UK Black Pride’s 2024

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 inaugural Community Action Fund was launched as a direct response to those findings.

Following the success of this program, UK Black Pride is excited to launch the 2024 Community Action Fund, which 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. Please submit applications by 23:59 on 17th May 2024.

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 May 2024 and proposed activities will need to be delivered by 30 November 2024. 

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.

WORD DOCUMENT APPLICATION OPTION