Community Pride grants

Community Pride fund 2024

The Community Pride fund 2024 has been fully allocated and is closed to applications.  

£30,000 was available to allocate to local good causes. Applications were invited for community pride grants to match-fund community-led projects, up to the value of £3,000 which would deliver one or more of the following themes:

  • Bring people together, connecting people to foster new relationships and celebrating our culture and diverse communities
  • Help to improve the bio-diversity of Cheltenham's green spaces and natural environment
  • Help make Cheltenham a place where all our children and young people have the opportunity to thrive
  • Enable neighbourhood hubs and spaces to be used to engage and support young people
  • Promote and support physical and mental well-being, in celebration of the 2024 Olympics

For more information please contact: [email protected] 

Grants allocated

Community Pride grants allocated 2024

  • Kings ABC: Boxing for life - £1,900
  • Lives of Colour: Culture Fest - £3,000
  • Cheltenham Paint Festival 2024: £1,500
  • Fresh Hope, School House Cafe: Community lunch development - £1,500
  • Bangladeshi Community Association: Eid Ananda - £2,000
  • Gas Green Youth and Community Centre: Gas Green weekly community drop in - £1,900
  • West Cheltenham Partnership: Springbank Music Project - £1,200
  • 10th Cheltenham Scout Group: Community Hub in Pittville Park - £1,250
  • Monkscroft Community Action Group: Monkscroft Community Garden Project - £1,250
  • Pride in Gloucestershire: Pride in Cheltenham 2025 - £1,500
  • Cheltenham Festivals: My Voice, My Cheltenham at Cheltenham Literature Festival - £2,000
  • Gloucestershire Puja And Cultural Association: Celebration of Hindu festival of Durga Puja (Durga Ashtami) 2024 - £1,250
  • Friends of Elmfield: Community Rest Garden Paths and Shelter - £2,000
  • GARAS on behalf of newly formed Resettled Families Peer Group Homeward Horizon: Homeward Horizon - £2,000
  • InterClimate Network: ACT Acting together on climate change - £2,000
  • The Music Works in partnership with Cheltenham Borough Homes: St Marks Youth Music Connect - £2,250
  • The Wilson: The Kids Arts Club - £1,500

Community Pride grants allocated 2023

In 2023, the community pride funding was distributed through the Coronation Community Fund.

Community Pride grants allocated 2022

In 2022, the community pride funding was used to support celebratory events and projects for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.

Community Pride Grants allocated 2020 and 2021

Community Pride Grants were paused for 2020 and 2021 and the pot encompassed into the Community Resilience Grant fund to support the Covid-19 response.

Community Pride Grants allocated 2019-20

  • Building Circles: Reducing social isolation in adults with learning disabilities through allotments and cookery - £1,800.
  • Men In Sheds: Work Away Tool Set for use when away from the base - £890.
  • Cheltenham West End Partnership: Lower High Street Area Fun Day, celebrating Cheltenham's diversity - £1,500.
  • Indian Association Cheltenham: The Hindu Community Centre Kitchen Refurbishment project - £2,500.
  • Pride in Gloucestershire: Pride in Gloucestershire Cheltenham Picnic in the Park 2020 - £1,000
  • Cheltenham Trust (Wilson Arts Collective): Alternative Art and Performance for Young People aged 13-19 years - £3,000.
  • Prestbury Parish Council: New Prestbury Community Open Space - community seating and tree protectors - £1,000.
  • SPACE (St Pauls Activities, Community & Events): Summer Activities - for children in the summer holidays - £1,400.
  • University of Gloucestershire: Discover Cheltenham’s Wildlife - £940
  • Cheltenham Neighbourhood Watch Association: New CNHWA website, improvement in availability and content - £1,500.
  • Friends of Hatherley Park: Pitch Perfect - a boules pitch with notice board and benches - £2,500.
  • Goals Beyond Grass: Goals Beyond Grass Outreach Program - Cheltenham, taking power chair football to care homes, adult opportunity centres and SEN schools - £2,400.
  • Holst Birthplace Trust: Holst on the move - creation of 2 loans boxes for outreach sessions - £2,000.
  • Midsummer Fiesta: Midsummer Fiesta 2020 - £2,000.
  • G Café: development of arden and Green Gym - £3,000.
  • St Pauls Residents Association: St Paul’s Parties and Parades - a street party, and Advent Lantern Parade and craft workshops - £1,725.
  • Hesters Way Partnership: Creative West - Easter and Summer holiday scheme for 2010 for 5 - 16 year olds to learn practical skills and produce creative work across a range of venues - £3,100.

