Community advice and funding services & information

• Community strategy

  Our sustainable community strategy sets out our priorities for developing and maintaining Croydon as an attractive place to live, work and visit.

• Community Grants

  Grants of up to £5,000 are available to support Croydon's Community Strategy

• Community Ward Budgets

  Ward budgets are a dedicated and flexible resource that Councillors can use to support specific local issues and priorities financially. The funds are intended to encourage resident-led activities that are independent and self-sustaining.

• Community Ward Budgets for each ward

  Details of each ward budget and how to apply

• Credit unions

  Credit unions offer convenient savings and low-interest loans to their members, who own and manage the credit unions themselves.

• Asset based community development

  Strengthening communities through recognising, identifying and harnessing existing assets.

• Community Fund

  The council have worked in partnership with the VCSE sector to develop the Community Fund programme.

• Funding

  Current funding opportunities for not-for-profit organisations. How to use online accounts to apply for and accept funds. Active Communities Fund. Organisations that have received funds.

• Localism Act

  The Localism Act sets out a programme of change which the government believes will transfer power from centralised government to local people on many things which directly affect their lives.

• Community asset transfers

  How community organisations can bid for council buildings and land that are put forward for transfer.

• Discretionary rate relief

  How not-for-profit organisations funded by Croydon Council can apply for discretionary date relief.

• Supporting the VCSE sector

  We support voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations through various funding opportunities, community grants, the transfer of community assets, discretionary rate relief, leasing premises at an economic rent and giving advice.