Each County Councillor in Devon has a Locality Budget<\/a> allocation of \u00a310,000 that they can use in this financial year (until March 2027) to support local projects.<\/p>\n County Councillors can use their Locality Budget<\/a> to support projects that benefit the local community and support the priorities of the County Council\u2019s Strategic Plan which are:<\/p>\n Applications are accepted from constituted, non-profit voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector organisations, town and parish councils, charities, community groups, school PTFAs or businesses. Refer to the website for more details about who can apply and exclusions: Locality budgets – Democracy in Devon<\/a><\/p>\n If you are interested in applying for a contribution from the Locality Budgets please approach your County Councillor in the first instance. You can find contact details for your County Councillor here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Projects must be completed and funding spent by the end of March 2027<\/p>\n Voluntary and community organisations can apply for a small grant for activities that help to strengthen their community and improve their local area.<\/p>\n Grants of \u00a3300 to \u00a33,000 are available from the Hall & Woodhouse Community Chest<\/a> which has a total of \u00a380,000 in 2026 from the Hall & Woodhouse pub chain. The funding is for volunteer-led organisations in the H&W trading area which includes Devon. Note that there are H&W pubs in:<\/p>\n Projects can include activities to support young people, sports clubs, elderly and people with disability, health, arts and the environment. The grants can be used towards things such as equipment and furniture, training, transport, professional assistance, specific project resources or operational costs.<\/p>\n Funding will be awarded in January 2027. Application deadline: 12 July 2026<\/p>\n Community Chest – Hall and Woodhouse<\/a><\/p>\n Schools, registered charities and not-for-profit organisations supporting children can apply for up to \u00a31,500 to improve access to healthy food. Tesco has launched the new Fruit and Veg Grants scheme to replace Tesco Stronger Starts which has now closed.<\/p>\n Fruit and Veg Grants are for initiatives that use nutritious food to help ensure that children and young people have a healthy diet. This could include providing fruit or healthy snacks in school, helping to provide breakfast or holiday clubs, cooking projects or gardening initiatives so that young people can grow their own fruit and vegetables.<\/p>\n The scheme will provide grants of up to \u00a31,500. Every four months, three local good causes will be selected for the blue token customer vote in Tesco stores throughout the UK.<\/p>\n Blue Token Scheme – Tesco Fundraising | Tesco PLC<\/a><\/p>\n A new Crisis and Resilience Fund<\/a> is now in place to support low-income households in Devon who face sudden financial difficulty.<\/p>\n The fund replaces the Household Support Fund, which ended in March 2026. The new fund offers targeted support for low\u2011income households experiencing an unexpected financial shock, such as a sudden loss of income or an essential cost they cannot afford.<\/p>\n Support includes crisis payments for people in immediate need, including help for low-income households that rely on heating oil. It also covers housing support, replacing district council discretionary housing payments, alongside financial advice and wider support to help people avoid future crises.<\/p>\n Anyone facing sudden financial difficulty can contact their local district council to find out how to access their local Crisis and Resilience scheme: Crisis and Resilience Fund (including heating oil support) – Cost of living<\/a>, or they can speak to Citizens Advice Devon<\/a>.<\/p>\n The fund is backed financially by the UK Government for the next three years, with around \u00a38.4 million a year available across Devon, excluding Plymouth and Torbay which have their own separate Crisis and Resilience Funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s Funding Friday and this week we have funding information from: ‘Devon County Council: Locality Budgets 2026\/27’; ‘Hall & Woodhouse Community Chest’; ‘Tesco Fruit and Veg Grants’ and ‘Crisis and Resilience Fund’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-28 23:40:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19832"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19835,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19832\/revisions\/19835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nHall & Woodhouse Community Chest<\/h2>\n
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\nTesco Fruit and Veg Grants<\/h2>\n
\nCrisis and Resilience Fund<\/h2>\n