WHAT FUNDING IS AVAILABLE?
The Romero Group Charitable Trust will be providing grants of up to £500 per organisation throughout this grant giving campaign.
Any applications must be able to demonstrate how the requested funds will be spent, providing itemised quotes to demonstrate where the funding will be used.
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN UNTIL MIDNIGHT ON FRIDAY 31st JANUARY 2025
IS MY PROJECT ELIGIBLE FOR FUNDING?
To make the application process more straightforward, we’ve highlighted two key areas for which funding is available.
Please read these carefully before applying, and if you have any questions about whether your project might be eligible, drop our team an email here.
Grassroots Community Projects
The purpose of these projects will be for the betterment of the local community in which the applicant is based. This could be related to helping facilitate the social wellbeing of vulnerable or isolated individuals, creating safe spaces or introducing opportunities for individuals to spend time focussing on their physical wellbeing.
This could include projects such as building a playground in an area underserved by outdoor activity options for children, funding a warm bank for those who are having difficulty heating their homes or funding a woodland regeneration project to help local people and the environment through offering therapeutic activities, education in nature and the environment and boosting social connections.
The core of any of these projects, must focus on improving the mental, physical and social wellbeing of the community in which they take place.
Grassroots Sports Projects
These projects will aim to grow and develop the engagement with sports for children and young people, as well as individuals who previously have not had the resource or exposure to engage with sports.
This could include buying kit and equipment to be used by participants, funding the creation or regeneration of sports facilities or reaching groups unrepresented in grassroots sport participation.
For any application, you must be able to evidence how you plan to engage the community and demonstrate the impact your project will have on your community.
We will strive to support as many projects as possible, but please remember not every application will receive funding and the decision of the charity trustees is final.
Please read our eligibility criteria carefully before applying, and if you have any questions about whether your project might be eligible, drop our team an email here.
You can read our full eligibility criteria here.
WHAT DO I NEED TO BE ABLE TO APPLY?
To ensure our funding reaches those who need it most and is invested responsibly, we must ensure that any grant recipients adhere to the following guidelines.
Your project must:
• be submitted by an applicant aged 18 or older
• be UK based and for the benefit of UK communities
• not be for the benefit of any one individual
• not be used for commercial gain of an individual or organisation (the project raising funds which are reinvested into the project is acceptable – eg. From discretionary donations for individuals to take part)
Your organisation must:
• have a bank account in its own name and have been operating for at least 12 months
Full eligibility criteria can be found here.
WHAT HAPPENS IF MY APPLICATION IS SUCCESSFUL?
If you are successful in your application, the Romero Group Charitable Trust will confirm this to you in writing.
As part of the requirements for the grant to be paid, we will ask for estimated timescales for the completion of your project. We need you to submit evidence of how your funding has been spent within an agreed timescale. We will also require photographic evidence of the project during implementation and after completion.
This is so we can be sure that the grant has been used appropriately and within the eligibility criteria outlined in the application process.
Included in our funding agreement, will be an obligation for your organisation to recognise the Romero Group Charitable Trust when the project is complete.
For physical projects, this may include a plaque or sign outlining the project was ‘Supported by the Romero Group Charitable Trust’, and for more social projects, a similar recognition must be included in any collateral.
The charity also retains the right to publicise our funding in your project through usage of supplied images of the project (exceptions may be made for any projects of a sensitive nature).
APPLY FOR FUNDING
Visit our application form to submit a request. Make sure you have reviewed our latest campaign’s eligibility criteria here to ensure your project is eligible for our funding.