Deadline: 2-Nov-20
The South Yorkshire’s Community Foundation is seeking applications for its Community Grants Programme.
The SYCF Community Grants Programme is made up of several funds provided by generous local donors. It is intended to support volunteer-led community groups and organizations across South Yorkshire, especially smaller, developing or less well-resourced organizations and grass-roots groups, where small amounts of funding can make a real difference.
Priority Areas
They fund organizations trying to have at least one of the following impacts:
- Improve life skills, education, employability & enterprise
- Maximize community cohesion & build social capacity
- Promote reduction of isolation & disadvantage
- Advance people’s physical health & well-being
- Connect people will arts, culture & heritage
- Transform access to and engagement with public spaces & the environment
Funding Information
Between £250 and £5,000, to be spent within one year.
Who can apply?
Community Grants are for volunteer-led, not-for-profit community organizations in South Yorkshire. This includes charities, community groups, clubs and some social enterprises. To be eligible for a grant you must:
- Have a governing document (e.g. a constitution or memorandum of association),
- Have a board or management committee of at least three unrelated people who are volunteers, not paid for their time,
- Have a bank account in the name of the group requiring at least two unrelated signatories, and
- Have beneficiaries who live in South Yorkshire and be locally led and run.
Priority will be given to local, grass-roots organizations.
Ineligible
Community Grants cannot be awarded to fund:
- For-profit organisations, statutory organisations (e.g. schools and hospitals) or overseas organisations
- Payments to trustees or directors
- Retrospective funding (activity and costs that have already taken place or repayment of money which has already been spent)
- Overseas trips or expeditions
- Grant-making to other organisations and/or individuals
- Organisations or activities primarily for the benefit of animals rather than people
- Activity that promotes a particular political or religious point of view
They can fund religious organisations (like a church, mosque or gurdwara) delivering activity which benefits the community (like running a food bank), but they cannot fund religious services or activity intended to promote a particular religion.
If activity is intended to target a particular group of people (ethnicity, gender, religion, etc.) there should be a good reason for this, for example is this is the best way to redress an existing inequality or to ensure services reach a group which would otherwise be underserved or marginalised.
Decision making
- Your application will be assessed against the criteria, aims and priorities above they may contact you to ask some additional questions, or to arrange an assessment visit to your group their panel of independent volunteer decision makers will make their decisions. The panel’s decision is final.
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