities Fund has now CLOSED – please email grants@sng.org.uk if you have any questions.
The Thriving communities fund is aimed at supporting not-for-profit groups and organisations to deliver cohesive, sustainable, and resilient communities.
Grants from £1,000 up to £5,000 are awarded for initiatives and projects that actively champion the communities we work in. We support projects that focus on a broad range of themes, including youth, health and well-being, ageing well, social inclusion and isolation (including equality, diversity and inclusion), environment and place, customer voice, employment support, food insecurity, digital inclusion and skills, money matters and debt advice. You can find more information about what activities we will support in the application guidance notes.
Successful projects demonstrate how they address the issues faced in their local communities and how SNG customers will benefit as a result of their activities. We focus on how an organisation’s work will have a positive and long-lasting impact on the local community.
To apply, candidates have to be a local not-for-profit group, community organisation, or registered charity and demonstrate how their project will engage and benefit SNG customers.
In our latest 2024 round, funding was limited to one project per organisation and covered six regions across the South of England. Projects had to take place within at least one of these regions.
Basingstoke & Deane, East Hampshire, Eastleigh, Guildford, Hart, IOW, New Forest, Portsmouth, Rushmoor, Southampton, Test Valley, Winchester
Bournemouth, Christchurch, East Dorset, North Dorset, Poole, Purbeck, West Dorset, Weymouth and Portland
The fund for this area is now CLOSED as funding has been fully allocated to projects.
Bath & NE Somerset, Bristol, Cheltenham, Cornwall, Cotswolds, Deane, East Devon, Exeter, Gloucester City, Mendip, Mid Devon, North Somerset, Plymouth, Sedgemoor, South Gloucester, South Hams, South Somerset, Stroud, Taunton, Teignbridge, Tewksbury, Torbay, Torridge D C, West Devon, West Somerset
Bracknell Forest, Cherwell, Oxford, Reading, Slough, Slough Berks, South Buckinghamshire, South Oxfordshire, Swindon, Vale of White Horse, West Berkshire, West Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Windsor and Maidenhead, Wokingham
The fund for this area is now CLOSED as funding has been fully allocated to projects.
East Hertfordshire, Hertsmere, Mid Bedfordshire, St Albans, Stevenage council, Three Rivers, Waltham Forest, Watford, Welwyn Hatfield
The fund for this area is now CLOSED as funding has been fully allocated to projects.
Barnet, Brent, Camden, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Hackney, Hammersmith & Fulham, Haringey, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Kensington & Chelsea, Kingston upon Thames, Lambeth, Newham, Redbridge, Richmond upon Thames, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth, Westminster
Map of locations
The map below shows where the homes we manage are located. Please get in touch if you need an accessible version of this information.
Our Thriving communities fund is currently closed.
When our fund reopens later this year, to apply you will need to register your project on the ActionFunder website 
. ActionFunder is a digital community engagement platform that connects funding bodies with non-profits with the goal of supporting thriving local communities.
If you would like to know more about the application process, check out our guidance notes.
We held an information webinar on July 9 2024. You can watch it to find out more about the fund and applying, and what questions were asked.
FAQs
SNG is a leading housing association, striving to provide quality, affordable homes and communities that people love for generations.
We have deep roots in the south of England, with over 82,000 homes focused in a core area covering Berkshire, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, London, Oxfordshire, the Isle of Wight, the West of England and Wiltshire.
We’re driven by our social purpose, with customers at the heart of everything we do. We build homes and provide great services, but our work doesn’t stop at the front door – we invest for the long-term, creating great places to live, working with customers and partners to support them in realising their potential. Read more about who we are.
To apply for this fund, you must be a local not-for-profit group, community organisation, or registered charity and you must be able to demonstrate how you will engage with and benefit SNG residents.
Your project must take place within one of our key operating areas. For more details, please view our map of SNG homes which shows where the homes we manage are located.
Please note, we cannot support individuals, private businesses or organisations set up as trusts.
We will also not be able to support national appeals, activities which are of a wholly and exclusively political or religious nature, or retrospective funding of activities/projects/equipment.
If you have an idea for a fantastic community project but you aren’t sure if it is in an area where we work or if it will benefit SNG customers, you can find out more about where our homes are here .
Alternatively, please feel free to email grants@sng.org.uk and get in touch with our Grants team who will be able to chat this through with you.
We will support a broad range of activities as long as they meet our key eligibility criteria and align with one or more of our priority areas. These are: youth, health and well-being, ageing-well, social inclusion and isolation (including EDI), environment & place, customer voice, employment support, food insecurity, digital inclusion and skills, money matters and debt advice.
We particularly encourage projects that centre around community cohesion and social inclusion, and those working with diverse, marginalised or vulnerable groups.
Please refer to our detailed application guidance for more information on what types of activities we will support.
All projects that meet the key eligibility criteria will be reviewed and assessed by an expert panel to determine which projects will be offered funding.
Applications will be considered on a six-week rolling basis. We will focus on ensuring funding is distributed equitably, particularly in terms of geographic location and types of recipients. We will provide feedback to all shortlisted applicants who are unsuccessful at the panel stage.
Please note, we will be unable to provide feedback for those applicants who do not progress to the shortlist for the panel.
ActionFunder is a digital community engagement platform that connects funding bodies with non-profits with the goal of supporting thriving local communities. We have chosen to partner ActionFunder to make it easier for you to access funding and for us to distribute it.
By launching your project on ActionFunder, you will have the potential to match with multiple different funding pots, not just our Thriving Communities Fund.