Deadline: 27-Feb-2024
If you are grassroots not for profit community organisation seeking funding for your work in the region of Hampshire (including Portsmouth and Southampton) and the Isle of Wight, then apply for HIWCF: ‘Get Active, Get Involved’ grant programme.
HIWCF: ‘Get Active, Get Involved’ is administered by Hampshire & Isle of Wight Community Foundation (HIWCF). HIWCF’s core aim is to tackle poverty and inequality. This grant programme is designed to support this goal by meeting their impact theme around ‘health and wellbeing’.
“Get Active Get Involved” retains the aim of the Hampshire Playing Fields Fund to support sport and physical activity – and widens the scope to ensure a broad and inclusive range of community-based sport and physical activity which helps everyone get active.
This grant programme continues the legacy of the ‘Hampshire Playing Fields Fund’. The aim of this grant programme is to support local provision that helps people to access community sports and physical activity. The definition of community sports and physical activity is broad and inclusive; eligible ways to get your community active include seated keep-fit, cricket, Nordic walking, swimming, running clubs, football, wheelchair sport clubs, tai chi, rugby, movement/ dance sessions for preschoolers, sport for a community of interest, yoga, dance, netball, and table tennis to name just a few ideas!
Theme
- Health and wellbeing
Funding Information
- ‘Get Active, Get Involved’ offers 12-month grants of £1,000- £5,000 for not-for-profit community organisations. The fund will only make grants to organisations based in and supporting work within Hampshire, Portsmouth, Southampton, and the Isle of Wight.
What does HIWCF fund?
- HIWCF makes grants across Hampshire (including Portsmouth and Southampton) and the Isle of Wight. The majority of HIWCF funding is prioritised for community organisations (a small number of funds provide support to individuals).
Location
- Hampshire, Portsmouth, Southampton, and the Isle of Wight
Eligibility Criteria
- The health and wellbeing projects that this grant programme will fund need to meet all three of the following programme criteria. If bids are not clear about all elements, they will be scored as ineligible based on a poor fit with the programme criteria.
- The community organisation making the application should either (i) have a core aim to support, promote and engage communities with games, sports, and physical activity and/ or (ii) have a core aim to maintain community spaces where communities can access games, sports, and physical activity. Please note that they will not fund statutory bodies such as schools or councils.
- The application should be clear how the activity funded will be open to the local community and work to reach new and/ or under-represented communities. Your application should show how you work to remove barriers to local people accessing your activities/ spaces.
- The application must be supported by a safeguarding policy belonging to the applicant organisation. If you utilise the safeguarding policy of a national organisation please indicate at the start of your policy how this is adopted locally, regularly reviewed, and who within your local organisation leads and champions safeguarding.
Ineligible
- They will not fund national charities where local branches cannot demonstrate local independence in terms of governance, bank accounts etc.
- They will not fund community organisations that do not have their own safeguarding policy; if you are using a national policy please show how this is adopted at a local level.
- They will not fund capital costs or refurbishments of buildings. Please call to discuss if you are considering applying for a large item of equipment.
- They will not fund any provision that is a statutory requirement or is profit-making.
- They will not fund work with school age children within the school day (they will fund work after school/ at weekends etc).
- They will not fund elite sport/ sport bursaries – this is a community funding programme.
- They will not fund equipment for individuals – any equipment purchased by the fund should be made available for community use.
- They will not fund one off events.
For more information, visit HIWCF.
