Grant Funding and Contingency Planning

Sources of funding 

We discussed a few sources of funding. But the main resource we’d recommend is the Charity Excellence Framework. It has a searchable database of organisations and funds offering grants to charities affected by COVID-19. It takes two minutes to register and is completely free.

A few other grants you may find fit for purpose are:

• Charity Bank has an excellent list of COVID-19 funds broken down by country and region.
• Ian McLintock has posted a useful list of over 200 Funders offering grants for projects affected by COVID-19.
• Grants Online has published a list of Coronavirus specific funds across the UK.
• The Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) has produced a list of specific funds available across the UK and for many different types of organisations.
• The Barclays Foundation is offering £100m in funding. It will be giving out half of the fund in the form of direct funding for charities, while the other half is a commitment to match employees’ donations, including senior executives in the bank pledging a third of their salary.
• Sport England is making up to £195 million of funding available to help the sport and physical activity sector (including clubs and community organisations) through the ongoing Coronavirus crisis.
• Community Foundations around the UK are providing Coronavirus specific funding. Visit the UK Community Foundations website to find out what your local foundation is doing.
• The Arts Council has made £160 million of emergency funding available for those organisations and individuals who will need it during this crisis.
• The Third Sector Resilience Fund (Scotland). Scotland’s government has created a £20m Third Sector Resilience Fund, with both grants and interest free loans available. The fund is now open for applications.
• The Halifax Foundation for Northern Ireland is keeping its small and medium grants programmes open.
• The National Lottery Awards for Wales is prioritising applications that are COVID-19 related over the next six months.

Contingency Planning Guidance

The NCVO is a great resource for you to find all of the help you need in developing a contingency plan.

Don’t miss our webinar next week.

Investment Readiness with Alan Tudhope May 19th from 2:00pm – 2:45pm

Link to the Webinar