Greggs Foundation: Community Grants Programme

Overview

The Greggs Foundation Community Grants programme recognises the essential role of local organisations in tackling the challenges facing communities.  They believe in funding organisations helping to meet the needs of the local community. 

The Greggs Foundation Community Grant Programme runs four funding rounds each year, offering grants of up to £20,000 for up to two years to support impactful local initiatives. 

Each round focuses on specific locations, selected based on community need and proximity to a Greggs Outlet.  

As a grant-giving organisation, they understand the difficulties many charitable organisations face in accessing grant funding to meet fixed costs. Greggs Foundation Community Grants are a core funding grant to help organisations manage the financial requirements to keep their services running.   

They can consider the following costs:

• Contributions towards bills, i.e. electricity, gas, rent, rates
• Contributions towards core salaries (managers or administrators rather than project workers or sessional staff)
• HMRC costs relating to the core salaries only

Eligibility

To receive a Greggs Foundation Community Grant you must be a not-for-profit organisation based in the Belfast City Council area. In addition to being based in one of their geographical focus areas, they are looking for organisations that are delivering activities outlined in their Theory of Change and are focused on the following areas:  

• Addressing direct needs in the local community
• Providing food and support for individuals
• Reducing social isolation and widening networks
• Building knowledge, confidence and opportunities

Criteria for organisations

Organisations need to meet all of the criteria below:

• A not-for-profit organisation.
• An annual income of between £25,000 and £1,000,000 in your last set of accounts.
• At least one set of annual accounts, having been delivering services for over a year.
• Based in the geographical focus area listed for each funding round
• Free reserves of less than six months' running costs in your last set of accounts which includes reserves you have decided to allocate but are free to reallocate and does not include fixed assets such as land and buildings.
• A board of at least three unrelated trustees or directors.
• A safeguarding policy in place.
• An independent organisation.