Bupa Foundation Green Community Grants

Bupa Foundation Green Community Grants offers funding to charities, not-for-profit organisations, local authorities and social housing providers to make local places and spaces greener.

The programme funds practical projects which improve both people’s health and the health of the planet. They expect to fund around 175 projects. This is a popular programme and likely to be oversubscribed. Applying takes time and effort, so please review the grant priorities to help you decide whether to apply.  

Priority will be given to projects that:

• Improve existing green spaces or create new ones in cities, especially in priority areas: London, Staines, Brighton, Leeds, Greater Manchester (in particular Salford), Dublin and Glasgow
• Take place in areas with the greatest need, meaning areas in the top 20% most deprived, based on official Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) data. Where this data is not available, you must clearly evidence that your project location has high levels of need.
• Have not received a Bupa Foundation Green Community Grant before
• Clearly show how they improve people’s health and the health of the planet

Who can apply?

Grants can be awarded to non-fee-paying schools, registered charities, not-for-profit organisations, local authorities and social housing providers.

Who can’t apply?  

• Individuals
• Community Interest Companies with shares (CIC’s)
• Community Interest Companies with guarantee that are less than two years old
• Profit-making organisations
• Un-constituted organisations
• Private, fee-paying schools