Deadline: 22-Dec-22
The Bernicia Foundation is seeking applications for the Inclusion Grant to support initiatives that encourage:
- Economic inclusion:
- Removing barriers to employment, training and volunteering
- Reducing child poverty
- Tackling Fuel Poverty
- Improving financial wellbeing
- Social inclusion:
- Reducing isolation and loneliness
- Promoting independence
- Building citizenship, confidence and aspiration
Funding Information
- Grants between £5,000 and £10,000 are usually awarded although they will consider amounts outside these guidelines where they demonstrate significant community value.
Geographical Focus
- When assessing applications, they take into account the volume and value of grants awarded in each area relative to their presence in those communities.
- High Priority – They are actively interested in applications delivering activities in Northumberland, which is considered a High Priority area.
- Low Priority – Projects primarily active in the following areas have previously received proportionately high levels of grant. These are currently considered a low priority for funding.
- Teesside
- Darlington
- Hartlepool
- Sunderland
- Newcastle
- Gateshead
- They will continue to review and adapt these funding priorities as their grant programme develops
Eligibility Criteria
- Registered charities, including charitable companies
- Constituted voluntary or community organisations
- They will not fund Community Interest Companies (CICs), co-operatives and social enterprises that are not
- Charities, except in these very specific circumstances. They will only fund
- Charitable costs of setting up the enterprise
- Charitable costs of developing new goods and services
- Charitable costs of setting up to trade in a new market
- They will not fund the cost delivering services or make a contribution to core running costs. These should be financed by the sale of goods and services in line with the organisation’s governance model.
- A sound business plan must be included with your application
Criteria
- Applicants will only be considered if they:
- Are based or working in Tyne and Wear, Northumberland, County Durham and Teesside
- Have an annual income under £750,000
- Have no more than 6 months’ running costs in reserve
- Have a governing document (a constitution, rules, articles of association etc.)
- Have a governing body of at least three unrelated individuals
- Have their own bank account
- Have a safeguarding policy in place (where working with vulnerable people or children)
- Organisations who have received funding from them in the past will usually not be considered a high priority for further funding for 3 years from the grant award
- Delivering sports activity or requesting funds for club refurbishments will not be considered a high priority for funding. Sports and arts applications should be able to demonstrate a strong community benefit against one of the key fund criteria.
Ineligible
- The Programme will not fund:
- Community Interest Companies (CICs), Cooperatives and other social enterprises that are not charities, except in very specific circumstances
- Contributions to general appeals or circulars
- Religious and/or political activity, which is not for the wider public benefit
- Routine building or equipment repairs and maintenance
- Activities which have already taken place/retrospective funding
- Grant making by other organisations/third party funding
- Privately owned and profit-distributing companies or limited partnerships
- Organisations which have received funding from them in the past 3 years will usually not be considered a high priority for further funding for 3 years from the grant award
- Delivering sports activity or requesting funds for club refurbishments will not be considered a high priority for funding. Sports and arts applications should be able to demonstrate a strong community benefit against one of the key fund criteria.
For more information, visit https://berniciafoundation.com/inclusion-grant/inclusion-grant-application/