Creative, Confident Communities

Communities working together for change

HCT Group

Communities thrive when people have the power to take action and the capacity and capability to work together for change.

We seek out work where communities are at the heart of the changes they want to make and develop transformative models that others could learn from.

What we want to achieve

Impact goal

Communities use their power to make change happen.

Long-term outcomes
  1. Local people come together to determine equitable and aspirational visions of what they want their community to be.
  2. Communities and their local corporate, cultural, public, voluntary and community sectors, work better together to achieve collective change.
  3. Local people are able to exert more influence over the decisions that affect their lives and are the drivers of change.

If you are interested in applying for funding on under this priority, please see our guidance for support.

Place Matters-the team with our partner Liz Weaver from the Tamarack Institute

Latest grants

In 2023, we made 19 main grants, totalling £9.1m, in our Communities working together for change priority. On this page you can find the latest grants awarded.

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Insights from place-led funding

Read our report where we share learning from the place-led funding we’ve done over the past five years, which has informed and shaped our strategy in Creative, Confident Communities.

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Unlocking change

Stories

Our Aims