East Coast Community Fund
Closing Date: 3 February 2027, midnight
Decision By Date: End April 2027
Provided by Ørsted, £465,000 each year for a 20 year period. The Fund supports coastal communities within the vicinity of its Hornsea 1 and Race Bank Offshore Wind Farm off the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire coasts, with grants between £1,000 and £50,000.
The East Coast Community Fund is part of the community engagement programme for Ørsted’s Race Bank and Hornsea 1 offshore wind farms which are located off the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire coast. When they are both operational in 2018 and 2020 respectively, these two windfarms will have a combined capacity of nearly 1.8 gigawatts, making them capable of meeting the electricity needs of 1.5 million UK homes.
To find out more about the two project developments please click the links below:
Race Bank Offshore Windfarm
Hornsea Offshore Windfarm
Ørsted has committed to a Community Fund worth approximately £465,000 each year for the next 20 years.
Skills Fund
£75,000 of the Fund each year is ring-fenced for a ‘Skills Fund’. Please note that the Skills Fund operates differently to the main Community Fund with different processes and closing dates.
Groups can apply to the Community and Skills Funds at the same time. However, if you are awarded a grant from one of the funds, your application for the other may not receive priority over organisations that have previously been turned away or those who are applying for the first time.
Please click below for more information.
Main Community Fund
There are two application closing dates each year to the Community Fund. The next two application rounds are detailed below. Late applications submitted after a closing date will be processed in the next round (approximately six months later).
Grants Awarded
To find out which organisations were previously awarded grants, please click below:
Project Locations
To be eligible to apply for a grant your project must be located, and be for the benefit of communities, within the funding area. (Please note the area of benefit also includes the coastal tidal zones and marine area directly in line with the onshore areas).
Projects located outside the area are not eligible to apply.
Please click on the map image below. It will open up an interactive map within which you can identify if your project is located in the area of benefit. Please click on the search icon in the bottom right of your screen and enter the project location postcode. If your location appears within any of the coloured shaded areas of the map, it is located within the funding area.
Grant Amounts
Grants from £1,000 up to £50,000 are available. Now you have checked the map and are confident your project is located within the area of benefit, please click below, to read the Full Criteria carefully to make sure your project is eligible.