Deadline: 3-Sep-21
The Cumbria Community Foundation is offering Cumberland Building Society Community Fund for charitable organisations, in particular, those aligned with the company’s purpose, to make a positive difference to the lives of its customers, communities and people in the Society’s operating area of Cumbria, Dumfriesshire, Lancaster, Preston and Haltwhistle.
Type of Grants
- Strategic Grants: Larger, multi-year grants of up to £25,000 to improve or maintain the capacity of organisations promoting the financial health and wellbeing of people. Funding can be used to provide an opportunity to scale up promising innovations and/or improve existing initiatives.
- Community Grants: Grants of up to £5,000 to community organisations that improve the life skills, education, employability and enterprise of disadvantaged people, or support vulnerable, older people. These are likely to be one-off grants.
Priority will be given to projects that can demonstrate a clear need and/or demand for their service.
Eligibility Criteria
- Charitable, not-for-profit groups whose projects benefit the communities within the Society’s operating area.
For more information, visit https://www.cumbriafoundation.org/fund/cumberland-building-society/