Bolton’s Fund: Small Grants is project and activity funding for Small and Medium community groups and charities.
In order to be eligible for a grant in the Small Grants fund your organisation must have an income of over £10,000 but less than £1m in the last full financial year.
Organisations are eligible for a maximum of one award from the Small Grants fund in a 12 month period.
Please note: you can apply to the Small Grants fund even if you have received funding in a numbered round of Bolton’s Fund during the past 12 months (as long as your organisation meets the eligibility criteria and you are up to date with any monitoring requirements for any previous grants through Bolton CVS).
You can also still apply for any of the pop-up rounds of Bolton’s Fund if you have been awarded a Small Grant (as long as you meet the eligibility requirements and conditions for the pop-up round).
Please contact funding@boltoncvs.org.uk if you have a question about your eligibility for a grant.
Community groups, charities and organisations with an income of over £10,000 but under £1m in the last full financial year are eligible to apply for a grant from the Small Grants programme.
Your group or organisation must be based in and/or provide benefit to the people living in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton.
Bolton’s Fund will not fund work that statutory bodies (such as schools and local authorities) have a duty to fund. Local government or NHS bodies are not eligible for a grant.
The maximum award request in Bolton’s Fund: Small Grants is £5,000.
All applications must demonstrate how the proposed project will address at least one of the priorities of the fund. Tell us in your application what you want to do and how you know the activity is needed.
Examples of activities that are eligible for funding include;
Bolton’s Fund will not fund one-off activity that does not demonstrate significant community benefit, or activities of a specific religious nature. Please find details in the ‘What we can fund’ guidance document.
If you have an idea, but you aren’t sure if it will be funded by the Bolton’s Fund, please contact the Bolton CVS Funding Team before submitting your application. We will be happy to advise you.
There is no closing date. The fund will close only if all the funding for the period has been allocated.
We aim to let you know the outcome of your application to Bolton’s Fund: Small Grants within 6 – 8 weeks of your application being submitted. Please do not plan any additional spend until after you hear if your application has been successful.
Bolton’s Fund: Small Grants is project funding for Micro and Small community groups and charities. We welcome applications from voluntary groups, community groups, charities or other constituted not for profit groups who are based in Bolton or who deliver activities in Bolton that benefit local residents.
In order to be eligible for a grant in the Small Grants fund your organisation must have an income of over £10,000 but under £1m in the last full financial year.
All projects that receive funding will need to demonstrate how their proposed project will address one or more of the Bolton’s Fund priorities. Please read the guidelines below before submitting an application.
Guidelines (PDF) / Guidelines (Word)
Small Grants Summary Sheet
Grant size – Up to £5,000
Closing date – There is no closing date. The fund will close only if all the funding for the period has been allocated.
Please note: you will need to have an account with our website in order to access the application form via the Grants Dashboard.
Application FormBolton CVS can support your community group, charity or social enterprise to find funding.
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:
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.
