Deadline: 19-Aug-22
The Hertfordshire Community Foundation (HCF) is now accepting applications for the Quercus Grant Program.
The Quercus grants will be funded by the Quercus fund which focuses on addressing the need of young people in the Watford District. Projects must be for the benefit of young people (25 years of age and under) in the Watford District.
Focus Areas
- Mental health and well-being
- Addressing disadvantage through sport
- Including those with Sensory impairment
- Supporting victims of sexual or physical abuse
- Helping young people to stay safe
- Modern Slavery
- Loneliness and Isolation
- Homelessness
- Deprivation and Inequality
Funding Information
Grants of up to £5,000 available for voluntary and community groups supporting young people in the Watford area.
Eligibility Criteria
- The group must be a not for profit, charity, community or voluntary group with a written constitution or governing document.
- The governing document must include the groups aims or purpose, objectives and a dissolution clause or asset lock which states what would happen to any funds should the group have to close.
- The group must be governed by a voluntary trustee or management committee with a minimum of three members, at least two of whom must be unrelated.
- The group must have a bank account in its own name, with at least two unrelated signatories.
- The group must have all the relevant policies in place for its work, including Equality, Diversity and Safeguarding.
- The group must be working to meet the needs of the local community in Hertfordshire.
- The group must be based in Hertfordshire, or be able to show specifically how the funding they are applying for will benefit people in the county.
- Applications are welcome from charities, community and voluntary groups and not for profits of all sizes. However, priority will still be given to smaller, local groups with an in depth knowledge of the issues they are dealing with and the communities they serve.
Ineligible
- National Charities without a Hertfordshire focus
- Business or profit making enterprises
- Organisations where any one person has significant control
- Groups with more than one year’s unrestricted reserves
- Statutory organisations including schools, parish councils and CCGs
- Organisations that cannot benefit public benefit as defined by the Charity Commission
- Individuals
For more information, visit HCF.
For more information, visit https://www.hertscf.org.uk/quercus