Deadline: Ongoing
The ASDA Foundation is seeking proposals for Covid-19 Grant Program with an aim to give support to your local community during this time.
The Asda Foundation supports small grass roots organisations in a number a way throughout the year. Working with Asda’s Community Champions in store they are able to work with a range of organisations and groups on a range of projects.
Type of Covid-19 Grants
In response to Covid-19, Asda Foundation have developed 2 new grant streams:
- Hygiene Grant: This grant is focused on personal hygiene dignity, supporting residents/patients in facilities, who are struggling and unable to provide their own toiletries either through lack of funds or access to family support. They would expect applications from care homes, hospices, hospitals and homeless shelters.
- Healthy Holiday Grant: This grant is designed to support groups that typically would be holding summer holiday activities to ensure children are provided with a hot meal. If social distancing is relaxed before school holidays, then standard. If social distancing hasn’t relaxed, they would provide grants for groups to deliver provisions to children at home.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible to apply for a grant, your group must be one of the following:
- a Charity
- a not for profit company
- a Community Interest Company (CIC)
- an unincorporated Club or Association
Criteria
The below would apply in ALL cases:
- Only 1 grant allowed per group across the entire estate.
- Maximum £500 per group.
- Maximum £1,125 per store.
- All requests must include a quote.
- All requests must include a bank statement as proof of payee name.
- All requests must include proof of Not for Profit status.
- All requests to be itemised on application forms.
- All payments would be made directly to the service provider i.e. School, Playgroup, Community Group, Charity etc. No payments are to be made directly to individual families.
- Restrictions – applications would open to enable due diligence and processing to be completed.
For more information, visit https://www.asdafoundation.org/how-to-apply
