Community Development Action Hertfordshire

Registered charity 1075224 · since 1999cdaherts.org.uk·Hertfordshire·Updated 29 October 2026

Key takeaways

Community Development Action Hertfordshire mainly supports Rural Support Networks, which are informal volunteer groups helping vulnerable, elderly and lonely people, and it also lists rural community organisations and voluntary bodies among its grants.
Grants to institutions have included amounts from 800 to 8,500, so a request within that span is worth framing, though this is not a typical band or a ceiling.
Informal groups that are not constituted and have no bank account cannot apply themselves, so a group in one of Hertfordshire's Rural Support Networks should ask CDA to apply on its behalf rather than submit its own request.
No application process is published and no timing is given, so any other organisation should contact CDA first to ask whether its work fits before writing a proposal.

Overview

Community Development Action Hertfordshire is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1075224).

CDA Herts aims to be the leading independent County Charity for the sustainable development of rural and urban communities across Hertfordshire. It exists to promote charitable purposes for the benefit of the community in Hertfordshire and surrounding areas. It offers support, advice, information, training, resources and funding to Hertfordshire's Rural Support Networks, and it applies for grant funding on their behalf because most are not constituted and have no bank account.

What they fund

Priority Areas

CDA Herts describes its purpose as benefiting communities in Hertfordshire and surrounding areas by assisting statutory authorities and voluntary organisations working in education, health, poverty relief, distress and sickness. Its reported grant-making supports Rural Support Networks: informal volunteer groups helping vulnerable, elderly and lonely people in local communities. CDA applies for grant funding on these networks’ behalf because most are not constituted and lack bank accounts, so cannot apply themselves. Its grant list also includes rural community organisations and voluntary bodies working across local community life. The charity describes this funding, alongside supporting resources, as a way to keep awareness of rural disadvantage high among statutory bodies.

Themes

Rural Support Networks

Geographic Focus

Hertfordshire.

How to apply

CDA applies for grant funding for Rural Support Networks on their behalf; most are not constituted organisations and have no bank account, so are not eligible to apply themselves.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

Hertfordshire

Similar funders

Funders supporting work similar to Community Development Action Hertfordshire.

Hertfordshire Community FoundationMixed deadlinesGave £5.6M The John Apthorp CharityFixed deadlinesGave £422k Graham Rowlandson FoundationRollingGave £265k The Frank Litchfield Charitable TrustFixed deadlinesGave £463k Helping HertsInvitation onlyGave £244k Harlow Health Centres TrustFixed deadlinesGave £143k The Neighbourly Charitable TrustInvitation onlyGave £61,536 Christopher Laing FoundationMixed deadlinesGave £485k Dorset Community ActionNo public processGave £78,470 Bedfordshire, Essex and Hertfordshire Methodist DistrictInvitation onlyGave £244k

Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 March 2021	£293,455	£183,846	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2021
year to 31 March 2022	£314,000	£350,053	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2022
year to 31 March 2023	£369,029	£381,838	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2023
year to 31 March 2024	£348,040	£347,576	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2024
year to 31 March 2025	£186,787	£254,147	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2025

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.