Funding News: Grow Wild Community Sites, Trust and Tesco Large Grants

Tesco Large Grants
The Tesco Charity Trust offers grants of between £4,000 and £25,000 to charities working around their stores, and in the countries sourced from. Priorities are children's education and welfare, those with disabilities and the elderly. The deadline for this round is 9 January.

Grow Wild Community Sites
A Grow Wild site might be an unloved, neglected and rundown area that you'd like to reclaim for the local community . Grants of £500 - £5,000 are available to local voluntary or community organisations, a group of young people or a creative group turn it into an inspiring place. Closing date for applications is 6 January.  

The Will Charitable Trust
The Will Charitable Trust has announced that its Blind People & Learning Disabilities grants programme is now open for applications. UK charities can apply for funding for the care of and services for blind people, and the prevention and/or cure of blindness. Around 12 charities are supported each year with grants varying from £5,000 to around £20,000. The deadline 31 January.

Help The Homeless (UK)
Help the Homeless , a national Charity which aims to help homeless people throughout the United Kingdom to resume a normal life, is currently accepting applications from small and medium sized charities and voluntary organisations. Grants of up to £3,000 are available towards capital costs to support projects that assist disadvantaged individuals in their return to mainstream society, through residential or training facilities.

Information courtesy of NAVCA Update

National Housing Federation Home Truths 2013-14

Written by Arlene Kersley, Rural Housing Enabler, CCB

The National Housing Federation has published its annual Home Truths report for 2013-14.  The report always makes for sober reading. 

This year the report focuses on the impact of high rents on employed people earning marginal wages.  Working people are being forced to rely on Housing Benefit to meet the costs of housing.

While house prices continue their relentless rise in London and the SE other areas of the country have not seen any benefit from recent economic improvement.  This implies a significant imbalance between north and south. Extreme shortages of homes in London and the south east, and build rates still significantly below what is required, house prices are set to continue their upward climb.

Over the course of the next 7 years to 2020,  house prices in Berkshire are projected to increase between 39-54% and private rents to increase around 40%.

Read the report at:

http://issuu.com/nationalhousingfederation/docs/home_truths_2013-14/12?e=4073936/5882031

Our Place Programme open for bids in January

On the 10^th of December, Communities Minister Stephen Williams announced that Locality will be running the Our Place Programme, a support package of £4.3m from the Department of Local Communities to help at least 100 communities deliver local services focused on local priorities. 

This package of grants and support represents the next step in Localism, and provides communities more power to develop and run a diverse range of services locally.

Bidding opens in January 2014.  For more information see:  http://mycommunityrights.org.uk/ourplace/

Funding News

Funding & awards    

Together in Service
Together in Service is a new programme supported by the Dept for Communities & Local Government. Its objectives are to:

• celebrate the practical contribution that faith communities make to society through social action 
• support faith groups in undertaking new multi-faith volunteering projects at local level

Grants of £2,000 - £5,000 are available. Match funding of half the amount is needed, which can include volunteer time. There is no set deadline.

Community Energy Peer Mentoring Fund
Community energy projects are being given a boost with a new £0.5m fund announced by the Cabinet Office's Centre for Social Action and the Dept of Energy & Climate Change. Grants of £10,000 - £50,000 are available for community energy projects that mentor other smaller community projects and share skills to boost the number of projects across the country. The new funding is designed to help new groups get off the ground so they can start saving money and generating energy in their community. It will also help existing groups to professionalise, develop business plans and scale up their work. Deadline is 12 December.

Tesco Charity Community Awards (UK)
The Tesco Charity Trust opened its Community Awards for grants for children's welfare and/or children's educations (including special needs schools) on the 1st December 2013. Through the Awards, one-off donations of between £500 and £4,000 are available to local projects that support children and their education and welfare. Application deadline: Thursday 30th January 2014.

News courtesy of NAVCA e-bulletin