OneFamily Foundation: Community Grants

Overview

Community Grants provide funding of up to £2,500 to local groups, charities and causes. As a OneFamily customer you can give something back to the groups that are important to you and the local people in your area by nominating them to receive a Community Grant.

They’ve helped more than 200 fantastic good causes boost their impact and deliver change through projects across the UK. Community Grants have helped disability charities invest in their resources, community groups tackle isolation amongst the older generation and schools invest in their pupils’ future.

They aim to run at least two rounds of Community Awards each year. You just need to be a OneFamily customer and know of something that you want to make better in your community.

Please note: this round of grants is for local groups and causes who are providing support to those affected by coronavirus, or who have themselves been negatively impacted by the pandemic. Customers can nominate an established group or charity who are either:

• Providing support to those who have been affected by coronavirus.
• Struggling to maintain their usual services due to coronavirus.

Whether it's a foodbank, a support group or a homeless charity, our customers have the opportunity to give something back to the causes that matter to them.

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Eligibility and entry

To nominate a Project an Applicant must:

• be a Customer whose OneFamily policy or product remains active throughout the life of the Nomination
• not be a OneFamily employee
• not be an immediate family member (spouse, partner, child, parent or sibling, regardless of where they live) of a OneFamily employee working within the Foundation team
• submit the Nomination in the English language

Projects nominated for Community Grants must:

• benefit the community
• be achievable and realistic
• have necessary permissions required in order to commence the Project (e.g. planning permissions if a building project) to make use of the funding
• be able to provide a detailed breakdown of how the Community Grant funding will be put to use
• create a specific change that positively impacts the local community, through for example specific purchases, activities or the running costs of a programme
• take place wholly within the UK
• if submitted on behalf of, or in association with a religious organisation, have an outcome that must be accessible to anyone of any faith, or no faith.

A Project can only be nominated once and can only benefit from one award in a funding round.

A Project must be led by an organisation that:

• has been in existence for at least 6 months
• is a not-for-profit organisation or group for community good
• does not require users to pay high membership fees which The Foundation considers to be prohibitive
• is based in the UK
• can meet The Foundation’s due diligence requirements, which may include providing The Foundation with details/evidence of the organisation’s:

- governance arrangements (including the fitness and propriety of key individuals)
- governance structure
- incorporation and / or trading /operating status
- geographical and trading location(s)
- charitable status (if applicable)
- bank account details and authorised signatories; and
- anything else reasonably required to confirm the validity of the organisation or Project.