The Asda Foundation awarded more than £3.2m in grant funding last year to support 2,326 grassroots organisations across the UK.
In 2025, the charity introduced a theme-based approach to grant giving for the first time. Funding was prioritised to address challenges such as food insecurity, social isolation, and mental health and wellbeing, guided by feedback from its Community Insight Tracker survey.
As part of this, the group’s Foodbank Fundamentals Fund, which was established in 2024, awarded £400,200 in 2025 across 652 food providing organisations.
Asda Foundation’s Local Community Spaces Fund, which was also launched in 2024, invested over £1.25m to help fund 79 grassroots organisations. It awarded grants of between £10,000 and £20,000 throughout the year, which enabled groups to carry out essential repairs, renovate outdated facilities and enhance accessibility.
In 2025, the Local Community Spaces Fund prioritised organisations facing closure or disruption, those serving areas of high deprivation, and groups providing inclusive, free-to-access services for people most at risk of isolation.
Since the Asda Foundation was formed 37 years ago, it has awarded over £60m to UK charities and community groups.
“Our 2025 report highlights the invaluable role grassroots groups and charities play across the UK, and how, by working together, we’re helping them respond to the challenges facing their communities,” said Asda Foundation chair Karl Doyle.
“We’re incredibly grateful to the thousands of community groups we’ve been able to support this year, and to Asda’s Community Champions, whose help and local connections play an important role in supporting this work.
“We’re extremely proud of what was achieved in 2025 and remain firmly focused on supporting even stronger, more connected communities in 2026.”
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