Deadline: 30-Oct-22
The LGBT+ Futures: Equity Fund is available for user-led LGBT+ organisations working with targeted under-represented and under-resourced communities.
Consortium has been working with diverse, intersectional and targeted LGBT+ voluntary, community, and social enterprise organisations over the last couple of years to explore additional and future income generation for their LGBT+ organisations, recognising the low levels of investment in the communities.
Funding Information
- Grants range from £100 to £25,000 and applicants are welcome to apply for the amount they need to undertake their work.
- Each organisation or group can apply for one organisational grant from this fund (although organisations can also apply for leadership development grants as well when they become available).
- All grants must be fully spent by August 2023.
What can you fund?
- The aim of this Fund is to help intersectional and targeted LGBT+ organisations be well resourced, sustainable and resilient. Therefore, Consortium wants to be as flexible as possible with the funding available.
- If you have a project you are interested in getting funded, then Consortium wants to hear from you. If your organisation can demonstrate it has been doing amazing work and needs core funding support then let Consortium know about it. If there is a piece of development that you as an organisation want to do then think about putting in an application.
- Provided your funding request is relative to the size and functions of your organisation Consortium is excited to receive applications from a diverse range of intersectional and targeted LGBT+ organisations.
- Consortium is also interested in hearing from groups who are new and needing support to thrive and grow.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be a UK 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:
- D/deaf, Disabled, Neurodivergent LGBT+ people.
- LGBT+ People of Colour and People from Black, Asian and Minoritised Ethnicities³
- LGBTQI+ Women.
- Older LGBT+ people.
- Trans and Non-Binary people.
- Consortium knows some work will only focus on sections of those communities. Others may work across intersections.
- Groups must be able to show they are led by and for the communities of focus.
- This means the primary purpose of your organisation is to support one of the communities of focus and;
- These communities are majority represented in your leadership.
- If your organisation supports a wider group of people (e.g. 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 organisation 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.
- 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, minimising 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 goals to the detriment of other LGBT+ organisations.
For more information, visit https://www.consortium.lgbt/equityfund/guidance/