Submit Applications for J&O Lloyd Community Grants

Deadline: 05-Oct-21

The Community Foundation for Staffordshire is currently accepting applications for the J&O Lloyd Community Grants to provide benefit to a community within the East Staffordshire borough.

Organisations will usually need to be based in the borough in order to qualify for a grant from this fund, although in exceptional circumstances an organisation outside the borough may be funded, if they can show that the funding will be used exclusively to benefit residents of East Staffordshire only.

Aims

Your project must meet one of the following criteria:

Bring benefit to the people or communities of East Staffordshire
Improve, enhance or make accessible the built or natural environment of East Staffordshire.

Funding Information

You can apply for a grant of up to £10,000, but the panel usually makes awards in the region of £5000.

Beneficiaries

Beneficiaries they Can Support: Preference will be given to applications working in one of the following fields:
- Heritage
- Arts & Leisure
- Built & Natural Environment
- Social & Community Isolation
Beneficiaries they Cannot Support: This fund cannot support any organisation whose primary beneficiaries are:
- Not resident in the borough of East Staffordshire.

Eligibility Criteria

Types of Organisation they can fund: They will support the following types of organisation:
- Constituted community groups
- Constituted voluntary groups
- Registered Charities
- Social Enterprises
Types of Organisation They cannot fund: This fund will not offer funding to the following organisations:
- Non-constituted community groups
- Non-constituted voluntary groups
- Statutory organisations
- Organisations that do not have a proven track record of service delivery
- Limited companies, sole traders or partnerships without charitable aims.