Local groups and organisations with great ideas to make their communities even better places to live are now invited to apply for funding to turn their ideas into reality. 
Active Communities is a funding programme for community groups and not-for-profit organisations, with an income of less than £350,000 a year or an average of £350,000 over two years.
Projects need to:
• Be designed and led by local people
• Support their neighbourhood or community to come together to address an issue that is important to them
• Create stronger connections between people by supporting them to meet up regularly (weekly, fortnightly or monthly, for at least one year)
• Be for people who experience greater social and economic disadvantage than people living in other parts of the country
Be either: small and local, for example, involving residents living in a few streets, an estate, a small village and working in one or more of our 'fundable neighbourhoods', or a community of interest - a group of people who have shared experiences, characteristics or common interests and wish to come together to address specific issues that are important to them. They may live across a wider area.
New and existing projects which last between one and two years will be supported.
You can only apply for funding from the Active Communities programme if:
• Your organisation supports people to create or shape local projects that will help their community or neighbourhood to become even better
• You are a not for profit organisation or group
• Your income is less than £350,000 a year, or an average of £350,000 or less over the last two years
• You have less than six months’ annual running costs in savings (with no restrictions on the money) after you have deducted the grant you wish to request from us
• Your organisation has been constituted for at least three months
The minimum grant that you can apply for is £5,000 over one year, £7,500 over 18 months, or £10,000 over two years.
The maximum amount of funding that will be invested in a project is £50,000, grants of £50,000 over one year are unlikely to be funded.
For further information and to apply, visit: www.peopleshealthtrust.org.uk/apply-for-funding/detailed-guidance?cic=55, or contact 020 7749 9100, or email: [email protected].
Deadline: Wednesday 11 April 2018, 13:00