Deadline: 20-Jun-22
The East End Community Foundation (EECF) is seeking applications for Tower Hamlets Council Small Grants Fund: Community Support Services for Older people (Theme 8) to provide community support services for older people and to promote well-being and a longer healthy life by reducing social isolation, increasing physical activity, and maintaining independence in older age.
Funding Information
- Up to £15,000 for one year with potential extension for a second year. Extension funding will be awarded following a submission of monitoring and evaluation information and positive assessment of the project.
What they Will Fund?
- Applications may be made for projects that include the provision of a meal or other refreshments. The cost of premises, staff, volunteers and other costs for the project may be included but the Small Grants Program will not pay for the cost of meals (ingredients, preparation etc).
- Funding can be used flexibly but is primarily intended to cover revenue costs and they can be used to fund a whole project or to pay for elements of a wider project. There must be a quantifiable contribution to the proposed activity either in cash (other funding) or in kind (volunteer time, rent free premises etc). However, they do not require match funding.
What they won't fund?
- Expenditure or activities that have already taken place Religious or political activity (they are able to fund religious organizations if they are providing benefit for the wider community) Activities where a profit will be distributed for private gain or projects that have no charitable gold community element Activity that replaces government funding or is a statutory responsibility, for example, they can only fund school activities that are additional to the curriculum Activities that benefit individuals, rather than a wider community Retrospective costs and loan repayments foreign travel
Eligibility Criteria
- The Community Support Services for Older People Theme will only continue to support organizations which can show that at least 50% of their trustees/committee/board members are from BAME communities.
- Organizations with an annual turnover in excess of £250,000 are not eligible to apply to this theme and priority will be given to organizations with a turnover of less than £100,000 per annum.
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The fund is open to voluntary and community organizations. These are defined as;
- Registered charities
- Community groups
- Community associations
- Tenants and residents' groups
- Green spaces friends' groups
- Co-operatives and social enterprises
- School/parent groups which are independent of the schools they work with
- Faith organizations
- Sports, environmental, arts and heritage organizations
- Grant making trusts
- Housing associations
- Un-constituted groups of residents working together to make a difference in their local communities
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They cannot accept applications from;
- For-profit organizations
- Individuals seeking funding for personal benefit, or sole traders
- Organizations based outside the UK
For more information, visit EECF.
For more information, visit https://eastendcf.org/tower-hamlets-grants/
