Deadline: 15-May-23
The Woodsmith Foundation is inviting applications for its Community Grants to support a wide range of organisations to deliver projects that will do good things in their communities.
The Foundation only funds in the Borough of Redcar and Cleveland, the Borough of Scarborough and the North York Moors National Park.
Woodsmith Foundation is currently accepting applications for projects that fit the Woodsmith Foundation’s priority of increasing opportunities and tackling disadvantage. They will support projects that:
- Increase opportunities for better life chances.
- Encourage positive changes by improving lives and places, or tackling issues that negatively impact on local people.
- Bring people together and enrich lives by ensuring there are local spaces, resources and activities that provide pleasure, learning, or community action.
- Their Community Grants are popular so they have separated the funding available into 2 upper limits, with clear and specific categories based upon what they know is needed from past grant rounds (please see table in the grant guidance document). They will also prioritise funding projects that support people most at disadvantage due to unfavourable circumstances or facing barriers that lead to inequality.
Funding Information
- Organisations can apply for grants of up to £5,000. The total grant pot across the 3 grant rounds in 2023 is £200,000. An organisation may only submit one application in a 12 month period.
- Funds must be spent within 12 months of your grant being awarded. If you require more time to spend the funding due to this being a contribution to a capital building project please state this on your application form.
Eligibility Criteria
- They will support the following types of organisation:
- Local, voluntary groups that are constituted. That means you have a brief, written set of rules explaining how you will run your organisation and are governed by a committee of at least three unrelated members. You will have a bank account (or a relationship with a community organisation that is willing to hold the grant money for you).
- Charities or Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs) registered with the Charity Commission.
- Community Interest Companies (CICs) limited by guarantee and with at least two unrelated bank signatories and three unrelated Directors. To be eligible for funding from the Foundation you will need to be able to provide evidence of trading activity/planned trading activity and a contribution to public benefit.
- Parish and Town Councils or Parish Meetings.
- Faith organisations who are proposing to deliver activities that do not include the promotion or the practice of religion or particular belief systems. This is because these activities could exclude people from accessing a project on religious grounds.
- Schools or school parent led fundraising groups that are constituted voluntary groups.
- They may consider companies limited by guarantee with charitable objectives, but would only fund this type of organisation once and following a detailed due diligence. Please contact us to discuss your situation before applying.
For more information, visit Woodsmith Foundation.