Deadline: 7-Mar-25
The Northamptonshire Queens Institute Fund will offer one-off grants for projects based in Northamptonshire that are all about improving health and wellbeing.
Aims
- Applications are welcomed for projects that achieve the following:
- Supporting individuals to live with or manage a health condition
- Greater numbers of people will have healthy lifestyles and have improved life chances
- More people, especially those with a learning disability or mental health condition, will have the skills, training and education to enable employability
- Greater numbers of people will be involved within the community as active citizens and volunteers
Funding Information
- Grant Amount: Up to £5,000
- The grants are for one year maximum i.e. you cannot apply for more than 12 months’ costs.
Eligible Project
- Examples of the types of eligible project activities include the following:
- Support and advocacy groups for people living with a health condition
- Community projects that promote emotional, mental and physical health and wellbeing
- Activities that reduce isolation or that provide social activity for vulnerable people to prevent loneliness
- Activities that provide help for people that need support to live in their own homes
- Activities that use arts, creativity, physical exercise and sport to support health and wellbeing
Eligibility Criteria
- Your group must be a small, locally managed, voluntary, community or self-help group. Please note that as a general exclusion they do not fund social enterprises with persons with significant control (PSC).
- You must be based in Northamptonshire
- You must have people volunteering to help with your activity, who are not part of your management committee
- You must have a set of written rules or constitution that your group adheres to, that contains a dissolution clause. They can help advise you on how to do this especially if you are a new group
- You must have safeguarding policies in place if relevant to your work and all groups must have and equalities policy in place
Ineligibility Criteria
- The programme will not fund the following:
- Capital projects, e.g. renovation or building work
- Profit making organisations or businesses
- Activities of a political nature
- Activities which exclusively support or promote religion or religious behavior
For more information, visit Northamptonshire Community Foundation.
