National Emergencies Trust Local Action Fund
This grant provides up to £10,000 match funded to voluntary and community organisations in the UK.
The following organisations are eligible to apply to be part of the match funding programme:
- Registered charities, including charitable incorporated organisations
- Constituted organisations and non-registered charities
- Community interest companies
- Churches and other religious organisations (if the funded activity is not deemed to be proselytising).
- Other voluntary community organisations or those not constituted but deemed appropriate by Crowdfunder under this Programme would be eligible, with appropriate endorsement from the statutory body, charity, parochial church council or community foundation etc.
Eligible services include:
- Health and wellbeing services
- Activities that relieve pressure on local statutory services
- Services for vulnerable people self-isolating
- Services addressing food poverty
- Community response coordination
- Services supporting those experiencing, or at risk of, domestic abuse, those facing homelessness and those working with refugees and or asylum seeker communities
- Services supporting young people's access to education
- Services supporting those in poverty or at risk of poverty
To receive match funding, the following conditions must all be met:
- Your project must raise funds from at least 25 unique supporters within four weeks.
- For every donation made towards your project it will be matched up to £250, so if your project receives a donation of £20 the fund will add another £20, If your project receives a donation of £500 then you'll receive an additional £250.
- Only one donation per supporter will be matched (match funding will not be provided where a supporter is deemed to have made multiple donations).
- If your project is an “all or nothing project” your project must reach its target.
(You can receive a maximum of £10,000 of match funding per organisation.)
For more information and how to apply click: Here
