Tendring Community Voluntary Services

Tendring Community Voluntary Services is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1108177).

Tendring Community Voluntary Services is a registered charity that works for the community in the local government district of Tendring and its environs, with particular emphasis on education, the protection of health and the relief of poverty, distress and sickness. It supports the community and organisations through community development, information, advice, training, grant giving, accommodation, events and a newsletter, and in the period April to March it supported 485 organisations. Its five core functions are supporting and promoting voluntary action, providing liaison opportunities, developing new initiatives, representing the sector to statutory partners and acting as a strategic partner, and it coordinates local funding opportunities, such as £15,000 allocated to four local organisations for winter resilience.

Priority Areas

CVST coordinates local funding opportunities for voluntary and community organisations and allocates funding to locally focused voluntary and community sector organisations in Tendring. It works with local and national funders to bridge funding priorities and community needs. For CVST-administered funds, applicants explain their project, its impact and how it aligns with the funder’s priorities; grant panels agreed with the funder review applications. Its charitable purposes cover the Tendring district and environs, with particular emphasis on education, health, and relief of poverty, distress and sickness.

Themes

• Education
• Health
• Poverty, distress and sickness

Geographic Focus

Tendring.

For funding administered through CVST, applicants submit using the provided guidance and explain their project, its impact and how it aligns with the funder’s priorities.

Deadlines: Each funding round has a deadline; applications submitted after it are not considered.

Application windows:

• easyfundraising Impact Fund: Applications open on 24 September and close on 8 November.
• High Sheriffs’ Fund: Closes on 16 November.
• NHS Essex Community Health Partnership Fund - Small Grant Applications: Stage one closes on 25 November; stage two closes on 22 January.

Who can apply:

• Saffron Community Fund
  • ECF will consider applications from Registered Charities, Community Interest Companies (CICs), Charitable Incorporated Organisations, Unincorporated groups and Companies Limited by Guarantee. CIC’s and Companies limited by guarantee all need to have in place an asset lock and named asset locked body. CIC’s limited by shares can only be considered if they are under Schedule 2 articles.
  • All groups must have a minimum of three unrelated trustees or directors, with no significant control held by an individual.
• NHS Essex Community Health Partnership Fund - Small Grant Applications: Community organisations across Essex can apply.

What to send:

• Saffron Community Fund: A signed governing document, signed/dated Equal Opportunities and Safeguarding Policies, and a recent set of annual accounts. A newly set-up organisation will need to provide a forecasted budget for the year in spreadsheet form.

Applying again: easyfundraising Impact Fund: If you applied in the first round, you’re welcome to apply again, whether your application was successful or not.

What the charity says:

• Grantees complete monitoring forms throughout the project, as outlined in their grant agreement.