Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity Closed
The City Bridge Trust is seeking applications for the Advice and Support Grants Program to address inequalities in London by funding good quality advice and support.
Priority Areas
- Provision of advice and support to disadvantaged individuals
- They want to fund advice and support for disadvantaged individuals in the following areas: benefits; debt & money; fuel poverty; employment problems; housing; or immigration status.
- Food poverty
- They want to tackle issues related to hardship and crisis by funding the infrastructure needed to support the distribution of donated food. They are particularly keen to hear from organisations who work to ensure that clients receive culturally appropriate food. Please note that they are not able to directly fund the purchase of food for distribution.
Funding Information
They have awarded between £36,000 and £320,000 for work under this strand. The average award size has been £113,000.
Outcomes
By awarding Advice and Support grants they want to achieve the following outcomes:
- More Londoners have improved economic circumstances.
- Fewer Londoners experience food poverty.
- More Londoners access debt and legal services for support before they hit crisis point.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible your organisation must be one of the following:
- Registered charity
- Registered Community Interest Company
- Registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation
- Charitable companyA “Charitable company” refers to an organisation which is both a registered company (normally a private company limited by guarantee) and a registered charity (all charities with an income over £5,000 p.a. being required to register with the Charity Commission)
- Exempt or excepted charity
- Registered charitable industrial and provident society or charitable Bencom
Ineligible
- individuals (except through their nominated agencies)
- grant-making bodies to make grants on their behalf (except through their nominated agencies)
- schools, PTAs, universities or other educational establishments
- medical or academic research
- churches or other religious bodies where the monies will be used for religious purposes
- hospitals or primary healthcare providers
- projects which have already taken place or building work which has already been completed
- statutory bodies, such as local authorities
- profit-making organisations, except social enterprises
- charities established/registered outside the UK
- festivals or events which last no longer than a few days
- activities or projects which incorporate an overnight stay
- residential care services
- residential facilities (except where they provide short-term emergency accommodation)
For more information, visit City Bridge Trust.
For more information, visit https://www.citybridgetrust.org.uk/what-we-do/grant-making/what-we-fund/advice-and-support/