Thursday 2 July 2015

LATEST Funding News: Car Clubs, Music Grant, Grassroot Giving, Parks for People & much more. . . .




Developing Car Clubs in England
Expressions of interest are invited for the Developing Car Clubs in England programme.  The Developing Car Clubs in England programme had a £100,000.  Applications are welcomed from local authorities, transport authorities and LEPs.  The deadline for expressions of interest is 6th July.  For more information please click here.

Youth Music Grant Programme
Grants of up to £30,000 are available for high quality music making programmes for children and young people.  Funds can also be used in projects that support the development of staff and volunteers, and the organisation itself.  Applications are welcome from charities, not for profit organisations and schools.  The closing date for this fund is 23rd July.  For more information please visit here.

Grassroots Giving
The Skipton Building Society’s Grassroots Giving awards grants of £500 to local groups with an annual net profit of less than £10,000 that make life better for local communities.  Community allotments, social groups for older people and groups offering activities for young people are among those who can apply.  The closing date for applications is 31st July.  For more information lease click here.

Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) welcome applications to their grant programmes:
Peace and Security
Power and Accountability
Rights and Justice
Sustainable Future
JRCT ask that applications that relate to more than one grant (cross cutting) are submitted by 17th August.  Applications that are affected by only one of the grant programmes are to be submitted by 1st September.  For more information please click here.

Heart Research UK and Subway’s Healthy Heart Grants
Grants of up to £10,000 are available to new and original projects that actively promote heart health and help to reduce the risk of heart disease. For more information please visit here.

Parks for People
Heritage Lottery Fund is welcoming applications to their Parks for People fund for grants of between £100,000-£5 million.  Applicants must demonstrate that the park or cemetery is valued by the local community as part of their heritage.  The grant will support work around the following:
Landscaping, archaeological sites, earthworks or features from an earlier phase of design
Historic features or buildings (surviving or lost)
Natural heritage including habitats and wildlife
Collections of plants, trees objects or documents
Cultural traditions such as stories, festivals, fairs and crafts
Memories and experiences of the park or cemetery and the history attached to individual features, such as memorials or veteran trees
The deadline for applications is 12noon on 1st September.  For more information please click here.

Concertina
Concertina make grants for up to £250 to charitable organisations who provide musical entertainment, and related activities, to the elderly.  In particular they like to support small organisations who might struggle to get funding.  This funding can also include Care Homes.  The closing date is 31st October.  For more information please click here.

European Youth Foundation (EYF) Grants
The EYF are an independent organisation which promotes the positive development of children and young people.  Their priorities for this round of funding are:
The innovative encouragement of democratic citizenship
Young peoples’ access to rights and their autonomy
The promotion of peaceful, inclusive societies
The closing date for this funding is 1st October.  The EYF also fund pilot projects and will give priority to projects that focus on one of the following:
Fighting online hate speech and extremism
The integration of migrants and young refugees into society
Strengthening civil society (Especially Ukraine)
These projects can be submitted at any time.  For more information about ether of these funds please click here

Santander Foundation
The Santander Foundation has two funding streams to help disadvantaged people.  Both funds can be used for either capital or revenue expenses.
Learn and Grow – This programme funds activities that improve skills, confidence or employability for disadvantaged people
Money Skills – This programme funds charities and credit unions to carry out work to help disadvantaged people to manage their money. Applications are welcome at any time.  For more information please click here. 

Courtesy of Norfolk Community Action

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