Your 2023/24 Covenant funding opportunities from the Trust
Covenant Fund funding opportunities 2023/24
As 2023 gathers pace, we are delighted to share the Covenant Fund programmes for the year 2023/24.
Following on from the success of our 2022/23 suite of funding programmes supporting the Armed Forces community, we know you’ll be happy to see some familiar names, with a few tweaks here and there to bring things up-to-date and ensure funding is accessible and available for those who need it in our ever-changing economic climate and the current cost-of living challenges.
Force for Change
Our popular Force for Change programme will now offer grants up to £15,000 for one-year projects.
This is in recognition of the increased cost of living, and we will focus funding on vulnerable Armed Forces communities that are being most impacted.
The Force for Change programme seeks to make positive change at a local level, especially needs which perhaps haven’t been addressed before. We encourage applicants to try new ways of supporting their beneficiaries, or to build on previous work, to make a real difference to the Armed Forces communities with whom they work.
This programme will reopen for applications in spring 2023.
Reaching and Supporting Armed Forces Communities programme
Following success in its first year of existence, the Reaching and Supporting Armed Forces Communities programme will continue to offer grants up to £100,000 for three-year projects.
This programme supports projects that clearly address hidden or compelling needs identified in Armed Forces communities. This year, there will be a particular focus on projects that target those more vulnerable Armed Forces communities that are most impacted by cost-of-living challenges.
This programme was highly oversubscribed in 2022/23 and we expect to still be receiving high volumes of applications in the coming year.
The programme will reopen for new applications in summer 2023.
The Transformational Grants programme
Building on learning gained from this year’s applications, moving forward we will prioritise those projects that can clearly show they will deliver preventative, long-term outcomes and benefits for Armed Forces communities.
This means we will be looking for projects with a clear and sustained legacy whether in embedded good practice, improved knowledge and evidence, or in some other defined way.
The best applications under this programme will:
- Define a problem for a particular group of beneficiaries in the Armed Forces community.
- Show that this need is not being met.
- Propose a new way of working or a new solution beyond that offered by any current provider (and can include preventative approaches).
Grants of up to £300,000 for projects up to five years in length will be available.
The programme will reopen in summer 2023.
We’ll update our website in due course as each of these funding programmes opens for new applications.
Have your say!
The Trust will be running a consultation this June to gather thoughts on our future funding programmes for the next three years from 2024. Look out for more details in due course – ideas and opinions welcome – get involved and have your say.
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