H&F Community Support & Resilience Fund 2026/27 – An online application process for local groups
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Key Information – H&F Community Support & Resilience Fund
Funds available: £225k
Maximum Grant Amount: £20,000
Deadline: Midday Wednesday 28 October
About the H&F Community Support & Resilience Fund 2026/27
Hammersmith & Fulham Council, in partnership with H&F Giving, have launched the H&F Community Support & Resilience Fund 2026/27 awarding grants to local community and voluntary organisations supporting residents experiencing financial hardship and material deprivation. The fund has been developed to strengthen community-based coordination and early intervention support.
The fund will combine practical help for people facing immediate need with preventative activity that helps residents access essentials, improve financial resilience, reduce the likelihood of repeat crisis, and connect with wider support.
The £225,000 fund is being administered by H&F Giving behalf of H&F Council, supported by the Crisis and Resilience Fund (CRF) 2026-29.
Funding criteria
Approximately 50% of the overall grant programme (subject to demand and quality of proposals) will be used to fund prevention and resilience activity and 50% for direct crisis support, including food, essential items, furniture/appliances, essential utilities, transport and other eligible urgent needs.
Individual grants may reasonably combine crisis and preventative activity. Some expenditure – for example essential household items, community food support, energy support or financial inclusion – may contribute to both immediate stability and longer-term resilience.
What the fund is intended to achieve
The fund will support local organisations to help residents to:
- access and maintain essential goods and services;
- address immediate material hardship where residents are experiencing crisis;
- prevent hardship from becoming recurrent or escalating into crisis;
- improve household stability and financial resilience;
- increase access to advice, benefits and other support that can maximise household income and reduce essential costs;
- reduce reliance on emergency assistance and food banks where preventative support can address the underlying issue; and
- connect residents to wider support and services, including where appropriate energy, digital, financial and community-based support.
Who the fund will support
The H&F Community Support and Resilience Fund 2026/27 will support a wide range of residents experiencing material deprivation, persistent low income or financial hardship, that could include:
- families and households with children;
- Single-parent households
- Large families with multiple children under 5 years old
- Care-experienced young people or those leaving care
- disabled residents;
- D/deaf and disabled adults
- Households and disabled children (includes physical, learning, or sensory disabilities)
- Residents with long-term or chronic illnesses
- older people (65+);
- carers;
- Unpaid carers (adult or young carers supporting family/friends)
- residents in temporary accommodation; and
- households transitioning from crisis support.
Support is not restricted exclusively to these groups where other Hammersmith & Fulham residents are experiencing material deprivation or financial hardship and the proposed activity clearly meets the aims of the fund.
Types of activity that can be funded
The fund is intended to support a mixture of preventative/resilience-building activity and immediate crisis support. Applications may combine more than one type of activity.
The following summary table suggests a range of key activities across the Crisis and Resilience Strands to support CRF outcomes. Organisations will need to demonstrate which activities, interventions, and outcomes most align with their planned delivery.
| Interventions | Primary outcome | Activities |
| *Crisis*
• Improve household stability by addressing immediate material hardship. | • Reduced financial pressure associated with essential living costs. • Increased access to household essentials. | *Community-Based Cost of Living & Household Essentials Support*
• Affordable food and household essentials. |
| *Resilience/Prevention*
• Reduce demand for emergency support and crisis interventions. | • Improved household wellbeing and financial resilience • Improved capacity of households to manage future financial shocks • Greater resilience among vulnerable residents and communities. | *Preventative Support & Early Intervention*
• Provision of advice, education and support to households that helps reduce essential living costs and access support available (excluding benefits maximisation) |
Exclusions – The fund cannot be used for:
People with No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF)
Please note that funding from CRF cannot be used to provide direct financial assistance to individuals or households who are designated as having NRPF. This restriction is set by central government funding rules and applies to all councils distributing CRF.
Mortgage payments
Furniture and household items for residents living in private rented furnished accommodation or furnished temporary accommodation, where this is the responsibility of the landlord
Personal debts – residents should be referred to the Council or to appropriate agencies for support
Parking fines, Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) or congestion zone charges
Court expenses (legal proceedings) such as legal fees, court fees, fines, costs – unless related to an individual voluntary arrangement (IVA)
FAQs and Guidance
FAQs are at the bottom of this page, but if you have any queries about your project’s eligibility, or for support in completing the form, please contact us at [email protected] or call 07881 103827.
We’ll be hosting an in-person info session on Tuesday 13 October and one online on Wednesday 14 October. Click here to sign up to the in-person session, and here for the online session.
Important Information – applying for funds
We have £225,000 available for Community Support & Resilience funding. Organisations with a track record of supporting residents in Hammersmith & Fulham who are experiencing financial hardship are invited to apply for up to £20,000. We also welcome applications for smaller values. Funding requests must not duplicate provision currently funded by any other LBHF council grants.
We encourage applications in partnership with another organisation which delivers in Hammersmith and Fulham, particularly in areas of high deprivation and need. The organisation making this application will be the lead group and will be accountable for the grant. We also encourage applications from organisations who have not previously received funding from the council.
Timeline
All funds must be spent or committed before 19 March 2027. The activity funded and final monitoring report should be completed and submitted by 9 April 2027.
Applications now open until Midday Wednesday 28 October.
Reporting
Click here to view the monitoring report template as a guide, please note this may be subject to change and the final version will be provided to successful grant recipients in early 2027.
