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Grants Fund:

Eligibility Criteria

Our eligibility criteria

To be eligible to apply to Round 4 of the Independent Age Grants Fund:

  • Your organisation must be an exempt charity or registered as a charity with The Charity Commission for England and Wales, The Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, or The Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR).
  • Your work must be based in the UK.
  • You must have a minimum of two years’ published charity accounts, and if your annual income is above £25,000, you must have had your accounts audited or independently examined.
  • You must have at least three trustees and at least one paid member of staff (part-time is fine).
  • You must have an annual income of £1 million or less (averaged across the last three financial years).
  • You must have no more than 1 year’s expenditure in unrestricted reserves based on the last set of accounts. The only exception is for very small organisations, with an annual income of £50,000 or less.
  • You will have not received a grant from Independent Age already.

In addition, we want to support organisations:

  • who work only or mostly with older people – at least 70% of your service users in your last financial year should be older people;
  • who mostly worked face to face with older people before the pandemic – for example, through social and day centres; in person individual befriending, counselling or support; or through provision of group activities;
  • who have continued to support those older people during and since the initial national lockdown – for example, by delivering food and other necessities, or providing online or telephone based services and support;
  • who have thought carefully about how to move safely towards re-establishing their face-to-face services and have made plans that enable those services to remain flexible so that older people continue to be supported as local and national restrictions change.

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