Deadline: 2-Apr-25
The Bromsgrove District Council Equality Small Grants Scheme aims to enable small voluntary, charitable or community organisation/groups that operates in Bromsgrove District to deliver an achievable project that would benefit the community and challenges inequality, advances equality and/or celebrates diversity.
It is a small grants scheme focusing on activities which challenge inequality, advance equality and/or celebrate diversity and is specifically for smaller voluntary, charitable or community organisations/groups who would find it hard to meet the criteria of bigger grants.
Funding Information
- For 2025-26 the max limit is £1000 per funding request. Although please do only apply for the amount needed so they can support as many projects as possible. They will require seeing evidence of spend. They feel that it is important, given the changing economic climate, that organisations access funding from different sources for sustainability reasons. The £1000 limit also applies if you are submitting a joint bid with another organisation unless you are bidding for different projects under a shared theme.
What qualifies?
- To qualify a proposed project must:
- Address a community issue(s) that supports activities which challenge inequality, advance equality and/or celebrate diversity.
- Support and encourage community involvement.
- Seek outcomes which support the Council’s Strategic Purposes
- Be a one-off expenditure within the Financial Year of 2025-26 and not require an on-going commitment from the Council into future years for the project to be delivered.
- Respond to current needs.
Ineligible
- They cannot fund:
- Groups which do not provide services to the community, but use funds to campaign
- A Private Business (unless working in partnership with a voluntary, charitable or community group who would lead the project)
- Activities or projects that promote a political party
- Proselytizing activities or projects for religious activities such as acts of worship or religious buildings (this does not exclude applications from faith-based groups who want to deliver community-based projects)
- Salaries of staff however they will cover the cost of staffing if it is solely to deliver the project and without support the project could not be delivered.
For more information, visit Bromsgrove District Council.
