Supporting the community
Cornish Lithium Community Fund
The Cornish Lithium Community Fund supports the work of clubs, charities and groups who seek to make a positive difference in the company's project areas. These currently include Gwennap, Chacewater, St Day, Carharrack and St Agnes Blackwater Parishes; China Clay Area & Luxulyan Community Area Partnership region; Redruth Tolgus area.
Making a positive impact
Building a better tomorrow
The fund is run in partnership with Cornwall Community Foundation.
Grants range from £250–£2,500 and support activity that:
- Advances education with a particular focus on earth sciences, Cornish and mining history
- Promotes general health
- Improves the environment and supports the transition to net zero
- Supports industrial heritage for educational and wellbeing benefits or to enhance the local landscape
- Improves residents’ wellbeing through improved facilities
- Supports long-term unemployed people to gain new skills.
Projects we support
Community Fund Awards 2023/24
- Bugle Library of Things
- Cusgarne and Frogpool WI
- Friends of Cusgarne Primary School
- Improving Carharrack's Environment
- Lanner Community Centre
- Observatory for Cornwall
- Penhaligon's Friends
- Roche Preschool Playgroup
- St Agnes Walking Netball Club
- St Dennis Art Group
- St Stephen Community Centre
- Sunny Days Nursery and Preschool
- Treviscoe Institute and Community Centre
Community Fund Awards Summer 2024
- Crofthandy Village Hall, St Day
- Georgia's Voice, Falmouth
- Imerys Bowling Club, Bugle
- Imerys Singers, St Austell
- MHA Communities Cornwall
- Mount Hawke Youth Group
- St Day Old Church CIC
- St Day Youth and Sports Association
- Sunrise Cornwall
- Porthtowan Surf Life-Saving Club
Community Fund Awards Winter 2024
- Active Plus, St Austell
- Headway Cornwall, Tolgus
- Imagine If, Chacewater
- Lowender Youth Folk Project, Redruth
- MEDO Memory Café, Threemilestone
- Moorvision Cornwall
- Redruth Cricket Club
- Roche Brass
- St Denny's Beaders, St Dennis
- Sunny Days Nursery, Redruth
- Travellerspace, Redruth
- Whitemoor Carnival
- Whitemoor Village Hall
Community Fund Awards Summer 2025
- ClayTAWC, St Dennis
- Crofthandy Village Hall, St Day
- Indian Queens Victory Hall, St Enoder
- Mills Hall Trust, Carharrack
- Resilient Orchards Cornwall, Redruth
- Royal Institution of Cornwall, Truro
- St Dennis Ukelele Club
- The Farming Mother CIC, St Austell.
Information on how to apply for the 2026 Cornish Lithium Community Fund will be shared on this page later this year.
