Deadline: 31-Mar-23
The VINCI UK Foundation is offering grants to support projects that promote social cohesion and fight exclusion.
VINCI recognises that its sustainable economic success is linked to an ambitious social commitment. The UK Foundation brings to life VINCI’s determination to be a long term partner to the communities for which it builds, equips and manages facilities such as factories, offices, schools, hospitals, roads, bridges, airports, telecommunications and energy networks in the UK and the Republic of Ireland.
Areas of Action
The VINCI UK Foundation funds projects which aim to tackle the issues in the following four areas of action through an innovative approach and which will make a positive, measurable impact on the local area:
- Access to employment
- Projects which support those currently excluded from the job market helping people to adapt to the world of work, while also receiving the training and support they need.
- Projects that offer basic training and guidance to enable individuals with no qualifications to enter the world of work.
- Insertion through housing
- Projects that enable access to housing for the most underprivileged individuals to provide them with more security and stability.
- Inclusive mobility
- Providing people with easier admission to secure employment, health care and education by improving the mobility of those deprived of means of transportation, and reduce the factors restricting their mobility.
- Building better communities
- Projects that aim to strengthen social links and fight social isolation of inhabitants of underprivileged neighbourhoods.
- Initiatives aimed at conveying citizenship values or educational training to young people.
Funding Information
- Only tangible goods (e.g. tools and equipment, vehicles, IT, furniture, building works) can be funded by the VINCI UK Foundation.
- Applications requesting money for wages or running-costs will not be successful when applying.
- The purchasing of tangible goods should be part of a project (development of new/current activities, refurbishment of premises, improvment of marketing tools) whose total cost does not exceed £100,000.
- Duration: The VINCI UK Foundation only supports projects having a long-lasting impact on the targeted communities. One-off events won’t be supported, even if they are socially oriented.
Beneficiaries
- The project submitted to the VINCI UK Foundation should benefit a wide range of local community groups. The more beneficiaries, the more chance of being successful.
Eligibility Criteria
- The VINCI UK Foundation supports projects in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, located near the offices of VINCI companies in order to ensure efficiency of the sponsorship. This proximity criterion is essential to choosing an appropriate sponsor for the project.
- The VINCI UK Foundation supports small and medium size registered community interest or non-profit organisations*, with no political or religious orientation (for instance: youth clubs, neighbourhood charities, social enterprises, community centres, etc.).
- The VINCI UK Foundation will not consider applications from individuals, profit-based organisations, statutory bodies, federations, public organisations, institutions and political or religious organisations/groups.
*NB: if the Foundation is over-subscribed, applications from smaller charities will be looked upon more favourably
For more information, visit VINCI UK Foundation.