Deadline: 5-Oct-23
The Community Foundation for Staffordshire is offering J&O Lloyd Community Grants to organisations who provide benefit to a community within the East Staffordshire borough.
Organisations will usually need to be based in the borough in order to qualify for a grant from this fund, although in exceptional circumstances an organisation outside the borough may be funded, if they can show that the funding will be used exclusively to benefit residents of East Staffordshire only.
The fund will consider applications for capital and revenue projects, and will consider applications for funding over three years, or one off projects.
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- The J&O Lloyd Community Grants Scheme meets the UN’s fourth and eleventh SDG. This covers Quality Education and Sustainable Cities & Communities. The fund can provide support to projects that will support the residents of East Staffordshire and improve their local environment.
- SDGs 4: Quality Education
- SDGs 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Project Aims
Your project must meet one of the following criteria:
- Bring benefit to the people or communities of East Staffordshire
- Improve, enhance or make accessible the built or natural environment of East Staffordshire
Funding Information
- You can apply for a grant of up to £10,000, but the panel usually makes awards in the region of £5000.
Geographic Reach They Will Fund
- They will support organisations based in, or working for the benefit of people in the following local authority areas;
- East Staffordshire
Geographical Reach They Cannot Fund
- This fund cannot support organisations who are based in, or working in the following local authority areas:
- Cannock Chase, Lichfield, Newcastle under Lyme, South Staffordshire, Stafford, Staffordshire Moorlands, Stoke on Trent or Tamworth
- Any area outside Staffordshire
- In exceptional circumstances organisations based in South Derbyshire may be considered for a grant, if there is a clear and direct benefit to the communities of East Staffordshire
Beneficiaries They Can Support
- Preference will be given to applications working in one of the following fields:
- Heritage
- Arts & Leisure
- Built & Natural Environment
- Social & Community Isolation
Beneficiaries They Cannot Support
- This fund cannot support any organisation whose primary beneficiaries are:
- Not resident in the borough of East Staffordshire
Eligibility Criteria
They will support the following types of organisation;
- Constituted community groups
- Constituted voluntary groups
- Registered Charities
- Social Enterprises
Ineligible
This fund will not offer funding to the following organisations;
- Non-constituted community groups
- Non-constituted voluntary groups
- Statutory organisations
- Organisations that do not have a proven track record of service delivery
- Limited companies, sole traders or partnerships without charitable aims
For more information, visit Community Foundation for Staffordshire.