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25th March 2022Card Factory Foundation – Community Grant Fund
Description
Grants are available to support projects and activities that benefit Card Factory colleagues and communities where Card Factory stores operate.
Current Status: Open for Applications
Maximum value: Discretionary
Objectives of Fund
This fund aims to support community projects and activities that improve lives, provide support for people undergoing life-changing events, and provide benefit for both past and present Card Factory colleagues and communities where Card Factory stores operate.
Value Notes
Grants are typically awarded up to £2,500.
Grants of more than £2,500 will be made at the discretion of the Trustees.
Who Can Apply
Not-for-profit organisations and community groups can apply.
Applicants must provide a copy of their most recent annual accounts.
The Trustees will not usually award grants to an applicant that has received funding within the last 12 months.
Restrictions
The following are not eligible for funding:
- Salary costs.
- Overheads.
- Activities undertaken by public bodies or organisations contracted to carry out public services on their behalf.
- Promotion of political messaging.
- Mortgage payments, rental payments, salaries, wages, advertising, marketing, or other running costs.
- Expeditions, overseas travel or appeals.
- Projects outside a 15-mile radius of a Card Factory store.
- Projects which could harm the reputation of the Charity.
- Any non-charitable purposes.
- Colleague training.
Eligible Expenditure
Funding is for projects and activities that meet one or more of the following priorities:
- Provide support, financial or otherwise, towards hardship caused by life-changing events.
- Provide support, financial or otherwise, to projects that improve lives.
- Projects that take place for Card Factory colleagues and/or communities where Card Factory stores operate.
Funding is for project costs directly connected to carrying out the charitable activities that the Trustees have agreed to fund.
For details on how to apply please visit https://www.cardfactoryinvestors.com/foundation/community-grant-fund