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Children In Need

Children in Need grant programmes include small grants (up to £10,000 a year for up to three years); main grants (over £10,000); Fun and friendship (for organisations working with disabled young people aged 12-18). Next deadline: 15 October.

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Communitybuilders

Communitybuilders is a £70m investment fund which takes forward a commitment within the Communities in Control: real people, real power White Paper to build more cohesive, empowered and active communities.

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The Equitable Charitable Trust

The Trust is an education charity.  It makes grants of around £1 million each year towards projects for children and young people under the age of 25 who are from disadvantaged backgrounds or disabled.

Grants can be made for projects throughout the UK.  Overseas projects are also funded, but only through UK registered charities.  Organisations based outside of the UK are not eligible to apply.

www.equitablecharitabletrust.org.uk/

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Building/Retrofit Adaptation Contest

The Technology Strategy Board has announced £5 million for innovative building and retrofit projects that incorporate climate risk/opportunities assessments and adaptive responses. Successful candidates will win up to £100,000 for additional design work on current building projects. More information about the contest can be found by clicking here.

Hidden Histories in South East England

At HLF, we are keen to support projects focusing on stories that have been lost forgotten or untold, and as such, 'Hidden Histories' is a priority theme for the South East England team.

In particular, we would like to receive applications from first-time applicants and community groups. We are therefore encouraging groups to apply for grants between £3,000 and £10,000, with the expectation that applications will contain less detail than is required for larger grants.

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Sustainable Funding Beacons

A partnership opportunity with the Sustainable Funding Project at NCVO

Over the past decade, the Sustainable Funding Project (SFP) has worked with infrastructure across England to support frontline voluntary and community sector organisations (VCOs) to explore a more sustainable approach to funding.

The Beacons programme seeks to strengthen this relationship through strategic collaboration, to benefit both infrastructure organisations and the communities they serve.

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Comic Relief Older People's Programme

Supporting older people to bring positive change to their communities, enabling them to contribute their time, energy and skills to those individuals who need it most.

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Pentagon Sport's playground funding guide

Pentagon Sport's playground funding guide is available to any school interested in researching sources of playground funding for playground development. It has been written in collaboration with fundraising skills and is a useful resource for sources of playground funding, information on presenting your application as well as useful case studies and model answers.

For further information go to: http://www.pentagonsport.co.uk/home

New funding for volunteering

New funding for volunteering as sport revealed as number one choice
Budding sports volunteers will soon get more opportunities to roll up their sleeves and get involved in the sports they love - thanks to £93,000 of new Exchequer funding from Sport England.

Sport England is investing the funding in Volunteering England, our national partner for driving up volunteering in sport.

For further information click here

Design for Future Climate: Adapting Buildings competition

The Technology Strategy Board is announcing an adapting buildings competition. Five million pounds is available for strategies that provide climate change adaptation measures for new and existing buildings.

If successful, you will receive contracts of up to £100,000 to carry out additional design work on current building projects, to design strategies for robustness and adaptation to climate change over the commercial lifetime of the building. You need to be a position to start design work by 31 August 2011.

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Community Wildlife Programme

Community Wildlife will fund projects that bring local people together to discover, enjoy or protect the wildlife in their local area.

The programme will fund between £300 and £10,000 for projects that:

• improve rural or urban environments for people to enjoy, for example by:

• protecting wildlife habitats
• creating a nature trail, woodland walk or wildlife garden for people to enjoy
• improving natural community spaces, such as rivers, ponds and woodlands.

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GUINNESS BRING IT TO LIFE AWARDS

The Guinness Bring It To Life Awards, in association with UnLtd and Rathbone, will work with people aged 25 – 35 who have a brilliant urban regeneration idea that will make a difference to their local community. People will receive a Guinness Bring It To Life Award through UnLtd and will have access to funding, training and volunteer support from Rathbone and Diageo Great Britain to bring their social ventures to life. The Guinness Bring it to Life Awards honour Arthur Guinness’ commitment to supporting local communities.

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Community Spaces Open Grants Programme

Community Spaces is a £50 million open grants programme that is managed by Groundwork UK’s Open Grants Department.

The programme helps community groups in England create or improve green, open spaces to enhance people’s quality of life.

