Deadline: 1-Feb-24
The Cambridgeshire Community Foundation is accepting applications for projects supporting mental health, people with disabilities, children and families, and homelessness.
The Birketts Endowed Cambridgeshire Fund is invested and, each year, the fund makes grants to support small, local non-profit organisations that are undertaking charitable work in Cambridgeshire.
Funding Information
- This fund has no maximum grant size, with an average grant amount of £1,600.
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.