Small Grants of up to £250
Open to children from Year 1 through to Sixth Year
The Kindness Fund provides funding for amazing ideas. Why? Because we want to live in a kind world – and that starts with every single one of us. At Compassionate Inverclyde, we work with our local community to help create a kinder community, and inspire people to be kind. But we think the best ideas for spreading kindness are probably still waiting to be discovered…
We want to encourage children to think about what they could do to create a kinder classroom, kinder school, kinder community and kinder world. So the Compassionate Inverclyde Kindness Fund can provide small grants of up to £250 to help bring amazing ideas to life.
The Kindness Fund is open to children living in Inverclyde from Primary 1 through to Sixth Year. Funds will usually be granted via the child’s school, however, in cases where children are homeschooled applications may be submitted directly from parents.
Please read our Guidelines for the Compassionate Inverclyde Kindness Fund before making an application. The guidelines also provide details of the application deadlines.
Applications are open to children from Primary 1 up to and including Sixth Year, living in Inverclyde. A supervising teacher or adult should submit the application on behalf of the child, and the child’s school / organisation should be supportive of the application.
Applications are considered several times during the year. The next application deadlines are 31th Jan 2025, 30th April 2025, 30th October 2025. You will receive an email confirming we have received your application.
Grants of up to £250 are available, although most grants will be less than £100. Who considers the applications? Funding decisions are made by Compassionate Inverclyde Kindness fund committee.
We aim to contact successful applicants within 2 weeks of the application deadline. Please note, we aren’t usually able to provide specific feedback for unsuccessful applications, but will send a letter for every child who applies.
Yes! If you have already received a grant, then we ask for you to wait a year before applying again. But if your application was unsuccessful, then you can reapply at any time.
Anything that helps to encourage kindness in your school or community. It might be materials to create a Kindness Tree in your school, resources for a fundraising initiative to spread kindness to people in need, or funds to buy flowers or vegetables to create a small community garden for people to enjoy. These are just some sample ideas – we don’t want to limit your creativity, so please feel free to use your imaginations!
All communication with Compassionate Inverclyde should be from the supervising adult, and the child’s school / organisation should be aware of, and supportive of, the application.
We will only ever share photographs (eg. a child’s photo but no name) or identifiable information (eg. text with a child’s name and school, but no photograph) publicly with written permission from the child and their parent / guardian. For example, without permission we may say ‘Tom came up with this amazing idea…” but not include the name of Tom’s school or a photo. If we have permission to use a photo of Tom, then we will not use his name in any posts. For example, alongside his photo we would say “A kind boy from Spencer Primary School came up with this amazing idea…”
The supervising adult should always ensure the project is safe, does not put the child in harm’s way, and that the child’s welfare and well-being is safeguarded at all times.
If your application is successful?
We will aim to notify the supervising adult within 2 weeks of the application deadline to let you know your funding application has been successful.
The funds will be transferred to your school / organisation, who will ensure those funds are used solely for the intended purpose. Funds will be transferred as soon as possible after we notify you of the successful application – usually within 2 weeks. Funds will not be given directly to a child or a child’s family, with the exception of children who are home-schooled. In these cases, the funds will then be transferred to the supervising parent/guardian.
Receipts should be kept for any items purchased and made available to Compassionate Inverclyde upon request.
Please keep us updated about your project (via the supervising adult). We would love to hear about the difference it has made to the child, the school, the community – and the world!
We may wish to share the details of your amazing project on our website and social media pages. We will always ensure we have permission from both the child and their parent / guardian before we share any photos publicly and we will never identify your child by name when using photos publicly (see ‘Safeguarding’ below for more information).
If your application is not successful?
We receive so many amazing applications. We would love to be able to fund every idea, but sadly we can’t. Please don’t be disheartened if yours isn’t selected. We hope you can still do your best to make it happen, and please do feel free to keep in touch and tell us all about it.
We aren’t usually able to provide specific feedback for unsuccessful applications, but will send a letter to every child who applies to The Kindness Fund.
