Apply for funding from Gatwick Airport – if you work for community projects in Sussex, Surrey or Kent
- Gatwick Foundation Fund relaunched after being suspended during the pandemic
- Grants available for local projects that support young people, improve health and wellbeing, tackle social isolation and disadvantage, or raise aspirations
- £300,000 available each year, with £100,000 distributed in three rounds of funding
People working for local community projects in Sussex, Surrey and Kent can now apply for funding from Gatwick Airport’s Foundation Fund, which was relaunched today.
The grant criteria align with priority areas that many local authorities currently focus on and are designed to:
- Build better communities by fighting social isolation and tackling disadvantage
- Enable social mobility by raising aspirations and improving skills
- Improve health (physical and mental) and wellbeing
- Make a difference to the lives of disadvantaged children and young people
A total of £300,000 in grants is distributed each year, with projects in Sussex, Surrey and Kent receiving £100,000 each in three rounds of funding.
The fund is designed to distribute the economic benefits that the airport generates among local people and communities that may not benefit directly from other economic contributions the airport brings to the region.
Gatwick’s Foundation Fund was launched in late 2016. To date a total of £1.2 million has been distributed in 236 grants, benefiting over 100,000 people across Sussex, Surrey and Kent.
Two further sources of airport-related funding are also available for local community projects. The next round of Gatwick Airport Community Trust’s grant programme opens in December 2022 for projects in Sussex, Surrey and Kent. Charities dedicated to improving access to employment, training, housing, mobility, or leisure for society’s most disadvantaged will also be invited to apply to the VINCI UK Foundation for grants in January 2023.
Melanie Wrightson, Stakeholder Engagement Manager, Gatwick Airport said: “We feel tremendously proud to be back in a position where we can offer grants to so many worthwhile community projects across our region.
“The work these community groups do is invaluable to local residents who directly benefit and we welcome applications from all projects that meet the wide-ranging criteria.”
How to apply
Sussex, Surrey and Kent Community Foundations manage the programme and assess all applications for their county. These local trusts and foundations raise funds for and make grants to local charities and community groups, and also manage grant funds on behalf of a wide range of donors, including companies, charities and private individuals. To find out how to apply to the Gatwick Foundation Fund, please see gatwickairport.com/funding
Gatwick is the UK’s second largest airport and is a vital piece of national infrastructure that helps drive both the regional and national economy. More than 40 airlines fly from the airport to over 150 short-haul and more than 45 long-haul destinations. The airport is focused on rebuilding and growing sustainably in the long term. It has ambitious plans to be a net zero airport by 2030 and increase capacity by bringing its Northern runway into routine use. VINCI Airports owns a 50.01% stake in the airport, with Global Infrastructure Partners managing the remaining 49.99% interest.
The world's leading private airport operator, VINCI Airports operates more than 65 airports in 12 countries in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Thanks to its expertise as a global integrator, VINCI Airports develops, finances, builds and manages airports by providing its investment capacity and its know-how in optimizing operational performance, modernizing infrastructures and managing their operations and environmental transition. VINCI Airports is the first airport operator to have committed to a global international environmental strategy in 2016, to achieve the goal of net zero emission across its entire network by 2050.
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GIP manages the remaining 49.99% interest in Gatwick and is a leading independent infrastructure fund manager that makes equity and debt investments in high quality infrastructure assets in the energy, transport, water/waste and digital infrastructure sectors. GIP manages US$84 billion for its investors. Its 46 portfolio companies have combined annual revenues of US$61 billion and employ nearly 100,000 employees. For more information on GIP please visit http://global-infra.com
