24 April 2020
Welcome to your funding alert. Here you will find local funding opportunities to support your idea or project.

These are really strange times and we know many of you are still supporting your local community. There is new information on funding coming out everyday, here is some of it. Keep an eye out for future funding alerts.

Barnwood Trust - Keeping Strong Fund

This fund has been created to help with the wellbeing of anyone who has a disability in Gloucestershire.

You can apply for up to £1000 of support if you can’t afford to buy something that would make a big difference to keeping you and your family’s physical and mental health strong over the coming weeks and months.

Examples of what can you can buy with this fund are: household essentials, televisions, laptops, tablets, phone credit, mobile data top-up, access to online courses, home exercise equipment, arts and craft materials, family games and play materials. All items will need to be able to be delivered to your home.

Items that are funded by the council or NHS and ongoing household expenses are not covered by Barnwood Trust grants.

The England and Wales Cricket Board COVID-19: Emergency support

Up to £3000 is available for affiliated cricket clubs in England and Wales. This fund can be used to cover any shortfall in day-to-day running and maintenance costs during the Coronavirus pandemic.

Costs can include utility or service costs, rental charges, staff costs (employees, not coaches or players), cleaning, maintenance costs, IT licences, insurances, and affiliations and more.

Grant amounts available
Clubs with an adult section only
Can apply for up to £1000

Leagues - open age or junior
Can apply for up to £2000

Clubs with a junior section (including All Stars Cricket / Dynamos Cricket)
Can apply for up to £3,000.

Funding is not available for:
 - loss of forecast income, for example lost income from cancelled events
 - paying coaches, players or other cricket related activities
 - purchase of non-essential goods/equipment
 - any other expenditure that ECB deems inappropriate.

To apply for this funding, leagues and clubs should email the Gloucestershire Cricket Board or visit their website first.  If the County Cricket Board determines that the club or league has a reasonable case for a grant, an application form will be given.

The deadline for applications is 17 July 2020.

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC): The Coronavirus Mental Health Response Fund

Small grants up to £20,000 and large grants of up to £50,000 are available to groups who are able to respond to an anticipated increase in the need for mental health support as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Grants can be used to:

Scale up existing activities
For example, the organisation may manage a helpline or a forum that is experiencing an unprecedented amount of requests.

Adapt existing activities
For example, the organisation may have traditionally delivered all of their services in-person and now wants to adapt them in order to continue meeting the needs of existing, or new, service users.

Introduce new activities
For example, organisations may want to introduce a new service that will meet the specific needs of service users that arise due, in part, to the coronavirus crisis.

Registered charities, community and voluntary organisations, Community Interest Companies (CICs), Charitable Incorporate Organisations (CIOs) and Companies Limited by Guarantee may apply for either (not both!):

1. A Small Grant of up to £20,000, or
2. A Large Grant of up to £50,000.

Funding is for a maximum of 12 months. Successful applicants will be expected to start delivery of their activities within one month of accepting funding. As an indication, projects receiving a small grant are expected to work with around 130 people. Those receiving a large grant are expected to work with around 350 people.

Eligible applicants must:

Have a track record of delivering services for people with, or at risk of developing, mental health problems, and apply for a grant that constitutes less than 25% of the organisation’s annual turnover.

Grants can be used for:

Staffing costs, volunteer recruitment costs and expenses, direct project costs, including staff and volunteer training, meeting costs, other expenses relating to the activity and that will enable people to participate, communication costs, and core costs.

Applications must be completed and submitted online through the Flexigrant application portal accessible through Mind's website. Applications received by any other means will be automatically rejected.

Deadlines are Friday 8 May, Friday 22 May and Friday 5 June.

Sport England – The Community Emergency Fund

Who can apply? 
Any organisation delivering community sport and/or physical activity and movement can apply to this fund if you are experiencing short term financial hardship or cease of operations due to the impact of Coronavirus. 

What kind of things will it fund?
The fund has been developed to help organisations meet their obligations, fixed costs, which are no longer supported with revenue as a result of coronavirus. This might cover expenditure on rent, utility costs, insurances, facility or equipment hire, core staffing costs (including casual workers) that cannot be met elsewhere by other government funds and retrospective losses dating from 1 March, 2020.

What the fund will not support?
This fund is designed to help grassroots sport and physical activity providers. This means they are not able to help: local authorities, including town and parish councils, schools, colleges and universities, commercial sport and physical activity providers e.g. private gyms, leisure operators , individuals who are either employed or self-employed within the sport and physical activity sector. 
 

Gloucestershire Community Resilience Fund – Covid-19 Response

This fund is designed to support local voluntary sector agencies and community groups who are supporting vulnerable people during the Covid-19 crisis.   

Who can apply?
Community or voluntary groups, registered charities, community interest companies, town and parish councils. 

What kind of things will it fund?
The funding can only be used for expenditure in relation to the Coronavirus crisis.

These may include items such as:
 - setting up ‘community floats’ to purchase food and essential supplies for vulnerable people and families
 - development of digital/virtual support and equipment such as mobile phones or tablets
 - expenses incurred by volunteers such as petrol and developing infrastructure to support vulnerable people. 

What the fund will not support?
Mainstream activities of an organisation e.g. ongoing yearly spending commitments including salaries and administration costs or to create an ongoing funding commitment from the county council.

To find out more or apply, contact the representative in your district.

Cheltenham District Council  - email Richard Gibson
Cotswold District Council - email Jacqueline Wright
Forest of Dean District Council - email Andy Barge
Gloucester City Council - email Ruth Saunders
Tewkesbury Borough Council - email Andy Sanders 
Stroud District Council - email Emma Keating- Clark 

Gloucestershire Community Foundation
Grants supporting communities affected by the Coronavirus outbreak

This emergency grant will offer Gloucestershire-based charitable and community organisations funding to support challenges faced by local communities as a result of the continuing threat of Coronavirus.

To begin with, the focus is on providing emergency grants to coordinated volunteer programmes who play a key role in helping the most vulnerable such as foodbanks, counselling services, advice organisations and befriending services. 

At the moment the maximum grant size will be £5000 though many will be in the region of £1000 and this will be reviewed as the situation develops. 

You do not have to be a registered charity to apply, as long as the work you do has charitable aims.

Running costs for organisations will be supported, including staff costs, volunteer expenses and transport costs. Small capital costs are also eligible.

There is no closing date for applications this fund.
 

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