Bradford South – Community Chest Area Committee Funding

Notes for Applicants

Applications should only be made using Bradford South Community Chest application form, which should be returned to:

Email: [email protected]

There are four deadlines throughout the year by which applications should be received by Bradford South Area Co-ordinator’s Office, these are:

• 31 May
• 31 August
• 31 October
• 31 January

Applications received after the closing date will be considered at a later meeting of the Grants Advisory Group.

You should normally expect to hear whether your application has been successful or not within one month of the closing date. The Grants Advisory Groups decision is final. We do not enter into correspondence in regard to the decisions made.

Applications must be typed or clearly written (preferably in BLOCK CAPITALS). Illegibility may result in applications being returned.

Applicants must provide the organisations constitution, safeguarding policy (if applicable), latest audited accounts or bank statements, full details of the project to be funded including a detailed expenditure list, and at least two quotations (where possible) from suppliers for all costs that need to be met.

Incomplete application forms and those that do not have the above documentation enclosed will be returned to you. Only fully completed application forms will be presented to the Grants Advisory Group.

All monies given to a project / organisation / individual must be accounted for in full (for example copies of receipts / invoices showing how the money was spent).

Criteria for applications

1. Applications will only be considered from groups/organisations that are based in, or benefit people who live in the Bradford South Constituency area.
2. Applications will be considered to assist community based leisure/cultural activities, which will be of benefit to the community, and where the activity could not go ahead without financial assistance. Adult sports clubs or groups are not eligible for funding but youth groups are.
3. Special considerations will be given to particular target groups including the elderly, disabled, youth, ethnic minorities, unemployed and to particular communities (for example, inner city areas, housing estates), and to new starts and innovatory schemes.
4. Bids from new groups or previously unfounded groups will be positively encouraged.
5. The maximum allocation from the Community Chest fund would not normally exceed £500 for any individual project.  Projects, which cross boundaries, can be considered by a number of Area Co-ordinators Offices, but the total grant will not normally exceed £500.
6. Projects should not contravene Council Policy Guidelines in areas of equality of opportunity (that is, no discrimination of membership on ground of sex, race, religion, occupation or opinion).
7. The organisation should be a non-profit making voluntary organisation where membership is open (that is, no discrimination of membership on grounds of sex, race, religion, occupation or opinion).
8. Grants will normally be, under broad and flexible guidelines, on a one-off basis to cover capital or revenue expenditure.
9. No group which has applied for and received funding in consecutive years should automatically assume that funding would continue.  Each application will be treated on its merits.
10. Grant funding cannot be applied retrospectively. This means grant awards cannot be made for any spending / event / service which have taken place before you have received confirmation that your application has been considered and approved. Please contact the team to clarify the date of the grant allocation panel before you apply if this is not clear.
11. Groups/organisations should normally expect only one grant per financial year.
12. Community Chest cannot be used to fund religious or political activities, or capital expenditure exclusively connected with such activities.
13. Community Chest is not normally used to enable fundraising for a secondary body, unless within the terms of a loss guarantee.
14. Organisations applying for grants should ensure that they have a bank account in their organisation’s name as grant payments can only be made into that organisation’s bank account. Grant payments cannot be made into a 3rd party’s bank account.  Grant payments will only be paid into the grant recipients' organisation's bank account once this has been verified with sufficient proof.