Collaborative Investment Programme Funding for groups

The Collaborative Investment Programme (C.I.P.) has 28 bursaries available to support creative and cultural individuals and organisations to work collaboratively with children and young people and to support microenterprises to engage vulnerable adults and the local community in the co-production of services.

Bursaries of up to £2,500 are available for individual practitioners/sole traders working with children and young people and micro-enterprises working with vulnerable adults.

Organisations working with children and young people can apply for up to £5,000. (Service providers and venues. Not schools, City Council, County Council or The Mighty Creatives.)

Bursaries are only available to those working in Leicester or Leicestershire.

The deadline for applications is at 10.00am on 7 March 2011.

Full guidance notes and application forms can be downloaded from www.leics.gov.uk/CIP or contact John Levison on 0116 305 5585 or email CIP@leics.gov.uk.