Blaenau Gwent Grant Programme

If you live in Blaenau Gwent

and

• you have got an idea to improve your community and a grant of up to £300 would help to make it happen
• and you have never had a grant from The National Lottery Community Fund before this is the fund for you.
  
• We want to support groups that have never had a grant from us before.

You don’t have to be an existing group you just need a minimum of three people. As a group you want to make something happen in your community and need some money to get it going. We can help you sort out the paperwork if we think it’s something we can fund.

Groups who already have a constitution are welcome to apply too.

If you want to apply for more than £300 you could apply for another of our programmes:

National Lottery Awards for All for grants up to £10,000

or

People and Places for grants of between £10,001 and £500,000

These grants are especially for Blaenau Gwent so your plans must happen there.

We would like you to finish what you want to do within six months of receiving our funding.

You can apply for up to £300 to pay for things that will help the community in Blaenau Gwent to thrive, like:

• equipment,
• one-off activities,
• training costs,
• volunteer expenses,
• running costs
• travel

Your plans should take account of the Welsh Government’s guidelines on stopping the spread of Coronavirus.

We will be looking for ideas which can be delivered safely in the six months after you get your grant.

What shouldn’t we include?

There are a few things that we can’t pay for. These include alcohol, activities to promote politics or religions, and activities to make more money including fundraising or profit.

We also can’t pay for anything you’ve already paid for or done and things that other organisations - such as the local authorities - are supposed to pay for. Please contact us if you’re not sure.