Deadline: 7-Jul-23
Believe housing is offering grants funding between £5,000 – £10,000 to support community investment programmes and to deliver innovative projects that put the customers on a pathway to improving their lives.
Key Themes
- They welcome applications for projects that meet one of their key themes:
- Health and wellbeing: improving mental and physical health as well as building the confidence of individuals
- Employability and training: including volunteering and other upskilling activities
- Increasing household income: activities including debt and benefit advice, feeding families and employing people
- A greener, fairer future: by reducing, reusing and recycling
- Tackling inequalities as a result of the cost of living crisis.
Funding Information
- Applicants can apply for funds between £5,000 – £10,000. The total grant allocation for this open call is £60,000, the allocation will be spread equally between central, east, and west areas of County Durham where believe housing have properties.
What does the community revenue grant support?
- The Community Revenue Grant can be used to help and support their communities, this can include:
- Set up of classes, sessions, activities, and events for the community
- Buying equipment for a community-based activity that does not qualify as capital
- On costs of the project for example, staff time, sessional workers, room hire, equipment and resources required to deliver the project
- Providing refreshments, snacks, and meals as part of an activity
- Marketing and promotion to increase participation in activities
- Travel costs which are integral to an activity.
Locations: All projects must be deliverable in one of their patch areas, these are central Durham, east Durham and west Durham.
Eligibility Criteria
- They welcome applications from:
- Registered and exempt charities
- Community groups
- Schools
- Social enterprises
- Voluntary groups
- Community Interest Companies
- Town, Parish or Community Councils
- Faith groups/venues
Who can’t apply?
- Unfortunately, they are unable to accept applications from:
- Individuals
- Party political groups
- Private companies or ‘for-profit’ organisations
- Those whose objectives and ethos do not meet believe housing’s charitable objectives.
For more information, visit Revenue Community Grant.
