Deadline 2025/11/21 Common Ground Award

The UK government’s Common Ground Award is designed to invest capital funding into Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector organisations in England that are bringing people together from different backgrounds, supporting the cost of constructing or renovating facilities, or the purchasing of equipment to deliver services.

Capital grants can be used to support new builds, refurbishment or the expansion of facilities used to build bridging social capital. Funding can also cover essential equipment, such as laptops or furniture for the property.

The Common Ground Award aims to:

o Identify and reward good practice in building bridging social capital (the term social capital is normally given to refer to the networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular society, enabling that society to function effectively).
o Invest in the physical spaces and equipment that enables good practice, and
o Build a community of practice, for knowledge sharing across the voluntary and community sector and with government.