Small grants are now available for community mental health organisations and mutual aid groups in Bristol to spend on projects that support local people's mental health and wellbeing. The grants have been funded by Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group (BNSSG CCG), through Bristol City Council. 

The Fat Beehive Foundation is offering grants of up to £2,500 to small charities to improve their digital presence. Money can be spent on website development and other digital projects that may be hard to fund but have a genuine social impact.

Priorities for funding are charities that focus on:

The government has launched a Health and Wellbeing Fund to support VCSE organisations working with mothers and babies from Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities or deprived neighbourhoods. 

Money will go towards community projects that improve perinatal mental health, learning and speech and language development or immunisation rates, or projects that prevent low birth weight, obesity and/or smoking. The aim of the funding is to improve health outcomes and reduce health inequalities. 

The first round of the COVID-19 Community-Led Organisations Recovery Scheme (CCLORS) opens at 10am on Tuesday 28 July 2020. Grants of up to £100,000 are available to organisations led by the community that are facing financial difficulties due to coronavirus. 

Eligible organisations deliver community support and services to support people most at risk of COVID-19. There is an emphasis on supporting Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME)-supporting or BAME-led businesses.

Small grants are available from the Voice and Influence Partnership's Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Community Fund, to be allocated to community groups that focus on Bristol's black and minority communities. 

Four grants of £250 each will be made, and can be put towards one-off projects or work you are already undertaking.

The application process is simple, and can be completed by email or post; applications close on Monday 27 July 2020.

Not sure where to start to find the opportunities most suited to your organisation? This simple flow chart sets out the main types of funding available in the order we'd pioritise them, depending on your organisation's work.

Following on from the Governments announcement in April that it will be making grant funding available to support the voluntary sector, new funding streams have been launched to support specific activities including food supply and safe accomodation. Deadlines on these funds are very short so check out our updated spreadsheet for further information.

To access the spreadsheet click here

Knowle West Alliance and Filwood Fantastic are offering small grants to local groups and Knowle West residents with good ideas for helping the community through the C-19 emergency. 

To find out more, click here