OPEN FOR 2025-26: Platinum Jubilee Village Halls Fund

Supporting volunteers, individuals and organisations who manage village halls and community buildings within Gloucestershire

Open for 2025-26: Platinum Jubilee Village Halls Fund

Community buildings can submit applications for grants of between £7,500 and £75,000, which can be used to cover up to 20% of capital costs associated with renovation and improvement projects.

This process is highly competitive, so please only submit an application to the fund if you fit all the criteria, your project is ready to proceed and you have everything in place. This includes any required planning permission.

What can this fund be used for?

Capital improvements for community buildings that:

Upgrade facilities
Extend facilities
Improve facilities
Purchase capital items

And seek to achieve one or more of the following outcomes:

improved health and/or wellbeing and/or reduction in rural loneliness
positive impact on the local environment, contributing towards net zero
support for the local rural economy
promotion of community cohesion

Not eligible:

Routine maintenance associated with regular and general upkeep of a building
Building projects that have already started
New build village halls
Work that is undertaken solely to ensure compliance with Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) requirements
Improvements to car parks, parking areas, adjacent recreational areas or landscaping
Architects, surveyors or specialist survey fees
Feasibility studies, planning applications or project managers’ fees

Applicants will be expected to showcase:

results of any community consultation regarding the community building that has taken place over the past 5 years
the wide variety of community activities taking place in the building, or that could take place once work is complete

Community buildings that are used permanently by a local school will need prove that this does not impact both the charitable objectives of the building and useage by the community.

Who can apply to this fund?

The following legal entities:

Registered charities
Charitable trusts
Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs)
Community associations that are registered charities
Multi-purpose church, scout or guide halls
Charitable companies
Parish & town councils who are sole trustees
Parochial Church Councils

Not eligible:

Community Interest Companies (CICs)
Companies
Sports pavilions
School halls
Parish & town councils that are custodian trustees
Previous beneficiaries of the Village Hall Improvement Fund or Platinum Jubilee Village Hall Fund

Only community buildings located in rural areas, with a population of less than 10,000 in the 2021 census, are eligible for funding. Click here for Gloucestershire parish profiles to find out your 2021 census population.

Please note that the process and criteria are set by the UK Government Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and GRCC has no control over this.

Click here for FAQs

Click here for the fund criteria

Click here for the application questions

Click here to fill in the online application form

You are welcome to join us at one of our free information sessions about the Platinum Jubilee Village Halls Fund

6.30pm-8pm

Thursday 19th June

Innsworth Community Hall

Click here to book your place

12.30-1.30pm

Wednesday 2nd July

Online

Click here to book your place

Our mailing address is:

Community House, 15 College Green, Gloucester GL1 2LZ

Registered charity number 1054282