Deadline: 25-Apr-22
he Hackney Council has announced its Community Chest’s Hackney Voluntary & Community Grants Programme to provide grant investment that continues to increase opportunities for Hackney residents and delivers services which make a difference to people’s lives.
Aims & Priorities
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The Grants Programme focuses on one of Hackney Council’s Equality Objectives which is:
- To deliver actions which aim to narrow the gap in outcomes between certain disadvantaged groups and the wider community they consider the Grants Programme to be a strong means for achieving this Equality Objective and every grant-funded project is expected to contribute towards this.
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The 2022/23 grant programme will continue to focus on these two priorities:
- To promote social inclusion, encourage independence and develop personal resilience
- To build positive relations between different groups and communities that will maintain the high levels of community cohesion in Hackney.
Purpose
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The purpose of Community Chest is to fund hyper-local, short-term or one-off events or activities that meet one or both of the grants programme objectives:
- To promote social inclusion, encourage independence and develop personal resilience.
- To build positive relations between different groups and communities that will maintain the high levels of community cohesion.
Funding information
- Awards up to: £1,000
- For charitable organisations or groups: With an annual income under £10,000 per year or structured groups of residents.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications are accepted from any constituted voluntary, community or recreational group working within the London Borough of Hackney.
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These are typically the following organisations:
- Registered charity or Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)
- Charitable company or Social Enterprise (companies must have asset locks, be wholly not-for-profit and without share capital)
- Community Interest Company (CIC)
- Company limited by guarantee (companies must have asset locks, be wholly not-for-profit and without share capital)
- Cooperative and Community Benefit Society
- For Community Chest applications only, they accept applications from structured groups of local residents who have formed for a specific purpose. They may be an established group who have been meeting for a number of years or a group who have recently formed for a one-off event or purpose.
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Applicants must:
- Have a constitution, registration number or in the case of structured groups of residents an outline of the group’s aims/guiding principles.
- Have a bank account held in the name of the organisation, or a nominated bank account which the funding can be paid into.
- Have an appropriate level of insurance coverage for their project and activities.
- Have appropriate safeguarding policies and procedures for their project activities.
- Have an annual income of less than £10,000
- Demonstrate that at least 80% of the people benefiting from the project will be Hackney residents.
For more information, visit Hackney Council.
For more information, visit https://hackney.gov.uk/community-grants