‘Including Communities’ will deliver on HIWCF’s core aim of tackling poverty and inequality by helping to build flourishing and connected communities. We think that communities thrive when local community activities and services regularly bring people together and when these activities and services are shaped by local people/people from the target community.

We will only make grants to organisations based in AND supporting work within Hampshire, Portsmouth, Southampton, and the Isle of Wight. Smaller catchments within any of these geographies are allowed (e.g. a town, a village, a housing estate).