The Bureau

The Bureau is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1067170).

The Bureau is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales. It exists to identify and link together community needs and solutions, so that people can live independently and local communities can improve their quality of life. It was set up to create services for local people across Glossopdale, developed and run by volunteers, and its impact report and annual review states that £33,000 was distributed in grants to local grassroots organisations in the reported period. Its Community Wellbeing Grants include mini grants (under £1,000), small grants (between £1,000 and £6,000) and seed funding.

Priority Areas

The Bureau’s Community Wellbeing Grants strengthen the VCFSE community of Glossopdale and provide funding to local groups for work that improves community wellbeing. The programme aims to reduce demand and dependency on health and social care by connecting people with long-term health conditions to community-based activities and services. Its priorities include improving health and wellbeing, reducing social isolation and loneliness, creating mutually beneficial support and resilience networks, including for carers, supporting people with low mood or low self-esteem, and backing place-based work that improves local lives. Grants may support new activities meeting those priorities, added capacity in existing services, expansion within Glossopdale, revenue costs and reasonable capital costs. The Bureau describes its grants as supporting local grassroots organisations to deliver new activities.

Themes

• Health and wellbeing
• Social isolation
• Loneliness
• Support and resilience
• Low mood and confidence
• Place-based community work

Geographic Focus

Glossopdale.

Applicants complete the relevant Mini Grant or Small Grant application, then submit it using the online Community Wellbeing Grant form with supporting documentation.

Application windows:

• Glossopdale Community Wellbeing Programme: Applications over £1000 have one fixed deadline on September 25; applications below £1000 are reviewed each month as money allows.

Who can apply:

• Community Wellbeing Grants
  • Mini grants are for groups that do not need to be constituted. Applicants need access to a registered name of a charitable organisation.
  • Small grants are for constituted organisations. Applications over £3000 also require registration with the Charity Commission and/or Companies House.
• Glossopdale Community Wellbeing Programme: An organisation must be a VCFSE organisation or group. Groups applying for £1000 and over must be constituted or have a written set of rules. An applicant must be based or working in Glossopdale, and complete outstanding monitoring information required in relation to previous grant funding.

What to send:

• Community Wellbeing Grants
  • Upload the registered name of a charitable organisation with the application for a mini grant.
  • Upload the registration number and constitution document with the application for a small grant where applying for more than £3000.

What the charity says:

• The panel prioritises improved wellbeing and health for people with long-term health conditions.
• Recipients are expected to complete monitoring and evaluation documents at the end of the project or by the date specified in the grant agreement.
• The Bureau checks in with groups midway through the grant cycle to see how projects are progressing.
• Completing evaluation forms matters, as failure to do so could jeopardise future applications to this fund.