Near Neighbours Fund
Updated 1 February 2012
Fund details:
The Near Neighbours Fund is a rolling programme with no deadlines but it will end in March 2013. Grants will be available for environmental, social, cultural, artistic and sporting projects that meet the funding criteria, this includes:
Creating association
Projects must do one of the following:
- "Create First Encounters between people of different faith and ethnic communities and encourage the development of mutual understanding"
- "Create Everyday Interactions at the everyday level of community life by encouraging families and individuals to come together regularly to eat together, jointly participating in religious and other festivals, encouraging children to play together in a neighbourhood."
- "Create Civil Engagement which brings together people from different faith or ethnic communities to work together to change their neighbourhoods for the better."
Advice from the funder:
"This is not a fund for buying capital items, funding a deficit, or stretching a hard-pressed project revenue budget, nor will we fund full salaries, or work already completed. Innovative or tried and tested methods which bring people together in the categories set out above and which are ‘good ideas’ are much more likely to receive some investment. No match funding is required but if you can show additional resources such as volunteer time or extra funding being drawn in, so much the better."
Grants will range from £250 to £5,000.
Applications need to be made through an engagement with the local Church of England parish church. Clergy contact details for each parish will be available from September; in the meantime, groups can contact their nearest Presence and Engagement centre for this information.
In Bradford, this is Bradford Churches for Dialogue and Diversity, Contact: Carlo Schröder near.neighbours@bcdd.org.uk
Phone: 01274 668312, BCDD, Thornbury Centre, Leeds Old Road, BRADFORD, BD3 8JX
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