Ministry of Defence: Covenant Fund - Local Covenant Grants
Overview
Applicants are expected to have experience and a track record of working with the Armed Forces Community, as well as a real understanding of the issues facing the Armed Forces Community. This is not a general fund for organisations to support their core activities simply by adding members of the armed forces community to their beneficiary group in order to apply for funding.
All applicants should work closely with their Local Covenant Partnerships to ensure that their project is properly connected locally, responds to recognised need and does not duplicate other provision. NB Northern Ireland and overseas applicants do need not to get any partnership support.
Who can apply?
The application must be from
- a registered charity
- a local authority
- a school
- a Community Interest Company or
- an armed forces unit with a UIN.
What can you apply for?
Under this programme, they will make awards of up to £20,000.
They can pay for most of the things you’ll need for your project whether it is people’s time, buying or hiring equipment, or minor improvements to land or buildings, although it is highly unlikely that they will fund projects with budgets that are dominated by staff costs or capital costs, such as minibuses.
Criteria
Under this priority they will fund projects that respond to the local needs of the Armed Forces Community and improve recognition of the Armed Forces Covenant, and that:
• help integrate Armed Forces and civilian communities across the UK, and/or
• deliver valuable local services to the armed forces community.
In order that they can understand your plans they will ask you to tell them which of the following is the main focus of your application:
- Health and wellbeing
- Education and employability
- Events and commemorations
- Delivery of services