The Community Organisations Cost of Living Fund

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Deadline: 16 October 2023 at 12 noon.

The Community Organisations Cost of Living Fund is a £76 million programme funded by the Government and delivered in partnership with The National Lottery Community Fund, the largest community funder in the UK. The money will support charities and community organisations in England at the frontline of dealing with the cost-of-living crisis.

The fund will support frontline charities and community organisations struggling to meet increased demand for their critical services, such as the provision of food, emergency provisions, shelter, safe spaces, warmth and financial or housing advice.

This funding is suitable for voluntary or community organisations in England.

Their main priority is to fund organisations supporting low-income households and individuals.

You can apply for between £10,000 and £75,000. If you need £10,000 or less you could try their National Lottery Awards for All fund.

To apply, your organisation must already run critical services around at least one of the following:

• food and emergency supplies – like food and baby banks or the provision of hot meals, clothes or toiletries
• emergency shelter – like night shelters or other accommodation for people experiencing homelessness
• safe spaces – like domestic abuse services and youth services
• warmth – like warm rooms and spaces
• financial and housing advice – like giving people advice because of the increased cost of living.

Your organisation must also be facing both

• increased demand for these critical services

and

• increased costs of delivering these critical services.

They’re more likely to fund small and medium-sized front-line organisations with an annual turnover of between £10,000 and around £1 million.

Larger organisations can also apply if they do both of the following:

• show that they work closely and effectively with local communities
• fill a gap in essential local services.

You can get funding to pay for:

• costs of delivering, expanding or adapting your existing critical service(s) from the date you are funded until 31 March 2024. The date you are funded will be around 12 weeks from the time you submitted your application.
• retrospective costs of running the existing critical service(s) you’re applying for between 24 July 2023 and the date you are funded.

They’ll start funding organisations in October 2023, and finish in January 2024. If you get funding you must spend it by 31 March 2024.

For full information and to apply, please click here.

Deadline: 16 October 2023 at 12 noon.

You can find out more information at their webinars.

At the webinars, they’ll tell you more about the fund and answer any questions.

There are holding webinars on:

• Monday 21 August, 11:00 – 11:45
• Tuesday 12 September, 14:00 – 15:00
• Tuesday 28 September, 11:00- 12:00

Click here to book your place.

If you want support in making an application from the LCVS Funding Advisor, please click here to download our Enquiry Form.