Deadline: 07-May-21
The Isle of Wight Foundation is seeking applications from charities and not for-profit organizations for its grant programme to support local projects that promotes and delivers social cohesion on the Island.
The foundation is a charitable trust which provides an opportunity for to bid for grant funding each year.
Theme
The Isle of Wight Foundation will focus on two main themes:
- Access to employment
- Building better communities
Funding Information
- The financial support provided will be a grant of between £3,000 and £16,000.
- This financial support will be given as a lump sum and must be used within 12 months of signing the funding agreement.
Areas of Support
The funding will therefore prioritize projects which aim to tackle these issues, and which will make a positive, measurable impact on the local area. The Isle of Wight Foundation will specifically seek to support projects and initiatives which:
- Provide people with better chances to access training and development to improve their life skills and opportunity for employment:
- Projects which support those currently excluded from the job market to adapt to the working world, while also receiving the training and support they need.
- Projects that offer basic training and guidance to enable individuals with no qualifications to enter the working world.
- Initiatives that help people to reduce the factors restricting their mobility and improve the mobility of people deprived of means of transportation, thereby allowing them easier access to employment, to health care, to education.
- Build stronger communities with more active citizens working together to minimize social exclusion
- Initiatives aimed at promoting citizenship and responsibility among young people.
- Projects to support people who are excluded to regain self-confidence, recover a decent standard of living, accomplish day-to-day activities, and by so doing integrate with society.
- Projects that facilitate access to housing for the most underprivileged individuals to provide them with more stability
Key factors influencing social exclusion identified included:
- High levels of unemployment, particularly amongst young people (27% of whom are unemployed) with some coming from families in which nobody has worked for two or three generations.
- An ageing population, some of whom are becoming isolated in their communities.
- The rural nature of the Island and difficulties with transportation links.
- Areas of deprivation (income, employment, housing, education and skills) amongst the worst in the region and the country.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Isle of Wight Foundation will consider applications from any community interest or not-for-profit organizations working on the Isle of Wight (for example, charities, community groups and voluntary organizations) that can meet the funding aim and criteria specified.
- It will not consider applications from individuals, private sector (profit based) organizations, statutory bodies, federations, public organizations, institutions and political or religious organizations/groups.
- The Isle of Wight Foundation will support initiatives that aim to be sustainable and ensure permanent employment or activities. It does not finance temporary projects (e.g. exhibitions, one-off events).
- The Isle of Wight Foundation values projects or initiatives which seek innovative solutions to tackle social exclusion.
- The Isle of Wight Foundation will be keen to see evidence in any submission that the management of the organization applying for the grant are prepared to dedicate time and energy to the further development of the project.
- Any organizations applying for grant funding must be willing to demonstrate transparency in terms of the information that is provided to the Isle of Wight Foundation both in terms of the clarity and accuracy information supporting the application, including financial components but also in terms of reporting on the progress of the project and its achievements.
For more information, visit https://islandroads.com/iw-foundation/how-to-apply-for-funding/