Community Foundation for Staffordshire and Shropshire

Godolphin Edwards Fund (Organisations)

Grants of up to £2,500 for constituted groups, charities and social enterprises providing services or facilities for residents of four small Shropshire parishes: Acton Burnell, Frodesley, Pitchford, and Langley and Ruckley. The fund continues the Godolphin Edwards Relief in Need Charity, now an endowment managed by the Community Foundation. Projects must help local people's health, education or quality of life, or provide a service that would otherwise be unavailable locally, such as community transport.

Apply on the funder’s site

You could get: Up to £2,500
Deadline: 124 days left; 1 March
Effort: Moderate; full application with documents

Who can apply

Constituted community and voluntary groups, registered charities and social enterprises based in, or working in, the civil parishes of Acton Burnell, Frodesley, Pitchford, and Ruckley and Langley in Shropshire
Organisations must have been established for at least 12 months and have a proven track record of service delivery
Not eligible: non-constituted groups, statutory agencies and private companies

What it funds

Projects that support local people by helping to improve their health, education or quality of life, or that provide a service or facility which would otherwise be unavailable to local people, such as community transport schemes. Eligible costs:

Equipment costs
Capital costs
Training costs
Revenue costs
Project costs
Event costs

What it will not fund

Religious projects or projects that promote religion (services from faith-based organisations open to people of all faiths or none can be considered)
Political campaigning specific to any one party, including political demonstrations, supporting a party, or material supporting or opposing a party or government
Statutory bodies or provision, including core statutory services or services carrying out a statutory responsibility
Retrospective funding, where the project has already happened or goods and services were ordered or bought before funding was approved
Non-constituted community or voluntary groups
Statutory agencies
Organisations established less than 12 months
Organisations without a proven track record of service delivery
Private companies

How to apply

Check your organisation meets the Community Foundation's core eligibility criteria
Apply through the Community Foundation's online funding portal ('Apply Now'), giving details of the organisation, a lead contact with authority to sign contracts, and the project: what you will do, the need it addresses, how it improves lives, what happens after funding, how beneficiaries shaped it and how you will measure impact
Upload all supporting documents at the time of application
Submit by 1 March 2027; applications are assessed 1 to 10 March and go to a funder-advised panel on 17 March 2027
Notifications from 17 March 2027; payments from 28 March 2027

The fund's criteria PDF says applications can be made at any time, with two rounds a year (opening April and October), but the fund page gives the 1 March 2027 closing date.

Have ready

Governing document (constitution or Memorandum and Articles of Association)
Most recent accounts (audited or independently examined)
A recent bank statement, dated within the last three months, clearly showing account number and sort code
Safeguarding policy
Equality and Diversity policy
At least three quotes for any capital items

Applications without these documents will not be considered.

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