Deadline: 13-Sep-21
The Society of Merchant Venturers is offering the majority of its charitable donations towards organisations that have been most negatively impacted by the Covid-19 crisis, as well as those organisations that are supporting individuals and communities who have been most negatively impacted by the crisis.
Focus Areas
The Committee will consider applications from organisations addressing the following needs within the Greater Bristol area (defined as the former County of Avon):
- Social Needs: care of the elderly, homelessness, poverty or the prevention of crime
- Youth: to support training (outside educational establishments), assist character development and increase employment prospects and to assist the disadvantaged
- Education: directly involved with primary, secondary and tertiary education. Priority will be given:
- to the SMV family of schools
- in support of other Greater Bristol educational activities and initiatives
- Social Enterprise: to promote and support social enterprise
- Health Care
- Culture and the Arts
- Environment
- Bristol: projects, preferably those associated with the Society’s spheres of interest and achievement which will benefit Greater Bristol and its economic development.
Funding Information
- In general, grants of up to a maximum of £5,000 are available.
- From time to time the members of the Society may consider applications for amounts that are larger than this, should the work of an organisation be of particular interest to the Society.
- Applications for grants will not, in principle, be considered for repeat applicants until three years after the award of a previous grant.
What sort of grants may be made?
- Grants can be for capital equipment or ongoing revenue costs, but grants are unlikely to be made towards the cost of an existing salaried position.
Eligibility Criteria
- Priority will be given to supporting organisations that benefit local people within Greater Bristol.
- Organisations applying need not be registered charities but do need to have charitable purposes, have a management committee comprising at least three unrelated people, a set of rules under which the organisation operates and a bank account in the name of the organisation, with at least two signatories.
For more information, visit https://www.merchantventurers.com/what-we-do/charitable-giving/