War Memorial Grant Scheme
Grants are available for the repair and conservation of free standing war memorials. Grants are from £3,000-£30,000 and will normally make up 75% of eligible costs. The closing date for applications is Tues 30th June. For more information please click here.
Heritage Lottery Funds
For more information about any of the Heritage Lottery Funds please click here:
Parks for People - £100,000-£5million for projects relating to historic parks and cemeteries. Deadline for applications is Mon 31st August.
Start Up Grants - £3,000 - £10,000 for new organisations to look after a heritage site or engage people with one. This also supports existing groups taking on new heritage responsibilities.
Grants for Places of Worship - £10,000-£250,000 for structural repairs and improvements.
Transition Funding - £10,000-£100,000 for those who have received Heritage lottery funding previously. This fund is for organisations wishing to make significant strategic change to become more sustainable and improve heritage management.
Heritage Enterprise - £100,000-£5 million for enterprising community organisations rescuing historic buildings and sites.
Sharing Heritage - £3,000 - £1,000 for not-for-profit organisations or partnerships led by not-for-profit organisations with a project relating to national, regional or local heritage.
Our Heritage - £10,000-£100,000 for any project relating to national, regional or local heritage. Applications can be made by not-for-profit organisations, private owners of heritage (including individuals and for-profit organisations) and partnerships.
Heritage Grants – over £100,000 for any projects relating to national, regional or local heritage.
Young Roots - £10,000-£50,000 for projects that engage young people with heritage. This fund can be used by youth organisations to help young people create and deliver their own heritage projects.
People’s Health Trust
The People’s Health Trust’s Active Communities programme awards grants to not for profit organisations with an annual income of less than £350,000, with less than six months running costs in their savings. Applications are a two stage process, taking six weeks. For more information please click here.
Community Buildings and Housing Grants
Grants are open to town or parish councils, neighbourhood forums or community groups. The grants are Pre-Feasibility awarding between £1,000 - £10,000 and Project Support awarding between £5,000 and £40,000. Both these schemes aim to support community buildings and community housing projects to reach a Community Right to Build order, or traditional planning permission (for community led housing projects). For more information please visit here.
European Growth Programme – Grants for the Rural Economy
The European Growth Programme funds projects that create jobs and boost the economy. The fund is managed by Rural Payment Agency (RPA) in partnership with Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs). The grants that are available will be decided by the priorities of its LEP area and can include:
Business development
Business start-up
Renewable energy
Tourism infrastructure (small scale)
Tourism co-operation
Food processing
For more information please visit here.
Neighbourhood Planning Grants
Grants of up to £8,000 are available for parish councils or other groups who are preparing Neighbourhood Plans or Neighbourhood Development Orders. Groups with more complex issues can apply for technical support packages, and may be eligible for a further £6,000. Grants can be used for engagement events, leaflet production and specialist planning expertise. More information here.
Childcare Business Grants Scheme
The Scheme aims to increase the provision of childcare by providing start-up grants of:
£500 for new businesses looking after one or more children (not relatives) on domestic premises for more than two hours in one day
£1,000 for new businesses as above, but who also provide care for disabled children
£1,000 for new nurseries/out-of-school clubs/childcare businesses on domestic premises
For more information please visit here.
Funding for Pavilions and Playing Surfaces
The Premier League and The FA Facilities Fund awards grants for building or refurbishing local facilities, such as pavilions and playing surfaces. Applications from football clubs, schools, councils and sports associations are welcome. Grants of £10,000-£500,000 can be awarded to projects that:
Improve community facilities for football and other sports
Increase or sustain participation, regardless of background, age or ability
Help participants of sports enhance their physical, mental and social capacity
For more information please click here.
Information courtesy of Norfolk Community Action
Grassroots Giving 2014 saw Skipton Building Society donate a total of £80,500 to 161 community groups across the UK and this year they've got £81,000 to help 162 community groups.
