Involve Kent

Registered charity 1066911 · since 1997involvekent.org.uk·England, Kent·Updated 30 October 2026

Key takeaways

Involve Kent's work fits best if your group runs community activities that support health and wellbeing or reduce isolation, such as singing, walking football or gardening groups.
Its stated geographic focus is Kent and England, with West Kent as a priority, and its published figures give no annual giving total or grant range.
Its overview records £25,000 awarded to 14 community groups for inclusive activities, so a modest request fits that pattern.
No application process is publicly published, so the sensible first step is to email partnerships@involvekent.org.uk about the Social Prescribing Community Fund and ask about future opportunities, which suggests the route in is direct contact rather than an open call.

Overview

Involve Kent is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1066911).

Involve Kent is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales, originally founded as Maidstone Volunteer Bureau to recruit and connect volunteers and respond to local needs. It exists to improve health and empower people and communities to live well, tackling root causes of ill health such as isolation, loneliness, disadvantage and frailty. Through its Social Prescribing Community Fund, it has helped organisations build capacity, develop new activities and expand support across West Kent. It has awarded £25,000 to 14 community groups to run inclusive activities.

What they fund

Priority Areas

Involve Kent provides funding each year to local and community organisations for activities that benefit their communities. Through its Social Prescribing Community Fund, grants have helped organisations build capacity, develop new activities and expand support across West Kent. The funded work includes activities that help people manage long-term health conditions, improve wellbeing and stay connected to their communities. Involve works alongside voluntary, community and public-sector partners, and describes its wider work as community-led health and wellbeing support. Its grants have also supported inclusive community activities focused on physical health and reducing isolation, including singing, walking football, gardening and healthy slow cooking. Overall, its support helps local organisations strengthen community activity, health and social connection.

Themes

Community activities
Health and wellbeing
Community connection

Geographic Focus

Kent; England. Priority: West Kent.

How to apply

For the Social Prescribing Community Fund, organisations can contact Involve Kent at partnerships@involvekent.org.uk to find out more and check for future opportunities.

Application success factors

What the charity says:

The Social Prescribing Community Fund supports organisations building capacity, developing new activities and expanding support across West Kent.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

Similar funders

Funders supporting work similar to Involve Kent.

Kent Community FoundationRollingGave £2.9M Involving Medway (Kent Community Foundation)Rolling The Philip and Connie Phillips FoundationFixed deadlinesGave £328k Whitehead Monckton Charitable FoundationFixed deadlines Colyer-Fergusson Charitable TrustMixed deadlinesGave £4.7M The Elaine and Angus Lloyd Charitable TrustRollingGave £115k Friends of Kent ChurchesFixed deadlinesGave £125k Aylesham Community TrustRolling The Lawson TrustFixed deadlinesGave £643k Kent TennisRollingGave £1,800

Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 March 2021	£2,922,090	£2,628,200	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2021
year to 31 March 2022	£4,404,222	£3,787,288	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2022
year to 31 March 2023	£5,233,295	£4,755,912	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2023
year to 31 March 2024	£6,418,541	£5,246,756	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2024
year to 31 March 2025	£5,548,381	£4,652,122	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2025

— No grants figure for those years.

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.