Your project should focus on early debt intervention, prevention, or support for those already in financial difficulty. It could support improved budgeting skills and mental health outcomes linked to financial stress.

Themes

• Your project should address one of the following themes:
  • Early intervention: Projects working with a wide community of at-risk individuals and families in the early stages of managing debt, that teach basic financial skills as part of a broader package of support.
  • Preventative: Projects working with individuals or families identified as being at particular risk of financial adversity with support given through education, training and awareness-raising.
  • Alleviation: Projects working to provide information, advice and guidance for those already experiencing ongoing financial distress.

Funding Information

• £5,000-£20,000 although higher or lower awards are available depending on the circumstances.

Expected Outcomes

• As part of your application, they expect to see details of measurable outcomes that you expect will arise from this investment. These could include, but are not limited to:
  • The numbers of individuals in current financial distress you expect to support through debt management plans or other formal debt advice programmes.
  • How your project will help to improve your clients’ mental health and how you will measure these changes.
  • How your project will help families to improve their understanding of basic budgeting practices and their confidence in financial issues, and how this will be measured.

Eligibility Criteria

• Charities, CICs and community and voluntary groups working in Cornwall or the Isles of Scilly.

Ineligibility Criteria

• Projects or activities outside of the listed area.
• Commercial profit making organisations.
• Organisations with significant free reserves.
• Statutory /public sector organisations such as health authorities, schools, hospitals, parish and town councils.
• Contributions to an endowment, payments of deficit funding or repayment loans.
• Grant making organisations or bodies who fundraise or distribute grants on behalf of other organisations.
• Activities or projects which have already happened.
• Regional offices of national bodies that do not benefit local people.
• Organisations whose beneficiaries are not people.
• Organisations or projects intended to influence people’s religious choices or to promote a particular belief.
• Individuals or projects that help only one individual.
• The promotion of political causes.

For more information, visit CCF.

https://cornwallcommunityfoundation.com/grants/caledonia-investments-charitable-foundation-fund/