Thank you for wanting to work with Halton Housing on your project. Before you apply please ensure your project and organisation meets the criteria below.
Should you require any help in completing this application form, please contact us at helping.hands@haltonhousing.co.uk. Alternatively you can call Customer Service on 0303 333 0101 and request a call back from the Social Impact and Engagement Team.
If you require additional support in writing the application or wish to become a constituted group, you can contact Halton Borough Council Community Development Team on 0151 511 7980 who can assist you.
Successful projects must meet at least one of the Halton Housing key themes which are:
- Homelessness
- Health
- Income
- Fuel and food poverty
- Digital exclusion
- Employment opportunities
Organisations must have relevant insurances in place to allow work on site.
Please note, you do not have to be a Halton Housing Customer in order to apply for funding.
We are unable to support:
- Individuals for personal gain
- Paying for a direct employee costs
- Commercial organisations
- Funding requests in excess of £2000.00
- Activities that promote a political agenda but would welcome projects that support Equality & Diversity within the Community Cohesion theme.
- Retrospective funding, i.e. projects that have already been completed, whether or not already paid for
- We limit sports sponsorship to £500 annually combined for Widnes and Runcorn.
- Applications from groups which have been supported in the previous 12 calendar months
The application process
- The application form needs to be completed and returned to helpinghands@haltonhousing.co.uk
- Quotes and/or evidence of costings including: Insurance if Group is constituted and expected outputs for the duration of the project should be included.
- You will receive the outcome of your application based on date of application received and these dates can be found here.
Monitoring
Successful applicants are required to provide feedback, in order for Halton Housing to calculate the social impact of the agreed funding from Helping Hands. Feedback is required monthly for as long as the initiative continues up to a period of 12 months.
Examples of the information we require from you includes; Number of customers/visitors/service users on a monthly basis, together with age profile, area of Halton they originate from, number of staff and volunteers involved. Where possible evidence/testimonials to support this:
Successful applications are required to show invoice/receipts of how funding has been spent.
Successful applications agree to Halton Housing preparing a promotion press release with photographs for use on social media and internet.
Should the project not be delivered we reserve the right to request the funding be returned to Halton Housing.