Oxfordshire Community Resilience Small Grants programme
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- Nov 12
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Thanks to funds from Oxfordshire County Council (OCC), we are able to support community groups around the county to kickstart projects that address the impacts of extreme weather events.
Since 2007, Oxfordshire has experienced 20 significant flood events, 12 named storms, 8 cold snaps, 4 major heatwaves and 3 periods of drought.
The Oxfordshire Community Resilience Small Grants programme supports community groups to organise local events and activities, awareness raising or planning costs associated with climate adaptation efforts and interventions. These should engage the local community and address potential future impacts of extreme weather events. We want to support activities and events that empower local groups to create new connections and raise awareness in order to support new people, local businesses and organisations to take climate action.
Grants between £100-£1,000 are available for activities that are initiated before 1 April 2026. We will try to stretch funds to support as many groups as possible, so please try to be accurate in your budget estimates.
Community Adaptation Workshop
We are hosting a related event with talks by the OCC climate action, resilience, flood, and nature recovery teams:
Date: Tuesday 18th November
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Online - sign up here
You aren’t required to attend in order to apply for these grants, but you may find it useful.
Types of Grants
Proposed activities should reference previous impacts of climate change/extreme weather events that have negatively impacted the local community and/or reference the Current and future climate risk and vulnerability and health impacts assessments in Oxfordshire or Extreme Temperatures and Rainfall in Oxfordshire reports.
Activities we might fund include:
Education and awareness raising within your community
Developing a community emergency plan with community input and distribution
Research or consultation that identifies perceived or real barriers in feeling prepared for an emergency
Printing of communication and marketing materials
Planting shade at a playground or sports field
Solar panels and batteries for community facility
Providing a cool space in a community area
Creating resilient habitat
Water harvesting and bowers
Green roofing
Sunshades on community places- schools, sports clubs, parish buildings, libraries (solar films, canopy, parasol)
Small scale community distributions
Growing projects
Watering and maintaining recently planted trees (not on private property)
Deadline
The deadline for grant applications is Friday, 19 December. We will aim to notify successful applicants early in January 2026 and grants will be paid into your organisation's bank account as soon as possible following confirmation.
How to apply
Please read the guidance and complete the short application form linked below by Friday, 19 December 2025: You will be notified in early January.
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