Better lives Community Fund 2023 – United Kingdom

Deadline: 03-Feb-23

The Octavia is inviting applications for the Better lives community fund (BLCF) to provide grants of up to £10,000 to fund work with residents of Westminster and/or the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC).

Their aim is to award grants to a wide range of organisations and projects. Their expectation is that they will award a mix of smaller and larger grants.

The fund is administered by the Octavia Foundation, on behalf of Octavia.

Funding Information

Grants of up to £10,000 is available

Eligibility Criteria

The grants will support local charities and voluntary groups that are working with children and young people experiencing isolation and/or from low-income households.
Grants will be given to organisations that clearly demonstrate outcomes and impact and specifically how they reach children and young people, how many they reach, what proportion of children and young people their grant will reach and what difference they expect the project to make, particularly with reference to demonstrating how they have involved young people in the design and planning phase.
They will expect applicants to demonstrate that they have good knowledge of, and connections to, other local organisations and services.
Grants will be available for one year only and should be spent within a year of the funding being received (by March 2024).
Grants will be available to deliver specific projects and any associated running costs that can be clearly allocated to the project. This could be for a new initiative, or to extend an existing initiative.
Be a registered charity, have automatic charitable status, or deliver a project for public benefit as understood in charity law.
Have a management committee or Trustee Board, with at least three unpaid and unrelated members.
Have a constitution or other governing document, a copy of which will be provided with the applications. Have a bank account in the name of the organisation and provide a copy of three most recent bank statements.
Have an annual income of less than £500k and provide a copy of the most recent annual accounts or an Income-Expenditure statement.
Be based in Westminster or RBKC and working with young people in one or both of those boroughs.
Demonstrate clearly how the project to be funded will involve young people.
Preference will be given to:
- Projects and activities that will have the biggest potential impact in delivering better lives for local children and young people, particularly those which demonstrate how they have involved young people in the design and planning phases.
- Those projects with clearly defined outcomes and a clear method of measuring impact.