Wirral CVS

Wirral CVS is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1196584).

Wirral CVS is a registered charity whose purposes include promoting charitable purposes for the benefit of the public, principally in Wirral and the surrounding area. It also aims to build the capacity of third sector organisations and to promote co-operation and partnership working between third sector, statutory and other relevant bodies in that area. Funding secured for distribution as grants was valued at £420,000 through 3 grant programmes.

Priority Areas

Wirral CVS offers grants to voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise organisations serving Wirral. Its funding supports organisational resilience, sustainability and capacity, grassroots activity, and arts and cultural provision, with the wider aim of improving health and wellbeing in local communities. The Step Up Resilience Fund is for organisations whose existing core activity contributes to one or more of the Wirral Health & Wellbeing Strategy Gamechangers: employment, early years, violence reduction, cardiovascular health or fuel poverty. The Small Grants Programme is aimed at small local organisations embedded in their communities. The Arts & Culture Fund supports organisations delivering arts and cultural activities that benefit Wirral communities. Step Up support can build systems, skills, governance and planning rather than fund new service delivery.

Themes

• Organisational resilience
• Arts and culture
• Employment
• Early years
• Violence reduction
• Cardiovascular health
• Fuel poverty

Geographic Focus

Wirral.

Register on Plinth and apply for funding through the system.

Deadlines: Each funding opportunity has a published closing deadline.

Who can apply:

• Step Up Resilience Fund: Organisations must be able to demonstrate how their current core activity contributes to one or more of the Wirral Health & Wellbeing Strategy Gamechangers
• Small Grants Programme
  • Be based and operating in Wirral
  • Have had an income of under £10,000 in the last year
  • Be a charity, social enterprise, or community group with a governing document
  • Have a bank account in the organisation’s name with at least two unrelated signatories, or an agreement with an appropriate organisation to hold funds on their behalf
• Arts & Culture Fund: Eligible applicants include registered charities, CICs, CIOs and unincorporated associations with a governing document, provided they are delivering arts or cultural activity that benefits people and communities in Wirral.

What the charity says:

• Step Up Resilience Fund applicants should show that their existing core activity contributes to one or more Gamechangers in the Wirral Health & Wellbeing Strategy.
• The Small Grants Programme is aimed at small, local organisations deeply embedded in their communities.