Aims/priorities: Funding is intended to pilot practical new solutions that help partners of serving Personnel to reduce the challenges of service life.
Projects must meet one of the following aims:
- Encouraging new ways of enabling peer to peer support.
- Enabling better access to employment, education & training, or wider support.
- Reducing duplication and making it easier for partners to access knowledge and information that is relevant to their lives.
Funding could be used to support work such as:
- Supporting partners to access paid employment or education.
- Finding solutions for partners facing challenging situations with overseas postings (whether going overseas or coming from overseas).
- Piloting specific support for partners, who may have different challenges to spouses.
- Exploring solutions to challenges arising to family life from newer forms of hybrid working and deployments.
- Helping partners overseas to better understand their options with regards to training and employment.
- Exploring issues specific to non-traditional families.
Grants can cover must costs associated with a project or activity, including:
- Staff time, including time required to manage volunteers.
- Sessional staff or freelancers.
- Appropriate clinical supervision for workers who are supporting vulnerable individuals.
- Purchasing items that can enable the project’s activities to take place (such as art materials, sport/games/outdoor equipment).
- Purchasing items may be needed to provide support, such as additional telephones or laptops.
- Reasonable costs for storing and transporting items, including wear and tear on private vehicles.
- Reasonable overheads that reflect the cost to the organisation of delivering its services.
Who can apply? The following types of organisations can apply:
- Armed Forces bases, stations or units.
- Charities.
- Community Interest Companies (CICs).
- Universities.
Charities and CICs must have been registered for at least two years at the time of application, with at least three unrelated trustees/directors.
Grant amount: Grants of £20,000 to £50,000 are available, to be spent within one year of award.
Application process: Guidelines and an online application form can be found on the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust website.
Deadline: The deadline to apply is 12 December 2022 (5pm). Decisions are expected by the end of February 2023.
Contact information: Email info@covenantfund.org.uk
Website address: covenantfund.org.uk