A small gift to our community this Christmas
Fells & Flow Community Grants
Applications open: 1 December 2025
Applications close: 10 January 2026
Grants awarded: Late January – a New Year boost from us to you!
About the Fund
Thanks to the amazing energy, generosity and spirit of the Fells and Flow Festival, delivered in partnership with Another Place, The Lake Hotel, we’re launching a brand-new Fells & Flow Community Grant Fund.
We’re offering small sustainability grants of £100–£1,000 to help spark brilliant community-led ideas that support:
- Biodiversity
- Carbon reduction
- Inclusion & access to nature
- Water quality
- Heritage & local culture
If you’re doing something that makes your place greener, fairer or more connected to nature, we’d love to hear from you – no complicated forms or expert knowledge needed!
Opens: 1 December 2025 Closes: 10 January 2026
Who can apply?
We welcome applications from:
- Community groups
- Schools or youth groups
- Charities, CICs and social enterprises
- Volunteers, clubs and grassroots groups
We particularly welcome ideas within a 10-mile radius of Another Place Hotel, but anyone in the wider area is invited to get in touch.
Opens: 1 December 2025 Closes: 10 January 2026
What we can fund
Anything that fits one of our themes and brings benefit to people, place and nature.
Examples could include:
- Planting for pollinators or habitat improvements
- Carbon-cutting projects (e.g. energy saving, repair and reuse, growing projects)
- Nature connection, wellbeing or accessibility sessions
- Local heritage activities, oral histories or community interpretation
- Water quality testing, river clean-ups or lakeshore projects
- Small pieces of kit, materials, tools or training
If your idea supports nature or helps people enjoy and care for their environment, we’d love to hear from you
Opens: 1 December 2025 Closes: 10 January 2026
What we need from you
You can apply in whatever way suits you:
- A short written application
- A phone call
- An email
- A voice note
- A video, filmed on your phone, informal is fine!
Grant conditions will ask you to share photos, videos or stories showing what you did and the difference it made.
Opens: 1 December 2025 Closes: 10 January 2026
What we won’t fund
- Work already completed
- Activities already funded elsewhere
- Anything that causes environmental harm
- Projects outside Cumbria
- Capital works
Projects delivered – By end of December 2026
Timeline
1 December 2025 – Applications open
10 January 2026 – Applications close
Late January 2026 – Decisions issued & grants paid (a New Year gift!)
Projects delivered – By the end of December 2026
All decisions are made by a small grant panel including representatives from:
Lake District Foundation and Another Place sustainability team.
How to apply
Choose the method that’s easiest for you:
Email: [email protected]
Call: 07497 816091
Send a video or voice note
Or write to us:
Lake District Foundation, Unit 4, Wayfaring House,
Murley Moss Business Park, Oxenholme Road, Kendal, LA9 7RL
If you need help applying, just let us know – we’re happy to talk things through.
