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CCF Improving Outcomes in Deprived Neighbourhoods

This grants programmes focuses on projects delivered in the most deprived wards in Cheshire and Warrington, that reduce inequalities, help prevent poor health and improve opportunities for better lives.

£300,000 is available within the programme in 2022 - with the minimum grant being £2000 and the maximum grant being £15,000, over one year.

CCF want to support effective, coordinated place-based initiatives for the medium to longer term. We will therefore not only provide grants, but we will also act as a negotiator, broker or convenor, via our Impact Groups to forge strong, ongoing relationships with key stakeholders’ and donors, to secure further funds in subsequent years, as we recognise that engaging disadvantaged communities and making sustainable change, will require longer-term funding.

Who Can Apply
The programme is aimed at small to medium-sized, locally based, not-for-profit UK organisations including registered charities, constituted community groups and other charitable organisations including Social Enterprises and CIC's.

The programme can support:

  • Projects which support solutions, to address issues that are most important to the community at a local level – which actively involve and include their local communities, to define the need and take social action for themselves.
  • Local, sustainable community activities, tackling specific problems or issues, which help to build community resilience – and act as a catalyst to support the changes that local people aspire to – but need support to achieve.
  • Projects which improve the quality of life in disadvantaged areas.
  • Projects which address a more specific purpose (for example: helping to reduce poverty – or giving local children a better start in life – or improve mental health and wellbeing at a local level).
  • Projects which help people overcome barriers to employment – or which raise aspirations to contribute towards helping families lift themselves out of poverty.

Applicants must clearly specify in their application, the deprived ward(s) or if the project is at a very local level, the postcode(s), where their project will take place, alongside the disadvantage being tackled. You can check here to help identify levels of disadvantage in your project activity area. This report from Warrington Borough Council also highlights the areas of multiple deprivation within Warrington.

Programme Timescales

However, we would strongly advise that a member of your team takes up a short one-to-one pre-application support appointment to discuss your application to this programme, which will take place on Wednesday 1st September 2022 .  To  reserve an appointment slot,  please email grants@cheshirecommunityfoundation.org.uk

Outcome

  • We expect to notify participants in early December 2022
Deadline for applications – midnight 18th September 2022
 

Read more about this fund.

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