Community Team Support

The main sources of help for community projects from Lancashire County Council are:

Lancashire County Council's Communities Team use their skills and experience to work with the people of Lancashire to support projects to strengthen communities and improve wellbeing. We support projects with realistic goals that, encourage people to be healthier and improve their local environment.

We are particularly keen to work with:

Projects to support Health and Wellbeing, where they are led by local community members.
Improvements to green spaces, particularly in areas with limited quality green space.
Food-growing and healthy eating projects, particularly where they are supporting food insecurity.
Improvements to community buildings.
Training and development support.
Projects which tackle loneliness and social isolation

If you believe that your organisation and project activity match these criteria and would like our assistance, please contact:

Communities Team
Christ Church Precinct
County Hall Preston
PR1 8XB
01772 530650

communitiesteam@lancashire.gov.uk

To see examples of the Teams work, please watch the films below:

Public Health Communities Team - central

Public Health Communities Team - north

Public Health Communities Team - east

Public Health Communities Team

External funding

We are working with partners to identify and provide external funding opportunities for local people, community groups and organisations.

Potential grant funding opportunities can now be accessed on the new, free-to-use Lancashire County Council 4 Community online search tool. To register and find out more, please visit Lancashire County Council 4 Community.

Help and advice on making a funding application is available on the Lancashire County Council 4Community online search tool. For additional information on local statistics to support your application visit Lancashire Insight.