Deadline: 6-Aug-21
The Northampton Community Foundation has launched The Northampton Queen’s Institute Relief Fund for projects based in Northampton that are all about improving health and wellbeing.
Applications are welcomed for projects that achieve the following:
- Supporting individuals to live with or manage a health condition
- Greater numbers of people will have healthy lifestyles and have improved life chances
- More people, especially those with a learning disability or mental health condition, will have the skills, training and education to enable employability
- Greater numbers of people will be involved within the community as active citizens and volunteers
Funding Information
- Grant Amount: Up to £5,000
Grant Location
- Northampton
Type of Projects
Examples of the types of eligible project activities include the following:
- Support and advocacy groups for people living with a health condition
- Community projects that promote emotional, mental and physical health and wellbeing
- Activities that reduce isolation or that provide social activity for vulnerable people to prevent loneliness
- Activities that provide help for people that need support to live in their own homes
- Activities that use arts, creativity, physical exercise and sport to support health and wellbeing
Eligibility Criteria
- Your group must be a small, locally managed, voluntary, community or self-help group
- You must be based in Northampton
- You must have people volunteering to help with your activity, who are not part of your management committee
- You must have a set of written rules or constitution that your group adheres to, that contains a dissolution clause. They can help advise you on how to do this especially if you are a new group
- You must have a child protection policy in place
For more information, visit http://www.ncf.uk.com/grants/grant-finder/queens-institute