Applications are now open for 2015! Click here to enter via the online application form.
Please spread the word to anyone you know who is involved in a community group or is a volunteer for a local cause as they'd love to hear from them.
Don't forget to check out their FAQs before you start your application, to give yourself the best possible chance of success.
And don't miss out on their Free Resources for community groups - these are open to anyone and are packed full of handy tips and advice.
Think Big aims to inspire, support and enable young people (13-25 year olds) with great ideas; so they can have an impact on society while getting the hands on experience and skills they need to thrive in today’s digital world. £2500 funding available. Further details below:
Level 1 & 2
• Projects led by young people aged 13 – 25 years old who are based in the UK
• Projects that have a clear aim and benefit a community
• Project ideas that are socially beneficial and harness the best of digital to make them a reality
Additional to Level 1
• Projects that are completed within six months
• Projects that are realistic and achievable within £300
Additional to Level 2
• Young people who have completed Level 1 projects
• Projects that have clearly developed / progressed from Level 1
• Projects that are completed within one year
• Projects that are realistic and achievable within £2500
Please note you cannot apply directly for £2500, you must do your £300 project first, and only if everything is going really well might you get invited to apply for more.
http://www.o2thinkbig.co.uk/
Would you like to deliver a sport or physical activity project tailored to suit women and girls?
Eligibility
Clubs, Volunteers, Coaches, NGB's, Local Authority, Education, Charities & Voluntary Sector, Social Enterprise.
What For?
Get Berkshire Active have recently launched a This Girl Can Festival Fund.
Organisations can apply for one of six pots of £750 which must be used to deliver a This Girl Can Festival followed by a minimum of 5 follow on sessions.
Both the Festival and Follow on sessions can involve single or multi sports/activities and be open to women and girls of all ages and abilities.
The £750 can ONLY be used for:
Coaching/Instructor/Leader fees
Coordinator time (including collecting and uploading monitoring data)
Facility Fees
Equipment and Training (to support sustainability)
Marketing/Promoting (any marketing must be developed in accordance with This Girl Can guidelines)
Incentives, prizes, T-shirts etc
The Festival and follow up sessions must be completed by the 30th of September 2015.
Females of all ages can be engaged in the Festival and follow up sessions but they must be structured to suit the needs of the inactive/new to sport/activity.
If more funding is needed to deliver the festival and follow up sessions applying organisations will be required to secure this through in-kind or in-cash contributions from either their own budgets or partner organisations. Where financial constraints are not a barrier to the target group a nominal participant contribution is allowed.
The lead organisation must have valid Public Liability Insurance and shall be liable for, and indemnify GBA against, any expense liability loss claim or proceedings whatsoever arising under statute or common law in respect of personal injury or damage whatsoever to any property real or personal insofar as such injury or damage arises out of or in the course of or by the carrying out the Festival and follow up sessions.
The lead organisation will be required to demonstrate safeguarding policies and procedures in accordance with GBA’s minimum operating standards.
GBA expects all lead organisations to demonstrate a commitment to equality and tackling discrimination in all its forms.
How Much?
Organisations can apply for one of six pots of £750.
Deadline
Deadline for applications is 5pm on Friday the 29th of May and Festivals and Follow on sessions must be delivered by the end of September 2015.
More Information
http://www.getberkshireactive.org/5874/news/article/this-girl-can-festival-fund/
Send completed application forms to kirsty.heath@getberkshireactive.org
Courtesy of Bruce Wright Funding Matters
The ‘Enable’ grants programme was created to help small and medium-sized charities who have been hit hard by cuts and changes to funding and commissioning to have a more stable future. ‘Enable’ is a rolling grants programme and has £2.5 million still available to award in 2015.
The funding is intended to strengthen charities and charitable incorporated organisations (with an income of between £25,000 and £1 million) that are working with people experiencing issues of multiple disadvantage at points of transition but have also identified clear development areas which will support their growth.