Community Spaces is funded by the Big Lottery Fund. Grants start at £10,000.

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Village CORE Programme

The Village CORE Programme is a dedicated support programme for communities looking to set up and run a community-owned rural shop.

It provides advisory support along with a £40,000 funding package comprised of a £20,000 grant matched with a £20,000 loan which is also matched by the equivalent community contributions.

This programme, which will have supported over 50 new community-owned rural shops by the end of 2009, has recently been renewed for a further three years.

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Music Grants for Older People

Concertina makes grants to charitable bodies which provide musical entertainment and related activities for the elderly. This not only brightens up their lives, but also provides a therapeutic benefit to their health and well-being.

Concertina is keen to support smaller organisations which might otherwise find it difficult to gain funding. Since its inception in 2004, it has made grants to a wide range of charitable organisations nationwide in England and Wales. These include funds to many care homes for the elderly to provide musical entertainment for their residents.

For further information go to: http://www.concertinamusic.org.uk

The Wates Foundation

Applications can be submitted at any time, but the Trustees usually meet to consider applications in June, October and March.

The Wates Foundation is open to applications from registered charities in the Counties of Berkshire,  Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Surrey and Sussex. The Foundation aims to alleviate distress and improve the quality of life through its five main programme areas, one of which is “Community health”. Grants of up to £15,000 are available and periodic grants of up to £30,000. www.watesfoundation.org.uk

NCVO Guide - How to generate new funding and other ideas

This PDF guide gives you practical suggestions on how to generate funding and other ideas to change your organisation for the better, illustrated with examples from Cancer Research UK. Not every charity is as big as CRUK but anyone can be open to ideas and take risks.  Adapting the methods for your own organisation could help you to increase your funds or serve your users more effectively. (Provided courtesy of NCVO)

Download the guide here

Reaching Communities programme changes

The changes to the Reaching Communities programme are now ‘live’. Groups applying for up to £40,000 a year will now benefit from a simpler application form and faster decision times. Also all applicants will get a better steer earlier on in the application process of the likelihood of being funded. To find out more and to get a copy of the new outline proposal form visit: http://www2.biglotteryfund.org.uk/prog_reaching_communities?tab=1&

Rural Access to Services Project Funding news 5th May 2010

A new funding year has begun and we have over £50,000 to be given to parish planning & community groups who wish to carry out projects coming out of community plans or public meetings.

RASP funding is provided by SEEDA and is monitored by CCB. Individual grants of up to £5,000 are available for local Parish Planning Groups, Parish Councils and other community groups.

The funding grants are for rural parishes in Berkshire, and are to be used to help fund community projects run by community groups.  The funding is to be used to address the problem of diminishing services in rural areas.  It can fund projects that provide a needed community service, or which help to provide transport to a needed service.  Smaller communities can join together with other neighbouring smaller communities to pool the money for projects that will benefit them all.

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North Wessex Downs Leader Programme

More than £400,000 is available for the current financial year. Visit the LEADER website for further information: www.northwessexleader.org.uk. The NWD Leader Programme Manager Corinna Woodall can be contacted by email: Corinna.woodall@wiltshire.gov.uk or 01488 680456. 

Big  Challenge has launched!

The Big Challenge competition for 16-25 year olds is open for applications now.

Be in with a chance of winning a share of £65 000 along with support to set up your own community project.

Your project just needs to inspire other young people and involve volunteers so think big and get involved now!

Check out www.bigchallenge.org.uk for full details and the online application.

And find us on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfmoq6XneAA

IMAGINE, INVOLVE, INSPIRE IT’S YOUR TURN!

The deadline is 6th July 2010.

Big Challenge is a youth-led competition run by UnLtd in partnership with Changemakers and with funding from Vodafone and v. We are part of Live UnLtd www.liveunltd.com where you can find other opportunities to support young people.

HCC Adult Services Small Grants Scheme

Adult services have recently launched a new grant programme for 2010/11, which aims to support smaller organisations to take forward innovative ideas that contribute to the development of the Hampshire Model of Personalisation.

Key areas of development are likely to be in promoting ways in which people with social care needs are able to feel part of their communities, offering opportunities for peer support and providing community based activities that respond to local need.  Grant funding of up to £1,000 will be available for one year.

