Pathways Grants Programme
They will be awarding grants between £250 to £10,000 per annum in two categories, the Main Grants Programme and the Grass Roots Programme. Applicants for each category should answer all questions on the application form and will need to demonstrate the need for their project and explain how their proposed project outcomes will be met. Applicants should ensure all requested documents are uploaded into the form to support your application.
Grant applications can be submitted between:
- 1st November to 31st January
- 1st February to 30th April
- 1st May – 31st July
- 1st August to 31st October
Main Grants Programme is only available for organisations working in Brentford TW8 and Ealing W5, W7 or W13 postcodes.
Applications should be for work to:
- Strengthen the local voluntary and community sector
- Aim to alleviate poverty by tackling the root causes
- Promote healthy living and nutrition and provide opportunities for groups of people who are disadvantaged to come together to cook and eat
- Provide for those on low incomes
- Overcome isolation
- Tackle homelessness or help those in non-statutory groups threatened with homelessness
- Support survivors of domestic violence
- Assist people who are disadvantaged within the local community to access appropriate services
- Improve the emotional and physical health of disadvantaged people who have, or who care for someone
- Provide counselling and support services for those who find it hard to cope with everyday life
- Improve employment and educational opportunities
- The above list is not exhaustive and proposals that address other issues may be considered.
- Pathways may also make grants for start-up or core costs directly related to the project applied for.
Grass Roots Programme is only available for small community and voluntary groups that have been active in Ealing for not less than 12 months prior to 31st December 2007.
Applicants must:
- Have an average income of less than £20,000 per annum
- Be volunteer led
- Be connected with and/or be meeting the needs of the local community
- Be properly constituted
Applications can be for a wide range of work in response to local demand and will be between £250 and £5,000 (7.5% of the total grant awarded must be spent on capital items such as photocopiers, computers and digital projectors). We define a capital item as a single piece of equipment that costs more than £1, net of VAT and, that has a life of more than one year.
