Deadline: 19 December 2016
The Charities Aid Foundation is currently accepting applications from eligible applicants to subsidise training costs for search and rescue (SAR) volunteers in the UK, in recognition of the key role that SAR volunteers play.
Search and rescue operations use available personnel and facilities to locate persons in distress, potential distress or missing and recover them, providing initial medical or other needs and deliver them to a place of safety.
Objectives
The purpose of the partnership is as follows:
- To support SAR volunteering, by subsidising the costs of training, in order to improve recruitment and retention of volunteers, and the quality of service.
- To support SAR volunteering in the long term, by attracting funding into the sector for SAR volunteers’ training.
Funding Areas
The fund is seeking applications which demonstrate one or more of the following:
- volunteer development
- high quality training in the search and rescue sector
- good value for money and quality of service
- collaborative approaches – i.e. several organisations/branches can apply within one application
- innovative, replicable approaches and community and organisational impact
- sustainable development for SAR volunteers training
- supporting a tasking service to deliver Search and Rescue operations.
Grants Size
There are no lower and upper limits though expectations are for support to be from £1,000 upwards depending on need and impact.
Eligibility Criteria
- UK charitable search and rescue organisations seeking support to train their volunteers – see below for the relevant definitions
- Applications will only be accepted from the partnership SAR organisations for affiliated groups.
How to Apply
Interested applicants must download the application form available on the website.
Eligible Country: UK
For more information, please visit Charities Aid Foundation.