Deadline: 1-Feb-24
The Cambridgeshire Community Foundation is currently accepting applications for the High Sheriff’s Fund to support charitable initiatives across the county with a priority to provide better opportunities for young people, helping them to understand and reach their full potential.
Funding Information
- Maximum grant: Up to £5,000.
Eligible Area
- Cambridgeshire
Eligibility Criteria
- They only fund community-focused, not-for-profit organisations, which must be legally registered if their income is above £5,000. This includes the following:
- Registered, exempt, and excepted charities.
- Religious organisations if the project benefits the wider community and does not include religious content.
- Parish and town councils, village halls, and parochial church councils
- Charitable incorporated organisations (CIOs)
- Community interest companies (CICs)
- Social enterprises which have the Social Enterprise Mark
- Co-operatives and community benefit societies (formerly industrial and provident societies)
- Schools
- Sports clubs that are either community amateur sports clubs (CASCs), affiliated with a national governing body (e.g., Badminton England) or have an income under £5,000.
- They support projects delivered within Cambridgeshire by national organisations, as long as the funding is restricted to this area of benefit. A very small number of their funds accept applications from outside Cambridgeshire.
- They accept applications for a wide variety of projects and charitable causes, and they can fund project related salaries, vehicle rental and capital items.
Ineligible
- They do not fund the following:
- Organisational structures not listed above, or projects which are not charitable in focus
- Activities or projects which have already taken place
- Sponsored events, fundraising activities, or grant-making bodies or activities
- Improvements to land/buildings that are not open to the general public at convenient hours
- Projects promoting political activities or lobbying for causes
- The practice of religion or any projects that actively promote religion, a particular belief system or indeed the lack of a belief. This is due to such projects excluding some people from participating based on religious grounds.
- Animal welfare projects
- Overseas travel
- Purchase of vehicles
- Statutory obligations i.e., activities that replace government funding
- In addition, they manage a limited number of funds which provide grants to individuals. However, applications must be made by a referring organisation.
For more information, visit Cambridgeshire Community Foundation.
