Deadline: 30-Oct-22
Consortium and its Community Collaborators, working in partnership with The National Lottery Community Fund, are delighted to announce the launch of the LGBT+ Futures: Equity Fund.
The aim of this Fund is to help intersectional and targeted LGBT+ organisations be well resourced, sustainable and resilient. Therefore, they want to be as flexible as possible with the funding available.
Consortium has been working with diverse, intersectional and targeted LGBT+ voluntary, community, and social enterprise organizations over the last couple of years to explore additional and future income generation for their LGBT+ organisations, recognizing the low levels of investment in the communities.
Focus Areas
The LGBT+ Futures: Equity Fund is available to LGBT+ non-profit groups, organizations and projects that are led by and for:
- D/deaf a nd/or Disabled LGBT+ People
- LBT+ Women
- LGBT+ People from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnicities and LGBT+ People of Color
- Older LGBT+ People
- Trans and Non-Binary People
Core Values
Applicants should be working according to Consortium’s core values of:
- Accessibility: Observe, promote and practice good equity principles, enabling access and inclusion.
- Accountability: Value each other’s diverse perspectives, language and capacity.
- Collaboration: Positive, proactive collaboration with other LGBT+ organisations, minimizing inefficiencies and conflict without losing individual autonomy.
- Respect: Be considerate of the resource, support and insight gained through others and not using this to further own go als to the detriment of other LGBT+ organisations.
Funding Information
- Grant range from £100 to £25,000 and applicants are welcome to apply for the amount they need to undertake their work.
- All grants must be fully spent by August 2023.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be an England based non-profit group or organisation that is led by and for LGBT+ people in the UK and specifically working with one of more of the following communities of focus.
- Groups must be able to show they are led by and for the communities of focus:
- This means the primary purpose of your organization is to support one of the communities of focus and;
- these communities are majority represented in your leadership.
- If your organization supports a wider group of people (eg all LGBT+ people), unfortunately your project is not eligible for this fund even if you have a project to support one or more communities of focus. Your organization must be set up to support one or more of the communities of focus.
- You do not need to be a Member of Consortium to be eligible to apply.
- Existing grant holders who meet the new criteria are eligible to apply.
For more information, visit https://www.consortium.lgbt/equityfund/