Deadline: 16-Jan-23
Applications are now open for its Tower Hamlets Council Small Grants Fund to support voluntary and community sector activity across Tower Hamlets that will make a positive difference to the lives of local residents.
Priorities
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Small Grants Fund Priorities
- Innovation: To encourage innovation or pilot something new, especially where there is a gap in provision.
- Prevention: To promote grassroots activity to reduce the need for statutory services
- Neighbourhood Action: To promote local neighbourhood initiatives
- Community Cohesion: To develop community resilience, promote cultural opportunities and reduce social isolation
- Partnership: Making the sector more effective through closer partnership working within the sector and across sectors
Funding Information
- The Small Grants Fund will award grants of up to £5,000 for projects running a maximum of 12- months. Larger grants of up to £20,000 are also available through the community cohesion theme. Projects which show they are successful may be eligible to apply for funding for a second year.
What They Will Fund?
- You can apply for funding to cover project activities and staffing, running costs related to the project, as well as small-scale refurbishment and the purchase of any equipment you need. They can fund a mix of project activities, operating costs, organisational development and capital costs. However, the core aims, and outcomes of the project must link directly to one of the LBTH Small Grants Fund themes.
What They Won’t Fund
- Expenditure or activities that have already taken place
- Religious or political activity (they are able to fund religious organisations if they are providing benefit for the wider community)
- Activities where a profit will be distributed for private gain or projects that have no charitable or community element
- Activity that replaces government funding or is a statutory responsibility, for example, they can only fund school activities that are additional to the curriculum
- Activities that benefit individuals, rather than a wider community
- Retrospective costs and loan repayments
- Foreign travel
Eligibility Criteria
- Organisations with an annual turnover in excess of £250,000 are not eligible to apply to this fund.
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The fund is open to all voluntary and community organisations. These are defined as;
- Registered charities
- Community groups
- Community associations
- Tenants and residents’ groups
- Green spaces friends’ groups
- Co-operatives and social enterprises
- School/parent groups which are independent of the schools they work with
- Faith organisations
- Sports, environmental, arts and heritage organisations
- Grant making trusts
- Housing associations
- Un-constituted groups of residents working together to make a difference in their local communities
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They cannot accept applications from;
- For-profit organisations
- Individuals seeking funding for personal benefit, or sole traders
- Organisations based outside the UK
For more information, visit Tower Hamlets Council Small Grants Fund.
For more information, visit https://eastendcf.org/tower-hamlets-grants/