The Community Organisations Cost of Living Fund launched

source: Lottery Community Fund
first published: July 2023

The £76M Community Organisations Cost of Living Fund was launched on 24 July 2023.

The fund will support organisations across England to deliver critical frontline services.

Organisations are able to apply for funding to maintain or expand critical cost of living services

until the end of March 2024.

Applications will be for amounts between £10,000 and £75,000. The funding is ONLY open to frontline organisations running critical services in communities, in at least one of the follow areas:

• Food and emergency supplies - food and other 'banks'
• Emergency shelter - homelessness services
• Safe spaces - domestic abuse services and youth services
• Warmth - warm spaces/hubs
• Financial and housing advice

Applicants MUST be able to demonstrate both increased costs and increased demand.

The Community Organisations Cost of Living Fund is more likely to fund small and medium-sized frontline organisations with an annual turnover of between £10,000 and around £1 million.

Larger organisations can also apply if they can show that they work closely and effectively with local communities, and that they fill a gap in essential local services.

The fund is part of the £100M for charities announced in the Spring Budget. It will be administered by the National Lottery Community Fund.

For more information click here.

The application window is now open and will close at 12noon on Monday 16 October 2023.