Deadline: 7-Aug-22
Could you develop a project that could be a ‘game changer’ for the way in which volunteering contributes to national strategic priorities? If yes, then apply for the Volunteering Wales Strategic Grant Scheme.
This year’s Volunteering Wales Strategic grant will build on the work carried out in the initial pilot. Projects will work to unlock the potential for further embedding and/or upscaling of co-ordinated volunteering.
Aims
- This fund will enable a small number of strategic investments (between four to six) to build on and learn from new or enhanced approaches or initiatives. Enabling the progress that has been made during the pandemic to be further explored and ‘hard wired’ into ongoing work.
- Projects might, for example, build on lessons learned to date or further evaluate and strengthen your approach – increasing scale, extending partnerships, clarifying leadership and accountability or building a stronger infrastructure of support.
Objectives
Unlocking the strategic potential of volunteering over the longer term by:
- Identify the strategic need and explore new volunteering opportunities or remove barriers to volunteering;
- Explore partnerships within and between the third, private and public sector;
- Support the upscaling of strategic infrastructure and volunteer organisation to embed emerging good practise;
- Undertake thorough learning around equality and inclusion in volunteering and how this impacts communities and their engagement;
- Strengthen partnerships;
- Lever further investment both financial and non-financial.
Funding Information
Grant requests are welcome for projects up to 12 months with a value of between £50,000- £100,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- They welcome applications from projects that will actively include or work for the benefit of asylum seekers and refugees.
- Your organisation is focused on taking the next steps with your strategic volunteering activity, looking to build on lessons learned to date to further evaluate and strengthen your approach. E.g. increasing scale, extending partnerships, clarifying leadership and accountability or building a stronger infrastructure of support.
- Your organisation has an annual income over £250,000 (this can be averaged over the past three years) and the level of grant requested must not comprise more than 20% of your annual income.
- You are an incorporated organisation with at least two years of operation
- You are able to provide letters of support from potential/existing partners and/or letters of support from relevant leadership/strategic/partnership boards/working groups.
- Applications are welcomed from all sectors.
- Partnership applications are encouraged, but projects do not necessarily need to be collaborative.
- Ability to be delivered in the specified timeline.
- CVCs can be named partners in applications, but cannot be the lead applicant.
- Previous recipients can apply for this round, but for activities that are the next stage/building upon the work previously funded.
For more information, visit https://wcva.cymru/volunteering-wales-strategic-grant-open-now/