Applications are sought from community and voluntary organisations that are not currently funded by Hampshire County Council and whose annual turnover is less than £150,000.  They are particularly interested in hearing from very small voluntary and community groups, and those that work in rural areas of Hampshire.

Further information can be found at: http://www3.hants.gov.uk/grants/edapprenticeshipgrantscheme.htm

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O2 Grants for Young People to improve their community or address a social problem 

O2, the mobile phone company have launched a grants scheme to help young people improve their community or address a social problem.

The grants should be of interest to CLP groups proposing actions that will benefit and involve young people.

Grants of up to £2,500 are available to winning projects, in addittion to mentoring support and other O2 paraphernalia.

Interest in the grants scheme can be registered at the following address: http://www.o2thinkbig.co.uk/

Young people applying to the scheme must be aged 13 to 25 and projects must be completed within 3 months

Support Your School Scheme

Support Your School - a new fundraising scheme led by Environmental Business Products (EBP) which aims to raise £5m for UK schools through the collection of empty inkjet cartridges and unwanted mobile phones for re-use.

To date 80 British charities (including the Prince’s Trust, British Heart Foundation and Tommy’s – the Baby Charity) have benefitted from EBP’s inkjet cartridge and mobile phone collection and recycling scheme, with £4m raised in total. Following this success, they have expanded the scheme to schools, which will receive £1 per inkjet cartridge, which are sent for cleaning, refilling and redistribution, and £3 per mobile phone, which are sent for reuse in developing countries.

For further details about Support Your School please go to www.supportyourschool.co.uk or free phone on 0800 849 1225

Santander Foundation relaunches with £3m in funding

Santander has relaunched its charitable foundation, with over £3 million of funds available for UK charities in 2010. Formerly the Abbey Charitable Trust, the foundation combines the charitable donations previously made in the UK by Abbey, Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley savings business.

The Santander Foundation will focus on funding charitable projects in line with Santander Group's global priorities of education and training, and financial capability.

The maximum donation for charities in the nine regions where Santander has a significant presence will rise 50% to £30,000, and one-off grants will rise 150% to £10,000 for charities in areas where there is a branch of Santander.

For further information go to: http://www.santanderfoundation.org.uk/

Provided courtesy of UK Fundraising Online

Feasability grants for community organisations

The Feasibility element of the Fund is for organisations that have ideas and need assistance with project development. The aim is to develop organisations to such a level that they can qualify for investment.

The Investment element of the Fund is for organisations that are ready to grow and expand their role within the community and are on the way towards financial self-reliance through the generation of unrestricted and/or earned income.

Loans are a fundamental part of this element and bringing organisations to the point where they are ready to take on a loan is the ultimate aim of the Fund.

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Nationwide Foundation Small Grants Programme

The Nationwide Foundation has expanded its Small Grants Programme criteria for charities working with older people. The previous age restrictions have now been removed, and work can benefit any older person to improve their housing needs or address financial exclusion. (Provided courtesy of NAVCA) www.nationwidefoundation.org.uk/smallgrants.asp

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New funding programme from Big Lottery

The Big Lottery Fund has announced a new funding programme that will allow voluntary organisations to apply for grants of up to £40,000 a year until 2015. The fund is a new strand of the Reaching Communities programme and is designed to support charities that want shorter-term, smaller-scale grants than those available through the existing Reaching Communities scheme.

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Children in Need launches new grants programme

Funding of up to £10,000 a year for three years available to organisations working with young people. 

Children in Need is offering small grants of up to £10,000 a year for three years for third sector organisations working with children and young people.

Grants will be allocated in four tranches, with application deadlines on 15 January, 15 April, 15 July and 15 October.

Any not-for-profit organisation working with children and young people under the age of 18 can apply, with some exclusions such as projects carrying out medical research or promoting religion. Decisions are expected to be made within 14 weeks of the closing date of each round. Provided courtesy of Third Sector Online

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The Kent People's Trust

In 2000 a group of public and private organisations, led by Kent Police, recognised the need to help prevent crime before it started. They wanted local people to be able to help themselves so set up a trust to distribute funds to help people tackle the causes of crime in their communities. Since then, the Trust has donated over
£500,000 to local projects in Kent and Medway.

