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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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Get Connected

Grants of up to £20,000 are being made available to registered providers of adult social care and independent sector organisations supporting personalisation in adult social care. For further information on eligibility criteria, click here. (Provided courtesy of RAISE)

Closing date: 16th April, 2010

LOCAL HEDGEROW SURVEYS IN ENGLAND

Grants of up to £5,000 available from DEFRA to contribute towards funding of local hedgerow surveys in England during 2010/11.  Application deadline is 26 March 2010.

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Young Roots

Programme budget : £3000 to 25,000

Young Roots is a grant programme designed to engage young people aged 13-25 with their heritage.  Young Roots projects stem directly from the interest and ideas of young people, who are supported by youth and heritage organisations to develop skills, build confidence, and connect with their local communities.

To receive a Young Roots grant, your project must relate to the varied heritage of the UK and:

• provide new opportunities for a wider range of young people aged 13 to 25 to learn about their own and others’ heritage 
• allow young people to lead and take part in creative and engaging activities;
• develop partnerships between youth organisations and heritage organisations; and
• create opportunities to celebrate young people’s achievements in the project and share their learning with the wider community.

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Village CORE Grant Programme

The Village CORE Programme provide a start-up grant of up to £20,000 per community-owned rural shop, subject to contributions of at least the same value being obtained from the community and a loan of at least the same value being granted by Co-operative and Community Finance, a recognised Community Development Finance Institution (CDFI).

The Programme supports the establishment of community-owned shops in rural communities.  This includes the establishment of a new community-owned shop or saving an existing shop by transfer to community ownership. The programme cannot currently support the expansion of existing community-owned shops.
                         
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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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WREN application deadlines

WREN is a not-for-profit business that helps benefit the lives of people who live close to landfill sites by awarding grants for environmental, heritage and community projects.

Our directors, staff and the people on our regionally based advisory panels are fully committed to enhancing the social environment, natural conservation and heritage aspects of the world in which we live and create a beneficial and lasting legacy for future generations.

The next WREN application deadlines are

Main Grant Scheme - 17th March 2010

Small Grant Scheme - 17th March 2010

Biodiversity Action Fund - 29th January 2010 (Annual Deadline)

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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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Friends Provident Foundation

The Friends Provident Foundation is distributing funding through the Financial Inclusion Programme. The Friends Provident Foundation offers grants of up to £200,000 to Voluntary/Community Organisations for projects that address financial exclusion within disadvantaged communities.

Provided courtesy of RAISE

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New £2 million Flexibility and Innovation Fund invites bids

PLEASE NOTE THIS FUND IS ONLY AVAILABLE TO ORGANISATIONS WHOSE PRIMARY FOCUS IS DELIVERY OF FE OR WBL PROVISION, ARE IN RECEIPT OF LSC FUNDING TO DELIVER PROVISION AND SUBJECT TO OFSTED INSPECTION.

LSIS is pleased to announce the launch of its new £2 million ‘Flexibility and Innovation Fund’. Further education and skills providers and provider representative bodies are invited to submit bids, for up to £90,000, for innovative projects leading to activities with the potential to secure significant improvements in sector practice or performance.

Project outcomes will be shared with the sector in order to maximise their benefits. This will initially be through the Excellence Gateway, and may be supplemented by further publication opportunities and dissemination events.

Bids may be submitted from individual organisations or in collaboration with others. Further bidding opportunities will be available in February 2010 and June 2010.

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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

NEW £90,000 BSP Fund

New Fund in Bucks Supports Projects Dealing with Effects of the Economic Downturn

In an exciting new development, the charitable sector in Buckinghamshire is set to benefit from the collaboration of Bucks Strategic Partnership, Voluntary Impact Bucks and the grant-making expertise of Buckinghamshire Community Foundation.

£90,000 has been made available over the next eighteen months to provide grants to voluntary and community sector organisations committed to projects and activities aimed at dealing with issues and opportunities relating to the economic downturn.

Bucks Strategic Partnership earmarked the money and has appointed Buckinghamshire Community Foundation and Voluntary Impact Bucks as delivery partners.

For further information please contact:  Beverley Trevitt, Outreach Officer, Buckinghamshire Community Foundation, on 01296 330134 or visit: www.thebucksfoundation.org.uk

The Hardship Fund

The Hardship Fund is a £16.7 million grant programme. It will support third sector organisations in England who are delivering front-line services to the most vulnerable and disadvantaged people in society.

Grants of between £50,000 and £250,000 are available to organisations with an annual income of at least £200,000 that are in financial hardship as a result of the recession, which is impacting on their ability to deliver services in the following areas:

• health and social care
• housing support
• education and training
• information, advice and guidance.

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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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