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Cambridgeshire Community Foundation: Cultivate Fund – UK

Deadline: 01-May-21

The Cambridgeshire Community Foundation is seeking applications for its Cultivate Fund to help voluntary, community and social enterprise sector organizations to deliver projects that help to achieve these broad outcomes by addressing the needs of local residents.

Funding Priorities

  • Cultivate Project Ideas offer inspiration for community initiatives that meet fund criteria and help people to remain independent and active in their communities, encourage volunteering and complement more costly Council services.
    • Adults and Older People: Key client groups supported
      • Older people;
      • Adults (18+) with disabilities (learning disabilities and/or physical disabilities), sensory impairments, mental health needs;
      • Carers.
    • Children, Young People, and Families: Key client groups supported
      • Children and young people with disabilities (learning disabilities and/or physical disabilities, or other additional needs), sensory impairments, mental health needs;
      • Young Carers;
      • Children and young people at risk of going into care;
      • Care Leavers;
      • Children at risk of child criminal exploitation or other significant harm;
      • Young people who are at risk of exclusion or are excluded from mainstream education.

Funding Information

  • Cultivate Grants of £2,000-£15,000 aimed at encouraging local networks where people help themselves and each other.

Eligibility Criteria

  • The Cultivate Fund is for:
    • Voluntary, community and social enterprise sector organizations, based in and outside of Cambridgeshire;
    • public sector bodies in Cambridgeshire, including District, Town and Parish Councils (excluding Cambridgeshire County Council);
  • All projects have to benefit the residents of Cambridgeshire.
  • The fund is not open to individuals, or for-profit businesses. Project beneficiaries must be residents of Cambridgeshire and projects serving the residents of the Peterborough City Council local authority area are not eligible for funding.

For more information, visit https://www.cambscf.org.uk/icf.html

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