As we head into Autumn, you will want to make sure that your CIC or charity has sufficient funding.
The team at KG Accountants has assembled another list of grants and funding sources for you to consider for your business’s good works.
Workplace Charging Scheme
https://www.find-government-grants.service.gov.uk/grants/workplace-charging-scheme#summary
The Workplace Charging Scheme (WCS) is a voucher-based scheme that provides eligible businesses with support towards the upfront costs of the purchase and installation of electric vehicle (EV) chargepoints. All businesses can use it to help provision chargepoints for their staff or fleets. Charities and small accommodation businesses can further use it to provision chargepoints for their guests or visitors.
Opening date: 1 September 2016, 12:01am
Closing date: 31 March 2024, 11:59pm
Eligibility:
The scheme is open to applicant organisations that fulfil all of the following criteria. Your organisation must:
- be a registered business, charity or public sector organisation or
- have received – or have currently pending at the time of application – less than €200,000 of public support in the last 3 financial years (meaning the previous 2 financial years plus the current financial year) and satisfy the state aid requirements for de minimis aid
- declare a need for EV charging equipment, or an intent to encourage uptake among their staff and/or fleet (you do not need to possess a plug-in EV)
- be located in England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland (applicants in the Channel Islands and Isle of Man are not eligible)
- have dedicated off-street parking for staff and/or fleet use only
- own the property or have consent from the landlord for charge points to be installed at all the sites listed in the application
Funding Activity:
The WCS is open to businesses, charities and public sector organisations that meet the applicant and site eligibility criteria.
The grant covers up to 75% of the total costs of the purchase and installation of EV charge points (inclusive of VAT), capped at a maximum of:
- £350 per socket
- 40 sockets across all sites per applicant – for instance, if you would like to install them in 40 sites, you will have 1 socket available per site
Grant Range: £350 per socket
Trees, woodlands and forestry – Woodland Creation Planning Grant
The Woodland Creation Planning Grant (WCPG) offers funding of up to £30,000 for the production of a UKFS-compliant Woodland Creation Design Plan. The scheme was re-launched in autumn 2020 to enable more people to apply and help proposals move more quickly through the Environmental Impact Assessment process and future planting and establishment grant funding.
Opening date: 1 December 2015, 12:01am
Closing date: 31 March 2025, 11:59pm
Eligibility:
Landowners, land managers and public bodies (other than Forestry England) can apply to the Forestry Commission to support the design of new woodland under the Woodland Creation Planning Grant (WCPG), provided the work is not already required under existing obligations. Crown Bodies and Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs) are not eligible for funding through WCPG.
You must plan to create woodland that is:
- located in England
- a minimum of five hectares or more in total size. If the proposed woodland is split into different blocks, each block must meet the definition of woodland set out by the National Forest Inventory: a minimum area of 0.5 hectares and a minimum width of 20 meters.
Funding Activity:
You can apply for £1,000 to complete stage 1 of the Woodland Creation Design Plan Template. This is a desk-based exercise to identify the constraints and opportunities that may affect the proposed planting.
If there’s potential for woodland creation to take place on the site, then you will be offered a stage 2 payment.
Grant Range: £1,000
The Community Ownership Fund
https://www.find-government-grants.service.gov.uk/grants/the-community-ownership-fund-1#summary
The Community Ownership Fund is a £150 million fund over 4 years to support community groups across England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland to take ownership of assets which are at risk of being lost to the community.
Opening date: 12 July 2021, 12:01am
Closing date: 31 March 2025, 11:59pm
Eligibility:
You can apply for funding if your organisation, your project, and the asset you want to save meet certain eligibility requirements.