Total grants allocated in 2019-20 - £32,255.

Community Pride Grants allocated 2018-19

  • The Rock: Children's Cooking Club - £2,500.
  • Boccia Busters CIC: Boccia Busters -Let's Roll Cheltenham - £2,000.
  • Cheltenham Connect: Bath Road Utility Boxes Enhancements - £2,193.
  • Cheltenham Whaddon Bowls Club: Installation of disabled toilet facilities - £2,500.
  • Cheltenham West End Partnership: Lower High Street Festival - £2,250
  • Midsummer Fiesta: Midsummer Fiesta 2019 - £2,500.
  • Benhall Residents Association: Community Pride Planters and Seating - £600.
  • Cheltenham Christian Arts: Encounter, Cheltenham Christian Arts Festival 2019 - £1,050.
  • Gloucestershire Credit Union: Developing Gloucestershire Credit Union in Cheltenham - £3,392.
  • The Holst Birthplace Trust: Twinkle Twinkle - Early Years in St Pauls - £1,695.
  • St Pauls Residents Association: Artisans of St Pauls - Creative Christmas and Box Fresh - £1,805.
  • Up Hatherley Parish Council: Village Hall Refurbishment - £2,589.
  • Cheltenham Paint Festival: Cheltenham Paint Festival 2019 - £3,000.
  • Cheltenham Open Studios: Cheltenham Open Studio Website Update - £2,000.

Total grants allocated in 2018-19 - £30,074.

Community Pride Grants allocated 2017-18

  • St Paul’s Road Area Residents’ Association (SPRA): St Pauls lantern parade and Street watch project - £600.
  • Cheltenham Festivals: Community developed opera to share local stories - £4,200.
  • Cheltenham Christian Arts: Festival of stars - £600.
  • Charlton Kings Parish Council: Creating a community hub - phase 1 - £775.
  • Cheltenham West End Partnership: Cheltenham Together World Fun Day - £1,850.
  • Cheltenham Midsummer Fiesta: Midsummer Fiesta Event - £2,000.
  • Friends of Pittville (FOP): Learning in Pittville Park - £1,000.
  • Hesters Way Partnership: KGV public art planting scheme - £2,844.
  • Holst Birthplace Museum: Bake back in time: St Pauls - £2,225.
  • Oakley Community Association: Oakley scooter skate park - £5,000.
  • Paragon Parade Conservation Group (PPCG): Paragon Parade, sustainable planting and railing plinths project (Bath Road) - £3,100.
  • Friends of Sandford: Preparation of bed and planting of shrubs next to petanque courts in Sandford Park - £550.
  • Fiery Angel Community Benefit Society: Re-opening of The Fiery Angel pub as a community space - £3,500.
  • Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust: Hedgehog Way - £397.
  • Prestbury Parish Council: Prestbury Village Fair 2018 - £550.
  • Up Hatherley Parish Council: Mini Park – corner of Wards Road and Hatherley Road - £3,170.
  • Naunton Area Residents Association (NARA): Adoption and renovation of The Triangle green space - £2,118.

Total grants allocated in 2017-18 - £34,479.

