Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
The City Bridge Trust is pleased to invite applications for its Positive Transitions Grants Program.
They want to enable these transitions to be positive for the individuals, give them greater choice and control over their lives and result in a reduction in inequality within communities.
Priorities
Open grant programmes
- Support for children and young people
- They want to fund interventions with children and young people at moments of key transition, with a focus on:
- Services in support of vulnerable parents and care givers of pre-school children (0-5)
- Children and young people engaged in child criminal exploitation
- Work which addresses the needs of disadvantaged young women and girls.
- They are particularly interested to fund organisations that display knowledge of the locality or community in which work will take place. They are keen to hear from organisations whose approach builds children and young people’s resilience. They want to support work that builds the body of evidence for effective interventions with children and young people.
- They want to fund interventions with children and young people at moments of key transition, with a focus on:
- Support for refugees, asylum seekers and migrants
- Support for refugees, asylum seekers and migrants to access mainstream services and widen participation in the communities in which they live
- They support refugees, asylum seekers and migrants to thrive and participate fully in their communities. They do this by funding organisations which are working to tackle the barriers they face, and providing access to resources
- Such work can include mental and physical health support, provision of legal services, assistance with housing and educational needs, and much more.
- Support and services for Deaf and Disabled People
- Support and services for Deaf and Disabled People to increase choice and control in their lives
- They recognise the social model of disability and want to fund work which removes or reduces the barriers preventing disabled people (including people who are experiencing long-term mental health difficulties) from participating in society and living independently.
- Examples of the types of work they will fund include: participation in the arts, inclusive or adapted sports activities, health & wellbeing opportunities, support with the transition to adulthood and evidence-based employment programmes.
- Support and services for older people
- They want to support older people to lead active, independent, and healthy lives that are rich and fulfilling. This work can take place with care home residents as well as those who live in their own homes. Funding is available to support:
- Work with people aged 70+ that encourage healthy lifestyles and / or reduced isolation through participation in arts, sports, cultural, educational and/or wellbeing opportunities (applicants are expected to show that work will take place with a majority of people aged 70+)
- Non-medical services supporting people aged 65+ living with dementia or Alzheimer’s to live independently as long as possible
- Support and services for older carers aged 65 +
- They want to support older people to lead active, independent, and healthy lives that are rich and fulfilling. This work can take place with care home residents as well as those who live in their own homes. Funding is available to support:
- Tackling abuse, exploitation and hatred
- They want all Londoners to live safe lives with dignity and respect. They therefore support work that prevents abuse, exploitation and hatred, as well as services that assist survivors.
- They can fund organisations supporting the survivors of all types of abuse (including physical, sexual, emotional, economic coercion or neglect). They are particularly keen to fund work tackling male violence against women and girls and to support work with the LGBTQIA+ community and other communities which face barriers to appropriate provision. They also fund organisations working with perpetrators.
- They fund work to address modern slavery (where people are illegally exploited for personal or commercial gain) and trafficking (where people are traded for purposes of exploitation).
- Criminal justice: building settled lives for those leaving custody or serving community sentences
- They want to fund services which prepare people for release from the custodial system or who are reaching the end of community sentences.
- They want to support people in this transitional period and reduce the risk of further prison or community sentences.
- They are particularly interested to fund:
- Work that informs and advises people of the services available to them on release
- Work at specialist premises that support especially marginalised individuals, such as women who have survived domestic abuse
- Safe and secure housing
- Access to employment or self-employment opportunities
- They can support work taking place in prison and in young offenders’ institutions, but this must be preparatory to the transition around release.
- Where work takes place in custody, this should either be in facilities within Greater London or where the beneficiary groups are Londoners.
- Mental health services
- They want to support mental health services for people experiencing disadvantage and inequality.
- Funding is available for mental health services and associated running costs. Please note they only support psychotherapy, counselling, and talking therapies delivered in community settings.
- Mental health practitioners delivering the services, will have relevant qualifications and accreditations, for example, registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), and United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP).
