TODAY, The Asda Foundation has announced up to £500,000 of funding to help transform and improve community spaces across the UK. Grants awarded will be between £500 and £3,000 and are aimed at helping grassroots groups improve or transform their local outdoor community spaces. The grants, which are open from the 14th of January, are one of four themed quarterly grant rounds that are based on insight from the Asda Community Tracker*. The Tracker highlighted the support the areas / needs that communities are telling us are most important to them in 2025.
Throughout the year, the grant rounds will focus on funding to help reduce loneliness and isolation and bring people together, funding to improve and transform indoor and outdoor community spaces where people can meet and feel part of their community and essential support for foodbanks and other organisations who are always there to support their communities with essentials in difficult times.
The funding can be used to transform an outdoor area, creating greener and more engaging community spaces. Create or enhance community growing projects or enable community clean ups.
Karl Doyle, Chair of the Asda Foundation, says: “Over the last year, our research has consistently told us that local communities are seeking better access to safe and accessible public spaces. We know that being outdoors has a positive impact on health and wellbeing, and that that bringing people together to be part of a group and community makes a significant difference to people’s lives. This grant provides funding support for groups to do just this, and we know that it will also help build community connections and pride in communities across the UK.’’