We typically award grants to registered charities, social enterprises or organisations with charitable purposes that also meet our minimum eligibility requirements set out below.
You must have appropriate governing documents such as a constitution, Memorandum and Articles of Association.
You must have a management committee/governance body with at least three independent and unrelated members.
Your dissolution clause or asset lock must show what will happen to your organisation and its funds if it was to close.
Social enterprises and CICs can apply if:
If your organisation (including sports clubs) has an income over £5,000 a year, you must be registered with one of the following:
If your charity has an annual income of less than £5,000 you are not required to register with the Charity Commission.
Although we cannot fund national or regional charities, we can support local branches of national charities if they are financially independent and locally managed.
Your bank account must be in the name of your organisation and the bank statement provided must match the name in the application you are submitting.
You must have a bank or building society account in the name of the group, with a minimum of two unrelated cheque signatories
For any single capital item or works between £250 and £1,000, we accept one quote or estimate of works.
For single capital items or works between £1,001 and £50,000, three quotes should be obtained.
You must have a minimum of two unrelated cheque signatories.
We would expect that the appropriate policies are in place. These should include (if appropriate) but not be restricted to:
If you work with children, young people or vulnerable people, you must have a safeguarding policy.
Your policy must be:
Additionally, you will also need:
Organisations that do not have their own bank account (in exceptional circumstances and through prior agreement with Point North, a group may nominate an organisation to hold the funding on their behalf).
We cannot fund organisations who have restricted membership other than that associated with the objects of the group itself i.e. necessary for the safety/wellbeing of disadvantaged people
We cannot fund organisations who do not meet our minimum eligibility requirements.
Each of our programmes and funds have their own criteria, which may vary from those listed below. In general, we cannot fund any of the below activities or items:
Although we cannot fund activities that are primarily about proselytization or supporting worship activities, faith organisations may apply for funding towards a project/activity that is open to and benefits the whole community.
Although we cannot fund purchase of vehicles, running costs will be considered.
