Merseyside Community Investment Fund

The Merseyside Community Investment Fund aims to bring together businesses, organisations and individuals to address urgent social issues whilst making a modest financial commitment, to collectively achieve a greater impact towards the improvement of our communities. The fund aims to support projects that may struggle to access funding from other sources. This fund can be used to respond to local issues of concern to the community or pro-actively tackle an urgent social need. Priority is given to projects that target disadvantage and deprivation, including those supporting young people, older people and people with disabilities. The fund also prioritises projects that encourage communities to take a pro-active approach to make a difference, ongoing activities rather than one-off events, groups with small reserves, innovative projects that would not normally be considered for funding by corporate driven criteria, and specific projects rather than general contributions to running costs.