Please read the following text before beginning your application.

Amplius owns and manages more than 40,000 homes and is driven to have a positive impact on people’s lives, while providing affordable homes that make a difference.

With more than 9,000 homes across Northamptonshire, this fund will support organisations across the county that are delivering projects that make a difference to the communities where Amplius customers live.

Up to £5,000 is available per grant, with successful projects supporting communities across Northamptonshire, particularly in North Northamptonshire.

Successful applications will align to Amplius’ Purposeful Impact work.

The themes for this include:

• Good health and wellbeing – provision of activities to promote improvements in physical, emotional, and/or mental health, or support to reduce social isolation, and promote digital inclusion.
• Financial wellbeing and security – provision of advice and support to families and individuals on a low income, addressing fuel poverty, and reducing financial stress.
• Employment support – offering advice and guidance to support people into meaningful work and volunteering opportunities.
• Creating cohesive and sustainable communities – access to community facilities, providing activities such as clubs, community projects, and access to community space.

Is my group eligible?

• Your group must be a small, locally managed VCSE organisation such as a charity, constituted community group, social enterprise such as a Community Interest Company (CIC), or a company limited by guarantee with charitable aims. Organisations must have at least 3 unrelated Trustees/Directors/Committee members. Please note that as a general exclusion we do not fund social enterprises that have a single person with overall significant control (PSC).  
• Your organisation must be based in Northamptonshire.  
• You must have a set of written rules or constitution that your group adheres to, and this must contain a dissolution clause specific to Northamptonshire. We can help advise you on how to do this especially if you are a new group.  
• You must take care to ensure that young people or vulnerable people taking part in your activity do not come to any harm whilst in your care. To this end, you must have written procedures for keeping young people and/or vulnerable people safe, otherwise known as a Child Protection or Vulnerable Adults’ policy. This will be needed as a condition of funding. If you do not have such a policy, visit our Help for Groups section of the website.  
• You must have an Equality or Equity and Diversity policy.  

If you are unsure about any of the above text or have any other queries, then please contact the Grants Team via e-mail enquiries@ncf.uk.com

For information on eligibility and supporting documents, please visit our website.