The Social Action Fund Round Two opened on 9 January 2012
The Social Action Fund is a new grant fund of over £20 million managed by The Social Investment Business on behalf of the Office for Civil Society. The Fund aims to inspire organisations to create new social action opportunities; encouraging people to give what they have, be it time, money, assets, knowledge or specific skills. The second application window opened Monday 9 January 2012. All applications will have to be received by noon on Friday 3 February 2012. For more information - www.thesocialinvestmentbusiness.org/our-funds/social-action-fund
Successful applications will address the following themes:
- Encourage people to come together in their locality to support each other
- Projects that scale proven models to regional or national levels, or replicate them in other localities. Some priority will be given to models that encourage those who do not traditionally get involved as volunteers. Particularly interested in models that offer people the opportunity to give time and / or money to activities that deliver a public benefit and complement the public sector.
- Focus on the different life stages of volunteering
Programmes that target the following will be favoured:
- Building a culture of participation among school children and university graduates
- Encouraging professionals who have retired or are on point of retirement to use their experience and skills for community/public benefit
- Inspire and support National Citizen Service graduates who want to continue contributing to their communities through social action projects
