The Empowering Local Communities Grant provides small grants up to £1,500 for local projects and activities that fall within the following 4 themes:

1. Active Lives - supporting participation in group physical activities. Whether low or high impact, regardless of age or ability, encouraging people to lead more active lifestyles and for everyone to feel able to participate.

2. Building Resilient Communities - supporting community groups with the equipment, essentials and facilities to enable activity to take place. This might be enhancing what is already available, providing core items or enabling an activity to continue.

3. Leading Healthier Lives - from cooking and education classes to enabling positive mental health. Asda Foundation is seeking to support health in body, mind and soul in UK communities.

4. Seasonal Celebrations & Festivals - enabling communities to celebrate what matters to them. Helping to bring people together to share experiences and encouraging everyone within the community to be together (for example: Easter, Holi, Passover, The Queen's Platinum Jubilee, community garden party etc.

Grants of between £500 and £1,500 are available with no matched funding requirement. Projects should start or take place before Sunday 5 June 2022 (the date of the the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee). 

Demand for the programme is expected to be high, so please note that applications should be made at least 6 weeks before activities are due to begin to give ASDA sufficient time to process the application.