Near Neighbours Funding Workshop

The premise of Near Neighbours is to bring people together who are near neighbours in communities that are religiously and ethnically diverse, so that they can get to know each other better, build relationships of trust, and collaborate together on initiatives that improve the local community they live in.

Near Neighbours has two key objectives:

1. Social interaction - to develop positive relationships in multi-faith areas i.e. to help people from different faiths get to know and understand each other better.
2. Social action - to encourage people of different faiths and of no faith to come together for initiatives that improve their local neighbourhood.

The Near Neighbours programme offers small grants between £250 and £5,000, as seed funding for local groups and organisations who are working to bring together neighbours, to develop relationships across diverse faiths and ethnicities in order to improve their communities.

Near Neighbours have offered funding to a broad range of work; environmental, social, cultural, artistic, and sporting, that furthers the programme’s aims of encouraging social interaction and social action.

More information is available on the fund here:

https://www.near-neighbours.org.uk/

This workshop will cover:

- The specific guidance for completing the application
- Making sure you meet the criteria
- Writing the application
- Examples of the type of projects that Near Neighbours have funded

This will be an interactive learning experience, where discussions and exercises will be used to bring the application together.