The Asda Foundation has today published its 2025 Impact Report, revealing it awarded more than £3.2 million in grant funding last year to support thousands of grassroots organisations strengthening their local communities.
For the first time, the Asda Foundation introduced a theme-based approach to grant giving in 2025. Guided by feedback from its Community Insight Tracker Survey, funding was prioritised to address the biggest challenges and issued that mattered most to local people – such as food insecurity, social isolation, and mental health and wellbeing.
This insight‑driven model ensured grants provided targeted support to where it was needed most – including the following examples:
- Funding from the Local Community Spaces Fund has enabled Autism Rocks, a long‑established charity in Fife, to expand and enhance its support for autistic people and their families. A £17,640 grant is helping transform an adjoining building into a calm, sensory‑friendly space, allowing the charity to welcome more families, and continue offering free, autism‑friendly support to the 75 families it supports each week.
- Funding from the Young Futures Fund has supported Gloves Not Gangs, a community boxing club in Ellesmere Port, in steering young people away from gang culture and antisocial behaviour through boxing, mentoring and structured activities that also build confidence, resilience and a strong sense of belonging within the community. A £1,000 grant provided essential equipment and wellbeing resources, helping the club to engage more than 150 young people aged 13–21.
Karl Doyle, chair of the Asda Foundation charity said; ‘’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.
“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.”
