Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
The Gloucestershire Community Foundation is now inviting applications for its Cost of Living Crisis Fund to support the county’s most vulnerable people with food, heating and energy costs and other essential items as well as supporting those organisations providing important advice and guidance as Gloucestershire is hit by the dramatic increase in the cost of living.
Funding Information
Grants of up to £2,500 are available for projects that help those in the community facing very real challenges as a result of the increase in the cost of living, including low-income families, the frail, elderly, disabled, people with chronic medical conditions or suffering mental illness and the homeless.
What you can apply for?
The Cost of Living Crisis Fund aims to support activities for vulnerable people and families in need as a result of the increase in the cost of living. The fund will support projects and organisations that:
- Help vulnerable people at risk of or in abject poverty.
- Coordinate a community response to support those suffering as a result of the increase in the cost of living.
- Provide food supplies, a hot meal, warm clothing or other essential household/hygiene items
- Provide assistance with energy or winter heating costs.
- Reduce isolation and loneliness or improve mental health for people in distress.
- Provide access to local services and information that may help to prevent a crisis situation arising or provide valuable guidance, practical or emotional support for people struggling as a result of the increase in the cost of living
- Provide opportunities for learning and skills development that may support people to improve their financial position in the longer-term or help to build more resilient communities that can support each other.
Applications must demonstrate how their proposed project will deliver one or more of the above.
Grants awarded through this fund will be targeted towards those areas of our county most impacted by income deprivation and poor access to services but will also aim to achieve a spread of support geographically so that areas are not excluded.
Eligibility Criteria
- This grants programme is open to voluntary and community groups with charitable aims, registered charities or Community Interest Companies supporting vulnerbale people impacted by the increase in the cost of living.
- Applicants must be based and working in Gloucestershire.
- Priority will be given to groups that:
- Deliver a project/activity that reflects the concerns and priorities of the target beneficiaries and fits well with existing community activities/services.
- Demonstrate they are well connected within the local community and their project involves working in partnership with local organisations and groups.
- Have experience of working with and reaching out to vulnerable people.
For more information, visit Gloucestershire Community Foundation.
For more information, visit https://gloucestershirecf.org.uk/grant/cost-of-living-crisis-fund/
