Deadline: 17-Feb-25
The Kaleidoscope Trust is seeking proposals for the Accelerator Grants to support Commonwealth-based LGBTI+ rights organisations that completed a Capacity Development Intervention in the 2024/2025 cycle.
This project is funded by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
Two fundamental components of these programmes, and of the organisational mission, are:
- building the capacities and skills of organisations and activists at the forefront of the fight for LGBTI+ equality, and
- contributing towards effective advocacy for LGBTI+ rights through national and regional intersectional movement building.
Funding Information
- The total budget available for the Accelerator Grants is approximately £126,000. As such, they expect to award up to 20 grants ranging from £5,000 to £10,000 each.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible for funding under this call, applicants should be able to demonstrate that:
- The proposed activities align with the applicant’s organisational goals and deliver measurable outcomes relating to what applicants learnt and achieved through the CDI completed in 2024/2025, even if there will be a continuation beyond the life of the grant.
- The proposed activities are clearly putting into practice skills and knowledge that the organisation gained from the CDI.
- They are able to successfully complete the Due Diligence process (where necessary). Please note that, while they accept proposals from both registered and unregistered organisations, unregistered organisations will be required to operate through a fiscal host organisation – who may have to undergo the due diligence process on their behalf.
- The proposed interventions should be achievable within 12 months
Ineligibility Criteria
- The following is ineligible for funding as part of this call:
- Activities that do not demonstrate continuity from the CDI completed by the applicant organisation in 2024/2025. Activities must be clearly linked to the completed CDI.
- Activities that do not deepen and/or apply the knowledge and skills gained from the CDI to the organisation’s work.
- Activities that are solely a duplication/repetition of the same CDI training – “training for the sake of training” – without any demonstrable impact and clear applicability to the organisation’s work.
- Activities that could be associated with direct political lobbying and political campaigning to mobilise public opinion and/or action to support or oppose a particular political party, candidate, or an issue-based policy agenda.
For more information, visit Kaleidoscope Trust.