Deadline: 06-Dec-2024
The Comic Relief Organisational Growth Grant is managed by WCVA and funded by Comic Relief.
The scheme offers funding to voluntary organisations in Wales to help them maximise their impact through organisational development and increased resilience.
Aims
- Comic Relief and WCVA recognise the great work that community led organisations do across Wales and they want to help organisations to build their capacity in a sustainable and impactful way. The aim of the Organisational Growth Grant is to give organisations the chance to make strategic changes that enhance their impact and increase resilience, for example:
- Build on what is working well in relation to your organisation’s community activity
- Strengthen and measure the impact of your core community led activity
- Develop new ways of working
General Principles
- The scheme will fund organisations which work to deliver benefits under the following themes, actions to be funded under this grant request should be aligned with the aims of the grant scheme:
- Children and young people – learning and development; early childhood development
- Community – focusing on local services including food banks, community kitchens and safe spaces for vulnerable people
- Family focused outreach and support – basic essentials and needs/financial support
- Homelessness
- Mental health services
Funding Information
- Grants between £20,000 and £35,000 will be available to voluntary organisations in Wales. The total value of the scheme is £315,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- The fund is open to project applications from organisations in the following categories with an annual turnover of less than £250,000:
- registered charities
- constituted groups and clubs
- not for profit or community interest companies
- social enterprises
- town, parish and community councils
- partnership projects – a lead partner will need to make the application and if successful, hold the grant award and manage the monitoring and reporting
- Project activity must take place in Wales.
- The applicant must:
- be a constituted group or organisation and be able to supply copies of governing documents
- have the relevant land permissions, where applicable
- have an organisation/community group bank account (no grant payments will be made to the bank accounts of individuals)
- Have the ability to demonstrate suitable oversight and independence from a qualified and quorate Board with a minimum of three directors or trustees
Ineligible Activities
- They are unable to accept applications from
- individuals
- sole traders
- companies aimed at generating profit primarily for private distribution
- organisations based outside of Wales
- applications made by one group or organisation on behalf of another
For more information, visit WCVA.