Deadline: 28 January 2025
The Community Foundation for Staffordshire is inviting applications for its Bishop Stamer Fund Programme.
The Bishop Stamer Fund is available to community groups, voluntary groups and in some cases statutory agencies.
Funding Information
- Grants of up to £10,000 are available.
Eligible Projects
- Your project must meet one of the following aims;
- Increase or enhance your current service provision
- Make your organisation more efficient, more sustainable or more resilient
- Be used to improve facilities for your service users.
Eligible Costs
- Equipment costs
- Capital costs
- Training costs.
Ineligible Costs
- General running costs
- Core costs
- Event costs
- More than 75% of the whole project cost
- Funding towards religious projects or projects that promote religion, (although religious organisations can be funded for non-religious projects)
- Party political activities, (where one particular political party is promoted above another).
Who they are able to support?
- This programme is able to consider applications from:
- Constituted community groups
- Constituted voluntary groups
- Registered Charities
- Social Enterprises
- Statutory Agencies.
Who they are not able to support?
- This programme is not able to offer funding to:
- Non-constituted community groups
- Non constituted voluntary groups
- Organisations that have been established less than 12 months
- Organisations that do not have a proven track record of service delivery
- Limited companies, sole traders or partnerships without charitable aims.
Eligibility Criteria
- Grants from this scheme are available to organisations in North Staffordshire, (including Stoke-on-Trent, the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme and the Staffordshire Moorlands district), although applications from the northern part of Stafford borough may be considered, (those parts north of Stone). The panel of donor advisors may, at their discretion, consider applications from outside of this area.
- Applications may be submitted at any time.
- There will be two meetings each year to decide on applications. One will take place in February and one in August.
- Applications must be submitted by the end of January to be considered at the February meeting.
- Applications must be submitted by the end of July to be considered at the August meeting.
For more information, visit Community Foundation for Staffordshire.
