Postcode Community Trust

The Postcode Community Trust, the funding arm of the People’s Postcode Lottery, are open for funding applications. They are looking to fund projects with the following criteria:

Promote community development projects including:

• Support for older people relieving isolation.
• Support for young carers and their families and/or support for families caring for disabled children or relatives, enabling them to engage more fully in their local area.
• Projects which enhance or enable volunteering opportunities which help to regenerate communities.

Support community cohesion by:

• Enhancing facilities which benefit a wide segment of a community.
• Increasing public participation in sports especially for those at a disadvantage due to disability, age, financial hardship or gender.
• Utilising sports to enhance the skills and life chances of disadvantaged groups.
• Providing recreational facilities, or the organising of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for those utilising the facilities/activities.
• Promoting inter-generational cohesion.
• Promoting a community’s social history.