Wesleyan Foundation Small Grants Fund

Overview

Fund Aims

Applications will be considered from charities, constituted voluntary and community groups that focus on:

• Education – Charities or projects that enhance learning, address positive social mobility, disadvantage and raising aspirations. Initiatives that develop skills and employment
• Health – Projects that promote health and mental well-being, and create opportunities for inclusion.
• Social – Projects that provide local solutions to meet local needs, promote community cohesion and develop sustainable and supportive communities.

They Will Fund

• Salary, equipment or volunteer costs that are clearly budgeted and only used for the project – evidence will be required. Grants can be made for a wide range of purposes including consumables, project or activity costs.

For example:

• Start-up costs for new organisations or projects
• Pilot projects
• The purchase of equipment and resources
• Extension and development of existing projects (though Wesleyan may give a lower priority to projects they have funded before).

The Wesleyan Foundation is in favour of funding:

• Mental Health – all age groups
• Bereavement
• PSE (Personal Safety Equipment)
• Domestic Violence (including women’s refuges)
• Isolation /befriending /listening
• The vulnerable and elderly
• Dementia / quality of life
• Social prescribing – alleviating the pressure from the NHS
• Getting back to work – innovative travel (cycle schemes) / reducing carbon footprint
• Employment – reskilling people (not so much those that support with CV writing) but those that actively prepare you for a new job / new career etc interview prep etc
• Outdoor projects – making changes so that services can be delivered outside

The delivery of the projects needs to be following Government guidelines in terms of social distancing etc.

Please note:

• No more than 10% of the project costs can be assigned to operational/core costs.
• Your application value must be no more than 20% of the organisation’s annual income.
• Your organisation’s income level must be less than £250,000, as shown in your most recent annual accounts.

The Wesleyan Foundation would like to support organisations and charities that focus on supporting Black/African Caribbean communities following the recent BLM conversations.

Eligibility

You can apply to this fund if you are one of the following:

• Registered charities
• Constituted Community groups
• Companies Limited by Guarantee with charitable aims
• Community Interest Companies
• Co-operatives – registered Community Benefit Societies and registered Industrial and Provident Societies
• Social Enterprises

**Funding to Community Interest Companies and other non-charities may include conditions to restrict funding to charitable objectives only.