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Hampton Fund

Hampton Fund Community Grants

Hampton Fund (registered charity 211756) gives Community Grants to local charities, voluntary organisations and community groups working with people in financial, physical or emotional hardship in Hampton, Hampton Hill, Hampton Wick, Teddington, Twickenham and Whitton (London Borough of Richmond upon Thames). Hampton and Hampton Hill are its primary area. It can fund an organisation's broader aims (including core costs) as well as specific projects. New requests are usually for one year, and continuation funding is available to current partners. After a strategic review, applicants must contact the Community Grants Manager before applying.

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Deadline
Not published
no closing date given
Effort
Heavy
budgets, references, often several stages

Who can apply

  • Local charities, voluntary sector organisations and community groups providing services for people in hardship in the area of benefit
  • The fund usually works only with registered charities or CIOs
  • At the trustees' discretion, in exceptional circumstances, it may fund a CIC (usually with an established three-year track record, a community purpose matching the charity's objects and an unambiguous asset lock) or a constituted community organisation or other constituted not-for-profit organisation local to the Hampton Fund area
  • Beneficiaries must live in Hampton or Hampton Hill (primary area), or in Hampton Wick, Teddington, Twickenham or Whitton
  • Organisations are expected to have a published reserves policy (normally 6-9 months of running costs) and a safeguarding policy, and to show good governance and financial health

What it funds

Work that relieves financial, physical or emotional hardship among residents of the area of benefit. Examples include:

  • Households unable to meet basic needs, afford a warm home or food, or facing housing problems
  • People with ongoing health problems or disabilities
  • People who are marginalised or isolated
  • Carers
  • People with depression or anxiety
  • People experiencing loneliness
  • People affected by bereavement or trauma

Applicants must show how their work improves financial, physical and emotional resilience and wellbeing: basic needs met, better resilience and wellbeing, and better awareness of and confidence in accessing support.

The fund is open to funding broader organisational aims (e.g. core costs) as well as specific services or projects.

New funding requests are usually for one year; current partners can apply for continuation funding, and some receive multi-year funding.

What it will not fund

  • Services which are the clear responsibility of a statutory body
  • Grants to individuals for private and post-compulsory education
  • Retrospective funding, both capital and revenue
  • National general charitable appeals
  • Endowment appeals
  • The advancement of religion and religious groups, unless they offer a non-religious service to the community
  • Projects of a political nature
  • Animal welfare
  • Commercial and business activities
  • Social enterprises, except Community Interest Companies (CICs)

Trustees are unlikely to fund organisations with 10 or more months of free reserves, or to fund services that duplicate others in the local area

Work in the rest of Richmond upon Thames or elsewhere is unlikely to be supported unless a significant number of beneficiaries are from the area of benefit

How to apply

  1. Email the Community Grants Manager (zenaid@hamptonfund.co.uk) to discuss your proposal against the fund's new priorities before applying
  2. If you are likely to meet the criteria, the fund arranges a meeting or visit to discuss local need, measurable outcomes, your income, financial health and governance
  3. Ask for the next submission date (usually 6-8 weeks before the trustee meeting in March, June, September or December)
  4. Complete the New Funding Application Form (or the Continuation Funding Application Form if you are a current annual partner), using the Guidance Notes
  5. Email the signed form and supporting documents to zenaid@hamptonfund.co.uk
  6. The fund assesses the application, carries out due diligence and makes a recommendation to the trustees
  7. If funded, send a Monitoring & Evaluation Report within a month of the work finishing

Guidance notes: https://www.hamptonfund.co.uk/file/1569/hf_community_grants_guidance.pdf

Continuation forms include a section reporting on the previous grant; multi-year partners use only the Monitoring & Evaluation Report

Have ready

  • Signed application form (second signature from a Chair, trustee or senior management committee member, not the main contact)
  • Governing document
  • Latest accounts
  • Latest management accounts
  • Most recent annual report
  • Current income and expenditure budget
  • First page of latest bank statement showing account name, sort code and account number
  • Safeguarding policy

You must also name an independent professional referee who knows your work and is not connected to the organisation, and give a 12-month indicative budget in the form

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