Funding and Grants

Hull CVS can provide your organisation with help, advice and support in all aspects of funding, from how to find those pots of money to filling out application forms.

We also manage a number of small grants schemes for groups in Hull.

Funding Services

Fundraising Plus

Our Fundraising Plus project helps smaller voluntary and community organisations by offering funding advice and a package of support to improve groups capacity to secure the funds and resources they need and to think about more ways of generating funding rather than simply making grant applications.

Need help searching for funding? Call Hull CVS on (01482) 324474 or email fundingadvice@hull-cvs.co.uk to make an appointment to discuss your support needs and arrange a funding search.

Funding Information

Our funding information page has links to websites of major funders and you can also download a variety of funding information factsheets for free.

Hull CVS Small Grants for Voluntary and Community Groups

Hull CVS manages a number of small grants schemes to support local voluntary and community groups, in line with our charitable objects and our mission statement. Individual grant programmes may set out additional objectives.

Hull CVS Grant Making Policy

If you require further details on any of our small grants please contact our Grants Officer on (01482) 324474 or email grants@hull-cvs.co.uk for more information.

Starter Grants

Funded by a donation from The Sir James Reckitt Charity, Hull CVS runs a small grants scheme providing:

Grants for small self help groups operating within the city of Hull
Grants for newly established small groups

Bransholme Trust

With donations from The Sir James Reckitt Charity and The Hull and East Riding Charitable Trust, Hull CVS provides grants of up to £500 to voluntary and community groups working on the Bransholme Estate in Hull. Find out how to apply and the impact of Bransholme Trust Grants.

Digital Switchover Grants

The Digital Switchover Grants programme is now CLOSED to applications.

‘Active at 60′ Community Agent Grant Programme

The Active at 60 programme is now CLOSED to applications.

The End of Grant Report sets out the information which we need from our grant holders to help meet our monitoring responsibilities. Grant holders who have not spent their entire grant should contact the office by Wednesday 30th November, as all unspent monies have to be returned.

All sections of the report should be completed as accurately as possible and the form should be returned to the office by Monday 5th December.

Grant holders can complete the End of Grant Report electronically in Word and return it as an email attachment to grants@hull-cvs.co.uk

The Government’s Active at 60 programme is funded by the Department of Work and Pensions(DWP) and administered nationally by the Community Development Foundation (CDF). Hull is one of 30 areas nationally chosen to pilot the programme and has been awarded £33,648. Hull CVS will manage this fund and award grants of between £250 and £3,000 to eligable voluntary and community groups.

Newland Allotments Active At 60 (Hull Daily Mail)

Grassroots Grants

The Grassroots Grants scheme is now CLOSED to applications.

The aim of the Grassroots Grants scheme was to:

Increase immediate grant funding and capacity building support to small VCS groups and to enable them to continue or expand their work including advocacy, community voice and service provision.
Increase the long-term funding available to small VCS groups from community owned endowments raised from non-statutory donors.
Improve the sustainability and quality of local grant making by strengthening independent funders.

Between 2008-2011 Hull CVS managed the Government’s Grassroots Grants Scheme locally and awarded grants of between £250 to £5,000 to small volunteer led community groups. During this time the scheme awarded grants to 126 local groups who were meeting local needs across the city of Hull; activities ran between December 2008 and March 2011.

Locally, evaluation of the impact of Grassroots Grants has now been undertaken, the research includes surveys of grant recipients and explores the impact the funding has made on local communities, case studies and a short survey of the panel members who allocated the grants, together with analysis of the programme’s monitoring data.

Targeted Support Fund (TSF)

This Fund is now CLOSED to applications.

In 2009 Hull CVS managed the Government’s Real Help for Communities: Targeted Support Fund locally and awarded the full amount of TSF of just under £500,000 to18 groups in the City who were seeing an increase in demands for their services as a result of the recession. Activities ran between 1st September 2009 and 31st March 2010.