Priorities

• These include:
  • Providing activities and services for rural communities
  • Tackling inequality and deprivation
  • Supporting good health and wellbeing
  • Reducing disadvantages faced by children and young people
  • Providing learning and development opportunities to support education, skills and training
  • Supporting older people
  • Improving housing and living environments
  • Reducing crime and improving community safety

Funding Information

• Awarding grants from £3,500 to £10,000.

Eligible Costs

• Staff costs - Budget for staffing, including full-time staff, part-time staff, sessional staff, training and other related expenses e.g., a volunteer coordinator
• Volunteer costs - Budget for training and reimbursements of expenses, e.g., telephone calls, travel and meals
• Activity costs - Budget for resources to facilitate a project / activity (which are not already included as part of equipment, volunteer or staffing costs) e.g., catering, insurance
• Capital costs – Budget for equipment such as laptops, tools and other items to enable the activities to take place

Ineligible Costs

• Overhead costs of more than 10% of the requested grant (not including staff costs)
• Capital costs such as building works or purchase of property
• Profit making organisations or businesses
• Statutory services
• Activities of a political nature
• Activities which exclusively support or promote religion or religious behaviour

Eligibility Criteria

• Your organisation must have an annual income of £75,000 or more
• Your group must be locally managed, voluntary, community or self-help group. Please note that as a general exclusion they do not fund social enterprises where there is one individual noted as persons with significant control (PSC) or if the majority of those noted as PSC are related.
• You must be based in Northamptonshire
• You must have a set of written rules or constitution that your group adheres to, that contains a dissolution clause. They can help advise you on how to do this especially if you are a new group
• You must have safeguarding policies in place if relevant to your work and all groups must have and equalities policy in place

Ineligibility Criteria

• Northamptonshire Community Foundation is also unable to fund the following:
  • General and major fund-raising appeals
  • Direct replacement of statutory and public funding
  • Organisations that aim to convert people to any kind of religious or political belief
  • Medical research and equipment
  • Projects operating outside Northamptonshire
  • Animal welfare
  • Large national charities (except for local branches working for local people)
  • Work that has already finished
  • Work that takes place outside of Northamptonshire

For more information, visit NCF.

https://www.ncf.uk.com/constance-travis-community-fund