Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
The Northamptonshire Community Foundation are now supporting the legacy of the charity through the establishment of this funding programme, which will focus on awarding grant funding to Black and Global Majority-led organisations supporting older people in their communities.
African & Caribbean Elders Service (ACES) was established in 1992 to provide the preventative components of support services to its users and carers, which included good quality day care for older people, with a focus on those from the Black and Global Majority communities living in and around Northamptonshire.
Funding Information
- The Fund will consider applications for up to £3,000 from Black and Global Majority-led organisations supporting older people from Black and Global Majority communities.
- Grant awards must be spent within 12 months of receiving the award and funding can be used for core costs, capital costs and project delivery costs.
Eligible Projects
- Some examples of the types of projects include:
- Increased and improved access to new or existing services
- Assistance and support for older people living in their own homes
- Advice and advocacy support
- Health and wellbeing e.g. staying physically active and eating well
- Reduced isolation through participation in the arts, sports, cultural or educational opportunities
Eligibility Criteria
- Your group must be a small, locally managed VCSE organisation such as a charity, constituted community group, social enterprise such as a Community Interest Company (CIC), or a company limited by guarantee with charitable aims. Please note that as a general exclusion, they do not fund social enterprises that have a person with significant control (PSC).
- Your organisation must be based in Northamptonshire.
- 50% or more of your senior management and directorship or trustees/board must represent Black and Global Majority Communities.
- You must have a set of written rules or constitution that your group adheres to, and this must contain a dissolution clause specific to Northamptonshire. They can help advise you on how to do this, especially if you are a new group.
- You must take care to ensure that young people or vulnerable adults taking part in your project do not come to any harm whilst in your care. To this end, you must have written procedures for keeping young people and/or vulnerable people safe otherwise known as a Child Protection or Vulnerable Adults’ policy.
- You must have an Equality or Equity and Diversity policy.
For more information, visit Northamptonshire Community Foundation.