Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
Applications are now open for the Small Green Arts Fund to support a broad range of arts, culture and craft activity across the county, responding to and raising awareness of the climate crisis and encouraging local communities to look at ways of adapting and responding to climate change.
Funding Information
- The fund will offer awards of up to £3,000.
- Grant awards must be spent within 12 months of receiving the award and funding can be used for core costs, capital costs and project delivery costs.
Eligible Projects
- The Fund will consider a wide range of arts projects. Some examples include:
- Pedal-powered and solar-powered outdoor arts events
- Projects using sustainable and/or recycled materials and zero-waste practices
- Celebrating natural heritage and the connections between humans and biodiversity
Eligibility Criteria
- Your group must be a small, locally managed VCSE organisation such as a charity, constituted community group, social enterprise such as a Community Interest Company (CIC), or a company limited by guarantee with charitable aims. Please note that as a general exclusion, they do not fund social enterprises that have a person with significant control (PSC).
- You must be based in Northamptonshire
- 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 an equalities policy in place
Exclusions
- Northamptonshire Community Foundation is also unable to fund the following:
- General and major fund-raising appeals
- Overseas travel or expeditions for individuals and groups
- Direct replacement of statutory and public funding
- Organisations that aim to convert people to any kind of religious or political belief
- Medical research and equipment
- Projects operating outside Northamptonshire
- Animal welfare
- Large national charities (except for independent local branches working for local people)
- Work that has already finished
For more information, visit Northamptonshire Community Foundation.