Deadline: 2-Jun-23
The Worcestershire Community Foundation is inviting applications for the Inclusive Communities Fund that aims to reach out to and engage a wide range of grassroots community organisations and groups, with an emphasis on encouraging applications from minority groups of all kinds.
Applicants may be experiencing difficulties of many sorts within their communities and wish to set up positive initiatives to develop community cohesion or address early-stage crime prevention.
Funding Priorities
- They will fund projects that create safer and more confident communities through funding ‘by and for’ organisations – those run by and for the users and communities they aim to serve to develop early interventions e.g. development of initiatives to bring diverse communities together.
- This funding will help local communities put in place initiatives which will make their communities more connected and resilient, lead to avoidance or mitigation of crime or disorder and have longer-term impact.
- Initiatives should take place in Worcestershire communities across a range of settings, dependent on the nature of each application. They encourage both local and county-wide applications that are representative of all areas, particularly those with the highest level of deprivation.
- Applicants must be able to demonstrate the capacity to deliver innovative solutions to local issues within their communities.
Funding Information
- Applicants can apply for grants from £1,000 up to £10,000.
What the fund will support?
- These are not limited to but might include projects that:
- Work with diverse, vulnerable people or hard-to-reach groups
- Support activities that help diverse communities to come together
- Aim to improve the safety of local communities
- Help resolve local community issues
- Aim to prevent or reduce crime
- Deliver early intervention in reducing offending and reoffending
- Include multi-agency models and partnership or collaborative working
- Include lived experience.
Eligibility Criteria
- Grassroots community organisations/groups may apply for projects with young people or adults of any age.
- This programme will support clubs and organisations based in Worcestershire including charities, social enterprises, Community Interest Companies and other not-for-profit organisations.
- They would particularly like to encourage applications which will engage or support minority groups of all kinds but they will also support broader community initiatives with the aim of making an impact across the county through diverse and innovative approaches.
What they won’t fund?
- Statutory services
- Activities promoting religious activity (with the exception of inter-faith activity).
- Activities promoting party-political activity
- Solely capital application funding bids e.g. to purchase a minibus
- Individual sponsorship
- Activities generating private profit
- Organisations that have been established less than 12 months.
For more information, visit Inclusive Communities Fund.