Deadline: 19-Jun-23
The Community Foundation Northern Ireland is excited to announce the Cooper Richardson Fund to improve the health and well-being of people in Northern Ireland.
Priorities
- To improve access to sport and physical activity, with a particular focus on supporting facilities in areas of economic need and for those most isolated in communities
- To provide funding for resources, including equipment for small organisations, who may have limited access to funding opportunities
- To remove barriers for getting things done in communities
Funding Information
- Size of Grant: Applicants can apply for a grant ranging from £1,000 to £2,000.
- Projects must have their funding spent within 12 months from the date of a letter of offer.
What can the fund support?
- In the interests of being a flexible and responsive funder, the fund will focus on providing support for capital equipment that enables sporting activity and reduces isolation of people.
- General sporting equipment – to enable and encourage physical activity, with a particular focus on those most isolated of any age, including older people.
- Additional equipment – to enable the expansion of activity or a safer environment for delivery of the activity providing that the equipment will enable the delivery of sport and physical activity.
- Minor facility amendments – to enable better accessibility to facilities for delivery of sport and physical activities – any statutory permissions, if appropriate, will need to be in place and evidenced at the time of application.
- Applications should explain why there’s a need for the project and how end users have been involved in developing the project.
- Applications should consider how the project adds value to services currently available in your local community, and work collaboratively with other groups to maximise the impact of the project, where possible.
Fund Criteria
- The first round of funding will initially support constituted organisations with funding for capital equipment that enables sporting activity.
- The Fund for this round has four main aims:
- To improve access to sport and physical activity, with a particular focus on supporting facilities in areas of economic need and for those most isolated in communities
- To improve the health and well-being of people in Northern Ireland
- To provide funding for resources, including equipment for small organisations, who may have limited access to funding opportunities
- To remove barriers for getting things done in communities
- Applicants must outline how their application meets at least one of the above aims, however, in the event of a high level of demand they will prioritise projects that meet more than one of these aims.
Eligibility Criteria
- Constituted organisations, including sports clubs with charitable purposes with income levels of £30,000 or below.
- Applicants must be based in Northern Ireland and applying to support projects and beneficiaries from Northern Ireland only.
- They will prioritise small, locally based organisations, that find it difficult to access funding from other sources.
- They are particularly interested in funding across the whole of Northern Ireland, and so in the event of a high demand for this funding, they will prioritise allocating funding across all Local Authority areas in Northern Ireland.
- The Community 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.
Ineligible
- In Addition they Will Not Fund:
- The advancement of religion. This includes organisations whose purposes include the 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
- Promotion of religious or political activity, including any flags and emblems that may deem to be associated with such
- CIC Companies Limited by Shares, or CICs without an asset lock clause. Eligible CICs must have at least three unrelated committee members, and/or the majority of the committee unrelated
- Activities that duplicate existing services
- Retrospective funding
- Capital build projects or large equipment purchases
- Dinners, fund-raising promotions, or other ticketed events
- Individuals
- Substitution for statutory funding
- Projects where the Foundation’s contribution is a minor part of a larger funded initiative
- Initiatives that involve redistributing the funding as small grants
- Organisations that did not comply with reporting requirements of previous grant aid
- International trips
- Sole Traders or Private Business/Companies
For more information, visit Community Foundation Northern Ireland.