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Home > Community > Community grants and funding > Enabling Communities Budgets

Enabling Communities Budgets

The Enabling Community Budgets (ECBs) are intended to support activities delivered by community, voluntary and social enterprise organisations. A total of £412,500 has been allocated from New Homes Bonus (funding generated through new houses built in the district) for 2022/2023. This gives each of the 55 elected members of East Suffolk Council a £7,500 Enabling Communities Budget to spend on community projects or to develop new projects in their ward to tackle local need.

Below are just a few examples of the type of projects this fund has helped previously:

  • Purchase of play equipment
  • Village hall refurbishments
  • One-off events that will benefit the wider community
  • New community initiatives (staff costs/support costs)
  • Projects that will help and support people with disabilities and their carers
  • Purchase of defibrillators
  • Purchase of equipment for village halls or community centres

If you are a community group interested in receiving ECB funding, please contact your district councillor to discuss your project idea. The application form should be completed and signed by your group in liaison with the local councillor. Once complete, the application should then be sent to the councillor for them to approve and submit to East Suffolk Council’s Funding Team.

  • Scheme guidance template
  • Application template

Publicity

East Suffolk Council is keen to promote how its funding is used as it stimulates other projects in the district and encourages future applications. Please acknowledge East Suffolk Council funding support in all relevant project publicity and use the council’s logo to promote our support

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  • Community Action Suffolk
  • Hidden Needs grant programme
  • Suffolk Community Restart Grant
  • East Suffolk Boost Grant Scheme
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