ACVO Opportunities
Funding
Major Grants
About this fund
- Single year grants between £10,000 and £50,000 for core costs, salaries, running and project costs or
- Multi-year grants for a maximum of 3 years, not to exceed £100,000 in total over this period, for core costs, salaries, running or project costs.
No more than £50k can be applied for in any given year.
Organisations should have a focus on Family Support, this may further include:
- Early intervention
- Families coping with addiction
- Prisoners’ families
We fund voluntary sector organisations with a turnover up to £500,000.
Your organisation’s postcode, or the project area, must be ranked within the most deprived 15% of the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) for urban areas or within the most deprived 50% for rural areas.
Adventure Playgrounds, Baby Banks and Disability charities cannot apply to our Major Grants programme.
Who And What We Fund
Types of organisations
We want to fund work which addresses the challenges of local communities in areas of extreme deprivation.
The list below gives examples of organisations and projects we fund, but we are always interested to hear about different projects which provide appropriate solutions to local problems.
Our preference is for front line organisations working directly with people in need. We are unlikely to support campaigning, organisational development or capacity building. We will consider new work which is a logical extension of existing work, but do not support work which represents a significant shift away from your existing core aims and experience.
We offer grants to Charitable and not-for profit organisations in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We do not fund Community Interest Companies (CICs).
What we don’t fund
- Organisations whose postcode is not within the IMD deprivation limits set out in our funding guidelines
- Newly established organisations with no previous annual accounts
- Individuals, whether direct or through a third party
- Charities or NGOs registered outside the UK
- Community Interest Companies
- Statutory services including state schools, local or national authorities, prisons, NHS hospitals or services
- Universities, further education colleges and independent schools
- Organisations with an annual income over £500,000
- Hospices
- Organisations with primarily an environmental aim
- Grant making organisations or umbrella organisations
- Organisations that have applied to us unsuccessfully within the previous 12 months
- Organisations which have made their annual returns to the Charity Commission or Companies House late within the past three years
- Organisations which have not reviewed their safeguarding policy and/or held formal safeguarding training/refresher sessions within the past 12 months
- Trustees are unlikely to fund organisations holding more than twelve months operating costs in reserves.
Types of Projects We Do Not Fund
- Capital projects
- Set up costs for new organisations
- Projects outside the UK
- Animal welfare
- Environment and conservation
- Medical research
- Feasibility studies
- One-off events (except under the Small Grants programme)
- PR and awareness raising; fundraising salaries, events, initiatives or websites
- Non-secular activities
- Projects primarily concerned with the production of films, podcasts or other media
- Adventure Playgrounds, Baby Banks and Disability charities
- For Small Grants: urban projects not delivered in the same city/town (or borough for London) in which the applying organisation is based
Looking for support with funding?
Identifying funding opportunities and writing grant applications can seem overwhelming, especially when the future sustainability of your group is dependent on gaining funding support.
Our supportive Funding Officer, Claire Shaw, can help your organisation with every step of the funding application process, from carrying out funding searches to proofreading your application.
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Major Grants
