Seed Funding for Projects that Bring Neighbours Together

The Near Neighbours programme offers small grants between £250 and £3,000, as seed funding for local groups and organisations who are working to bring together neighbours.

ELIGIBLE GROUPS AND ORGANISATIONS MUST BE WORKING TO DEVELOP RELATIONSHIPS ACROSS DIVERSE FAITHS AND ETHNICITIES IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THEIR COMMUNITIES.
Grants have offered funding to a broad range of work; environmental, social, cultural, artistic, and sporting, that furthers the programme’s aims of encouraging social interaction and social action.

To be eligible, projects must:

Bring together peoples of two or more different faiths and/or ethnicities, to build friendships and develop relationships of trust.
Work locally to bring together people who are living very locally (ie, in the same street, estate or neighbourhood).
Work sustainably so that long-term and natural relationships grow, that will last beyond the period of funding.
Work to improve the community with people working to make their communities a better place to live.
Commit to diversity and involve a diverse group of people, from more than one faith group and/or ethnicity, in the planning and implementation of the project.
The funding has covered a broad range of work, environmental, social, cultural, artistic, and sporting, that furthers the programme’s aims of encouraging social interaction and social action.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis with the final deadline for applications of 10 December 2021.

For full details please see the website below.

For more information visit https://www.near-neighbours.org.uk/small-grants