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
Olswang’s Green Seed Fund is giving overall £34.2 (£3k per project) to creative environmental projects that have big social benefits and are based in Reading or Camden (where Olswang have their UK offices). Feel free to have a look at last year’s winners here.
If you have won or applied before and are operating in these areas, consider re-applying. The selection area is now smaller so your chances to stand out from the crowd should be better! New applications are of course welcome too.
Applications close on midnight on Friday, 8th May 2015.
For more information and to apply go here: projectdirt.com/olswangfund
Courtesy of Reading Voluntary Action
The Peter Cruddas Foundation gives priority to programmes designed to help disadvantaged and disengaged young people in the age range of 14 to 30, to pursue pathways to Education, Training and Employment with the ultimate aim of helping them to become financially independent.
Eligibility
The Peter Cruddas Foundation can only donate to Charity Commission registered charities in England and Wales benefitting young people in England and Wales.
Currently CIC’s and Social Enterprises are not being supported.
What For?
The Foundation gives priority to programmes calculated to help disadvantaged and disengaged young people in England and Wales towards pathways into education, training and employment through charitable organisations.
Priority Funding Streams:
Pathways/support for young disadvantaged or disengaged people in the age range 14 to 30 into education, training or employment
Work experience/skills projects for young people aged 16 to 30
Please note that the Foundation is not accepting applications for Capital Projects.
How Much?
There is no minimum or maximum amount and projects can be funded for more than one year. However, the Peter Cruddas Foundation will be looking to the applicant to demonstrate that they can manage the amount they have applied for and how they intend to continue (if appropriate) after the funding has been spent.
The Peter Cruddas Foundation does not intend to engage in continual repeat funding of organisations.
Deadline
1st September 2015.
Charities are encouraged to apply throughout the year and before the Deadline Dates. This will give time for their application to be fully reviewed and in some cases allow adequate time to arrange a site visit.
More Information
http://petercruddasfoundation.org.uk/about.htm
Information courtesy of Bruce Wright Funding Matters
brucewright7@btopenworld.com
