If you are a grassroots community group, grants are now available up to the value of £1,500 from the newly launched Somerset Fund. Somerset Community Foundation (SCF), who manages the fund, is encouraging applications from smaller groups that run on less than £50,000 per year. The grants will be ‘unrestricted’, which means they can be used to pay for ongoing running costs, and the deadline to apply is Friday 22 February, 2019. If you run a business and would like to increase the impact of your charitable giving by up to 80% the Somerset Fund may also be of interest to you.

As part of our Enhance Social Enterprise programme, we recently worked with Cosmic and Somerset County Council’s early years team to deliver a series of training events for social enterprise pre-schools in Somerset. You can read more and watch the video here.