Deadline: 30-Jul-20
Barrow Cadbury Trust is partnering with the National Lottery Community Fund (NLCF) to distribute COVID-19 emergency response funding to the migration charity sector in England.
If you are a charity or not for profit organization registered in England with an income of between £10,000 and £1 million whose main focus is on providing support to refugees, asylum seekers or migrants, you can apply for the funding.
Funding Information
- You can apply for up to £50,000 or 3 months expenditure (using the expenditure in your most recent completed year of operations), whichever is the less. So for example if your income in the year to 31 March 2020 was £150,000 you can apply for up to £37,500 (three months’ expenditure).
- If your income was £1 million you can apply for £50,000 (the maximum under this programme).
The Trust will Fund
NLCF funding is given to provide services and support for people in need as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, in case refugees, asylum seekers and migrants, or to help organizations overcome acute financial difficulties they’re facing because of the pandemic. They can fund a range of things, for example:
- Activities and services: any activity that is related to COVID-19, for example:
- enabling access or providing the necessities of life (food, accommodation);
- mental health support or activities to prevent loneliness and isolation;
- help with home schooling for children, building digital skills;
- preventing exploitation or domestic abuse arising from the pandemic situation
- referral to other services that will help people cope with the pandemic (advice, health, social security etc.)
- other needs arising from the pandemic
- Changes to your systems (for example moving to remote working or the introduction of new systems) that will better enable you to respond to the COVID-19 crisis, or small scale changes to your premises to enable you to safely provide services
- Staff salaries or other investment in staff (such as training or support in relation to the demands of COVID-19)
- Volunteers’ expenses
- Equipment to help you respond to the pandemic
- General running costs
- Interpretation costs or other costs specific to supporting this client group
- Contributions to fixed costs/overheads
The Trust does not Fund
- organisations that only work with people of a specific nationality;
- organisations that do not involve people with lived experience in the design, development and delivery of their activities.
- organisations that have substantial (more than three months’ operating costs) unrestricted reserves and are not drawing on them to respond to the crisis unless they have good reasons for preserving those reserves.
- Any political or campaigning activities intended to influence Parliament, Government or political parties, or any lobbying intended to influence the awarding of grants or contracts or attempting to influence legislation or regulatory activity.
- Individual material benefit (e.g. buying computers or phones for people, cash payments, immigration fees, down payment for rent deposits)
- Activities that are aimed at keeping cultural traditions alive, or anything unrelated to COVID-19
- Things you have already spent money on and are looking to claim for now
- Loan repayments
Eligibility Criteria
You can apply if:
- Your organisation is a charity, company limited by guarantee or a Community Interest Company limited by guarantee registered in England with:
- an income of between £10,000 and £1 million in your most recent year of operations;
- at least three unrelated Trustees or, if you are a company, a Board with a majority of Directors (at least three unrelated) with no financial interest in the company.
- Your organisation’s main purpose and activities are to support asylum seekers, refugees or migrants.
For more information, visit https://www.barrowcadbury.org.uk/news/bct-and-nlcf-launch-covid-19-emergency-support-fund/