The Common Ground initiative is a £20 million fund supporting African development through UK based small and Diaspora organizations. This initiative is managed by Comic Relief and co-funded by the Department for International Development.
The initiative aims to enhance access to grants for small and Diaspora-led organizations in the UK which are working to create real and sustainable changes to some of the most disadvantaged communities in Africa. This fund also aims to strengthen the capacity of small and Diaspora organizations in the UK. Applicants can apply to one of Comic Relief’s six existing grants programmes, or to the health, education or enterprise and employment programmes that have been developed specifically for this initiative.
Eligibility:
- Grants are available to UK registered charities. Applications to the enterprise and employment programme can be made from any UK registered organization; however, for-profit organizations must demonstrate how profits generated from the funded activities are reinvested in the project.
- Small organizations must have had an annual turn-over of less that £1m for the previous two financial years. Diaspora organizations may be of any size.
- By Diaspora organizations we mean organizations where the majority of the trustees define themselves as being of African heritage; who live in the UK but retain emotional, financial and cultural links with their country and/ or the African continent
- The scope of this funding is for work in any African country or group of African countries
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