Neath Port Talbot Community Voluntary Service Limited

Neath Port Talbot Community Voluntary Service Limited (NPTCVS), registered charity number 1064450, is a local infrastructure body dedicated to supporting, promoting, and developing voluntary organisations, community groups, and individual participation in the third sector within Neath Port Talbot County Borough. Established to strengthen civic engagement and community resilience, NPTCVS embodies core values of inclusivity, partnership, empowerment, and sustainability, acting as a strategic enabler during crises like Covid-19 and the cost-of-living emergency. It distinguishes itself as the embedded "go-to" hub for the local voluntary sector, offering not just grants but governance advice, safeguarding, training, volunteering brokerage, and trustee mentoring.

NPTCVS funds initiatives enhancing health and wellbeing, reducing loneliness and isolation, building community capacity, alleviating poverty, supporting independent living, carers, vulnerable groups (including older people, youth, and those at risk of exclusion), and improving service access. Key programmes include Warm Hubs for poverty relief, Community Companions against loneliness, youth-led grant making, and resilience projects via partnerships like the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, Community Prosperity Fund, windfarm benefits, and Big Lottery. Supported activities span mental health, homelessness prevention, youth empowerment, feasibility studies, and collaborative efforts, prioritising community-led, measurable impact with sustainability and co-production.

Eligible applicants are constituted UK-registered charities, community groups, and social enterprises based in or delivering primarily within Neath Port Talbot (with limited extensions to neighbours for local benefit); no strict income limits, favouring small to medium grassroots organisations over large nationals unless locally focused. Typical grants range from £500–£5,000 for small schemes to £5,000–£50,000 (rarely £100,000) for strategic funds, covering projects, minor capital, revenue delivery, capacity building, start-ups, and emergency relief—but excluding core running costs except for hardship/resilience, unconstituted groups, or misaligned priorities. Unsolicited email applications via downloadable forms are accepted on a rolling basis for many schemes until funds deplete; check website for specific deadlines like 30 May 2025 for Community Prosperity Fund.