Deadline: 06-Jan-2025
The Somerset Community Foundation has launched the Main Grants Programme.
Aims
- The aim of this fund is to offer grants so that your group can provide targeted services to:
- children and young people so they can reach their potential
- adults with mental health problems, so they can maintain their own wellbeing
- older people so they can reduce isolation and loneliness.
Funding Information
- Grant size: Up to £5,000
Eligibility Criteria
- They can only consider your group for a grant from this fund if you meet the minimum standards.
- The minimum standards cover things like:
- the types of groups they can give a grant to and how they expect them to be run
- how they expect those groups to manage their finances
- how those groups keep people safe.
- Charities, including charitable incorporated organisations (CIO), can apply if they have at least 3 unrelated trustees registered with the Charity Commission
- Community groups, or unincorporated associations can apply if they have a governing document that includes charitable aims benefitting the wider public.
- If your community group has an annual income regularly over £5,000 a year, you must register with the Charity Commission. They will not be able to fund you if you don’t do this.
- CICs registered with Companies House can apply if they:
- are clearly trading, including income from public sector contracts, and not running almost exclusively on grants and donations
- have at least 3 unrelated directors registered with Companies House
- They’re more likely to give you some money if your group:
- is based Somerset
- runs on less than £500,000 a year
- works in an area that is more disadvantaged
- works with groups of people facing multiple disadvantages
- has provided reliable reporting on any previous grants they’ve given you
- has not received any other money from us in the last year.
For more information, visit Somerset Community Foundation.