Common Ground Award 2026 to 2027

As part of the overarching Common Ground Resilience Fund, the Common Ground Award grant will continue to support VCSE organisations to invest in the physical facilities, spaces and equipment that allows people from different backgrounds to come together.

To be eligible for the Common Ground Award, organisations and consortiums applying to this grant scheme must therefore directly work on at least one of the following core themes:

• encouraging and enabling social mixing, promoting understanding and reducing divisions between different communities and people from different backgrounds
• reducing prejudice, discrimination and hatred directed toward individuals and communities because of their background
• resolving conflict and addressing tensions across and between communities