Apply now for grant funding from the Improve & Prove Fund for capacity building

The Improve and Prove Fund has grant funding available to support community organisations (including Social Enterprises) with building capacity. A grant of up to £5,000 is available for you to deliver work that will help your organisation to become more self-sustaining and less reliant on grant funding.  

Examples of what could be funded are:  

• Staff, volunteers or management training on quality bid writing
• Governance training for trustees, staff or volunteers  
• Budgeting, business plan writing, risk management training etc.  
• Marketing costs that are targeted at increasing membership, volunteer numbers, more service delivery which can demonstrate a connection with building capacity  
• Short pieces of research such as a “business health check”  
• Any other project or piece of work that your organisation could use to increase capacity.  

Please read the Guidelines to the Improve and Prove Fund as you will need to comply with as an organisation. Note that that you must have an income of under £150,000 per annum or under £450,000 over the last three years.

To discuss your application or for more information, please contact Sue Wright on 01473 786917 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Please click below for the Improve and Prove Awards guidelines and application form.


Guidelines

Application Form