Deadline: 19-Feb-21
The Community Foundation for Northern Ireland is seeking applications for the Circle of Change 2 Fund to encourage and support those who want to give and empower the local community to effect change.
Priorities
- Mental health or educational interventions that benefit young people (aged 13 to 25), with particular priority for those benefiting 13-19-year-olds, in ‘at-risk’ groups.
- The fund is particularly interested in interventions that take a cross-generational/whole family approach, to build young people’s resilience to address the challenges they will face in modern society – from drugs, to social media, to isolation and loneliness.
Funding Information
- Grant size: £1,000 to £3,000;
- They expect the average award to be around £2,500 or below.
What they will fund?
- Charities and constituted organizations but not individuals.
- They will fund organizations with a turnover of up to £300K.
- Projects must be completed within 12 months.
- They will fund projects in the Belfast Metropolitan Area (a grouping of council area which includes commuter towns and overspill from Belfast, Northern Ireland, combining the Belfast, Lisburn, and Newtownabbey, North Down, Castlereagh and Carrickfergus districts).
The Foundation will not fund
- Organisations or activities which promote causes that are contrary to their purposes. Causes and activities that are contrary to their purposes include, but may not be limited to, those outlined in their investment policy. They will not, therefore, fund organisations or activities which they determine are linked to the promotion of armaments, alcohol, human rights abuses, tobacco or pornography;
- The advancement of religion. This includes organisations whose purposes include advancement of religion;
- The establishment of endowment of any school or institution providing further education within the meaning of the education and libraries (Northern Ireland) order 1972;
- The provision of assistance to any Housing Association within the meaning of the housing (Northern Ireland) order 1976 – *Note: Housing Associations will be eligible for some funds, providing they meet all other eligibility requirements, and if they apply as part of a partnership project, and are not named as the applicant organisation.
Criteria
- Mental health or educational interventions that benefit young people (aged 13 to 25), with particular priority for those benefiting 13-19 year olds, in ‘at-risk’ groups.
- The fund is particularly interested in interventions that take a cross-generational/whole family approach, to build young people’s resilience to address the challenges they will face in modern society – from drugs, to social media, to isolation and loneliness.
- Applicants must have a signed, locally adopted governing document as well as associated paperwork such as accounts, current account, management committee, relevant policies, in the name of the applicant organization.
Evaluation Criteria
Please read the following text before beginning your application.
- You are a locally based not-for-profit, voluntary or community group working in Northern Ireland to improve the quality of life for local people.
- You have an active management committee, with no two related cheque signatories.
- You have a governing document, i.e. Constitution in the name of the applicant organisation.
- You have a current bank account in the name of your organisation.
- You have up to date annual accounts.
- You have complied with the conditions of previous grants including submission of monitoring returns.
For more information, visit https://communityfoundationni.org/grants/circle-of-change-2/