[WiLT] Groundswell Small Grant Award Scheme - 15th October

[WiL Admin]

Groundswell Small Grant Award Scheme

Groundswell's Grant Award Scheme offers grants of up to £700 to homeless people
to set up their own projects.

They welcome applications from anyone with experience of homelessness:
· rough sleepers,
· Travellers,
· squatters,
· refugees and asylum seekers,
· residents of hostels and B&Bs etc.;
· Anyone without a secure tenancy.

The project you are trying to set up can be a service user group, an arts group,
a business, a charity - any kind of self-help initiative. So far they have given
out £150,000 to over 300 homeless-led self-help projects. To find out more about
the projects that have won Groundswell Awards, visit the 'Previous Winners'
section of website below.

If you want to apply for a grant read through our Grant Guidelines page on
website below first - it explains all you need to know how to apply for
Groundswell Grant. You can then download an application form.

If you are still in doubt as to whether you are eligible to apply, then please
call them Tel: 020 7737 5500

Applications are considered four times a year with deadlines: 15th January; 15th
April; 15th July; 15th October.

Groundswell UK, Elmfield House, 5 Stockwell Mews, London SW9 9GX Email:
grants at groundswell.org.uk

Website: http://www.groundswell.org.uk/grants_home.html

Source fit4funding October 2009 www.fit4funding.org.uk