Funding

Suffolk County Council has helped to secure of an average of £28 million of external funding per annum into the county over the last 3 years. This funding is focussed on service improvement (especially in rural areas), innovation, community development and access to high speed Broadband services. 

Suffolk County Council's External Funding Team has been central to this external funding success. The team's prime role is the facilitation of applications from Suffolk to the principle external funding sources, namely Europe, the Lottery, charitable trusts and direct from UK Government sources.

The External Funding services include regular funding updates and fact sheets, signposting to funding sources, Grantfinder and other web based services, detailed support and assistance in preparing funding applications, organisational and business development advice, and high level liaison and negotiation with funding bodies on behalf of the public, private and voluntary sectors in Suffolk.

The External Funding Team can also provide some support on a paid for basis such as detailed evaluation, implementation and detailed ongoing business case development and implementation.

The European Funding service pages provide information on principal european funding streams.

The Corporate Regeneration Fund page provides information on other Suffolk County Council funding that is available for projects which benefit the people of Suffolk by improving the community, economy or environment.

GRANTnet is a free to use funding search site which assists you in identifying the funding sources for your projects. For more information, please see our GRANTnet page.

The Rural and Community pages provide more information on the work of the Rural Devleopment service.

The Transforming Suffolk Innovation Fund is available to help communities to help themselves and to allow individuals the opportunity to build or strengthen the links between themselves and their community.

Top Funds in Suffolk provides details of some of the top funds for projects in Suffolk and an example project supported by the fund.