Bolton Community Homes
Bolton Community and Voluntary Services
The funding is to support projects that will benefit Bolton Community Homes customers, making a difference in their lives and local communities. Funding can help you in many ways, for example, to buy new equipment or materials, to run a community event, to launch a new group or to help promote existing groups locally.
Your project must help people in at least one of the following ways: *Anti-Poverty – supporting people to relieve financial pressures and reduce poverty - for example, a sewing group helping with school uniforms. *Community Cohesion – to help make the community stronger and to encourage communities to come together – for example, organising a family fun day. *Environment – improving the local environment by keeping it clean and tidy - for example helping maintain gardens and communal areas or organising a clean-up. *Healthier and Active Ageing – improving residents’ (and older people’s) health and wellbeing – for example, dance classes to improve fitness. *Youth – increasing the opportunities/activities available for young people - for example, running a youth group.
We will score your application based on how well your project will contribute to these themes so please make sure that you tell us in your application form. You only need to meet one of these themes. In fact, it is better to meet one theme very well rather than all of them loosely.
To be eligible to apply, an organisation must:
- Be either: A constituted voluntary or community group*
- A registered charity
- Another type of constituted not for profit organisation.
Be based and/or provide benefit to people living in the Metropolitan borough of Bolton (Bolton Council’s local authority area).
Organisations must be up to date with the monitoring returns for any grants managed through Bolton CVS.
Have a bank account in the name of the group (not an individual) with at least 2 signatories of people who are not connected or living at the same address.
A minimum of 3 committee members or trustees if you are a community group or charity.
If your costings include payments to a trustee or committee member, your governing document must allow this and you must have appropriate procedures in place to manage any potential conflict of interest.
We expect you to have appropriate insurance for your groups’ activities. If you run sports activities your sports coaches (volunteer or paid) must be registered with Bolton Council’s Register of Sports Coaches or another suitably recognised body.
*For unconstituted groups, please get in touch with the team. We will ask you to tell us who is involved in your project and the name of an organisation that will be able to hold the funding on your behalf, if successful.