Deadline: 16-Oct-22
The Jeans for Genes Grant Programme is now open for applications.
Goals
- Organisations serving the genetic condition community become stronger, more resilient and sustainable improving their ability to meet need and provide appropriate support in the long term; and
- Every individual in the UK living with a genetic condition and their family is able to access the appropriate support at the time they need it so that they feel supported, valued and included.
Priorities
- Core costs
- They want their funding to support frontline genetic condition organisations to:
- Be empowered, strong and sustainable
- Be flexible and responsive to changing circumstances
- Invest in organisational development, systems and processes
- Strengthen their governance
- Effectively demonstrate the impact that they make
- Collaborate, share expertise and resources
- They want their funding to support frontline genetic condition organisations to:
- Project funding
- Create new support networks or develop existing ones.
- Inform and empower individuals living with a genetic condition and their families and carers.
- Address a key transition point (e.g. point of diagnosis or transition to adult services)
- Improve the physical, mental or emotional wellbeing of affected individuals and their families.
- Enable knowledge, awareness, skills or attitudes to be acquired that are then applied so that those with a genetic condition and their families are supported, valued and included.
- Engage with diverse and marginalised communities who are also living with a genetic condition to identify and challenge policies, practices and perceptions that contribute to health inequalities.
Funding Information
- Core costs – They will award front line, genetic condition charities single year grants of up to £3,000 towards their organisation’s core costs to enable them to be in a stronger, more resilient position to continue to provide vital support to their communities, in the long term.
- Project funding – They will award single year project grants of up to £5,000 to a wide range of organisations working within the genetic condition community so that individuals living with a genetic condition and their families can access the right support at the time they need it.
Eligibility Criteria
- Registered charity
- Based and delivering work in the UK.
- Genetic condition specific charity or a charity whose beneficiaries are solely those with genetic conditions and their families
- The organisation must be at least 18 months old and have published their first set of annual accounts.
- An annual income of between £20,000 and £250,000
- The organisation must have been in receipt of a Jeans for Genes project grant within the last three years.
For more information, visit https://www.jeansforgenes.org/jeans-for-genes-grant-programme/apply-for-a-grant/jeans-for-genes-grant-programme