Sainsbury’s Welsh Community Fund Programme – Guidelines and T&C’s
1. Sainsbury’s Welsh Community Fund Guidelines
What is Sainsbury’s Welsh Community Fund?
The Welsh Community Fund is a new Sainsbury’s programme specifically for Welsh projects. Grants of up to £500 will be awarded annually to charities andlocal community groups for a range of projects and activities which fit our core values of food, family, kids and health. In this round we have £53,792.33 to award .
Organisations can be any size as long as they support the community in Wales. Any money that is not awarded by the end of the year will be donated to our Welsh stores' local charity partners.
The first round of our new programme is now open and closes on 28th February. We hope that hundreds of local groups will take the time to submit an application. Please read through our guidelines for applying below.
Why is Sainsbury’s doing this?
Sainsbury’s is committed to being the UK’s greenest grocer. As part of our plan to achieve this we no longer provide customers in our supermarkets in Wales with free single use bags which would be subject to a carrier bag levy. We choose instead to focus on the promotion of bags for life in supermarkets, which are made of 100% recycled content and are 100% recyclable. This encourages our customers to re-use bags.
As part of our commitment to make a positive difference to our community, the net proceeds from the carrier bag levy will be added to our Welsh Community Fund.
How much can we apply for?
up to £500
Who can apply?
All applicants must operate in Wales and applications must be for activities which take place in Wales
And from
Registered and Exempt Charities
Community Groups(constituted)
CASCs (Community Association Sports Clubs)
Schools
CICs (Community Interest Companies) and Social Enterprises
Provident and Industrial Societies
What types of activities/projects will we fund?
Groups can apply for any projects, services, activities or equipment aligned to our values of food, family, kids and health, e.g:
Food – healthy eating projects, nutrition advice, skills training, etc
Family – community/family projects, charity events, etc
Kids – playgroups, play schemes, school/youth organisations
Health – sports activities, coaching, disabled sports, etc
Examples of things we might fund
-Children’s touch rugby tournament
-Local veg box scheme leaflets
-Community choir hall costs
-Heritage sites’ volunteer expenses
-Fitness programmes for elderly people
What types of activities/projects won’t we fund?
1. We will not fund applications for the following:
Salaries or other core costs
Fundraising events or challenges
Grants to individuals
Activities which distribute funds to other organisations
Refurbishment to fabric of buildings
Expeditions or overseas travel
Promotion of religion
Sponsorship and marketing promotions
Political activities
Retrospective funding (we will not fund activities which have already taken place)
2. We will not fund applications for equipment currently available under the Active Kids Programme. If you are unsure what this means go to to view our Active Kids catalogue.
When Can We Apply
The Welsh Community Fund will be open for applications between 13th January 2014 and midnight on 28th February 2014. Any applications received after this date cannot be considered.
How Do We Apply?
All applications must be made online. Simply type in your browser and you will be directed to our application form. The form is simple and will only take a few minutes to complete. When you have completed the form just click ‘save’. You will receive an email confirming that we have received your application. You will not be able to save an incomplete form and return to it later.
Only one application per project/location will be acceptable. However, if you have more than one project/location in Wales we will accept applications for different projects/locations.
When will we hear if we have been successful?
All applicants will be notified by the end of March 2014.
Will there be other chances to apply?
The Welsh Community Fund is an annual Fund. All applicants, whether successful or unsuccessful, are able to apply again in the next round.
Terms and Conditions of Grant
1. Payment of grants is dependent on satisfactory financial information being received. If successful, we will ask you for a set of audited accounts (if you are a Charity and have accounts online with the Charity Commission we can check these ourselves). If you are a new organization and do not have accounts, we will ask for three most recent bank statements
3. If you are not a registered charity we will require a copy of your Constitution if successful
2. We will also require a short impact questionnaire to be completed by successful applicants.
3. We reserve the right to withdraw an offer where there is any reason to believe a breach of the conditions and terms has occurred.
4. We reserve the right to vary the Terms and Conditions of the Welsh Community Fund at any time