Nationwide Building Society Now Accepting Applications (UK Wide)
Funding to support work that addresses housing problems in the UK.
The Community Grants programme 2023 is now open, providing two-year grants of £10,000 to £60,000 in total to organisations working in the UK housing sector.
The funding is for local housing projects that will strengthen communities to support the most vulnerable by:
- Preventing people from losing their home.
- Helping people into a home.
- Supporting people to thrive within the home environment.
Applications are accepted from registered charitable organisations with a housing focus. To be eligible in 2023, charities must:
- Have been running for at least three years and provide evidence of three years of annual accounts.
- Have a £25,000 minimum average income over three years.
To make funding decisions, the UK is divided up into regions and applications are reviewed, discussed, and voted on by a regional Community Board made up of Nationwide members and colleagues who live and work in each region. There is a cap on applications to manage volumes and to preserve a success rate of approximately one in four. This means 25% of those who apply within each region will receive funding.
The grants can support a variety of costs associated with project development and delivery, capacity-building, small-scale capital costs and core costs (up to 20% of the amount requested).
The deadline to apply is 1pm on 26 May 2023.
(This report was the subject of a GRANTfinder Newsflash.)
