Deadline: 18-Jun-22
The Hertfordshire Community Foundation is pleased to launch the Household Support Fund for Groups – grants to address food and energy poverty.
Grants are available to groups working in areas of deprivation in Hertfordshire that support vulnerable adults with our without children by providing access to food and/or support with bills such as fuel and water.
Funding Information
Grants of up to £5,000 are available but larger grants (up to £10,000) may be considered where a group can demonstrate an ability to work across a larger geography or support significant numbers of local residents.
Funding Criteria
Applications from charities, groups and non-profit organisations supporting vulnerable adults that fall into any of the following categories are eligible to apply for funding:
- Individuals in crisis (eg people facing poverty, experiencing or at risk of homelessness, poor mental health, domestic violence, drug and alcohol addiction etc) and their families, with without children
- Those facing food poverty
- Those facing fuel poverty
- Minority and marginalised groups who have been particularly impacted by Covid-19
- Applications from groups who employ benefit advisors wishing to distribute food and fuel vouchers to vulnerable adults will also be welcome.
Eligibility Criteria
In order to apply to the Covid Local Support Grant your organisation must fulfil the following 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 and 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.
- Faith groups will be considered as long as their project does not include proselytising.
- Applications are welcome from charities, community and voluntary 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.
For more information, visit https://www.hertscf.org.uk/householdsupport