City Bridge Trust: Small Grant
City Bridge Trust Small Grants of between £1,000 and £10,000 per year are available for a maximum of five years, for the following areas of work:
- Greening and growing projects which bring communities together and improve the local environment.
- A project which enables disabled people and/or older people who are disadvantaged to actively participate in the arts, sports and health and wellbeing opportunities.
You can apply for Capital funding, Revenue funding, or a mixture of the two.
Based on grants made to date, we have awarded between £1,500 and £50,000 for work under this strand. The average award size has been £18,000. Please note that these figures are illustrative only, and that we can award less than these amounts depending on the applications we receive. Small grants are capped at £10,000 per year.
A revenue grant cannot be for more than 50% of the organisation’s annual turnover, based on the most recent set of accounts (as opposed to future budgets/forecasts).
This programme is open to groups working in London with an income of less than £100,000, as shown in the organisation’s latest annual accounts.
Applicants will need to be one of the following:
- Registered charity
- Registered Community Interest Company
- Registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation
- Charitable company
- Exempt or excepted charity
- Registered charitable industrial and provident society or charitable Bencom
Applicants will need to be able to provide a least one set of legally compliant accounts.
They will also be required to provide an organisational budget for the current financial year and a forecast for the coming year if your financial year begins within three months of the application’s submission.
To start your application please complete the Small Grants Eligibility Quiz.
