Types of Organisation

We will support the following types of organisation;

• Constituted community groups
• Constituted voluntary groups
• Registered Charities
• Social Enterprises

Geographic Reach

We will support organisations based in, or working for the benefit of people int he following local authority areas;

• Stoke-on-Trent
• Staffordshire Moorlands (Biddulph, Leek and Cheadle ONLY)
• Newcastle under Lyme (Kidsgrove ONLY)

Beneficiaries

In order to qualify for a grant from this scheme your project must be supporting the following types of beneficiary;

• Adults, (those over 18 years of age)
• Those who are socially isolated or financially disadvantaged

Project Aims

• Your project must meet one of the following criteria;
• Increase or enhance your current service provision
• Make your organisation more efficient, more sustainable or more resilient
• Be used to improve facilities for your service users

Eligible Costs

• Project costs
• Event costs
• Equipment costs
• Capital costs
• Training costs
• Core costs

Types of Organisation

This fund will not offer funding to the following organisations;

• Non-constituted community groups
• Non-constituted voluntary groups
• Organisations that have been established less than 12 months
• Statutory organisations
• Organisations that do not have a proven track record of service delivery
• Limited companies, sole traders or partnerships without charitable aims

Geographic Reach

This fund cannot support organisations who are based in, or working in the following local authority areas;

• Cannock Chase, East Staffordshire, Lichfield, South Staffordshire, Stafford or Tamworth
• Staffordshire Moorlands (excluding Biddulph, Leek and Cheadle)
• Newcastle under Lyme (excluding Kidsgrove)
• Any area outside Staffordshire

Beneficiaries

This fund cannot support any organisation whose primary beneficiaries are

• Less than 18 years old
• Are not suffering from either financial or social disadvantage

Ineligible Costs

This fund will not offer support for the following costs;

• Funding towards religious projects or projects that promote religion, (although religious organisations can be funded for non-religious projects)
• Party political activities, (where one particular political party is promoted above another)

The following documents must be provided with your application form.  If you fail to provide these documents your application will not be considered for funding.  All documents should be submitted at the time of application.

• A copy of your governing document, (constitution or Memorandum and Articles of Association)
• A copy of your most recent accounts, (audited or independently examined)
• A recent bank statement, (dated within the last three months clearly showing account number and sort code)
• A copy of your safeguarding policy
• At least three quotes for any capital items

The following dates are submission dates and panel dates for 2019.

• Applications submitted before 9th May 2019 will go to the panel on 21st May 2019
• Applications submitted after 9th May 2019, but before 17th October 2019 will go to the panel on 29th October 2019
• Applications submitted after 17th October 2019 will go to the panel in May 2020