Funding News - JULY

Heritage Lottery Fund Grants
The following grants are available from the Heritage Lottery Fund: 
• Transition Fund – grants of £10,000 - £100,000 are available to organisations wanting to achieve significant strategic change to become more resilient and sustainable to better manage their heritage project.  Applications are welcomed at any time.
• Start Up Grants – grants of £3,000 - £10,000 to set up new organisations to look after heritage, or engage people with it.  This can also be used for organisations who are taking on new heritage responsibilities.  Applications are welcomed at any time.
• Sharing Heritage – grants of £3,000 - £10,000 are available for exploring and sharing a community heritage.  Applications are welcomed at any time.
• Our Heritage – grants of £10,000 - £100,000 for any project connected to national, regional or local heritage.  Applications are welcome anytime.
• First World War Fund: Then and Now – grants of £3,000 - £10,000 are available to projects that help people to learn about the heritage of the First World War.  Applications are welcomed at any time. 
• Young Roots – grants of £10,000 - £50,000 for projects engaging young people with heritage.  Applications are welcomed at any time.
For more information about these funds please click here.

Barchester Healthcare Foundation
Up to £5,000 are available for activities which reduce loneliness and enable people to be active and engaged.  Eligible groups will work with older people and/or adults with a physical or mental disability whose health and / or social needs cannot be met through the public sector or themselves.  Applications are welcome at any time.  For more information please click here.

Bruce Wake Charitable Trust
Grants are available to not-for-profit groups providing activities for the disabled.  Favoured applications will include one of the following: 
• Beneficiaries and potential beneficiaries are physically disabled wheelchair users
• Improving access for wheelchair users
• The sporting and leisure activities involving disabled wheelchair users
Applications are welcomed at any time.  For more information please click here.

The Rayne Foundation
The Rayne Foundation makes grants to charitable and not-for-profit organisations across the UK tackling a variety of issues.

As an independent funder, an important part of our role is to support work which is untried and which may have uncertain outcomes but which has clear objectives. We favour work which could change the way that we tackle issues in society and which could have lessons for others beyond the funded organisation.

The overall theme underpinning our work is bridge building that connects people and communities. We are interested in the arts, health and wellbeing, education – in its widest sense, and social issues. We also have a number of areas of special interest.

We receive many more applications than we can fund and for this reason have a two-stage application process to reduce the time and effort you spend making your application.
http://www.raynefoundation.org.uk/