RVA Directory: The Co-Operative Community Fund Grants

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The Co-Operative Community Fund Grants

News from: Reading Voluntary Action (RVA)

by Nakhat Zahir (Funding Advice Worker)

24 November 2009

Community Fund grants, between £100 and £2,000 are awarded to community, voluntary, or self-help groups to run projects that meet the following criteria. To be successful a group must:

• carry out positive work in the community and a project must:
• address a community issue
• provide a good long-term benefit to the community
• support co-operative values and principles
• ideally be innovative in its approach

For further information please visit website below.
Website:
Email: community.fund@co-operative.coop

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