Deadline: 30-May-23
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is seeking applications for the Know Your Neighbourhood Fund to give people an opportunity to flourish and improve their wellbeing and their pride in place with the overall aims to encourage people to take part in volunteering and to reduce loneliness and social isolation.
DCMS Know Your Neighbourhood Fund is a multi-year funding programme in Hull (and eight other areas of the UK) that will run until the end of March 2025.
The Know Your Neighbourhood Fund is fundamentally about learning. This means that the evaluation aspect of the funding is key.
Priorities
- Support meaningful and impactful volunteering.
- Help people to connect with others in their local area, reducing loneliness.
- Increase volunteer engagement.
- Engage people who are not currently participating in activities.
Objectives
- To build the evidence to identify scalable and sustainable place-based interventions that work in increasing regular volunteering and reducing chronic loneliness.
- To increase the proportion of people who volunteer at least once a month.
- To reduce the proportion of chronically lonely people who lack desired level of social connections.
- To enable the local voluntary and community sectors to implement sustainable systems and processes that encourage volunteering and tackle loneliness.
Funding Information
- Small Grants of between £10,000 and £20,000
- Medium Grants of between £30,000 and £50,000
- Large Grants of up to £150,000
Eligibility Criteria
- The Know Your Neighbourhood Fund is open to:
- Registered charities
- Constituted community groups
- Other charitable organisations including Social Enterprises and CICs limited by guarantee in England
- For the above organisations, you must have a minimum of three unrelated committee members and have a registered bank account.
- National organisations with local branches (with their own management committee and bank account).
- New organisations that can demonstrate they are financially robust.
- Non-constituted groups or collectives
- Non-constituted groups or collectives should apply in partnership with an eligible organisation. The eligible organisation must be part of delivering the project. The eligible organisation must manage the grant.
For more information, visit Two Ridings Community Foundation.