The Royal British Legion’s External Grants scheme aims to safeguard the welfare, interests and memory of those who have served in the Armed Forces including, under certain circumstances, other support and defence organisations as well as the Mercantile Marine.
Applications should address one or more of the following themes:
o Employment and training;
o Support for families;
o Homelessness and outreach; and/or
o Supporting the elderly.
o Support for families;
o Homelessness and outreach; and/or
o Supporting the elderly.
Grant awards can cover:
o Project costs, for example, providing an activity that will benefit ex-Service personnel;
o Services, such as providing welfare advice; and
o Capital costs, including building works or purchasing equipment.
o Services, such as providing welfare advice; and
o Capital costs, including building works or purchasing equipment.
PLEASE NOTE: the Royal British Legion will only consider applications for building work of £50,000 or less where the amount requested will complete the total cost required for the project and enable the building work to commence.
Grant awards are unlikely to exceed £50,000. More modest awards, significantly lower than the maximum grant amount, are much more probable.
There is a requirement for match funding as applicants are required to show that they have tried to secure funds from other sources and, where applicable, should demonstrate either that insufficient funds were available from those sources or provide information on funding that has successfully been secured.
To be eligible, applicants must:
o Be based in England, Wales, or Northern Ireland and operating for at least two years;
o Have a project that will directly benefit ex-Service personnel and/or their families - spouses, partners, widows, widowers and dependants;
o Have attempted to secure funding from other sources (whether successfully or not); and
o Prove their organisation is run efficiently. Applicants should demonstrate that they have sound financial and organisational management.
o Have a project that will directly benefit ex-Service personnel and/or their families - spouses, partners, widows, widowers and dependants;
o Have attempted to secure funding from other sources (whether successfully or not); and
o Prove their organisation is run efficiently. Applicants should demonstrate that they have sound financial and organisational management.
The following are not eligible for funding:
o Core costs (unless in exceptional circumstances);
o Commercial ventures such as social clubs;
o Statutory services;
o Service Units and Military Wives Choirs (a separate grant fund is being considered for this purpose);
o Commemoration, memorials, monuments or war cemeteries;
o Promotion of religion (although faith based organisations are eligible to apply); or
o Organisations with free or unrestricted reserves that exceed their last year’s running costs.
o Commercial ventures such as social clubs;
o Statutory services;
o Service Units and Military Wives Choirs (a separate grant fund is being considered for this purpose);
o Commemoration, memorials, monuments or war cemeteries;
o Promotion of religion (although faith based organisations are eligible to apply); or
o Organisations with free or unrestricted reserves that exceed their last year’s running costs.
There is a two-stage application process. Stage One application forms are available to download from the Legion's website. Those who are successful at Stage One will be invited to fill in a Stage Two application form.
The next application deadline for Stage 1 applications is Friday 10 November, with a Stage 2 deadline of Friday 19 January for decisions to be confirmed in March 2018.
Contact details for the scheme are:
The Royal British Legion
Haig House
199 Borough High Street
London SE1 1AA
Tel: 0203 207 2138
Email: externalgrants@britishlegion.
Haig House
199 Borough High Street
London SE1 1AA
Tel: 0203 207 2138
Email: externalgrants@britishlegion.
(Source: GRIN)
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