The Adoption England Community Development Fund aims to help small organisations or groups with lived experience in adoption, to grow community groups and support adopters, adoptees, and birth families. These small grants are designed to provide financial assistance to initiatives that model good practice in adoption support, community engagement, and sustainable development.

Through this grants process, we are looking to support and enable people with lived experience to use their expertise, creativity and passion to improve the lives of adoptive families. The impact is more important than the how; we’re interested to hear your ideas and proposals. Examples might include short breaks for families, peer-led support groups for adopted people or birth parents, holiday schemes, mentoring schemes, activities for teens or children’s play sessions.

The maximum grant award per organisation is £5000. The project must be delivered by the end of the current 25-26 financial year.