Church Urban Fund

Liverpool and Church Urban Fund

The Diocese of Liverpool is a grant making diocese and enquires should be directed to resources.team@liverpool.anglican.org together with a completed copy of the downloadable enquiry form below. This will enable initial consideration of your application.

Please note that monies for main grants during 2009 are currently restricted. Each year the Diocesan Annual Delivery Plan allocates funds with only a certain amount for contingencies and for ecumenical applications. No main grants are given for more £45,000 and this amount is restricted for exceptional applications from areas of the upper 1% IMD (Govn Index of Multiple Deprivation).

The panel considering grants meets monthly excepting August.

CUF Enquiry Form
 

Mustard Seed applications

Applications are encouraged for Mustard Seed grants. These continue to be managed by CUF London although the Liverpool panel checks all applications first, acting as a first screen; the panel meets monthly apart from August. Grants are for up to £5,000. Send your completed application form to resources.team@liverpool.anglican.org

Mustard Seed Criteria

Mustard Seed Form

 

Church Urban Fund

Follow the link below for more information on Church Urban Fund, it's policies, grant policy and fundraising.

 

Church Urban Fund

Follow the link below for a video about a CUF project.

 

CUF St Leonard's story
 Other Grant Making Trusts

Information on capital fundraising is contained within the ACTS section of the website


Acts

Infromation from the Meryside Information Funding Portal can be accessed below


MIFP

The story of St Cleopas Toxteth

The Church Urban Fund has long been supportive of ministry at St Cleopas' church. CUF initially provided funding towards a development worker at the 468 Centre run by the Church. The 468 began life as an after school club and has expanded to offer a wide range of community activities. CUF also made a capital grant towards the cost of the new Church and Family Centre. CUF was prepared to make this grant because the new building was intended to provide extensive community services and facilities through a Family Centre built alongside the worship centre.

 

Further funding has also been granted towards the salary of a new Centre Development worker. This post will oversee the community ministry through the café, laundrette and family centre services. The goal is to develop this ministry in partnership with the local community and other service providers. For example, Liverpool Family Service Unit and the local Primary Care Trust are involved in offering counselling and support through the Family Centre.

The St Cleopas’ Church and Family Centre in Toxteth provides a warm welcome, advice, support and even laundry facilities for families living in an area plagued by unemployment, ill health and poverty. A once thriving shopping area had become a derelict street which then sadly became an easy target for vandalism, arson and graffiti. Community facilities were scarce when construction of a new church building began in 2005. It was an ideal opportunity to combine a worship area with the practical facilities the community so desperately needed. The new St Cleopas was built fully equipped with a laundrette, a café and a family centre. The new centre opened to the public in November of 2005 and now hosts a growing number of community groups.