THINK BUSINESS: Near Neighbours Programme The Near Neighbours programme has opened its small grants fund, offering financial support to gather local people to make a positive and lasting impact in their communities. Grants between £250 and £5,000 are available, providing capital for local groups and organisations who are working to bring together neighbours, to develop relationships across diverse faiths and ethnicities in order to improve their communities. The programme is a rolling one with no applications deadlines, although its current phase is due to run until March 2016 - and it is expected that the grants will close near to this date. To be successful, applications will need to fulfil the programmes criteria, which include: 1) Creating Association. Encouraging stronger civil society in areas that are multi-religious and multi-ethnic by creating association, friendship and neighbourliness. The programme intends to bring together people of different faiths and of no faiths to transform local communities for the better. 2) Local and Sustainable. The programme aims to build association as deeply and sustainably as possible in local neighbourhood contexts. So a key criterion is that grants are spent in ways which bring together people from different ethnic and faith communities which impact specifically locally. 3) Transformative. The programme is keen to give grants that positively impact and transform the neighbourhoods in which projects run. Regardless of what the particular activity is, they programme wants to see it transform the local neighbourhood for good.
Posted on: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 09:58:44 +0000
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