CAF RESILIENCE FUND

For a charitable organisation to be eligible to apply they should be able to meet the following criteria:

• Submit a completed application by no later than midday (GMT) on 10 November 2020

• Deliver their services in England

• Be able to demonstrate annual income in last financial year's reported accounts of between £50,000 and £10m

• The organisation was established on or before 31 August 2019

• Be focused on the interests and needs of at least one of the designated groups and causes

• Be able to supply details of a valid UK bank account

• Be able to spend all the grant funding before 31 March 2021, and supply documentary evidence to demonstrate this expenditure (this could include headed receipts, verifiable banking statements and salary bills) – these costs should relate to the period 1 October 2020 to 30 March 2021.

We welcome applications from registered consortia. Please see the application download for further information on completion of the application form as a registered consortium.

For non-regulated charitable organisations there will additional requirements that differ from those for UK registered charities or organisations registered with HMRC as an exempt charity. Find out more about what supporting information you need here.

Please note that we can only accept one application per organisation. For more information about this grant programme, access the full list of Terms and Conditions

Organisations in the UK with charitable activities can apply for a grant between £10,000 and £100,000 (up to a maximum of 20% of their last reported income) to support the continuation of services in the current health emergency or your Covid-19 emergency response activities. 

It is possible that not all grants will be made at the full amount. Please apply for an amount that will make a suitable difference to the size and activities of your organisation.

You can apply for targeted funding for core costs, staffing, volunteer costs, supplies and equipment, communications or other critical charitable areas.  You must be able to describe how an emergency grant will improve the situation for your organisation and community.  

Please make only one application. Multiple applications will slow the process down and only one grant is possible for any organisation.

Please remember that this is intended as an emergency fund to enable your charitable activities to continue at the moment in whatever way is needed.

There are a small number of exclusions to the fund. We will certainly not be able to fund:

• Organisations that do not meet the eligibility criteria

• Individuals, or groups of individuals who have come together recently to provide informal support services to their communities

• Any organisation more than once. Please ensure that only one application is submitted from your organisation.

Plus, we cannot fund organisations that:

• Use the funds to make grants or financial donations to other organisations or to individuals

• Discriminate on the basis of age, race, colour, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability or other unlawful basis

• Are political parties or campaigns

The following activities can be funded where they are essential for delivering relevant services:

• Staff salaries

• Project running costs

• Running costs/overheads

• Goods and equipment which would not be capitalised (e.g. to develop enhanced physical environment and continue to deliver services)

• Organisational development

The following can't be funded:

• Activities that make profits for private gain

• Campaigning activities (this fund is to support the delivery of direct services for vulnerable people)

• Religious activities (we can fund religious organisations if their project benefits the wider community and doesn’t include religious content)

• Political or lobbying activities

• Loan repayments

• Debt repayments to HMRC or other crown debts

We anticipate that there will be a high level of requests for support. However, we are going to have to prioritise grants, and we expect to focus on:

• Charities and other organisations whose established charitable activities have been severely reduced or are at risk of being severely reduced to the detriment of vulnerable or disadvantaged groups

• Organisations that are having to deliver core services in fundamentally different or unusual ways in order to respond to the crisis and still reach their beneficiaries within vulnerable or disadvantaged groups

• Organisations that are deeply embedded  with communities and have established networks to deliver their charitable activities

The information you provide will be used by us to confirm that your organisation is eligible for funding, that your activities are charitable and suitable for the CAF Resilience Fund. We will carefully but swiftly review the answers in your application form, check your website/social media links and publicly available records.  DCMS will also carry out due diligence checks as part of the decision making process.

Unfortunately, we anticipate that there will be a large number of eligible organisations which we cannot fund. There are a number of other Covid-19 response funds being established throughout the UK for various purposes, and we will endeavour to signpost to other funds where possible.

We recognise the urgent need for funding and we will be prioritising assessments and decision-making over the next two months.

All applicants will receive an acknowledgment of submission of their application form. This will be received shortly after you submit your request online.

All applicants will subsequently receive a notification of the outcome of their application. We aim for most grantees to be notified by the end of December. Where this is not possible, we will write to inform you.

If your organisation is not a registered charity, it is possible that we will need to make further checks on your organisation, and if so, it may take slightly longer.

Please note that grantees will be able to use the grant to support expenditure within the period 1^st October 2020 to 31^st March 2021, regardless of when they receive confirmation of a grant award.

If you're not based in England and do not deliver any services in England, you cannot apply for this grant. Please instead see the respective responses from the remainder of the UK:

• Scotland: Coronavirus (COVID-19): culture and creative sector support

• Northern Ireland: COVID-19 Charities Fund

• Wales: Coronavirus (COVID-19): support for the third sector

Please review the answers that you have given in the eligibility questionnaire; it may be that you answered a question incorrectly. If you think that you may have made a mistake in your initial answers, you can review the criteria and re-start the eligibility questions by clicking here. If you are not eligible for this programme there are many other funds for support, as well as advice for charitable organisations, listed on the CAF Covid-19 Hub. You can read more here.

You are eligible to apply if you have previously applied for and/or received other grants, including emergency funds, however you cannot use this grant to cover the same anticipated costs, as there must be no double-funding.

However, if your organisation has already applied to the CAF Resilience Fund, you will not be able to submit a subsequent application – we can only accept one request per organisation.

Yes you can still apply, as your organisation was established before 31.08.2019.