Deadline: 18-Oct-2024
The Wiltshire Community Foundation is pleased to announce the Wessex Water Foundation Community Grants to support community-based activities or projects that meet a local need and seek to improve the lives of local people who are most in need of support.
These activities or projects should be informed by the people or community they serve and have considerable reach and wide community benefit, with priority given to work that fulfils one of more of the following:
- takes place in areas of multiple deprivation or rural isolation where people lack access to local services
- helps build stronger communities – enabling people to work together and create solutions to local challenges
- helps people take steps to manage or avoid debt and build their financial capability. This can include activities that raise awareness and take up of utility affordability support such as the Wessex Water schemes.
Funding Information
- Grants are available of up to £4,000 for work covering a period of up to 12 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be based and working in the Wessex Water area. To apply via Wiltshire Community Foundation, applicants must be based and working in the section of the Wessex Water area covered by the Foundation.
- You can apply for a grant if you are a:
- voluntary and community group with charitable aims
- registered charity
- Community Interest Company (CIC)
- Parish council
Ineligibility Criteria
- What they don’t fund?
- Applications from individuals
- Onward grants to individuals
- National organisations or those based outside the region
- General appeals including for capital building projects
- Activities the government and other public bodies currently have a statutory responsibility to provide
- Groups or activities that are giving support to a political party
- Activities intending to influence people’s religious choices
For more information, visit Wiltshire Community Foundation.