Deadline: 26-Feb-23
The Warwickshire County Council is accepting applications for the Cost of Living Grant Fund.
Cost-of-living pressures are placing a significant and growing strain on their residents, communities and businesses. Across Warwickshire, communities and agencies are taking action to help people with cost-of-living pressures. In October last year, Warwickshire County Council’s Cabinet approved a Support fund of £180,000 for Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise organisations and Town and Parish Councils to establish projects addressing cost-of-living pressures.
The fund criteria are deliberately broad to encourage applications from a wide range of groups including smaller grass-roots groups and a wide range of potential projects:
- Weighting will be added in the scoring of applications to prioritise those originating and benefitting areas high in the Indices of Multiple Deprivation and therefore considered priorities aligned to the Council’s Levelling-Up Approach
- Weighting will also be added in the scoring of applications to those that can identify a positive impact on the mental wellbeing of project beneficiaries.
Focus Areas
- Successful applications will focus on one or more of the following cost-of-living pressures:
- Food and other household essentials
- Improving community assets and their sustainability
- Improving access to services
- Improving financial capability (e.g., maximising income and reducing debt)
- Improving mental wellbeing
- Tackling social inequalities.
Funding Information
- These organisations can apply for funding of up to £1,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Constituted ‘not-for-profit’ community organisations in Warwickshire
- Non-constituted or new ‘not-for-profit’ groups working in Warwickshire that can be supported by a mainstream service or community group willing to administer the funds through an organisational bank account
- Warwickshire Town and Parish Councils
- Schools, if applying as a parent-teacher association or ‘Friends of’ group.
Ineligible
- Groups or organisations that have failed to meet the conditions of previous award agreements from Warwickshire County Council
- Party Political/lobby groups
- Individuals
- Projects that have been funded through other Council grant funds within the last 6 months, including the Councillor Grant Fund and Household Support Fund, will not be further supported through this fund.
For more information, visit Cost of Living Grant Fund.