Deadline: 30-Sep-21
The Good Food Oxford (GFO) is pleased to announce Grant Opportunity for Community Services working to prevent COVID-19 outbreaks across Oxfordshire that aims to help frontline Community Food Services to offer their services which helps minimise the spread of COVID-19.
For example by enabling people to self-isolate or minimise contact. They can be for project or core costs, but must demonstrate how you will prevent or contain covid infections in your service/organisation.
In order to qualify for the funding, you must have the following:
- A Bank Account in the name of your organisation (not a personal account) with two authorized signatories. If you need help setting this up, they can put you in touch with your local community support officer in your district to help you.
- A project which helps people in Oxfordshire and helps to prevent the spread of COVID. This could be by ensuring people remain socially distant from each other at your service, providing support to access healthy food for people who are self-isolating, or helping specific hard-to reach groups access the services they need.
What They Don’t Fund
- Individuals
- Campaigning, lobbying, awareness-raising
- Sponsorship
- Endowment appeals
Here are some examples of the type of activities which meet the government’s criteria:
- Enhanced communication and marketing (e.g. towards hard-to-reach groups and other localized messaging). – Do you for example translate relevant info into minority languages
- Supporting residents to self-isolate. – Do you provide food or meals to these groups
- Targeted interventions for specific sections of the local community and workplaces such as the BAME population.
- Harnessing capacity within local sectors (e.g. voluntary, academic, commercial). Do you work with other organisations to help deliver your services
- Targeted support for school/university outbreaks.
- Provision of food and essential packages – through food banks, community larders, community fridges, meals on wheels and personal food shoppers.
- Community-based support for those disproportionately impacted.
- Support for engagement and analysis of regional areas to assess and learn from local initiatives.
Eligibility Criteria
- UK registered charities
- Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs)
- schools, universities or registered educational charities that are either exempt under Charity Commission guidelines or are registered charities (the project in question must not be one which attracts statutory funding).
- faith based organisations that are either exempt under the Charity Commission guidelines or are registered charities
- housing associations
- un-constituted community groups providing they have a bank account
- any organisation operating a particular project in this area on a non-profit basis.
For more information, visit https://goodfoodoxford.org/blog/grant-funding-opportunity-community-services/