If you run a community group, you could be applying to the Co-Operative Membership Group for money to support your group or project.

Co-Op Community Fund grants, between £100 and £2,000 are awarded to community, voluntary, or self-help groups to run projects that meet the following criteria. To be successful, a group must:

• Carry out positive work in the community

and a project must:

• address a community issue
• provide a good long-term benefit to the community
• support co-operative values and principles
• ideally be innovative in its approach.

There are a number of Exclusion Criteria, which can be viewed on the Co-Op Community Fund webpages which explains the entire process, and gives details of how to apply (which has to be done online).

If you do apply for a local project, please let us know how you get on.