he Foyle Foundation's Small Grants Scheme supports smaller, UK based, registered charities working at grassroots and local community level. Trustees will consider projects in 'any field, across a wide range of activities', provided your organisation has an annual turnover of less than £150,000 per annum.
One-year grants of between £1,000 and £10,000 are available to cover core costs, equipment or project funding.
The Foundation aims to improve the quality of life for people and communities and is one of the largest independent grant makers in the UK. It makes grants annual towards a wide range of work within the arts, education and learning. The particularly fund organisations and projects considered ‘hard to fund’ and both registered charities and social enterprises/CIC’s.
The Foundation provides grants for up to three years, with a total value of £500-£15,000, although the average grant size is £5,000 – £6,000. In order to apply, your organisation does not need to be a registered charity as long as it is carrying out work for charitable purposes and works with one or more of these groups:
During the current pandemic Wych-Malbank Rotary created a short form here for charities to easily apply for support. We will review submissions regularly and try to help where we can.
We're still meeting weekly so if a charity would like to visit us and make a short presentation, we'd love to meet you. Please email wychmalbankrotary@gmail.com to introduce yourself.
No one understands a community better than the people who live there. We work with community businesses to revive local assets, protect the services people rely on, and address local needs. The following programmes are currently open:-
The National Lottery Community Fund are still prioritising applications for projects and from organisations playing a vital role in helping their communities. Most funding will be for 6 months.
You can apply for under £10,000
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for between £10,000 and £100,000.
The process for this has changed please see the details below.
Cheshire police and crime commissioner (PCC) David Keane has launched a fund that police officers and PCSOs will bid for to work with local residents on projects which make their area safer.
Each of the 122 policing communities in Cheshire will be allocated a £1,000 grant for bids that address community safety issues. An additional £10,000 will be allocated to each of Cheshire’s eight Local Policing Units to support larger scale projects which address local issues.
