Deadline: 1-Feb-22
The Cambridgeshire Community Foundation is offering grants under ‘Cultivate Fund’ to help voluntary, community and social enterprise sector organisations to deliver projects that help to achieve these broad outcomes by addressing the needs of local residents.
The Cultivate Fund aims to redirect Council funding from high cost front-line services, towards support and services that are delivered within, and by, local communities.
Priorities
The priority areas of service where funding applications are most welcome are:
- Adults and older people: Key client groups supported:
- Older people
- Adults (18+) with: disabilities (learning disabilities and / or physical disabilities), sensory impairments, mental health needs
- Carers
- Children, Young People, and Families: Key client groups supported. Vulnerable children and young people and their families, including:
- Children and young people with: disabilities (learning disabilities and / or physical disabilities, or other additional needs), sensory impairments, mental health needs
- Young Carers
- Children and young people at risk of going into care
- Care Leavers
- Children at risk of child criminal exploitation or other significant harm
- Young people who are at risk of exclusion or are excluded from mainstream education
Funding Information
Cultivate – grants of £ 2,000- £ 15,000 aimed at encouraging local networks where people help themselves and each other.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Cultivate Fund is for:
- voluntary, community and social enterprise sector organizations, based in and outside of Cambridgeshire
- public sector bodies in Cambridgeshire, including District, Town and Parish Councils (excluding Cambridgeshire County Council)
- All projects have to benefit the residents of Cambridgeshire.
- The fund is not open to individuals, or for profit businesses. Project beneficiaries must be residents of Cambridgeshire and projects serving the residents of the Peterborough City Council local authority area are not eligible for funding.
- Please n ote that unincorporated associations must be legally registered to apply for a grant if their income is above £ 5,000 or if the grant applied for will take their income over £ 5,000.
For more information, visit https://www.cambscf.org.uk/icf.html