Deadline: 11-Jul-23
The Hampshire & Isle of Wight Community Foundation is seeking applications for its grant programme to fund community projects on the Isle of Wight helping to tackle poverty and to increase health and wellbeing.
When applying for this fund, community organisations should consider how the project will help to ease poverty and/ or increase wellbeing for participants. Your project can reach island residents of all ages and fund work that is one-to-one (such as counselling) as well as work on a group basis.
The Isle of Wight Community Fund is made possible by endowment funding donated by Isle of Wight donors.
HIWCF: HIWCF is administering this grant programme. HIWCF’s core aim is to tackle poverty and inequality. HIWCF understands the connection between health and poverty and that health can be positively impacted by people being involved in shaping local projects/ services.
Funding Information
- The Community Fund offers 12-month grants of £1,000 – £5,000 for not-for-profit community organisations. The fund will only make grants to organisations based in AND supporting work within the Isle of Wight.
- Minimum Grant: £1,000
- Maximum Grant: £5,000
What does a strong application look like?
- They always have a high number of bids for the Isle of Wight Community Fund. To help us understand how your bid matches their criteria you must meet all three of their programme criteria detailed.
- Please have a read of these case studies as examples of work that meet all three of their programme criteria. All examples are fictitious and for illustrative purposes only.
- Town Hub, based on the Isle of Wight. This charity supports local people who live in the four large housing estates that surround this community centre. Town Hub runs a range of services; it will use a Community Fund grant of £2,500 to pay towards its part-time Support Worker who runs drop-in advice sessions from 10am – 1pm every weekday. Advice covered includes help with form-filling, benefits advice, and signposting to local health services.
Target Beneficiaries
- Your application must be for work that reaches people living hard and challenging lives. Your bid should make clear how the requested funding will reach people who are living in poverty, facing discrimination, or isolated. This could include families struggling to cover living costs, people with mental health problems, people living with a disability or a long-term health condition (this is not an exhaustive list of examples).
Location: Isle of Wight.
Eligibility Criteria
- They welcome bids from: registered charities; charitable incorporated organisations (CIOs); companies limited by guarantee; community interest companies (limited by guarantee) and constituted community organisations.
- Isle of Wight Community Fund, Criteria: The projects that this grant programme will fund need to meet ALL THREE of the following programme criteria. If bids are not clear about all elements, they will be scored as ineligible based on a poor fit with the programme criteria.
- Your application must be for work that reaches people living hard and challenging lives. Your bid should make clear how the requested funding will reach people who are living in poverty, facing discrimination, or isolated. This could include families struggling to cover living costs, people with mental health problems, people living with a disability or a long-term health condition (this is not an exhaustive list of examples).
- Your application must show how local people/ people from your target community helped to shape this work – this could be through these people being consulted, volunteering, or leading the work.
- Your application must demonstrate how it seeks to ease the effects of poverty and/ or increase health and wellbeing. They know that there is no simple fix to reduce poverty or improve wellbeing, but your work should show how it is taking steps such as: linking people to advice/ benefits, helping people to reduce anxiety, helping people to grow food and get active (this is not an exhaustive list).
- Additional Criteria:
- Your grant application can be for new or existing community activities and services.
- Budget Costs: They want to help you run these activities over a 12 month period, so will cover staff and volunteer costs, activity costs and a proportionate contribution to the core costs of your organisation to deliver this work.
- They will fund foodbanks and pantries for work that also delivers advice and support to the community e.g. an advice worker.
For more information, visit Isle of Wight Community Fund.
