Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
The National Lottery Community Fund is seeking applications for its People and Places: Medium Grant Program to fund projects that work closely with people and communities in Wales.
They’re looking for projects that are accessible to their community. Your project will help with the issues that matter most to your community. By communities they mean people who share an identity, interest or experience or people living in the same place.
Aim
- Your project must also meet at least one of their missions. To help communities to:
- come together
- help children and young people to thrive
- enable people to live healthier lives
- be environmentally sustainable.
Funding Information
- Budget: £20 million
- Grant amount: They offer funding from £20,001 to £100,000.
- Duration: They can support your project for up to five years.
Eligible Activities
- You can apply for this grant to:
- help your organisation change and adapt to challenges
- help you plan land or building work
- buy land, buildings, vehicles or pay for refurbishments.
Ineligible Activities
- They cannot fund:
- retrospective costs (costs for things that have already happened, or you’ve already paid for)
- alcohol
- contingency costs, loans, endowments or interest
- paying someone else to write your application for you
- profit-making or fundraising activities
- VAT you can reclaim.
Eligibility Criteria
- You can apply if your organisation is a:
- constituted voluntary or community organisation
- constituted group or club
- registered charity
- not-for-profit company
- community interest company (CIC)
- social enterprise
- school (as long as your project benefits and involves the communities around the school)
- statutory body (including local authorities, health boards, town, parish and community council)
Ineligibility Criteria
- They cannot accept applications from:
- individuals
- sole traders
- organisations based outside the UK
- companies that can pay profits to directors, shareholders or members (including Companies Limited by Shares)
- organisations applying to more than one of our programmes for the same project over the same period.
Application Requirements
- In your application, you must show how you’ll:
- involve your community in the project development, design and delivery
- build on the skills, experiences and strengths of your community
- understand what organisations, activities or services are already available in your community and show them how your work will fill the gap
- consider your project’s impact on the environment. For example, if you need to organise travel, you could use a minibus to cut down on pollution. Instead of everyone travelling separately by car.
For more information, visit Community Fund.