Evelyn Partners Merseyside Charitable Fund
About the Fund
Evelyn Partners and the Community Foundation for Merseyside are pleased to announce the latest round of the Evelyn Partners Merseyside Charitable Fund.
If you are a local voluntary or community group based in Merseyside or Halton and need funding for a project focusing primarily on improving the lives of local young people, the Evelyn Partners Merseyside Charitable Fund may be able to help.
Fund Criteria
Educational initiatives aimed at young people
Health and wellbeing projects aimed at young people
Employability projects aimed at young people
Specific criteria
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Group annual income must be less than £500,000 to be eligible.
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Please note the Evelyn Partners Merseyside Charitable Fund panel are keen to consider projects that will result in some form of qualification or accreditation.
Fund priorities:
Projects that aim increase levels of financial literacy for young people – Such as money management and budgeting projects
Projects that aim to tackle specific community issues through education.
Projects that promote wellbeing and tackle mental and physical health problems through education.
Projects where young people can help voluntary and community groups become more effective and efficient.
Projects that encourage excluded or isolated young people’s involvement in the community
Projects that encourage young people’s social entrepreneurship
Projects that help young people learn new skills and maximize their potential helping them improve their life chances and become more active and engaged in their own communities – Such as mentoring schemes to improve the employability of young people.
Amount Available
Grants are available up to £5,000.
Community Foundations for Lancashire and Merseyside are a Real Living Wage employer therefore we encourage applications that include staff costs at the current Real Living Wage of £12.00p/h as a minimum.
The following items cannot be supported via the fund:
- Statutory organisations or work that is their responsibility
- Groups with less than 3 unrelated Director/Trustees, or fewer than 3 unrelated Committee Members for unregistered groups.
- National organizations that cannot demonstrate local governance and control of local finances
- Private Companies and Companies Limited by Shares
- Commercial ventures
- Purchase/maintenance of vehicles
- Activities that will have already taken place before we offer you a grant
- Politically connected or exclusively religious activities
- Projects for personal profit
- Organisations that are set up for the benefit of animals or plants: environmental groups that work with animals or the environment (such as city farms) are acceptable
- Groups comprising of members of the same family
- Debts and other liabilities
- Reclaimable VAT
- Travel outside UK
- Gifts or projects exclusively for the purpose of entertaining – social events can be funded where there is a clear community benefit
How to Apply?
An online application form can be completed via the “Apply Now” button below. You can attach supporting documents to your online application, or email them to us at applications@cflm.org.uk.
Documents which need to be included with your application:
- A copy of your governing document.
- A copy of your latest annual accounts or income/expenditure document.
- A copy of a recent bank statement for your group. If you do not have a bank account in place, you must be able to nominate another organisation to hold the funds (CVS, another local charity, church etc.).
- A list of your Trustees/Directors/Management Committee members. A minimum of three un-related must be in place.
- A copy of your current Safeguarding Policy. All applicants must ensure that they hold relevant policies and procedures in place to undertake activities, such as Criminal Records Bureau checks and/or a health and safety policy, depending on proposed activity. If unsure, we recommend taking advice from your local CVS..
If you have applied to us within the last 12 months and provided this information, we do not need you to send it again, although we may require a more recent bank statement.
Completed applications are considered by Community Foundation staff to check eligibility. You may be contacted for more information after applying and a decision-making panel will make recommendations based on the fund’s criteria and the budget available.