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Church Urban Fund (5)

Charity No. : 297483

Purpose of Trust Fund :
The Mustard Seed Grants Programme aims to provide grants to enable churches and faith-based organisations, working in very deprived
communities, to engage in social action through supporting them to initiate or develop community work. This will then enable groups to either undertake larger pieces of work or significantly improve the existing provision.

Trust Fund Policy:
Mustard Seed Grants can pay for specific activities but not for on-going revenue expenditure, existing salary costs, deficit funding, or retrospective spending.
It is expected that work supported under the Mustard Seed Programme will grow into more substantive or developed activities.
The grant requested should typically represent at least a third of the total funding required. For capital requests, this total should be the total of the work undertaken, regardless of how it is
presented as a grant proposal (e.g. a kitchen refurbishment totalling £10,000 to enable a specific project to start may be considered, however a kitchen refurbishment of £10,000 as part of an overall building project of £100,000 will not be considered).
Grants should be claimed or part-claimed within six months and fully spent within 12 months of approval.

Beneficial Area(s):
Grants to eligible organisations working within the most deprived communities in the UK - currently the worst 10% wards in the DETR index of deprivation.

Nature of Grants:
Grant requests up to £5,000 will be considered. Examples of projects Church Urban Fund may consider for funding:
Initiating new work:
Community Audits/Consultations
Needs assessments
Pilot projects
Start-up equipment
Making premises fit for new purpose
Improving Existing Projects:
Trustee/staff/volunteer training
Quality Assurance (e.g. PQASSO, Investing
in Volunteers where appropriate for the
size/type of organisation)

Grants Given: Unknown.
Annual Income: Unknown.

Restrictions:
1. Projects outside England
2. Individuals
3. Projects not directly tackling profound poverty or specific issues caused by poverty
4. Projects without church or faith links
5. Organisations with an annual turnover of over £150,000, or with significant reserves (Church Urban Fund recognises that operational reserves are appropriate for well-managed organisations but they should not normally exceed twenty-six weeks of annual running costs)
6. Existing salary costs, except where there is a significant increase in hours in order to expand an existing project or begin new work
7. Ongoing revenue costs (core costs)
8. Repeated activities (such as an annual summer camp or regular training sessions)
9. Work that has already been completed or started (retrospective funding) or to fund deficits or loans
10. Campaigning and fundraising activity
11. Revenue and capital funding for national voluntary/ community organisations and public and private sector organisations
12. Activities open only to church members
13. Evangelistic activity not part of a response to poverty
14. Clergy stipends including Church Army posts
15. Internal re-ordering of churches for worship, church maintenance and repairs or DDA (Disability Discrimination Act) compliance
16. General appeals

Method of Application:
Applicants should address enquiries to Carol Griffiths who will send an appropriate application pack enclosing the application form, checklist and describing the process of grant consideration. Applicants can apply at any time.

Contact Details:
Carol Griffiths
CUF Administrator - Diocese of Liverpool
Resources Department
Church House
1 Hanover Street
Liverpool
L1 3DW

Email Address : carol.griffiths@liverpool.anglican.org

Telephone No. :0151 705 2180

Website URL : http://www.cuf.org.uk