Tees Valley Community Grants – Point North

Tees Valley Community Grants Now Open

Point North’s Tees Valley Community Grants Programme provides grants focusing on sustaining health and wellbeing and reducing inequalities.

This fund will prioritise projects which meet one of the following aims:

• Improve health and wellbeing
• Reduce poverty and inequality
• Support those impacted by family breakdown or domestic abuse
• Remove barriers to digital access
• Provide advice and support to people struggling to manage money
• Improve opportunities for education, training and employment
• Work within the community to address local needs in other ways to those listed above

You don’t have to be a registered charity to apply but you must have charitable aims such as:

• Registered charities and CIOs
• Community/voluntary groups that have a constitution
• Social enterprises (CICs, companies limited by guarantee) that are registered with the appropriate body and generate more than 50% of their income through trading

Here are some examples of the type of funding you can apply for but this list doesn’t include everything.

• Contribution to core or running costs where the expenditure of the organisation is typically less than £500,000 per year
• Essential maintenance of equipment or pitches associated with improvements to grow participation
• Salaries or part salaries for roles clearly linked to addressing the issues listed above sessional costs
• Capital items and equipment including IT equipment (vehicles or minibuses not included)
• Coaching or training activity
• Transport costs
• Capacity building activities
• Repair costs

Please see their website for more info: Tees Valley Community Grants | Point North.

How To Apply

To apply for a grant you must use their online application form HERE.

Before starting your application make sure you read the guidelines in full.

• Application Guidelines

When you have completed the application in full they aim to have a decision for you within 8 weeks.