Deadline: 13-Oct-21
The Community Foundation for Staffordshire is inviting applications for Stafford Together Community Fund to enhance the provision of service, provide new services or to help make organisations more efficient or to improve the scope of their provision.
This is an endowment fund for the Stafford Area, and provides funding to community and voluntary organisations across the whole Borough of Stafford and the surrounding villages. Stafford Together raises funds that are put back into the local community through the allocation of grants.
Every year hundreds of voluntary groups provide thousands of hours service to the borough of Stafford. They help to keep the kids off the streets, they provide social contact and enjoyment for isolated members of society, they teach children new skills, they tackle disadvantage that statutory bodies can not. Their aim is to support these organisations through Stafford Together.
Funding Information
- You can apply for a grant of up to £500.
- These grants will be awarded to organisations who provide facilities or services for local people.
- Grants from Stafford Together can be used for either capital or revenue projects, and can last for up to a year.
- It would be unusual for the fund to make an award to the same organisation for the same project two years running, unless you can demonstrate that their have been significant developments or increased demand for your project.
Eligible Projects
Your project must meet one of the following criteria;
- Provide a service for the local area, or for local residents
- Improve the lives of local people
- Be providing a service or facility that would otherwise not be available
- In addition, for the May round of funding you should also ensure your project impacts on one of the following strategic priorities;
- Vibrant and prosperous economy
- Healthy and safe communities
- Clean, green, welcoming places to live.
Eligible Costs
- Core costs
- Equipment costs
- Capital costs
- Training costs
- One off event costs
- Project costs.
Beneficiaries they can support
- In order to qualify for a grant from this scheme your project must be supporting the following types of beneficiary;
- People usually resident in the Borough of Stafford.
Geographic Areas
- They will support organisations based in, or working for the benefit of people in the following local authority areas;
- Stafford Borough, (this includes Stone and the surrounding villages).
Eligibility Criteria
- They will support the following types of organization:
- Constituted community groups
- Constituted voluntary groups
- Registered Charities
- Social Enterprises.
For more information, visit https://staffordshire.foundation/grants/staffordtogether/