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Organisations & projects
The Community Fund offers grants from £500 up to £10,000 that are available for organisations that meet our criteria. We consider applications once a year*. Grants are awarded for small capital items and/or running costs. We do not fund buildings, adaptations to buildings or minibus purchases.
Each year has a theme. In 2011 we will again be giving grants to organisations working with older people living with a long-term physical disability, impairmant or physical health problem where substance misuse has been a contributing factor.
* Please note that applications for funding in 2011 will be accepted from 1 July 2010 until 30 September 2010.
The kinds of organisations we help
To be considered for a grant from the St Monica Trust Community Fund your organisation must meet all four of the following criteria:
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Benefit people (over 55 years old) who have a physical or sensory impairment or long term physical health problem. |
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Be providing services for clients (over the age of 55) where substance misuse (including drugs, alcohol or addiction to prescribed medication) is, or has been, a contributing factor. |
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Benefit people living in Bristol or the surrounding area (North Somerset, Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, Bath & North East Somerset and Wiltshire). |
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Be both properly constituted and a not-for-profit organisation. |
The application process
We receive many more requests than we have funds available. For example, in 2009 we received 35 applications with requests totalling over £318,000: well above the £110,000 we had available. In practice this means that we do not give grants to organisations which do not fully meet our criteria.
We are happy to accept applications from organisations that we have previously funded. All applicants must submit an application form together with additional information that is requested in the application form, e.g. annual report. The application form for funding available in 2011 and supplementary information will be available to download here from 1 July 2010.
Deadline for applications
The closing date for applications for funding available in 2011 is 30 September 2010.
Filling in the application form
Please complete all sections of the form. As far as possible, please fit your responses into the spaces on the application form. If you do need more space then please attach one additional sheet only. (If you are completing the form in a different format than the standard 5 pages, we will advise you of the wording limits when we send you the form).
Please include your annual reports, accounts, publicity materials and any additional financial information. If there has been any significant change in your income, expenditure or reserves since the accounts were prepared, please inform us of this and explain the difference e.g. if your accounts show reserves which have since been spent.
If you have any questions about filling in the form, please contact us on
0117 949 4003.
Assessment process
We will acknowledge receipt of all application forms in writing. We may then contact you for further information or to arrange to visit your organisation.
After you have submitted your application, please inform us of any changes relevant to your application e.g. if you receive funding from another source. If you produce a more recent annual report and/or accounts in the time between sending us your application form and receiving the outcome, please send us a copy.
Decisions
All applications will be carefully and fairly considered by the Community Fund Committee of the St Monica Trust. We will notify you of the outcome of your application in writing by no later than the end of January 2011. You may hear from us before the end of January, if your application is refused because it does not meet our criteria.
Payments
If your application is successful, we will send you the terms of conditions for accepting a grant and once you have agreed to these, we will release payment.
Not all applications will be successful
Please be aware that our funds are limited and we receive far more requests for grants than we can meet. We have refused applications which do not fully meet our criteria e.g. because the work benefits carers or people with a mental health problem or a learning difficulty and not those with a physical or sensory impairment or long-term physical health problem.
Where applications meet our criteria we have had to make difficult decisions which give priority to one application over another. It is difficult to give guidance about these priorities as each application is considered on its individual merits. The following trends may be of some help: we have tended to fund local organisations rather than national ones; we have turned down applications from organisations whose prime focus is not within our current priorities.
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