DO YOU HAVE A COMMUNITY IDEA OR PROJECT? DO YOU WANT SOME MONEY?

SOUP provides micro grants created by the local community to support projects that help the community.

Typically these are between £250 and £1,000 towards the costs of your project.

You have 4 minutes to stand up and convince a crowd of people that your idea or project deserves their money. Its as simple as that!

After your Pitch, the audience gets to ask you 4 questions about your project.

Three or four projects are selected for each SOUP event and the first step is to complete a simple application form by clicking on the APPLY button.

Do you have a foodie project in Poole that needs some community crowdfunding support? We are looking for projects that use food to support people, create community, build skills and confidence. This could include:

• A multicultural supper club
• A project turning waste food into delicious things (eg: bread beer, foraged jams)
• A foraging project, teaching people about locally grown food
• A public community allotment gathering neighbours together
• A neighbourhood who want to share fruit tree produce raising money for an apple press

Repair Café received the public vote for funding and has gone on to run the Repair Café in Bournemouth Library.

Fizz used her SOUP money to hold events about Flatpack Democracy and Start a political party of Independents standing for election in the BCP 2019 elections.  Independents together with members of the Liberal Democrats, Labour and Poole People went on to form a majority “Unity Alliance” administration with responsibility for £283M in funding.

Boscombe Fridge was the FIRST Community Fridge in the BCP area and after receiving funding from SOUP. It went on to secure £7000 of funding to support a number of new Community Fridges across Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch.