Deadline: 14-Nov-22
The Bury Voluntary Community & Faith Alliance (VCFA) is seeking applications for the Bury Community Investment Grants to support project ideas identified by communities which can change behaviour and involve more and more people as leaders in getting their communities more active.
This focuses on developing the understanding on a local level what it takes to secure ‘population scale change in physical behaviour’, through targeted local development pilots in each GM borough.
Priority Areas
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The Local Pilot will work alongside community groups in the borough to understand what matters to people and what will help them increase activity. They are particularly keen to support projects that reach out to:
- Radcliffe
- East Bury
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The Local Pilot encourages project ideas that will engage and deliver activities with the following groups:
- CYP aged 5-18 outside of schools settings
- People out of work or at risk or worklessness
- Those aged 40-60 with a long term health condition.
Funding Information
- Any group that meets the criteria outlined in the above section can apply for up to £3,000.
Eligibility Criteria
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To be eligible for their grants, your organisation must:
- Be either: a constitutedvoluntary or community group, a registered charity or community interest company or other constituted not for profit organisation or working towards becoming constituted.
- Be based and/or of benefit to people living in the Bury area.
- They welcome applications from VCSE groups delivering community-led and grassroots activities which contribute to increasing activity and encouraging people to move more
Criteria
- The Bury Local Pilot Grants are about supporting project ideas identified by communities which can change behaviour and involve more and more people as leaders in getting their communities more active.
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For example, activities which:
- Encourage people to move more, within their local community. This could include walking, cycling, gardening etc
- Increase access to outdoor and green and blue spaces such as allotments and other green space activity
- Helps to improve the health and wellbeing of local residents, and the impact moving more can have on both physical and mental health.
- Connect people with their local communities, with the aim of reducing inactivity.
Ineligible
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They have limited funds available to distribute. In order to maximise their resources there are restrictions on what the fund is able to support. Areas of work the fund cannot support are:
- General appeals;
- Retrospective applications (i.e. the funding of activities that have already taken place or the repayment of money that has already been spent);
- Projects that do not clearly demonstrate how this grant will enhance or improve health and wellbeing or social prescribing;
- Religious activities or projects that promote religion,
- Political activities;
- Projects where the main beneficiaries are animals;
- Activities that will not benefit residing in the borough of Bury
- Provision of funds that directly replace funding for services which are the primary responsibility of statutory funders, such as local and central government and health authorities, or subsidise services delivered through statutory contracts;
- Applications for mainstream public services, including schools and hospitals;
- Individuals (i.e not associated with an organisation);
- Large capital appeals (including buildings and minibuses);
- CCTV equipment;
- Where organisations have significant unrestricted reserves equivalent to 12 months expenditure;
- Where organisations are in serious financial deficit;
- Large organisations which enjoy widespread support;
- Work that takes place in schools during school hours.
- Trips, outings, meals, parties or any other one-off activity that does not demonstrate significant community benefit.
- The purchase of alcohol.
For more information, visit VCFA.
For more information, visit https://www.buryvcfa.org.uk/grants/