Lloyds Bank Foundation Chief Executive Paul Streets explains:
“38% of charities we surveyed about the issues they face listed capacity and capability issues as the main challenges facing their organisation. Through the ‘Enable’ programme we are helping charities build strong foundations to be able to deliver services better and attract other funding. We are helping organisations to not just survive in these tough times but to thrive for the longer term.”
Enable grants are for up to £15,000 over two years and are available to charities working with people aged 17 years and over who are experiencing at least one of the following:
- Have been abused or are at risk of abuse
- Are victims of sexual exploitation or trafficking
- Are ex-offenders or those at risk of offending
- Are long term unemployed and are considered to be furthest away from the labour market
- Are leaving care
- Are homeless
- Have learning disabilities
- Have mental health and wellbeing issues
- Have addictions
- Are refugees or asylum seekers
- Have caring responsibilities
- Are older and are losing independence
- Are isolated and vulnerable
- Have severe financial difficulty as a compounding disadvantage
- The Foundation has awarded its first Enable grants. Among the first recipients are:
Hope Community Services, based in Bassetlaw Nottinghamshire, which works with individuals who are in crisis or have nowhere to live. The charity will use its £10,750 grant to extend their services to the most rural and remote parts of the county.
Ryedale Carers Support in Yorkshire provides care and respite services for carers. It will use its £15,000 grant for additional managerial hours to help map out a collaborative way of working with other local care services following fierce funding cuts to each individual organisation.
Applications can be submitted at any time. There are no deadlines; however, enquiries should be submitted by the end of July 2015 to ensure a decision will be reached within the current year.
Full details can be found on the Lloyds Bank Foundation website
Article courtesy of J4Bcommunity.co.uk
Over the years The Scout Association has been extremely fortunate to receive generous donations from many individuals and organisations who wish to support our work at a national and local level. The result of these donations is that there are a range of funds available, particularly to support local groups/units and individual members who require financial assistance in undertaking their scouting.
Grants are available for:
- Opening or re-opening new sections
- Starting a new group (min. two sections) in a recognised area of social deprivation
- Local development planning events; capital equipment for promoting Scouting; adult recruitment events; youth recruitment events aimed at the cub and network sections; training adviser recruitment and retention
- Employment of local development staff
- Non-wood badge leader training; capital equipment for the delivery of adult training; young leader training; activity assessor training and assessment; activity permit assessments; DofE asessments; trustee/executive training; trainer training; minibus training and assessment
- Air and sea scout training and capital equipment purchase
- Support for members 'in financial hardship' - volunteer expenses, uniforms, camp and activity costs
- Members with special needs and the development of special needs scouting, including small scale building works to ensure accessibility for all
Deadline: Applications can be submitted any time but must be at least 6 weeks before the event date.
Contact: DGB Grants Manager email: development@scout.org.uk
http://members.scouts.org.uk/supportresources/search/?cat=262,658
Article courtesy of Slough CVS
The Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for Thames Valley, Anthony Stansfeld, and the Chief Constable, Francis Habgood, have today announced the launch of the Police Property Act Fund.
The Fund, which is jointly managed by the PCC and the Chief Constable, is created from money recovered by the police and the proceeds from the sale of items that cannot be returned to identified owners, which includes seizures from criminals.
This year the PCC and Chief Constable expect to allocate around £250,000 spread over two separate bidding rounds which will each focus on one policing priority.
Applications are now invited from local voluntary and community groups who contribute towards the PCC’s Police and Crime Plan objective of ‘Protecting Vulnerable People’.
The second bidding round later this year will be focussed on reducing reoffending.
The closing date for this round of applications is 12:00 noon Friday 8th May 2015 and applications will be considered jointly by the PCC and the Chief Constable.
For more information on the application criteria and to apply visit http://www.thamesvalley-pcc.gov.uk/Partnership/Police-Property-Act-Fund.aspx
