Cumberland Community Fund
Application requests
We welcome applications from those charitable, not-for-profit orgnaisations whose projects benefit the communities within our operating area, Cumbria (all CA and LA postcodes), South-West Scotland (all DG postcodes and TD9), West Northumberland (NE45-49), Preston area of North Lancashire (all PR, FY, LA AND BB1-3 and BB5-7)
Funding can be used to provide an opportunity to scale up promising innovations and/or improve existing initiatives.
Strategic grants of up to £25,000 for three years
These are likely to be one-off grants.
Priority will be given to projects that can demonstrate a clear need and/or demand for their service.
Community grants of up to £5,000 over one year.
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Types of requests we're unable to support
- Requests for administration equipment, such as computers, for a charity’s own use or general expenses such as salaries
- Overseas travel, expeditions
- Events mainly for the general public such as village fetes/carnivals/concerts
- Organisations supporting other charities
- Fabric appeals for places of worship unless principally for the benefit of the community as a whole
- Activities which are mainly/normally the responsibility of central or local government or some other responsible body
- Hospitals, medical centres and medical research
- Animal Welfare
- Individuals
- Apply now for funding from the Cumberland Community Fund
Giving back
As well as financial assistance through donations, our teams are keen to support local community groups, voluntary organisations, non-profit organisations, charities and schools from across our region in a variety of other ways. from skill/knowledge sharing, to giving back through community days and volunteering.
From budgeting to fraud awareness, our aim is to be able to support people of all ages develop the skills and knowledge that not only help them to improve how they manage their day to day finances, but also how to make better financial decisions now and in the future.
They can do this individually, with others from their own team or even better, join forces with others from across the business. It's not only a fantastic way to help a local good cause, but a really nice way to get to know team mates better outside of the day to day, office environment.
What's brilliant to see when people use their community day is how much this benefits them and the people they are helping. It's definitely something we're really proud of!
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Get in touch with our team
If your group or organisation are looking for volunteers, **email our Community Team directly** as we'd love to be able to see if it's something we're able to help with.
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