Deadline: 31-Jul-22
The Waltham Forest is seeking applications for the Community in Fellowship Square Fund to enable communities to host events and activities in the square.
Funding Information
Tiers
- Tier 1: £1,000
- Tier 2: £2,500
The fund will provide up to £2,500 for any community organisation to host your activity or event in the spaces available at Fellowship Square, in three rounds throughout 2022.
What they can fund?
Applications for both Tiers 1 and 2 of the Fellowship Fund must meet the following essential criteria:
- Projects should be for one-off projects or short term activities with no more than 4 individual sessions – e.g. 1 activity each week for 1 month.
- At least 90% of the project’s beneficiaries must be Waltham Forest residents.
- Projects must demonstrate how they will achieve the grant objectives of ‘Celebrating different communities coming together to create new positive social connections in Fellowship Square’
Eligible Projects
Examples of projects that may be funded through the Fellowship Fund are:
- Cultural celebrations in Fellowship Square
- Flag raising celebrations and associated activities, such as performances, drinks receptions etc.
- Community picnics
- Healthy activity sessions
- Community choirs
- Family fun days
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They will aim to distribute funding equally to communities based across Waltham Forest, however priority will be given to projects which engage the following groups of residents:
- Carers
- Disabled people (Including residents with a mental health condition)
- LGBTQ+
- Older people (65 and over)
- Residents from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic heritage
- Residents who earn a low income
- Young People (11 to 25 year olds)
Eligibility Criteria
- Tier 1: Organisations with an annual income of under £250,000 per year or structured groups of residents
- Tier 2: Organisations with an annual income of under £250,000 per year
- Applications are accepted from any constituted voluntary, community or recreational group working with residents in the London Borough of Waltham Forest.
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Examples of these include:
- Unregistered community group
- Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)
- Registered charity
- Charitable company or Social Enterprise (companies must have asset locks, be not-for-profit and without share capital)
- Community Interest Company (CIC)
- Structured groups of residents (Tier 1 only)
- For Tier 1 only, they will also accept applications from structured groups of local residents who have formed for a specific purpose. They may be an established group who have been meeting for a number of years or a group who have recently formed for a one-off event or purpose.
- Social Enterprises and Community Interest Companies (CICs) are only eligible to apply for a grant if they operate on a wholly not-for-profit basis. This means that the following criteria must all be met:
- 100% of surplus funds are reinvested into the organization executive directors operate in a voluntary capacity and not as paid shareholders as an indicator of the above, there is no ‘profit distribution’ clause and/or an ‘asset lock’ in the governing document.
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