Submissions open for Arm Community Fund in the United Kingdom

Deadline: 01-Nov-2024

The Cambridgeshire Community Foundation is accepting submissions for the Arm Community Fund in the United Kingdom.

Priorities

• Community development and engagement
• Children, young people and families
• Adults facing life crisis

Funding Information

• Small grants of up to £3,000.

Eligible area

• Cambridgeshire

Eligibility Criteria

• They only fund community-focused, not-for-profit organisations, which must be legally registered if their income is above £5,000. This includes the following:
  • Registered, exempt, and excepted charities.
  • Religious organisations if the project benefits the wider community and does not include religious content.
  • Parish and town councils, village halls, and parochial church councils
  • Charitable incorporated organisations (CIOs)
  • Community interest companies (CICs)
  • Social enterprises which have the Social Enterprise Mark
  • Co-operatives and community benefit societies (formerly industrial and provident societies)
  • Schools
  • Sports clubs that are either community amateur sports clubs (CASCs), affiliated with a national governing body (e.g., Badminton England) or have an income under £5,000.

Ineligibility Criteria

• They do not fund the following:
  • Organisational structures not listed above, or projects which are not charitable in focus
  • Activities or projects which have already taken place
  • Sponsored events, fundraising activities, or grant-making bodies or activities
  • Improvements to land/buildings that are not open to the general public at convenient hours
  • Projects promoting political activities or lobbying for causes
  • The practice of religion or any projects that actively promote religion, a particular belief system or indeed the lack of a belief. This is due to such projects excluding some people from participating based on religious grounds.

For more information, visit Cambridgeshire Community Foundation.