Peoples Postcode Trust
Funding for a range of community projects – notice of imminent deadline (27 May)
The People's Postcode Trust, a trust set up by the “People’s Postcode Lottery” in April 2009, offers grants of between £500 and £10,000 (£2,000 if not a registered charity and £5,000 in Wales) to small organisations and community groups for projects lasting up to 3 months in the areas of:
- Poverty Prevention
- Advancement of Health
- Community Development
- Public Sports
- Human Rights
- Environmental Protection.
Applications for grants of under £2,000 are considered on a rolling monthly basis in Scotland and on a quarterly basis in England and Wales.
Previous projects supported include:
- Bishopton Village Nursery which received a grant of £825 to support children’s learning; and
- Scottish Native Woods, an organisation that exists to rescue, restore and expand Scotland’s native woods- woodlands that are natural to Scottish landscape. The organisation received a grant of £9,958 to thin out trees, reinstate and repair paths and reinstall drainage systems.
For grants of over £2,000 the next round for applications will open on the 11th April 2011 and will close on the 27th May 2011.
For more information, go to:http://www.postcodetrust.org.uk/
last updated on 9th May 2011