Infrastructure charities in London have been invited to apply for a £19.8m funding pot to support their core costs.
The City Bridge Trust’s anchor programme will award grants of between £50,000 and £150,000 of funding, over seven to 10 years, to organisations that support to frontline charities.
Organisations applying for the programme may provide some frontline service delivery themselves, but this should be seen as secondary and supportive to the main second-tier focus.
Funding will be released in two rounds, with the first going live next week and a second in 2024.
Altogether, the programme will provide long-term core funding to roughly 30 of the second-tier organisations which are supporting London’s frontline charities.
It is aimed at second-tier organisations which have embedded equitable practice in their work and are tackling marginalisation among people with one or more protected characteristics such as race, sexuality, gender or disability.
Funding will offer opportunity ‘to take risks’
Giles Shilson, City Bridge Trust chair, said: “We know from speaking to infrastructure charities that they often have to devote so much time and energy to securing funding for specific projects that they don’t have much capacity for strategic, long-term collaborative work.
“This long-term core funding will give organisations that support those working on London’s frontline the breathing space they need to collaborate, take risks and create systemic change.
“It will enable ‘anchor’ organisations – those that create a collective voice, build capacity and advocate for smaller charities – to work across the sector to address the marginalisation and discrimination that still blight our society.”
The fund opens to expressions of interest on 17 April and these must be submitted by 11pm on 8 May.
It aims to notify to both successful and unsuccessful applicants, soon after the deadline.
If successful, the funder will invite organisations to submit an application. Applications can be submitted between 15 May and 12 June 2023.
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