Foundation
When people save and borrow with us, we can do more than be just a bank.
Our members make this possible.
Our savers already share in our success through dividends. The Foundation is how we share some of that success with the wider community.
When you save with Wessex, you help us lend, keep the bank strong and support practical work in the communities we serve. Your money stays yours. What it helps us achieve reaches much further.
It’s part of Wessex Community Bank, created to do something useful with the success our members help us build.
We don’t have outside shareholders taking profits out of the bank. That gives us the opportunity to put something back into members and local communities instead.
The Foundation has four core aims.
Choose one to see what it means in practice.
You can be part of this.
Save with Wessex and you help make the Foundation possible. If you run a grassroots group, you can apply for a grant. If you run a club or community project, you can also open a fee-free Community Group Account with us.
Community groups making a real difference.
Every one of these groups is doing something useful in its community. Some support young people, some bring people together and some keep important local projects moving.
We’re proud to have helped them — and this is exactly the kind of local impact our members make possible.
Zero Waste Portsmouth
Elson Community Library Hub
STAND up Portsmouth
Serv Wessex Blood Bikes
Citizens Advice - Havant
Solent Junior Devils - Gosport
Folk Active - Southampton
6th Gosport Scout Group
Basketball 4 Buckland
Boogie Mites - Portsmouth
Men in Sheds Winchester
1st Warsash Sea Scouts
Portsmouth 16th Girlguides
Broadlands Group RDA - Alton
Challengers in Guildford
Eastleigh Youth & Community Trust
The Elizabeth Foundation
Isle of Wight Skaters
South Coast Volleyball Club
Mustard Seed Autism Trust
Enable Ability
Hampshire & IOW Air Ambulance
Off The Record
Fareham District Scout Band
Sunshine Radio
The latest grant news
Could we help your group do more?
We award community grants every quarter to small, local, not-for-profit groups making a real difference where they live.
If you’re helping people, bringing a community together, supporting young people, running a local club or simply doing something useful in your area, we’d like to hear from you.
Apply and tell us what you’re doing, who it helps and what the funding would make possible.
Save. Borrow. Support your community while you do it.
Save with us. Borrow with us. And while you’re doing that, your membership helps us support local groups and communities.
