What’s moving in the community world.
Funding windows, new initiatives, best practice and FMC delivery wins. Tracked daily by the same intelligence layer that designs FMC enterprises.
Curated by the FMC team · Updated 4 Jun 2026
Pulled from public news and data feeds. FMC is not responsible for source content.
£500m National Youth Strategy in delivery
Youth Matters, the first national youth strategy in over two decades, is backed by more than £500m of new DCMS funding over three years and was co-produced with 14,000+ young people.
Kirkdale: funded, delivered, reopened
When its boiler failed, Kirkdale Neighbourhood Community Centre won VCSE Energy Efficiency Scheme funding and FMC delivered the works end to end: new heating, solar PV, LED lighting and insulation.
What a Pride in Place area actually gets
Each selected neighbourhood of roughly 10,000 residents controls up to £20m over ten years, spent on local priorities through a resident-led Neighbourhood Board rather than a council department.
Football Foundation's 2026 programme
In its 25th year, the Football Foundation is delivering PlayZones, multi-sport community Hubs and the Lionesses HERe to Play Fund, with grants spanning goalposts to multi-million pound facilities.
£780m into grassroots facilities
The Football Foundation has delivered over £780m of facility improvements across more than 1,600 projects since 2000, from modest repairs to multi-million pound community hubs.
US model: 25 years of grassroots field grants
The NFL Foundation and LISC have distributed over $65m to create or refurbish 450+ community football fields, pairing capital grants with hands-on technical assistance for neighbourhood organisations.
How this works
The intelligence layer pulls sector feeds from MHCLG, Power to Change, Locality, NCVO, Sport England and others, classifies each item, and scores its relevance to community funders and operators. FMC does not review the feeds directly and is not responsible for the content. Please contact us if you think any item is incorrect or out of date.
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