UK Black Pride’s 2022 Community Action Fund

WHAT IS THE COMMUNITY ACTION FUND?

In the summer of 2021, UK Black Pride – Europe’s largest pride celebration for LGBTQI+ people of African, Asian, Caribbean, Latin American and Middle Eastern descent – launched our inaugural community survey, We Will Be Heard. In line with our mission to ensure the communities UK Black Pride represents are seen, heard and supported, the Community Action Fund is a direct response those findings.

Through the Community Action Fund, UK Black Pride will distribute funding to organisations supporting LGBTQI+ Black people and people of colour across the UK. Based on our survey findings, UK Black Pride has established four thematic areas for the Community Action Fund:

  • spaces, places and visibility;

  • mental and emotional wellbeing;

  • safety in public spaces,

  • and the workplace.

We are excited to receive your applications for funding and have provided more information, including a link to apply, below.

FUNDING GUIDANCE

We are open to applicants from community groups, organisations, charities with less than a £1m annual turnover, religious groups or individuals. We ask that you are based in the UK and have a bank account with a UK address. Funding for successful projects will be awarded in April 2022 and proposed activities will need to be delivered by 31 October 2022.

The Community Action Fund will not be funding Government Departments/Organisations, NGOs and or political parties.

Before making your application, please review the Funding Guidance provided below.

BUDGET TEMPLATE

A proposed budget is required as part of your application. Please use the template provided below.

APPLY

Please use the Google Form below to make your application to the Community Action Fund. There is also a word document version, which can be sent to grants@ukblackpride.org.uk once completed.

For accessibility questions or provisions, please email grants@ukblackpride.org.uk.

Please note that information shared in the application will not be shared with third parties, and will only be used by UK Black Pride for the purposes of assessing applications and maintaining contact with successful applicants.

If you have questions about the application process or funding which are not addressed in the funding guidance or through the application, please email grants@ukblackpride.org.uk.