Individuals
We only accept grant applications from referring organisations, made on behalf of individuals.
Organisations
To be an eligible organisation, you need to be either a registered, excepted, or exempt charity, CIC, CIO, not-for-profit community group/club, parish or town council, village hall, PCC, school, or social enterprise (with the Social Enterprise Mark).
Your organisation must additionally fulfil the following requirements to be eligible for funding:
- If your income, before expenses, is over £5,000 per annum, you need to be registered with the Charity Commission or, if you are a sports club, either be registered as a Community Amateur Sports Club (CASC) or affiliated with a National Sporting Body e.g., the Football Association.
- You need to have a minimum of either three unrelated members on your management committee or three unrelated trustees.
- You need to supply a recent bank statement (within the last three months) or a paying in slip as proof of your organisation’s bank account into which a grant can be paid.
- You need to supply a signed copy of your organisation’s governing documents, which confirms that you are operating not-for-profit and must contain a dissolution clause that outlines that assets (after the satisfaction of debts/liabilities) will be distributed to charitable organisations with similar aims, should your organisation cease to operate.
- You need to supply a copy of your latest accounts or, if you are a new organisation, a balance sheet which keeps track of income and expenditure.
- You need to provide the most recent review dates for your current safeguarding policy (which contains a named safeguarding lead with contact details within it) and your current equality policy.
- If you are a registered charity or community interest company (CIC), your details with the relevant regulating body need to be up to date, and you must be able to provide a CIC 36 form or the latest CIC 34 annual report.
- For applications including capital equipment, you need to provide three different quotes for any item over £500.
We do not offer funding for the following:
- Activities or projects which have already taken place (i.e., retrospective funding)
- Sponsored events, fundraising activities, or grant-making activities or bodies
- Improvements to land/buildings that are not open to the general public at convenient hours
- Projects promoting political activities or lobbying for causes
- The practice of religion or any projects that actively promote religion, particular belief systems, or indeed the lack of a belief. Such activities could exclude people from accessing a project based on religious grounds.
- Animal welfare projects
- Overseas travel
- Statutory obligations (i.e., activities that replace government funding)
