Deadline: 13-Jun-22
The Hertfordshire Community Foundation is offering grants for Building Life Chances programme to address the impact of COVID on vulnerable Hertfordshire residents.
This grant fund is part of Hertfordshire County Council’s commitment to ensure that all Hertfordshire residents adversely impacted during the pandemic are supported, that any inequalities are addressed, and actions are taken to narrow gaps.
This grant fund is part of a wider approach and focuses on grants for particular vulnerable adults, specifically:
- Ethnic minorities including BAME, Gypsy & traveller communities and other groups
- Harder to reach vulnerable adults with sensory or neurodiverse needs
- People with limited eligibility for public support such as refugees and asylum seekers.
Funding Information
- Grants of up to £5,000 are available to Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) groups that work with or support vulnerable adults who have been disproportionately affected by the COVID Pandemic.
- Grants of up to £10,000 may be considered where a group can show that they can work across a larger geographical area or can reach high numbers of local residents.
- Grants must be spent within 12 months of award.
What you can apply for?
- You can apply to fund work which helps to address inequalities through providing support and also by ensuring service users have access to essential services. Support and services can address inequalities in for example health, food security, financial insecurity, access to work and education. It is important that you know where to refer people for further support or work in partnership with other organizations
- You can apply for a range costs including staff, training, volunteer costs, operational costs (eg food and fuel) and a contribution to running costs.
- You are allowed to apply to this fund in addition to other programs run by HCF including the Household Fund as long as the costs for the work are not duplicated.
- Grants can fund projects for up to one year.
Eligibility Criteria
- Charities
- Community or voluntary groups and faith groups with a written constitution or governing document
- Social enterprises, or Community Interest Companies limited by guarantee not by shares other non-profit format (eg co-operative societies)
- They welcome applications from charities, community and voluntary and faith groups and not for profits of all sizes.
- However priority will be given to local groups with an in depth knowledge of the issues they are dealing with and the communities they serve. Ideally, applicants will be organizations that are embedded within the local comm unity with a proven track record of supporting vulnerable people and who understand the challenges of engaging BAME, Gypsy/traveller communities and other minorities groups within their locality.
For more information, visit https://www.hertscf.org.uk/blc