Deadline: 16-Aug-22
The Bernicia Foundation is seeking applications for its Inclusion Grant Programme.
The Bernicia Foundation is a charity that supports projects and initiatives that deliver real and lasting community benefit and helps inspirational young people to fulfil their potential.
Funding Information
Grants between £5,000 and £10,000 are usually awarded.
What does the Inclusion Grant fund?
- The Inclusion Grant Programme supports initiatives that encourage:
- Economic inclusion:
- Removing barriers to employment, training and volunteering
- Reducing child poverty
- Tackling Fuel Poverty
- Improving financial wellbeing
- Social inclusion:
- Reducing isolation and loneliness
- Promoting independence
- Building citizenship, confidence and aspiration
- Economic inclusion:
Eligibility Criteria
- Constituted voluntary or community organisations
- Registered charities, including charitable companies
- They will fund core costs for eligible charitable organisations to help them recover from the impact of Covid-19 (excluding non- charitable social enterprises)
- Social enterprises like co-operatives and Community Interest Companies (CICs) that are not charities:
- They will only fund charitable starting up costs of setting up the enterprise
- This includes setting up to trade existing goods in a new market or developing new goods and services to trade in-line with a sound business plan which must be included with your application. It is subject to normal funding restrictions for the costs of continuing services.
- Bernicia Foundation will not fund the costs of continuing services (often called core running costs). These should be financed by the sale of goods and services in-line with the governance model chosen.
- Applicants will only be considered if they:
- are based or working in Tyne and Wear, Northumberland, County Durham and Teesside
- have an annual income under £750,000
- have no more than 6 months’ running costs in reserve
- have a governing document (a constitution, rules, articles of association etc.)
- have a governing body of at least three unrelated individuals
- have their own bank account
- have a safeguarding policy in place (where working with vulnerable people or children)
For more information, visit https://berniciafoundation.com/inclusion-grant/inclusion-grant-application/