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Grants Managed by Bolton CVS

Bolton CVS can support your community group, charity or social enterprise to find funding.

Below you will find information about our current grants programmes.

Contact the Funding Team on funding@boltoncvs.org.uk or by calling The Bolton Hub on 01204 546010.

Follow these instructions to log in to the Grants Dashboard to access our application forms:

Bolton’s Fund is an investment programme for the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector in Bolton, bringing together funding from Bolton Council, NHS Bolton Clinical Commissioning Group, Bolton at Home and Bolton CVS.

 

The six fund priorities of the fund are driven by Bolton’s Vision 2030. The priority areas of focus are informed through Bolton’s Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA), co-design with communities and community intelligence:

 

  1. Children getting the best start in life.
  2. Promoting healthy lifestyles and preventing ill health.
  3. Empowering everyone in Bolton to reach their potential and take control of their lives.
  4. Fair employment and good work for all.
  5. Protecting and improving our environment to ensure a healthy standard of living for all.
  6. Stronger, cohesive, more confident communities, in which people feel safe, welcome and connected.

Eligibility Criteria

The assessment process

Budget Spreadsheet

Other

The 'Bolton's Fund' logo, including the text "investing in our communities"

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Bolton Community Homes is a partnership of the following social landlords – Onward, Bolton at Home, Clarion Housing, Places for People, Great Places Housing Group, Irwell Valley Homes and Mosscare St Vincents.

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Bolton Community Homes Investments

Bolton CVS is working with the Bolton Community Homes (BCH) partnership to deliver their Community Investment Grants.

Charities, community groups, organisations and individuals are invited to apply for grants to help support projects that will benefit BCH customers.

GUIDELINES (PDF) 

GUIDELINES (.DOCX)

Grant Size – up to £1000 for organisations  and micro-grants of up to £100 for individuals.

Closing date – No closing date. The fund will remain open if funds are available.

Please note: you will need to have an account with our website in order to access the application form via the Grants Dashboard. 

Application Form

The Big Local is a lottery funded program for Tonge with The Haulgh in Bolton.  The programme brings together all the local talent, ambitions, skills and energy from individuals, groups and organisations who want to make their area an even better place to live.

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Tonge with the Haulgh Big Local Trust Grants

There are currently no open rounds of funding at the moment for Tonge with the Haulgh Big Local Trust Grants. In the meantime, why not check out our external funding opportunities?

Application Form

Find examples of projects that have previously been funded through Bolton CVS managed grants here

As a charity we are committed to openness and honesty. We work with 360Giving to publish information about Bolton’s Fund grants.

Using the 360Giving Data Standard, our Bolton’s Fund awarded grants Round 1 available as an XLSX file.

 

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit the website. This means the data is freely accessible to anyone to be used and shared as they wish. The data must be attributed to Bolton’s Fund.

The data will include the name of the grant recipient organisation, amount awarded, date and a brief description of the purpose of the grant.