Community Pride Grants allocated 2016-17

Up Hatherley Parish Council: Lighting on non-Highway Footpath - Up Hatherley - £2,000.
Cheltenham and Tewkesbury Branch, Royal National Lifeboat Institution: Commemoration of the launch of the Cheltenham Lifeboat at Pittville Upper Lake, October 1866 - £875.
Cheltenham Hebrew Congregation: Judaism: Educational Resources - £1,110.
Cheltenham West End Partnership: Cheltenham Together Annual Culture Share event - £1,500.
Holst Birthplace Museum: Events Programme with Pop Up Victorian Cafe - £3,000.
The Rock: St Peter’s and the Moors Community Café - £1,000.
Fairview Community Association (FCA): Fairview Community Fireworks Party - £1,500.
Cheltenham Open Studios (COS): COS17 - £2,000.
The Friends of Hatherley Park: Plant up that space - £611.
SPRA: 1) St Paul’s Local History day,  2) Front garden award, 3) New community noticeboard, 4) Additional litter bins - £695.
Prestbury Parish Council: Provision of security gates to the Blacksmith’s Lane Allotment Garden - £1,500.
African Community Foundation: Black History Month Cheltenham - £2,000.
Cheltenham Midsummer Fiesta: Midsummer Fiesta - £2,500.
Cheltenham Christian Arts: Cheltenham Christian Arts Festival 2017 - £2,500.
Cheltenham Minster Bell Appeal: Cheltenham Minster Bell Appeal - £1,000.
Charlton Kings Youth and Community Centre: Charlton Kings Youth and Community Centre – Kitchenette for All Users - £1,500.

Total grants allocated 2016-17 - £25,291.

Community Pride Grants allocated 2015-16

Up Hatherley Parish Council: Benches in Chargrove and Redthorne Way Open Spaces - £651.
Holst Birthplace Trust: Holst in your Neighbourhood - £3,000.
Cheltenham Business Partnership: Christmas Festival of Fun - £3,000.
Cheltenham Business Partnership: Christmas Festival of Fun funding to pay for Frozen characters - £600.
Cheltenham Festivals: A Way with Words - £2,500.
Cheltenham Poetry Festival: Cheltenham Poetry Festival Outreach - £2,000.
African Community Foundation: Black History Month - £3,000.
Cheltenham West End Partnership on behalf of Cheltenham Together: Cheltenham Together - £1,700.
Vision 21: Umbrella incorporating 'Shedlike' and 3Rs  (Recycling Racegoers Refuse) - £1,366.
Midsummer Fiesta in Montpellier: Midsummer Fiesta in Montpellier - £2,000.
Cheltenham in Bloom: Enhancing a Gateway of The Town – Part Two - £1,250.
SPRA: SPRA community projects (several components) - £1,621.
The Montpellier Association: Montpellier Street Roundabout / Planter and Winter Lights for trees in Montpellier Walk - £3,400.
Suffolk Traders: Suffolks’ Street Art: A scheme designed to display and celebrate artistic talent that reflects the history, community and creative diversity of the Suffolks area - £5,000.
Benhall Residents Association: Benhall Park underpass / bridge wall art phase 2 - £750.
The Rock: St Peter’s and the Moors Community Cafe - £1,645.
Fairview Community Association (FCA): Fairview Stakeholders’ Marketplace - £1,120.
Clifton Catholic Diocesan Trust: Charlton Kings Film Society - £2,000.
Friends of Hatherley Park: Take Notice! - £640.
County Community Projects (CCP): Involve Gloucestershire (Cheltenham) - £3,200.
Saint Stephen’s Parish Church: Saint Stephen’s Roof Appeal - £3,500.
Cheltenham Saracens: Football Academy for young players - £300.
Cheltenham Christian Arts: Cheltenham Christian Arts Festival 2016 - £2,025.
The Cheltenham Trust: Rugby World Cup 2015 celebrations - £1,500.

Total grants allocated 2015-16 - £47,768.