Grants and Partnership Funding
Small Grants Scheme 2025-26
The Scheme is designed to be an easy access source of funding for local organisations with charitable status or which run as a not-for-profit designed to benefit the people of Ripon.
The Council has £8,000 of funding to allocate in the 2025/26 financial year, with individual grants not exceeding £1,000.
Applications are invited before the end of November, closing on 30th November 2025 or earlier if funds are exhausted before then. Application form and guidance can be found below:
RCC – Small Grants Scheme – Guidance Notes Criteria 2025-26
RCC – Small Grants Scheme – Application Form 2025-26
All valid applications will be considered by the Council and RCC will be in touch with candidates once their applications have been reviewed at a meeting of Council.
Ripon City Council has made the following awards to date under the Small Grants Scheme in 2025-26, these grants help our local organisations thrive and help us to develop the City as a vibrant place to work and live:
Organisation |
Awarded |
| Ripon Military Heritage Trust | £975.00 |
| Ripon Men’s Shed | £1,000.00 |
Partnership Funding
The Partnership Funding Scheme is currently closed to new applications.
Information about the organisations with which Ripon City Council has signed agreements under this Scheme can be found here.
The amounts awarded in 2024-25 are below:
Organisation |
Awarded |
| Ripon Library Action Group | £1,900.00 |
| Ripon in Bloom | £3,500.00 |
| Ripon YMCA | £3,470.00 |
| Ripon Together | £2,000.00 |
| Ripon City Festival Trust | £2,000.00 |
| Friends of Hell Wath | £1,000.00 |
| Ripon Poetry Festival | £2,000.00 |
| HADCA | £3,000.00 |
| Ripon Community Link | £1,950.00 |
| Ripon Disability Forum | £1,800.00 |
In addition to this, RCC resolved to sign agreements with three more organisations, with grants to be awarded starting from the financial year 2025-26:
Organisation |
The total payment per year |
| Studley Royal Cricket Club | £3,500.00 |
| St Wilfrids Committee | £2,000.00 |
| Open Country for the Ripon Tandem Club | £1,639.82 |
Small Grants Scheme 2024-25
Ripon City Council made the following awards under the Small Grants Scheme in 2024-25:
Organisation |
Awarded |
| Studley Royal Cricket Club | £950.00 |
| Ripon City Photographic Society | £596.00 |
| Ripon Community Poppy Project | £747.40 |
| Friends of Spa Gardens | £1000.00 |
| North Yorkshire Citizens Advice & Law Centre | £988.00 |
| Ripon Young Musicians | £65.02 |
| Ripon Rotary Club | £500.00 |
| Mind in Harrogate District | £1000.00 |
Small Grants Scheme 2023-24
Ripon City Council made the following awards under the Small Grants Scheme in 2023-24:
Organisation |
Awarded |
| Ripon Young Musicians | 400.00 |
| Friends of Spa Gardens | 1000.00 |
| Jennyruth Workshops | 950.00 |
| Ripon City Photographic Society | 1000.00 |
Small Grants Scheme 2022-23
Ripon City Council made the following awards under the Small Grants Scheme in 2022-23:
Organisation |
Awarded |
| Ripon City Band | 955.00 |
| Ripon Disability Action Group | 789.00 |
| Ripon Photographic Society | 596.00 |
| Inspire Youth | 1000.00 |
| Ripon Young Musicians | 600.00 |
| Jennyruth Workshops | 860.00 |
| Ripon Community Link | 1000.00 |
| Ripon Poetry Festival | 700.00 |
| Ohana | 882.00 |
Small Grants 2021/22
Ripon City Council has made the following small grants awards in 2021-22:
Ripon Poetry Festival – £450
Ripon Community Link – £982
Ripon City Photographic Society (R.C.P.S) – £440
Ripon International Festival – £1,000
Friends of Spa Gardens – £1,000
Friends of Hell Wath – £1,000
Ripon City AFC – £1,000
Spitfire Explorer Scout Unit – £626.54
In addition to the small grants scheme the council has continued to provide funding to its community partners through the Partnership Funding Scheme to allow them to continue their work during the COVID pandemic.
The amounts awarded in 2021-22 are below:
Ripon Library – £760
Ripon CIC – £1,041
Ripon in Bloom – £1980.18
Citizens Advice Bureau – £3,000
HADCA – £3,000
Ripon Rotary Club, Grass Cutting – £342
Small Grants 2020/21
Ripon City Council has made the following small grants awards in 2020-21:
Ripon Community Link – £967
Ripon City AFC – £1,000
Ripon City Photographic Society (R.C.P.S.) – £600
Ripon City Panthers Junior Football Club – £1,000
Jennyruth Workshops – £765
Friends of Hell Wath – £1,000
Abbeyfield Ripon and District Society Ltd – £400
Ripon YMCA – £999
In addition to the small grants scheme the council has continued to provide funding to its community partners through the Partnership Funding Scheme to allow them to continue their work during the COVID pandemic.
The amounts awarded in 2020-21 are below:
Ripon in Bloom – £2,500
Ripon CIC – £2,750
HADCA – £3,000
Citizens Advice Bureau – £3,500
Ripon Rotary Club, Grass Cutting – £250
Ripon Library – £500
The Council also resolved to award the sums of money in the budget for 2020-21 for the Battle of Britain and Remembrance Sunday events to the Ripon branch of the Royal British Legion and the Ripon Branch of the Royal Airforce Association and they were awarded £1,000 and £500 respectively.