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The Forces Communities Together Programme

Archived Arts, culture and heritage Communities COVID-19/Coronavirus Craft and design Cultural, events and festivals Family and parenting Health, wellbeing and sport Information Technology Performing arts Visual arts and media Antrim & Newtownabbey Ards & North Down Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon Belfast City Causeway Coast and Glens Derry City and Strabane England Fermanagh and Omagh Great Britain Lisburn and Castlereagh Mid and East Antrim Mid Ulster Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Small (up to £10,000)

Overview

This is a single round programme funded through the Armed Forces Covenant Fund

Eligibility

To be eligible to apply, your UK-based organisation must be:

  • a registered charity or Community Interest Company (CIC) and able to show that you have three or more unrelated Trustees/directors
  • a school
  • an Armed Forces unit or base.

What’s available

  • Grants of up to £10,000 for six-month projects beginning no later than mid-October 2020.

Themes and priorities

They want to fund enjoyable and engaging projects that encourage social interaction between people from Armed Forces communities. Importantly, your project should be able to take place while restrictions relating to the pandemic are ongoing.

Guidance and resources

Each of their funding programmes has its own specific guidance. It is important you read the programme guidance before you apply as it contains vital information to support you with your application and outlines the full programme priorities and eligibility criteria.

Further Information

See full guidance here

If you have any questions relating to this programme, please look at the programme information on their website. Please read the FAQ document here.

Following this, if you still have queries and cannot find the answer in these guidance notes, please email info@covenantfund.org.uk