Comic Relief
The Comic Relief funding is now been fully allocated. For more funding opportunities return to the Apply for a Grant section.
THE SOUTH Yorkshire Community Foundation has teamed up with Comic Relief to bring £75,000 in grants to local community groups over the next two years. Comic Relief is a grant making programme managed by SYCF for the 4 boroughs of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield.
Comic Relief spends money raised by its fundraising campaigns Red Nose Day and Sport Relief - Comic Relief, registered charity 326568 (England and Wales), SCO39730 (Scotland)
Minimum grant size is £1,000 and maximum grant size is £10,000 and the programme will run to 31st March 2011.
This pot is likely to be heavily oversubscribed as there is £75,000 for the whole of South Yorkshire. Please read the criteria carefully before applying.
Criteria:
This programme aims to empower local people enabling them to make lasting change in their communities. Projects should be run by people directly affected by the issues they are dealing with and priority will be given to small, locally based groups or organisations in areas of disadvantage that have a clear understanding of the needs of their community. This can include "communities of interest" which cover a wider geographical area.
While groups will be using a range of activities we specifically want 50% of the available funds to go to sports projects that:
- Increase access to sport and exercise for people who face social exclusion and isolation
- Help people who are experiencing difficulties in their lives
The remaining 50% pot will support community groups running projects that:
- Increase local services
- Build skills of local people
- Increase community cohesion
- Respond to local economic needs
Who can apply?
- Community Groups
- Resident Associations
- Community Centres
- Social Enterprises/Community Interest Companies
- Credit Unions
Examples of the type of activities that will be funded
- Community sport activities
- Furniture Projects
- Projects providing access to benefits advice
- Projects combating fuel poverty
- Community consultation exercises
- Community employment projects
- Food Co-ops
- Running costs – including salaries, core costs and project costs, committee and volunteer / staff training
Exclusions
The criteria do not include the award of grants to:
- to individuals;
- to statutory organisations, including schools;
- to fund trips abroad;
- to fund buses, mini buses or other community transport schemes (not including transport costs forming part of a project);
- to fund building costs, including access adaptations to buildings
Deadlines:
Online applications must be completed, printed, signed and posted together with the essential documents, to reach this office by 14th January 2010. Results will be notified within 10 weeks. Unsuccessful applications may also be considered as part of our Small Grant Fund (if eligible) and may be awarded a grant from an alternative fund.
Application:
If you want to apply to Comic Relief please complete the online application form via the link below.
Online application form
*this link is no longer active as the funding has been fully allocated
You can also download our Guidelines sheet, which gives pointers on what we expect to see in a successful application.
You will be given a unique link to your own application form. Assistance with how to fill in the application form is available when you access the link to apply online and you will be able save the application if you cannot complete it in one go. It will then be emailed to you to print, together with Part B.
Part B requests your organisation's bank details and invites you to nominate an independent referee, who must read and sign your form. Two members of your organisation must also sign Part B to accept the Terms and Conditions, if a grant is made.
Application Parts A & B should then be posted to South Yorkshire Community Foundation together with the following documentation:
- a signed copy of your organisation's Rules/Constitution/Governing Document
- a signed copy of your last year's accounts
- a photocopy of a bank statement no more than 3 months old
- a copy of your Safeguarding: Child Protection/Vulnerable Persons Policy (if appropriate)
- quotes (as appropriate)
- a list of your management committee/trustee names and addresses with any relationships to one another and cheque signatories identified
- any other material you consider relevant to your application (please do not send material you want returned) eg leaflets, flyers, press cuttings
Decision making:
All applications are assessed against the Comic Relief criteria. Those meeting eligibility are then passed to a panel of independent volunteer decision makers, and their decision is final. The amount of funding available is restricted and therefore some applications may be unsuccessful.
Monitoring:
We have to ensure that funding has been appropriately spent and therefore require monitoring information. A monitoring form will be posted to you with the letter confirming that your application has been successful. It will ask you to report on the difference the grant has made to your group and beneficiaries. This must be returned six weeks after the grant has been spent or the activity has finished.
Your project may also be subject to a monitoring visit and any audit requirements of the programme. You must retain and return with your monitoring copies of all receipts, invoices and all expenditure relating to your grants including any capital items.
South Yorkshire Community Foundation will only consider further applications if a satisfactory monitoring form is returned
Data and promotion of Comic Relief:
If your application to Comic Relief is successful, South Yorkshire Community Foundation will be required to pass details of your organisation onto the Community Foundation Network (the umbrella body for Community Foundations around the country) and/or Comic Relief.
You shall also be asked to cooperate with any reasonable requests by Comic Relief for publicity reports relating to the use of the Grant, including requests to film or interview beneficiaries for Comic Relief campaigns. Comic Relief may use your organisation's name and details of the project on which the money is spent in its reports and publicity materials.
Your authorisation will be requested on Part B of the application.
For further details regarding application forms or to discuss your project before you apply, please contact:
Sue Wragg
Fund Manager
South Yorkshire Community Foundation
Unit 3 - G1 Building
6 Leeds Road
Sheffield
S9 3TY
Telephone: 0114 242 9007 Fax: 0114 242 4605
Email: sue.wragg@sycf.org.uk
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