- They welcome applications that support:
- Racialised communities, including refugees, asylum seekers and migrants
- Disabled people including those with long-term mental health conditions
- People experiencing or at risk of homelessness
- People leaving the criminal justice system
- People who identify as LGBTQ+
- Disadvantaged older people
- Disadvantaged children and young people
- Survivors of abuse, exploitation, and hatred.
- Approaches that understand multiple disadvantages and offer appropriate, specialist responses are encouraged.
Funding Information
- Support for refugees, asylum seekers and migrants
- Based on grants made to date, they have awarded between £2,000 and £300,000 for work under this strand. The average award size has been £110,000. Please note that these figures are illustrative only, and that they can award more or less than these amounts depending on the applications they receive.
- Support and services for Deaf and Disabled People
- Based on grants made to date, they have awarded between £5,000 and £266,000 for work under this strand. The average award size has been £115,000. Please note that these figures are illustrative only, and that they can award more or less than these amounts depending on the applications they receive.
- Tackling abuse, exploitation and hatred
- Based on grants made to date, they have awarded between £28,000 and £283,000 for work under this strand. The average award size has been £135,000. Please note that these figures are illustrative only, and that they can award more or less than these amounts depending on the applications they receive.
- Criminal justice: building settled lives for those leaving custody or serving community sentences
- Based on grants made to date, they have awarded between £45,000 and £154,000 for work under this strand. The average award size has been £87,000.Please note that these figures are illustrative only, and that they can award more or less than these amounts depending on the applications they receive.
What they will fund
- Applications must be for one of the Trust’s Positive Transitions priority areas. These priorities will be subject to review throughout the lifetime of Bridging Divides to make sure they best achieve their outcomes.
- They welcome applications for up to five years of funding and core funding will be considered
What they want to change
- By awarding Positive Transitions grants they want to achieve the following outcomes:
- Londoners experiencing inequality or disadvantage are supported to become more independent.
- Vulnerable and disadvantaged Londoners are more resilient and empowered to make positive choices.
- Vulnerable and disadvantaged Londoners are better able to access specialist support services.
Eligibility Criteria
- Support for children and young people
- They are particularly interested to fund organisations that display knowledge of the locality or community in which work will take place. They are keen to hear from organisations whose approach builds children and young people’s resilience. They want to support work that builds the body of evidence for effective interventions with children and young people.
- They especially welcome applications from organisations whose approach has been (and continues to be) co-produced with young people, and organisations who work with or are led by people with direct experience of the issue they seek to address.
- For this funding stream, they generally place an upper age limit on beneficiaries of 25.
- Support for refugees, asylum seekers and migrants
- They particularly welcome applications from organisations led by people with direct experience of the UK immigration system.
- Support and services for Deaf and Disabled People
- They particularly welcome applications from Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations (DDPO). Based on the criteria used by Inclusion London, an organisation is a DDPO if:
- Its Management Committee or Board has at least 75% of representation from Deaf and Disabled people and;
- At least 50% of its paid staff team are Deaf and Disabled people with representation at all levels of the organisation and;
- It provides services for, or work on behalf of, Deaf and Disabled people.
- (They support advice services through their Advice and Support programme)
- Support and services for older people
- They particularly welcome applications from organisations working with individuals or communities who may not otherwise access mainstream services.
- Tackling abuse, exploitation and hatred
- They particularly welcome applications from organisations led by people with direct experience of the issues involved. They are particularly keen to fund work with the LGBTQIA+ community, and other communities which face barriers to mainstream provision.
- Criminal justice: building settled lives for those leaving custody or serving community sentences
- They can support work taking place in prison and in young offenders’ institutions, but this must be preparatory to the transition around release.
- Where work takes place in custody, this should either be in facilities within Greater London or where the beneficiary groups are Londoners.
- They are also interested to fund work advocating evidence-based alternatives to custody as well as work looking to tackle inequalities in custodial sentencing
- Mental health services
- They are particularly interested in work that involves and engages people in shaping the services that they receive
- If your work provides wider support, advice, advocacy and/or enables voice or representation, you may be interested in their other Positive Transitions funding streams on this page, as well as their Advice and Support programme.
- Where they can, they will look to support funded work by drawing on their own networks and assets.
For more information, visit City Bridge Trust.