Deadline: 30-Apr-24
The Bradford Fund Microgrants are aimed at small and emerging Bradford-based community organisations who may not be able to access larger grants programmes.
They can be used to part-fund or fully-fund a variety of activities that will enable small and emerging organisations to support their communities through increased capacity or project work.
Funding Information
- Grant Size: Up to £2,500
- Duration: Up to 1 year
Eligible Funding
- Activity that can be funded:
- Organisational development aimed at increasing your organisation’s capacity and/or developing strategies.
- One-off projects or expanding existing activity
- Past-funded themes include: developing Community Organisations; health and wellbeing; providing enriching experiences; creating safe and friendly communities; and skills building.
- Past microgrant awards include: training for organisation staff; time for policy development; employability programmes; marketing consultation, and testing new activity.
What can’t be funded?
- Activity and costs that have already taken place
- Activity which might be regarded as discriminatory and/or excludes some people without good justification
- Activity that promotes a particular political or religious point of view
- Activity primarily for the benefit of animals
- Capital appeals for building projects
- Grant-making to other organisations and/or individuals, or applications from individuals
- For-profit organisations, statutory organisations or activity (e.g. schools and hospitals) and overseas organisations
- Expeditions or overseas travel
Who can apply?
- Not-for-profit incorporated Community Organisations from the third sector such as CIO, CIC limited by guarantee, or a charitable company. You will be registered with the Charity Commission, Companies House or Mutual Public Register (FCA).
- Charities that are registered with the Charity Commission but are not an incorporated structure – if grants are not used to pay staff employed directly by the charity.
- Small unincorporated and unregistered Community Organisations can only apply if your annual income is less than £10,000, and if securing the grant would not take you above this threshold for current financial year.
- For-profit organisations, statutory organisations or activity (e.g. schools and hospitals) and overseas organisations cannot be funded. Companies should be limited by guarantee and clearly constituted for public benefit. CICs should have an asset lock with a designated company or deferral to the regulator in place.
- All organisations, regardless of size and structure, must have:
- At least three Trustees/Directors/Committee Members (whichever is applicable, depending on your organisation’s legal structure) who are independent and unrelated. For registered charitable companies, limited companies and CICs you should be limited by guarantee without share capital, and there should be no registered Persons with Significant Control
- A governing document e.g. constitution or memorandum and articles of association that show how your group and its funds are managed, and includes a dissolution clause/asset lock
- A bank or building society account in the name of your organisation with a minimum of two unrelated authorised signatories on the mandate and transactions requiring authorisation by at least two of those authorised signatories
- Accounts or a record of income and expenditure for your organisation (if you are a new organisation, you will need to provide a bank statement and a project budget)
- A relevant safeguarding policy, if your organisation works with children or vulnerable adults.
Key Information
- They encourage applications from under-served and/or under-represented communities across all our funding opportunities.
- These grants are for formally constituted groups. This means that your group or organisation has a formal document explaining the purpose of your group, how it is organised, and how its assets are managed.
- Organisations must have an income under £75,000 in the most recent financial year
- Priority for funding will be given to organisations established in the last 5 years.
- Activity must be based in Bradford, and applicants must be based in Braford or demonstrate a connection to its communities.
- Only one application per organisation can be considered per round
- If you have received a microgrant in the past year you will not be considered in this round.
For more information, visit Leeds Community Foundation.