Community Programme

The Community programme focuses on funding core work that helps disadvantaged people to play a fuller role in the community.  We are particularly interested in work that achieves this through:

• Improved social and community involvement
• Improved life choices and chances
• Helping people to be heard

To be eligible:

• You must be an underfunded charity (12 months reserves or less)
• If you work locally or in a region you must have an income of £1 million or less
• If you work nationally you must have an income of £5 million or less
• Your work must enable disadvantaged people to play a fuller role in the community in one or more of the following ways:
            Improved social and community involvement
            Improved life choices and chances
            Helping people to be heard
 
• You will need to be clear on the specific changes and benefits that your work will provide for your users/beneficiaries

What type of funding do we provide?

We fund charities to continue and develop existing community-based work, or to develop the organisation or its services.  We can support charities in a range of ways – examples include funding to:

• Enable the continued provision of services
• Support the expansion of services
• Help improve the quality of services
• Maintain and or improve their capacity and or effectiveness
• Encourage learning and best practice
• Lobby or campaign at a local, regional or national level