We work with a wide range of individuals and organisations providing everything from youth clubs to security advice for the elderly, graffiti cleanup to CCTV for women’s refuges, youth mentoring to drug rehabilitation schemes. These projects help prevent crime, and genuinely improve the safety and well being of local communities.

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The Foyle Foundation

Is an independent grantmaking trust that distributes grants to UK charities. The Foundation does not support applications from individuals.

Since it became operational in November 2001, The Foundation has disbursed over £36.4M in grants (to the year ending June 2009).

Following a strategic review, the Foundation merged with its sister charity The Batty Charitable Trust in March 2009 and from July 2009 has revised its objectives. The Foundation now operates a Main Grants Scheme supporting charities whose core work covers Arts and Learning and a Small Grants Scheme covering small charities in all fields.

For further information go to: http://www.foylefoundation.org.uk/

The Kids Fund

The Kids Fund, run by The Field Studies Council, aims to bring environmental understanding to disadvantaged young people. It helps disadvantaged young people to attend a course who may otherwise be excluded due to some form of disadvantage - health, mobility, deprivation or financial. Funding will normally be up to 80% of the cost of your group’s course to an FSC Field Centre to a maximum of £3000. Applications can be submitted at any time with decisions being made in February, June and October.  (Provided courtesy of RAISE)

For further information on the fund please click here

E.ON Sustainable Energy Fund 

The E.ON Sustainable Energy Fund offers grants of up to £20,000 to community groups and not for profit organisations who wish to consider and implement sustainable energy projects in their buildings   - from energy efficiency through to micro-generation.

Your organisation must benefit specific community groups namely:

• Young people
• Elderly people
• People in fuel poverty

Please follow the link below to see further details.

http://www.eon-uk.com/about/2654.aspx

Trusthouse Charitable Foundation 

Of interest to Organisations dealing with:

Rural Issues, Urban Deprivation, Elderly, Disabled People, Disadvantaged Communities, Young People, Drug/Alcohol Misues, Homelessness

The Trusthouse Charitable Foundation was formed out of a trust operated by the Council of Forte plc which inherited investments in the Granada Group. The Foundation was registered with the Charity Commissioners in 1997.

Its objects are such general charitable purposes as the Trustees in their discretion may from time to time determine. The Foundation currently distributes over £2 million each year. The average grant awarded by the Foundation is £5,000.

With effect from 1st July 2008, the Trustees have agreed new Guidelines for grants applications. If you have previously received a grant, please check the guidelines carefully to see if you are still eligible to apply. If you have applied recently to the Foundation, your application may still be valid but we advise you to contact us to discuss this if you have not already received a letter of acknowledgement.

The objects of the charity section is intended to help applicants understand the Trustees’ current priorities and to assess whether their projects fit into them. Application is by competitive process and the Trustees’ decisions will reflect their assessment of the relative merits of different applications and the overall balance of demand and the funds available.

In 2005/6, the Trusthouse Charitable Foundation awarded over 300 grants totalling £2.11 million to a multitude of different projects.

Go to the website for further information: http://www.trusthousecharitablefoundation.org.uk/home.html

Tesco Charity Trust

If you require any support whilst completing your application please contact our helpline on 0845 612 3575.

The Trust was set up on 1 June 1987 to support both national and local community charities, and to add a 20% top up to staff fundraising. It is run by a board of trustees recommended by the main board of Tesco PLC.

How to make an application

The Tesco Charity Trust Community Awards Scheme provides one-off donations of between £500 and £4,000 to local projects that support children and their education and welfare, elderly people and adults and children with disabilities.

We have four rounds of funding each year, and applications should be made via our online application form.

Larger Grant Applications

The Tesco Charity Trust Trustees also consider grant applications at their tri-annual meetings. These grants range between £4,000 and £25,000 and are to support local, national or international projects in areas where we operate.

For further information click here.

If you would like to apply for a grant please send details of your project to Michelina Filocco, Tesco Charity Trust, New Tesco House, Delamare Road, Cheshunt, Herts, EN8 9SL.  Please ensure you clearly mark these details for the Trust Meeting Grants.

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