Deadline: 14-Jul-21
The IKEA Limited and The National Lottery Community Fund are seeking applications to support thriving, resilient and sustainable communities across the UK.
Places Called Home explores the idea that communities can become as important to them as their homes.
It aims to inspire and help people get more involved in their local community as a positive, homely place to be and meet other people.
Priorities
They will prioritise applications from groups who:
- have not received funding from them before
- do not have a current award with them
- are smaller organisations or groups with an annual turnover of under £100,000.
- Other organisations can apply but please consider these factors first.
Funding Information
- They can pay for activities or items, costing between £1,000 and £5,000 that will help to revive your community.
They can fund:
- events and activity costs (though not celebratory events)
- equipment and materials
- refurbishment costs
- staff costs
- training costs
- transport
- utilities/running costs related to your idea
- volunteer expenses
- translation costs (for example, into other languages like Welsh)
- small land or building projects – you’ll need to either:
- own the land or building
- have a lease that cannot be ended for five years
- have a letter from the owner saying the land or building will be leased to you for at least five years, or
- have an official letter from the owner or landlord that says you’re allowed to do work on the building
- and you should also think about getting planning permission for the work.
Eligibility Criteria
- You can apply if you are:
- voluntary or community organisation
- registered charity
- constituted group or club
- not-for-profit company or Community Interest Company
- school (as long as your project benefits and involves the communities around the school)
- statutory body (including town, parish and community council).
- They are keen to fund smaller organisations and groups too. So they will look at your income when they are making a decision.
- Your project needs to strengthen the community outside of the school too. It should benefit and involve more than just:
- teachers
- pupils
- parents of pupils.
Criteria
Your project will need to meet at least two of these criteria:
- It builds on the relationships created during the COVID-19 pandemic to increase community activity and the number of people taking part.
- It encourages people to work together, creating opportunities for communities to live in a sustainable and healthy way.
- It raises awareness amongst the public of the importance of connected households, neighbourhoods and resilient communities.
- It develops a new idea, activity or way to come together that has emerged in response to the pandemic.
- It revives or redesigns community and common spaces to encourage shared community activities.
For more information, visit https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/funding/programmes/places-called-home#section-4