Friday 21 July 2017

COMIC RELIEF ACTIVE AGEING CREATIVE CHANGE IN COMMUNITIES PROGRAMME

Hot on the heels of its Care Home Challenge Fund (which has a deadline of 4 August) comes Comic Relief’s Active Ageing Creative Change in Communities programme, a £1.5 million initiative to enable disadvantaged older people aged 65 years and older to design, deliver and take part in opportunities to contribute to their communities,
Applications will be accepted from registered and un-registered community based organisations across the UK, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
To be eligible for funding, applicants must:
o Focus on their local community (although they may choose to work with national or regional partners);
o Have a formal, signed constitution which outlines their social purpose, demonstrates that any profit or assets are used for social purposes and shows that an asset lock is in place;
o Already coordinate activities by and for older people that can demonstrate a need to engage with a ‘harder to reach’ group of older people, or an organisation which already works with disadvantaged older people that wants to bring a new twist or approach to their work.
Applications will also be accepted from partnerships.
Grants of between £40,000 and £80,000 are available over a period of 3 years.
Comic Relief expects to fund between 15 and 25 projects across the UK from the programme. The funder will contribute a minimum of 25% of the total costs of the proposed activities in order to ensure that they have contributed to the work in a meaningful way.
The funding is for projects, initiatives and activities which primarily focus on benefitting older people, specifically those older people who do not usually participate in volunteering or social activities because they are from a disadvantaged community, or face barriers to participation.
There is also interest in activities which will have a wider benefit for the community in which they are taking place.
To be eligible, projects should meet at least one of the following outcomes:
o Older people improve their mental health and wellbeing;
o Older people increase the quality and quantity of their social connections;
o Older people develop an enhanced sense of purpose and empowerment; and/or
o Provide creative, fresh approaches to engage beneficiaries in social action activities which bring people together and help to improve their lives and solve problems that are important to their communities. This may include activities around campaigning and fundraising as well as volunteering, all of which can create a double benefit for communities and the older person themselves.
For the activities to have positive benefits for the older people involved, they should:
o Provide meaningful roles with opportunities for social interaction and leadership;
o Ensure that older people are recognised and valued for their contribution;
o Make older people feel valued and enable them to be creative and productive.
To do this, activities might focus wholly on older people, or use a broader community or intergenerational approach.
Applicants must be able to demonstrate that they really understand the needs of their community, the role that older people can play in catalysing social change and make the case that they can deliver.
Grants are not available for: 
o General appeals;
o Individual and group sponsorship;
o Marketing appeals;
o Bursaries for individuals or proposals from individuals for funding or study or attainment of qualifications;
o Activities which evangelise or proselytise;
o Projects which Comic Relief has previously decided not to fund (unless an organisation has been invited to resubmit their proposal);
o Organisations which adopt a partisan political stance or activities which are party political; or
o Organisations that advocate the use of violence as a means to campaign or influence public opinion.
The following are unlikely to be funded:
o Standard lunch clubs;
o 1:1 befriending models; or
o Community transport schemes.
Proposals will be accepted until 12 noon on Tuesday 29 August 2017.
Shortlisted proposals will then go through to a full assessment.
Contact details for Comic relief are:
Comic Relief
89 Albert Embankment
London
SE1 7TP
Tel: 020 7820 2000
Email:
 grantsinfo@comicrelief.com

(Source: GRIN)

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