The BVSC Grants team are acting as the Grant Manager for a new Grant Fund entitled – Compassionate Communities Organisational Grants.
Funded by Birmingham City Council, we are seeking to award grants across the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) Sector to enable organisations to deliver specific activities / provision to support Birmingham’s Compassionate Communities Agenda.
Compassionate Communities is a globally recognised approach to improving the end-of-life experience for people by mobilising local networks, groups and services to be more conscious, aware and equipped to offer support.
Activities under this funding must:
- Be co-designed with local
communities.
- Utilise Asset Based Community
Development (ABCD) methods.
- Be integrated with the local
Neighbourhood Network Scheme (NNS) and work they are undertaking around
Compassionate Communities (this work being integral to the City’s bid for
Compassionate Communities Charter Status)
- Be aligned with Compassionate Communities
objectives, recognising that the natural cycles of sickness and health,
birth and death, and love and loss are common to all of us, and that care
for one another at times of crisis and loss is not solely a task for
health and social services but is everyone’s responsibility
BVSC Grants are looking to award 4 grants to the value of £35,000 (inclusive of VAT); with activity taking place across specific localities within Birmingham, between November 2022 and July 2023.
Applicants can request the documents to be submitted for assessment as well as a specification to assist applications by e-mailing grantmaking@bvsc.org
Documents for this opportunity can be requested until 4pm on Monday 3rd October.
The deadline for applications to be submitted is 10am on Friday 7th October 2022.
All relevant information regarding this opportunity can be found within the specification that has been developed for this funding. A copy of which will be provided alongside the application documents upon request by e-mailing grantmaking@bvsc.org before 4pm on Monday 3rd October 2022.
All communications regarding this opportunity should be sent to grantmaking@bvsc.org
BVSC Grants will have several funding opportunities going live by the end of 2022 and beginning of 2023. We will keep you updated with opportunities as and when the go live.
To ensure you keep updated with these opportunities and other funding opportunities available across the sector please ensure you sign up to the free weekly e-bulletin produced by BVSC - https://bvsc.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=bb706c7e064207212ae3b4baf&id=bc4542f056
With Best
Wishes
BVSC Grants
Team