Deadline: 30-Nov-22
Groundwork is seeking applications for the Comic Relief Community Fund Round 2 to support and invest in grassroots community-led local organisations in England to drive change in their local communities.
The Fund wants to support community led organisations to deliver change by drawing on the ‘lived experiences’ of people who have experienced the issues being tackled.
Themes
Grants are available to support projects that deliver against one of Comic Relief’s four strategic themes. These are:
- Children Survive and Thrive
- Fighting for Gender Justice
- A Safe Place to Be
- Mental Health Matters
Funding Information
- Grants of up to a maximum of £10,000 are available. All applications must include a request for up to £1,000 to support capacity building, this would leave a maximum request of £9,000 for project delivery. Projects must be completed within one year of receiving a grant.
Types of Funding
- Capacity Building Funding (up to £1,000)
- This funding will support your organisation to become more robust and better able to deliver projects that bring about lasting change. The types of activities funded could include:
- Developing better organisational governance through training for staff or trustees
- Gaining a better understanding of the needs of your beneficiaries
- Support to develop policies and procedures and strengthen working practices
- Improvement in the marketing and promotion of your services
- Gaining a better understanding of how to measure the impact of your work
- This funding will support your organisation to become more robust and better able to deliver projects that bring about lasting change. The types of activities funded could include:
- Project Delivery Funding (up to £9,000)
- Grants will support your organisation to deliver projects on any of the four strategic themes. Examples of projects could include:
- Employing seasonal workers to deliver summer activities for young people, tackling inequality issues
- Creating a community garden to help refugees come together, tackling family isolation and mental health issues
- Employing support workers to help vulnerable families with young children transition to primary school
- A creative arts project to help tackle gender-based violence through workshops and exhibitions
- Renting space to support people to recover from homelessness
- Counselling and Support Services for young people
- Decorating and refurbishing a training room, to enable a new gender specific client group to be engaged
- Grants will support your organisation to deliver projects on any of the four strategic themes. Examples of projects could include:
Eligibility Criteria
- Grants will be awarded to voluntary or community organisations including registered charities and not for profit companies.
Ineligible
- Individuals
- Community Interest Companies limited by shares
- Community Interest Companies limited by guarantee that are less than two years old
- Profit making organisations
- Statutory organisations including schools, universities and hospitals
- Organisations with an income of more than £250,000
- Organisations who were awarded funding from the Comic Relief Community Fund in 2022
- Organisations not based in and delivering in England
- Organisations not based in the region where the project will be delivered
For more information, visit https://www.groundwork.org.uk/comic-relief/apply/
