Deadline: 1-Aug-22
Applications are now open for its Wesleyan Foundation Large Grants Programme to support registered charities, constituted voluntary and community groups based within the region covered by the Wesleyan network.
Applications are invited from groups based or delivering projects in Nottinghamshire.
Applications will be considered from charities and community groups that will promote or improve health, education, innovation or social development in Nottinghamshire.
Aims
- Applications will be considered from charities and constituted voluntary and community groups that focus on:
- Education – charities or projects that enhance learning and develop career opportunities.
- Health – promote health and wellbeing.
- Social – provide local solutions to meet local needs, promote community cohesion and develop sustainable and supportive communities.
Areas
- Grants can be awarded for applications demonstrating how the project will provide services and improve outcomes in one or more of the following areas:
- Mental Health
- Bereavement Support
- PSE (Personal Social Education)
- Domestic Violence Support (including women’s refuges)
- Isolation / Befriending / Listening Services
- Vulnerable and Elderly
- Dementia / Quality of Life
- Social Prescribing – alleviating the pressure from the NHS
- Getting Back to Work – innovative travel (cycle schemes) / reducing carbon footprint
- Employment – reskilling people (not so much those that support with CV writing) but those that actively prepare people for a new job / new career, interview prep etc
- Outdoor Projects – making changes so that services can be delivered outside
Funding Information
- Grants are available between £2,000 – £10,000 and must be spent within a year.
They will Fund
- Groups that have been running for at least 2 years.
- Salary, equipment, or volunteer costs that are clearly budgeted and only used for the project – evidence will be required.
- Grants can be made for a wide range of purposes including consumables, project or activity costs.
Priority Area: Grants are available to groups based within the region covered by the Wesleyan network – applications are invited from groups based or delivering projects in Nottinghamshire.
Eligibility Criteria
- You can apply to this fund if you are one of the following:
- Registered Charities
- Constituted Community Groups
- Companies Limited by Guarantee with charitable aims
- Community Interest Companies
- Co-operatives – registered Community Benefit Societies and registered Industrial and Provident Societies
- Social Enterprises
- Please note they are unable to fund the following:
- Individuals or sole traders
- Arts and media focused projects
- Sports clubs and societies (unless the project benefits disabled people)
- Contact sports such as boxing
- Capital Builds
- Direct replacement of statutory obligations and public funding
- Promotion of religious or political activities
- Groups with significant financial free reserves
- Organisations or charities which are solely to promote any particular religion
- Organisations who have indicated poor management of any previous grants or who present poor financial health
- Payment of deficit funding or repayment of loans
- Animal welfare, unless the project benefits people (e.g. disabled riding schemes)
- Statutory work in educational institutions
- Pure sponsorship purposes or funding purely for costs of fund-raising event
For more information, visit https://www.nottscf.org.uk/grant/wesleyan-foundation-large-grants-programme/