We Love Tamworth Community Grants – United Kingdom

Deadline: 29-Oct-20

The Community Foundation for Staffordshire is seeking applications for the We Love Tamworth Community Grants to provide funding to small community and voluntary groups across the borough of Tamworth. It is funded from an endowment fund, and by the Coventry Building Society through their community fund.

The fund that was originally part of the Tamworth School of Industry was used to award grants and bursaries to people in Tamworth who were going into domestic service. The remit has now been widened and so will make bursaries to individuals who are going to college or university, or adult education classes, to study anything related to care.

These grants will be awarded to organisations that provide facilities or services for local people. The aim is 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 might include extending provision to other people.

Project Aims

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 should also ensure project impacts on one of the following strategic priorities:
- Vibrant and prosperous economy;
- Healthy and safe communities;
- Clean, green, welcoming places to live.

Funding Information

Organisations can apply for a grant of up to £1,000.

Eligibility Criteria

The foundation will support the following types of organisation:
- Constituted community groups;
- Constituted voluntary groups;
- Registered Charities;
- Social Enterprises.
This fund will not offer funding to the following organisations:
- Non-constituted community groups;
- Non-constituted voluntary groups;
- Statutory agencies;
- Organisations that have been established less than 12 months;
- Organisations whose annual income is more than £1m per annum;
- Organisations that do not have a proven track record of service delivery;
- Limited companies, sole traders or partnerships without charitable aims.
The foundation will support organisations based in, or working for the benefit of people in the following local authority areas:
- Tamworth.
This fund cannot support organisations that are based in, or working in the following local authority areas:
- Cannock Chase, East Staffordshire, Newcastle under Lyme, South Staffordshire, Stafford, Staffordshire Moorlands, Stoke on Trent or Lichfield;
- Any area outside Staffordshire.