Wesleyan Foundation Large Grants Fund

Overview

Grant Size:

Grants are available between £2,000 - £10,000 and must be spent within a year.

Fund Aims

Grants will be considered from charities and community groups that focus on:

• Education - projects that address positive social mobility, disadvantage and raising aspirations. Initiatives that develop individuals’ skills and employability are also of high importance.
• Health – projects that address mental and physical well-being and create opportunities for inclusion.
• Social – Wesleyan Foundation aims to support projects that develop conscious inclusion, so will prioritise projects that bring the community together.
• Other priorities – Projects that can demonstrate an ongoing sustainability, both from a financial and an environment perspective. In addition, projects which build in an element to help reduce an organisation’s carbon footprint.

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.

What is funded?

They will fund -

• Groups that have been running for at least 2 years.
• 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.

For example:

• 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:

• Grants can be made for a wide range of purposes including consumables, project or activity costs.
• 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 £500,000, as shown in your most recent annual accounts.
• If your organisation has been funded by Wesleyan Large Grants, you will not be able to reapply for funding for 3 years after the award of the initial grant.