Aviva Community Fund, lending a helping hand to local community causes
The 2016 Aviva Community Fund offers a helping hand to local communities across the UK by providing support and funding for inspirational local causes.
The competition invites members of the local community to submit an idea that will make a difference to their local group or charity, with the chance to secure funding ranging from up to £1,000 - £25,000.
Entries for the Aviva Community Fund are now open at www.aviva.co.uk/community-fund
Winners will be awarded funding in January 2017.
Preventing hate crime: funding for community projects
Hate crimes are crimes that are motivated by hostility on the grounds of race (including colour, nationality and citizenship, religion, ethnicity and national origin), disability, sexual orientation and gender identity.
The aim of the fund is to work with affected communities to fund the development of innovative projects that:
• prevent hate crime
• respond to hate crime in our communities
• increase the reporting of hate crime
• improve support for the victims of hate crime
• build our understanding of hate crime
The Home Office is seeking to fund projects at 2 levels of either £25,000 or £50,000. We have made £300,000 available to spend by 31 March 2017, with project delivery expected in June 2017.
We are looking for motivated and creative community groups or consortia to develop innovative programmes that help to prevent hate crime and issues associated with it. Your programme development must involve stakeholders who are affected by, or are past or potential perpetrators of hate crime.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/preventing-hate-crime-funding-for-community-projects
Ashden UK Award
The application process for 2017 is now open
• Prize money of £10,000 per Award
• National media exposure
• Access to new networks and investors
• Tailored support to help you expand your work
We are focusing on work to reduce and manage demand for energy. In particular, we’re looking for pioneering enterprises and programmes that are demonstrating achievement in any of the following areas:
• Sustainable buildings: working on new low energy-use buildings or reducing energy use in existing buildings, including homes, commercial and public sectors.
• Energy innovation: innovative technologies, products or services for sustainable energy that are on the market, have the potential to scale up and result in significant CO2 savings, for example by reducing energy consumption or increasing renewable energy generation.
• Sustainable transport in towns and cities: innovative ways to reduce pollution in urban areas by making transport more sustainable, while providing social and economic benefits to local residents and businesses.
• Smart energy: products or services such as energy storage, demand response or making the grid 'smarter’ that are reducing overall grid CO2 emissions or enabling increased integration of renewable energy into the grid.
http://www.ashden.org/apply/uk
Community Minibus Fund
The Department for Transport has launched a second round of the Community Minibus Fund which is being administered by the Community Transport Association. The £25 million fund has already provided funding for 350 minibuses to community transport operators across England and the second round will ensure more organisations will benefit from a new vehicle.
The total value of the second round of the Community Minibus Fund is £2 million and is open to educational organisations and community groups, including community transport operators, across England only.
Please note that organisations that received an award from the first round of the Community Minibus Fund will not be eligible for the second round.
You can apply for the fund using the application form below. Please ensure that you have fully read the Guidance for Applicants document before doing so.
The deadline for bids is 17:00 on Friday 02 December 2016.
If you require additional support in completing your application you can contact the CTA at minibusfund@ctauk.org
Guidance for Applicants
Courtesy of Slough CVS
