Woodsmith Foundation: Community Grants – United Kingdom

Deadline: 21-Nov-22

The Woodsmith Foundation is inviting applications for its Community Grants to support voluntary and community organisations based in the Foundation’s area of benefit which is the Borough of Scarborough, the Borough of Redcar and Cleveland, and the North York Moors National Park.

Funding Information

Organisations can apply for grants of between £500 to £10,000.
The total grant pot available is up to £200,000.
Your project will need to be completed and the grant spent within 12 months of receiving your grant offer. They will consider a longer grant offer of up to 12 months where the funding will be a contribution to a larger capital project.

They will not fund

For this grant round they will not fund the following:
- A contribution to a large capital project which will cost more than £50,000. For capital projects between £15,000 and £50,000 they would need evidence that you have 75% of the costs already secured.
- Capital costs for a building you do not own where the lease is less than 5 years.
- A request for just capital costs for a vehicle that will be used by one organisation for their own members.
- One off events or contributions to festivals, fund raising days or similar.
- School residentials and day trips; activities that take place during the school day; statutory education provision.
- Projects where you intend to pass the funding on as grants, sponsorship or donations to other organisations/individuals.
- Disproportionate core organisational costs or ongoing running costs or contributions to overheads or management fees.
- General appeals or sponsorship or prizes for competitions or raffles.
- Heritage or conservation projects with no community benefit.
- Repairs to churches or other places of worship where there is no secular activity happening or benefit for the wider community beyond the congregation.
- Income lost during the pandemic.
- Projects which have already started or retrospective funding.
- Activities which are funded by another organisation. If, having applied to the Foundation, you find that you have been successful with an alternative bid for the same work.

Eligibility Criteria

They will support the following types of organisation:
- Local, voluntary groups that are constituted. That means you have a brief, written set of rules explaining how you will run your organisation and are governed by a committee of at least three unrelated members. You will have a bank account (or a relationship with a community organisation that is willing to hold the grant money for you).
- Charities or Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs) registered with the Charity Commission.
- Community Interest Companies (CICs) limited by guarantee and with at least two unrelated bank signatories and three unrelated Directors. To be eligible for funding from the Foundation you will need to be able to provide evidence of trading activity/planned trading activity and a contribution to public benefit.
- Parish and Town Councils or Parish Meetings.
- Faith organisations who are proposing to deliver activities that do not include the promotion or the practice of religion or particular belief systems. This is because these activities could exclude people from accessing a project on religious grounds.
- Schools or school parent led fundraising groups that are constituted voluntary group
They will not support applications from the following types of organisation:
- Individuals or private businesses
- CICs limited by shares
- Local Authorities (that are not a Parish Council, Town Council or Parish Meeting)
- Organisations that do not have at least two people on their board or committee who are not related.
- Organisations that do not have at least two unrelated bank signatories.