Deadline: 31-May-2024
The Robertson Trust is now inviting applications for its Community Vehicle Grants to support the work of charities with an annual income.
Who and what are Community Vehicle Grants for?
- For registered charities working in Scotland, with an annual income of £25,000 to £2 million, that support people who are experiencing (or are at risk of experiencing) poverty or trauma.
- Funding of £1,000 to £10,000 towards the costs of the purchase or upgrade of a vehicle used by your charity.
What type of work will you fund a vehicle for?
- Through the Community Vehicle Grants, as with all the funding, they want to support charities whose work addresses the impacts of poverty and/or trauma under one or more of these themes:
- Financial wellbeing: addressing the financial and material effects of poverty on people and communities.
- Emotional wellbeing and relationships: ensuring people have emotional wellbeing, and confidence and strength in their relationships with others.
- Educational and work pathways: equipping people for the future through learning and skills pathways.
- Across all three of these themes, they can contribute to the costs of a vehicle used to support work that:
- meets people’s immediate needs around poverty or trauma
- provides earlier help which aims to prevent or reduce the likelihood of experiencing negative outcomes relating to poverty and/or trauma
- tests new approaches or does more of what works
- is universal (aimed at a wide group of people or an entire community) or targeted (focusing on a specific beneficiary group, e.g. young people), as long as it shows how it will meet the needs of people (at risk of) experiencing poverty or trauma.
Who can’t apply?
- Charities who received funding from them for a Community Vehicle within the past 12 months. You can reapply once your current Community Vehicle grant has ended and you’ve sent them your End of Grant Report.
- Charities who unsuccessfully applied to the previous Open Grants programme (which closed in early 2020) within the past 12 months. You can reapply once 12 months from the date of your decline email has passed.
- Housing Associations and Arm’s Length External Organisations (ALEOs). These types of organisation are not currently eligible for funding from them.
For more information, visit The Robertson Trust.
For more information, visit https://www.therobertsontrust.org.uk/funding/community-vehicle-grants/