Wesleyan Foundation Large Grants Program (UK)

Deadline: 19-Oct-21

The Leicestershire and Rutland Community Foundation has launched its Wesleyan Foundation Large Grants Program.

Focus Areas

Education: projects that address positive social mobility, disadvantage and raising Initiatives that develop individuals’ skills and employability are also of high importance.
Health: projects that address mental and physical well-being and create opportunities for (please note that this fund prefers to fund higher level issues rather than preventative / lower level interventions)
Social: Wesleyan wish to champion projects that develop conscious inclusion so will prioritise projects that bring the community together.
Other priorities: Projects that can demonstrate an ongoing sustainability, both from a financial and an environment perspective. In addition, projects which build in an element to help reduce an organisation’s carbon footprint.

Funding Information

Grants between £ 2,000 to £10,000 are available and must be spent within a year.

Note: if you have been funded by Wesleyan Large Grants, you will not be able to reapply for funding for 3 years after the award of the initial grant, and following receipt of satisfactory monitoring.

Eligible Projects

Salary, equipment or volunteer costs that are clearly budgeted and only used for the project.
Start-up costs for a newproject or organisation
To extend or develop an existing project

Please Note

Grants can be made for a wide range of purposes including consumables, project or activity costs.
No more than 10% of the project costs can be assigned to operational/core costs.
Your application value must be no more than 20% of the organisation’s annual income.
Your organisation’s income level must be less than £500,000, as shown in your most recent annual accounts.

Geographic Areas

Grants are available across the whole of Leicestershire.

Eligibility Criteria

You can apply if you operate in Leicester, Leicestershire or Rutland and are one of the following:
- Registered charity
- Constituted Community group ( e.g. a committee, a constitution with charitable purposes and a bank account in the group name)
- Company Limited by Guarantee with charitable aims
- Community Interest Companies (CIC)
- Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIO)
- Social Enterprises(including some co-operatives, community benefit societies, limited co by guarantee.)
- Parish Councils(for non-statutory funded work)
- PTAs
- Faith based organisations(provided that the grant benefits the wider community and is not intended to influence people’s religious choices or to promote a particular belief system).
Funding to charitable companies or CIOs is restricted to funding their charitable objectives only.
NB –any national charities would need to be able to demonstrate that they have a local branch. This would include a local bank account, finances, and demonstration of fundraising and delivery in the local area only.