Deadline: 31 October 2016
Nesta, the UK’s innovation foundation, is currently seeking expressions of interest from eligible entities for its Second Half Fund, that will support the growth of innovations that mobilise the time and talents of people in the second half of their lives to help others, alongside public services.
The Second Half Fund will work with around 12-18 innovations that mobilise the time and talents of people aged 50+, to address a number of big social challenges. We have selected four priorities for our open call for innovations looking to scale their impact or reach, where we think there is a clear case for the difference social action can make.
Priority Areas
Fund seeks innovations that focus on creating impact for:
- children and young people: people aged 50+ supporting and encouraging children and young people to succeed and find employment through social action.
- parents and families: people aged 50+ supporting parents and families to nurture and encourage children and young people to be healthy and succeed.
- ageing well: people aged 50+ supporting older people to age well.
- resourceful and resilient places: people aged 50+ supporting resourceful and resilient neighbourhoods.
Eligibility Criteria
The fund seeks to support activities in England by innovative organisations and programmes that:
- mobilise the time and talents of people aged 50+ through social action to have a demonstrable positive impact on outcomes in one of our priority themes (children and young people, parents and families, ageing well, resourceful and resilient places).
- harness social action effectively – mobilising people aged 50+ – to work alongside public services.
- have an ambitious and financially sustainable strategy for growing their impact by reaching and benefiting many more people.
- have a commitment to rigorously measuring their ongoing performance and progress against our Standards of Evidence are supported by a competent management team who are open to challenge and support.
- Nesta is interested in mobilising the time and talents of people aged 50+ and programme funding should exclusively or predominantly be in pursuit of this goal.
- Nesta can only fund projects which advance our charitable objects for public benefit. We may impose conditions and restrictions on private benefit and profit derived from our funding. In particular, if you are a for profit business, we may require you to make technology developed using the grant freely available, to reinvest profits from commercial exploitation back into your project to deliver greater public benefit, or to return a share of profits to Nesta.
- Support is provided to incorporated entities and unincorporated associations with formal membership structures, but not individuals.
- A number of organisations can apply together, but one must act as lead and take responsibility for the others.
- As the Second Half Fund is financed by the Office for Civil Society (OCS), grants will come from public funds and must not be used in a way that constitutes unapprovable State Aid.
- While applicants can be established in any part of the UK, the benefits of their proposals must be within England only.
How to Apply
EOIs must be submitted online via given website.
Eligible Country: UK
For more information, please visit Second Half Fund.