Suntory's Together for Good fund has £89,000 left and matches pledges up to £10,000. Only three of the 16 projects it has backed so far are near Uxbridge.
A community fund run from an Uxbridge head office has £89,000 left to give away, and almost none of it has gone to Uxbridge.
The Together for Good Community Fund is paid for by Suntory Beverage & Food GB&I, the company behind Lucozade and Ribena. Its GB head office is Building 1, Arc, Uxbridge UB8 1DH, the company’s own contact page confirms. Its factory is at Coleford in the Forest of Dean.
The fund has backed 16 projects so far. Thirteen of them are in or beside the Forest of Dean. Three are in this borough or serve it.
The company got in touch this week to ask Hillingdon charities, sports clubs and community groups to apply. It says £89,000 is still available.
It is not a grant, it is a match
This is the part most applicants miss. You do not fill in a form and receive a cheque. You run a crowdfunding campaign on Crowdfunder, and Suntory matches what the public gives you.
The fund’s eligibility and pledge criteria, version dated July 2026, set four conditions that decide whether the money actually arrives:
- every pledge is matched pound for pound, but only up to £250, so a £500 donation earns £250 of match money and no more
- the most a project can receive is £10,000 or 50% of its target, whichever is lower
- the project must reach 100% of its target by its deadline, or the match funding is cancelled
- at least 25 different people must pledge, and a second pledge from the same person is not matched
Match money is handed out first come, first served, and being approved does not guarantee any of it. Projects set to “always on”, with no deadline, get no match at all.
Thirteen of sixteen projects are in the Forest of Dean
The fund’s own page lists every project it has supported, and the geography is lopsided. Counting the locations each project gives on Crowdfunder: Lydney twice, Coleford three times, Mitcheldean three times, Lydbrook twice, Drybrook, Cinderford and Monmouth. That is 13 of the 16.
They include a village park at Sling, a new roof at Lydney rugby club, a boxing ring at Lydney, a disabled-access toilet at Scarr bandstand and a band rehearsal room at Lydbrook.
Between them the 16 projects have raised £192,041 from 1,053 supporters, according to the fund’s page.
The company’s own wording in the email to us is that “strong engagement is already established in the Forest of Dean”, and that Uxbridge organisations are “now encouraged to apply to help ensure the borough benefits fully from the fund in future”.
The three local projects, and where they stand
Home-Start Hillingdon is the one Uxbridge-registered project. The charity is raising money to keep its family support worker for another six months, visiting families two to three hours a week. It has raised £3,072 of a £10,000 target from 43 supporters, 30% of the way there, and the campaign closes on 7 December.
Suntory’s fund has matched £1,256 of that, and a separate employee giving pot another £560.
The charity says it has 27 years behind it, trains and manages more than 40 volunteers and supports over 120 families a year across Hillingdon. It says 100% of the families its support worker helped last year reported coping better afterwards. One of them is quoted on the page: “I’m very thankful to the service I received, I felt validated in the emotions I was going through and supported that I am making the right decisions for my family.”
A supporter page attached to the appeal is run by Pally Randhawa, who writes that he has lived and worked in Hillingdon for most of his life and is walking a half marathon for the charity. His page has raised £1,312 against a £1,000 target.
Wealdstone FC Foundation is running the tightest deadline. Its Maths in Schools project pairs 45 minutes of coaching from the club’s FA qualified coaches with 45 minutes of football-themed numeracy for Year 3 children, over six weeks. The foundation has one employee and six trustees.
It has raised £1,860 of a £10,000 target from 30 supporters, 18% of the way there, and the page closes on 5 October. Suntory’s employee giving has put in £1,820 of that total; the main match fund has added £15. On the fund’s own rules, missing the target by 5 October means the live match funding goes.
Get Set 4 Tennis CIC is the success the company points to. Its Beyond The Baseline campaign is registered in Rickmansworth, about six miles north of Uxbridge, but the club says it teaches more than 1,100 people a week and works with Meadow High School, Grand Union, Pentland and Pield Heath House School, all in this borough.
The campaign funded on 12 July and has now raised £21,800 from 169 supporters. Suntory matched £4,127 and its employee giving added £770. Sport England’s Movement Fund put in £6,000 and BA Better World £4,147.
The club says the money will pay for SEND sessions, girls-only sessions, a learning disability tournament pathway and a new dementia friendly session, which it plans “to further develop and expand this offer across the Uxbridge community”.
Who can apply, and who cannot
To be eligible an organisation must be not-for-profit: a charity, a community interest company, a community amateur sports club or another registered not-for-profit. It needs a bank account in the organisation’s own name and a statement to prove it.
The criteria rule out for-profit businesses, individuals and sole traders, anything promoting a political party or view, and applications for the benefit of one person.
In 2026 the fund covers only the areas around Coleford and Uxbridge. Dublin, where the company also has an office, is not in this year’s map. A group based outside the catchment can still apply if it can show it delivers for people inside it, which is how a Rickmansworth tennis club qualifies.
The fund describes the kind of work it wants as improving public spaces and building community connections, supporting sports clubs, supporting local arts and culture, and delivering local environmental improvement.
What it means for you
If you run a group in Hillingdon, the open door is real and the money is sitting there. The company says up to £2.5 million will go into communities across the UK and Ireland by 2030, and this year the only two places in the running are the Forest of Dean and here.
Three things are worth knowing before you start:
- you need a crowd, not just a case. Twenty-five separate people have to pledge, so a group with a mailing list and a WhatsApp group has a large advantage over one without
- set the target you can actually hit. Half of a realistic target beats 100% of a hopeful one, because missing it cancels the match entirely
- applications go through a Crowdfunder project, not a council form. You build the page first, then apply through your dashboard
If you are backing one of the three local campaigns rather than running one, the order of the deadlines matters. Wealdstone FC Foundation’s page shuts on 5 October. Home-Start Hillingdon’s runs to 7 December.
Applications close for good once the fund is allocated, and the company says it can close the fund at any time.
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