Deadline: 10-Feb-2025
The Age Without Limits is thrilled to announce that Micro-Grants are being made available for community groups and local voluntary sector organisations within Age-friendly Communities to take part in the Age Without Limits Day on 11th June 2025.
Theme
- This year, the theme for the day is Celebrate Ageing. Challenge Ageism.
Funding Information
- Grants of up to £500 are available, with an additional up to £150 to cover anything needed to make the event or activity more accessible. The lower limit for applications is £75.
- You can also apply for additional funding of up to £150 for things which may make your event more accessible. You can also utilise the “up to £500” grant to deliver these things.
Eligible Costs
- The sorts of things the funding may cover are (not exhaustive list):
- Facilitators
- Professionals’ time, like artists or instructors
- Volunteer expenses
- Room hire
- Equipment (where it is used as part of the event)
- Printing
- Refreshments
- Transport to attend an event or activity
- Online event options for those who cannot attend face to face or delivery of resources to people’s homes
- Contribution towards an interpreter
- Cover the cost of carers being able to attend
- Translation of materials
Ineligible Costs
- Activities that organisations normally run, unless there is a clear change in activity or target group
- Funding commercial or statutory organisations/companies
- Anything with the purpose of promoting a particular religion/faith/ political party
Eligibility Criteria
- The grant is available to community groups and local voluntary sector organisations, big and small. The opportunity to apply for these grants is a member benefit for communities who are part of the UK Network of Age-friendly Communities only. The local leadership in all these communities have made the commitment to make their areas better places to age. You can find out if your community is an Agefriendly Community, and therefore whether you are eligible to apply.
- The sort of groups these grants may fund might include, but are not limited to:
- Community groups
- Older peoples’ forums
- Theatre groups
- Faith groups
- Art groups
- Residents’ associations
- Lunch clubs
- Local voluntary sector organisations
- Community Interest Companies
Ineligibility Criteria
- The grant is not available to statutory organisations (e.g. local authorities) or profit-making organisations. These organisations are encouraged to support activities led by community groups locally (e.g. through promoting an event) and this can be indicated on an application form. These organisations are still encouraged to still mark the day without a micro-grant.
Evaluation Criteria
- Applications will be assessed by the team at Centre for Ageing Better alongside a panel of their Experts by Experience group. Only applications from organisations that meet their minimum criteria will be considered:
- Is the activity happening in an Age-friendly Community in the UK Network?
- Is there a constituted group involved who can hold funds?
- Does the activity relate to their theme of Celebrate Ageing Challenge Ageism?
- Is the event or activity not business as usual for the organisation/group?
- All applications that meet their minimum criteria will then be assessed on the following criteria:
- Relevance – How well does the application relate to their theme Celebrate Ageing, Challenge Ageism?
- Quality – Does the application set out an idea or activity that the panel thinks is good value for money, well planned, innovative or particularly creative?
- Equality and Diversity – How well does the application consider equality, such as diversity, inclusion and access issues?
Application Requirements
- If you are successful in your application for a micro-grant then they will ask you to:
- Sign a grant letter accepting the terms and conditions of the grant.
- Provide bank details and a proof of bank account (i.e. a scanned copy of your bank statement or blank cheque).
- Deliver your activity or event on or around the Age Without Limits Day on 11th June 2025.
- Provide any further information about your event that they can share via their Age Without Limits website and/or social media channels.
- Suggest anyone from your group/organisation who would be interested in any media opportunities and be the spokesperson to be able to talk about your event and why you have organised it.
- Promote your event locally and through social media using their #AgeWithoutLimitsDay hashtag and tagging the Age Without Limits social media channel (if you use social media).
- Share any pictures of the day on social media (with consent of people who are in any photographs).
- Complete a short evaluation form after the event. They ask for the evaluation form to be returned within two weeks after you host your event and no later than 11th July 2025. The evaluation form will ask a few questions about the activities you hosted, who you engaged and what you learnt (they’ll send this to you).
For more information, visit Age Without Limits.
