Deadline: 4-May-23
The Berkshire Community Foundation (BCF) is pleased to announce a call for applications to support projects tackling issues affecting older people, such as isolation, disability or disadvantage.
Beneficiaries must be aged 65 and over. Grants will be awarded to groups, projects and programmes that:
- Improve health and wellbeing
- Improve access to facilities, advice and training
- Overcome problems such as illness, injury, disability, bereavement or financial difficulty
Allocation Priorities
- When reviewing applications, the following is taken in to consideration:
- Project matches the fund’s criteria
- Amount of funding received in the previous 12 months
- Project timelines
- Outstanding monitoring reports.
Funding Information
- Please note: their average grant size is £5,000. If you require substantially more funding, please refer to the Funding South East Advice.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible to apply for a grant, your charity, community group or voluntary organisation must be improving the lives of disadvantaged people in Berkshire and fit the following criteria:
- Be a not-for-profit, voluntary or community group, social enterprise/CIC or registered charity
- Have a Governing Document (Constitution/Set of Rules)
- Have a Management Committee/Board of Trustees
- Have a bank account in the name of the group, with a minimum of two unrelated cheque signatories
- Be able to provide up-to-date accounts
- Have returned evaluation forms for any previously received grants
- Have safeguarding and equality policies which comply with current legislation
- Be helping the disadvantaged and provide a benefit to the community with clear and achievable outcomes
- Provide evidence there is a need for your work and must not be duplicating the work of other groups and organisations
- Have an itemised budget.
Your group isn’t eligible to apply if:
- It’s a regional or national charity – unless it has a local branch in Berkshire
- You have significant unrestricted funds
- You are applying for a capital project – this includes the purchase of vehicles or property
- Funds are for promoting religious or political issues
- Your activities are aimed at people outside Berkshire
- The money is required retrospectively
- You plan to use the grant for medical research
- You are applying for sponsorship
- You are looking for a grant for an individual over the age of 18 (or aged up to 25 with learning or physical disability)
- Funding is for the conservation of plants or animal welfare
- Funding is for overseas travel
- Funding is for one-off events (unless the outcomes are clear and achievable and the event addresses a key issue picked up in their Vital Signs research)
Please Note
- Your group is not eligible to apply if:
- It’s a national charity – unless it has a local branch in Berkshire, and has a separate management committee, bank account and its own governing documents.
- You plan to use the grant for medical research.
- You are intending to use the funding for the conservation of plants or animal welfare.
For more information, visit BCF.