Deadline: 17-Jul-24
Does your organisation have a track record of delivering social impact with aims to achieve systemic change for local communities? If so, your organisation may be eligible for a transformation grant from Westway Trust.
This fund is designed to provide funding for organisations who can deliver programmes to tackle systemic injustice in the communities.
The transformation grants programme is aimed at supporting systemic change in the communities, particularly focusing on addressing inequalities and advancing social justice. These grants are designed to support needs-based initiatives seeking to fundamentally transform services, policies, and practices to create more equitable and inclusive environments. With an emphasis on Social Justice, these grants prioritise addressing root causes of inequality, discrimination, and marginalisation.
Applicants will be given the flexibility to submit proposals rooted in their own research, or drawing on established research, using delivery techniques that can be demonstrated as being effective.
Funding Information
- They expect to award grants of up to £70,000, lasting for up to a year.
Eligible Projects
- The Transformational Grants will seek to support projects that will focus on addressing themes of social injustice in North Kensington and implementing systemic change. They encourage projects that demonstrate sustainability, and potential for positive impact in North Kensington.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must meet the following eligibility criteria:
- Organisation
- Registered with Companies House and or Charity Commission.
- Limited companies and registered charities need to have a registered office in the UK.
- Applications from organisations working as a consortium, partnerships, network or group.
- Annual turn-over more than £100,000.
- Financially solvent.
- All organisations need to have a UK bank account in the exact name it is applying in (the organisation’s name), with two signatories. A signatory is someone that is authorised to make transactions and manage an account, for example can sign cheques.
- Internal Systems
- Evidence of strong internal systems: o Policies in place that address how organisations deal with conflict of interest o Evidence of adequate financial systems/processes to manage and report on spending o Strong Governance, accountabilities and reporting structure
- Alignment of objectives and values
- A strategic document for the host organisation, setting out clear links between the organisation’s objectives and ambition to address the theme of the proposal.
- Organisational values with clear links to those of Westway Trust, demonstrating how these values have shaped the work of the organisation in the past, and how those values will shape the project being proposed.
- Capacity
- Track record of delivering successful programmes, delivering social projects of similar scale
- Evidence of staff with experience of delivering similar projects.
- Efforts to address systemic inequalities or barriers
- Organisation
Ineligible
- Individuals
- Sole Traders
- Organisations based outside of the UK
- Organisations that look to make profits and share these profits out privately – including shareholders.
- Organisations applying to more than one of the funds for the same project
For more information, visit Westway Trust.