Grants up to £5,000 will be available for both REVENUE & CAPITAL funding the following:
- Locally constituted organisations (including registered charities, charitable incorporated organisations, community groups, town or community councils, community interest companies, social enterprises, churches and uniformed groups).
- Small food related business operating in Denbighshire (with less than 50 employees)
- Non-Constituted Groups can apply for up to £1,000 only.
- Local Authority Teams in Denbighshire.
The Tackling Poverty Support Funding Package is split into two main funding streams (called Pillars) plus additional flexible funding pots. All funding must support the overall aim of reducing poverty and helping people access support.
Pillar 1: Wider Poverty Prevention
Purpose: Prevent people from falling into poverty and help build long-term resilience.
Funding can be used for:
- Community hubs and safe spaces that offer advice and support.
- Cost of living, debt, money, fuel poverty and food poverty advice.
- Health and wellbeing support.
- Digital inclusion activities.
- Developing alternatives to food banks, such as cash-first schemes, vouchers or cash cards.
- Building community capacity, testing new approaches and developing infrastructure that supports poverty prevention.
Key focus: Early intervention, preventing crisis and reducing repeat reliance on emergency support.
Pillar 2: Emergency Food Aid
Purpose: Strengthen local food support for people experiencing food poverty while helping connect them to wider support services.
Funding can be used for:
- Food banks, food pantries, social supermarkets and community cafés.
- Lunch clubs and community cookery classes.
- Purchasing additional food and essential goods.
- Outreach activities to reach underserved communities.
- Volunteer training.
- Community hubs that combine food provision with welfare, housing and money advice.
Key focus: Meeting immediate food needs while helping people access support that addresses the causes of food poverty.
Important restriction: This funding cannot be a primary source of ongoing service funding or food supply.
Capital Funding
Purpose: Fund equipment, facilities and infrastructure that support poverty prevention or emergency food provision.
Examples include:
- Fridges, freezers, cooking equipment and storage facilities.
- Equipment for food-growing and food distribution projects.
- Infrastructure that supports local food partnerships and community food projects.
- Improvements to community spaces where cost-of-living, financial advice and child poverty support are delivered.
For capital funding for equipment that requires installation you will need to provide ownership or lease for the building that covers at least the next 3 years.
Potential extra weighting will be given to partnership / collaboration applications.
Grant funding can be spent between 01/12/2026 and 31/05/2027, no retrospective funding can be applied for.
The deadline for applications midnight on Thursday 12th November 2026. The DVSC grants panel will assess them. Applicants will be informed of the outcome by 1st December 2026.