The asset
- is at risk of loss without community intervention
- can be run viably and sustainably in community hands for the long-term benefit of the community
- if already owned, the asset requires essential renovations to be sustainable for the long-term benefit of the community
The project
- applying for up to £2 million for all asset types, but we expect that most awards will be for up to £250,000 of capital funding
- applying for revenue funding no more than £50,000 or 20% of the total capital funding applied for, whichever is smaller
- able to ‘match’ the capital grant from the Fund at the required match funding rate
- able to show that capital grant funding and match funding will be spent within the 12 months following the date you are offered funding (indicated on the offer letter)
Your organisation
- is an incorporated voluntary and community organisation or a parish, town and community council
- is able to buy the asset freehold, or the long-term leasehold of at least 15 years with reasonable break clauses
- is the same organisation that will receive the funding and run the project
Funding Activity:
The Community Ownership Fund is a £150 million fund over 4 years to support community groups across England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland to take ownership of assets which are at risk of being lost to the community.It forms part of a substantial package of UK wide levelling-up interventions building opportunity and empowering communities to improve their local places.
Grant Range: Variable
The Hedley Foundation
https://www.hedleyfoundation.org.uk/
We award grants to those charities that are able to demonstrate quantifiable outcomes to beneficiaries. Typically, grants of up to £5,000 are regularly made and occasional larger sums are given to charities where high impact can be achieved. Similarly, smaller charities often benefit from smaller grants of £250 upwards.
Eligibility:
You should meet the following criteria:
- You are a small- to mid-size UK registered charity
- Your application is not for building construction, general running costs, transport, financial deficits or overseas projects
- Your application is not on behalf of a church, museum or an individual
- You have not received a previous grant from The Foundation within the last 2 years (or submitted an application which was unsuccessful within the last 12 months)
Funding Activity:
The Hedley Foundation provides grants to smaller charities operating across the spectrum of social need. Last year we supported hundreds of small charities, improving lives and lifting people’s aspirations.
Grant Range: £250 to £5,000
The Community Organisations Cost of Living Fund
Funding Funding programmes The Community Organisations Cost of Living Fund
This funding is for organisations that support people and communities in England under severe pressure because of the increased cost of living. By community we mean people living in the same local area.
The funding comes from the UK Government.
Our main priority is to fund organisations supporting low-income households and individuals.
Eligibility:
To apply your organisation must already run critical services around at least one of the following:
- food and emergency supplies – like food and baby banks or the provision of hot meals, clothes or toiletries
- emergency shelter – like night shelters or other accommodation for people experiencing homelessness
- safe spaces – like domestic abuse services and youth services
- warmth – like warm rooms and spaces
- financial and housing advice – like giving people advice because of the increased cost of living.
Your organisation must also be facing both
- increased demand for these critical services
and
- increased costs of delivering these critical services
Funding Activity:
You can get funding to pay for:
- costs of delivering, expanding or adapting your existing critical service(s) from the date you are funded until 31 March 2024. The date you are funded will be around 12 weeks from the time you submitted your application.
- retrospective costs of running the existing critical service(s) you’re applying for between 24 July 2023 and the date you are funded.
Grant Range: between £10,000 and £75,000. If you need £10,000 or less you could try our National Lottery Awards for All fund.
Crowdfunder Cost of Living Crisis Emergency Fund
Eligibility:
To be eligible to apply for match funding your organisation must:
- Be based in England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland and is for the benefit of communities within the UK.
- Have a UK mainland bank account in the name of the organisation.
- The outcome of this crowdfunding campaign will need be delivered by 31st December 2023.
- Be raising funds for running costs only (capital costs such as building refurbishment are not eligible).
- Have been operating for at least 12 months.
Be one of the following:
- Registered UK Charities
- Registered community benefit organisations
- Registered social enterprises and charity companies
Funding Activity:
Crowdfunder are supporting projects who are tackling food poverty caused or accelerated by the cost of living crisis.
Grant Range: up to £5,000
Now that you’ve learned about the CIC and charity grant funding opportunities to review in September, you might have decided that you want help with funding. Whether you’re looking for public grants or community interest funding, assistance could be beneficial.
We can help. CIC Fund membership is specifically designed to provide you and your entire team unique access to grants from local, national and European funding sources, all in one place.
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Now that you’ve learned about the CIC and charity grant funding opportunities to review in June, you might have decided that you want help with funding. Whether you’re looking for public grants or community interest funding, assistance could be beneficial.
We can help. CIC Fund membership is specifically designed to provide you and your entire team unique access to grants from local, national and European funding sources, all in one place.
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