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17th November 2020
Co-op Community Dividend Fund
18th November 2020Allen Lane Foundation
Description
Grants are available to small registered charities, voluntary groups and charitable organisations in the UK for work that makes a difference to people’s lives as opposed to simply alleviating the symptoms or current problems and should aim to reduce isolation, stigma and discrimination.
Details
Fund Value: £ 800,000
Maximum Value: £ 15,000
Minimum Value: £ 500
Average Value: £ 5,000
Value Notes
The Foundation typically makes around 150 grants in a year with a total value of between £750,000 and £800,000.
The Foundation makes single grants, or grants split over two or three years.
One-off grants of between £500 and £15,000 are available. The average grant is between £5,000 and £6,000.
Grants repeated for more than one year vary from around £500 per annum up to £5,000 per annum, for a maximum of three years.
Extended Description
The Allen Lane Foundation, a grant-making trust, was set up in 1966 by the late Sir Allen Lane, founder of Penguin Books, to support general charitable causes.
The Foundation is interested in funding charitable causes which it believes to be unpopular both in society, and with other funders.
The funding is intended for small registered charities, voluntary groups and charitable organisations in the UK whose work benefits groups of people who are under-represented in UK society.
Overall, the Foundation wishes to fund work which:
- Will make a lasting difference to people’s lives rather than simply alleviating the symptoms or current problems.
- Is aimed at reducing isolation, stigma and discrimination.
- Encourages or enables unpopular groups to share in the life of the whole community.
The Foundation’s Social Cohesion Programme was established in January 2019 to provide support to local communities. The funding is focused on projects that aim to break down barriers and tensions between different groups of people and build a more cohesive and inclusive community for all.
The aim of the new programme is to:
- Proactively work towards building better community cohesion and trust, and encouraging respect and understanding in the local area
- Proactively promote the inclusion of marginalised groups and individuals in the life of the local community
- Fund work which breaks down barriers and tensions in the local community thereby reducing feelings of division and “them and us”.
The funding is for community-led grassroots groups and organisations whose work is focused at a ‘very local/community level’ such as a housing estate or distinct community.
Applications will be particularly encouraged from areas of high deprivation but not exclusively. The Foundation is keen to support communities come up with their own solutions to local issues of division. It is open to supporting actions which are new or may have been tried before or are on-going, however, the work must have lasting benefits for those people the projects are aimed at.
Latest Information
The next deadline for applications is 30 November for consideration in February 2021.
Key Criteria
Small registered charities, voluntary groups and charitable organisations in the UK can apply.
Registered charities are eligible to apply as well as other organisations which are not charities, but which seek funding for a charitable project. This could include, for example, constituted voluntary groups or Community Interest Companies
To make sure its grants have an impact, the Foundation will not fund larger organisations. If an organisation works in a relatively local area – a village, or estate or small town – to be eligible it will have an income of less than about £100,000. At the other end of the spectrum, an organisation which works across the whole of the UK will be eligible if it has an income of not more than about £250,000.
Organisations whose work solely benefits people within Greater London cannot apply. However, if their work benefits people across a much wider area, then they may be considered.