Deadline: 14-Aug-20
Applications are now open for the Wesleyan Foundation’s Small Grants Programme 2020.
Fund Aims
Applications will be considered from charities, constituted voluntary and community groups that focus on:
- Education – Charities or projects that enhance learning, address positive social mobility, disadvantage and raising aspirations. Initiatives that develop skills and employment
- Health – Projects that promote health and mental well-being, and create opportunities for inclusion.
- Social – Projects that provide local solutions to meet local needs, promote community cohesion and develop sustainable and supportive communities.
Funding Information
- Grants of up to £2,000 are available and these must be spent within a year.
The Foundation will Fund
- 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.
- The Wesleyan Foundation is in favor of funding:
- Mental Health – all age groups
- Bereavement
- PSE (Personal Safety Equipment)
- Domestic Violence (including women’s refuges)
- Isolation /befriending /listening
- The vulnerable and elderly
- Dementia/quality of life
- Social prescribing – alleviating the pressure from the NHS
- Getting back to work – innovative travel (cycle schemes) / reducing the carbon footprint
- Employment – reskilling people (not so much those that support with CV writing) but those that actively prepare you for a new job / new career etc interview prep etc
- Outdoor projects – making changes so that services can be delivered outside
- The delivery of the projects needs to be following Government guidelines in terms of social distancing etc.
Notes:
- 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 £250,000, as shown in your most recent annual accounts.
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
For more information, visit https://communityfoundationni.org/grants/the-wesleyan-foundation-small-grants-programme/