Community Funding News

Lloyds TSB Foundation for England & Wales: The Community Programme

The community programme focuses on funding core work that helps disadvanatged people to play a fuller role in the community. for further details please click here: www.lloydstsbfoundations.org.uk

McDonalds Community Football Grants

McDonald's is providing grants through its new KickStart scheme to help support community football clubs throughout the UK which will help to develop their players and the community. For further information please click here: http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/ukhome/Sport/Football.html 

Communitybuilders

Communitybuilders aims to make sustainable investments in community enterprises to build their long term financial viability and increase their ability to deliver significant social impact in their communities. For further details please click here: http://www.communitybuildersfund.org.uk/

Community Spaces Open Grants Programme

Community Spaces is a £50 million open grants programme that is managed by Groundwork UK’s Open Grants Department. The programme helps community groups in England create or improve green, open spaces to enhance people’s quality of life. Community Spaces is funded by the Big Lottery Fund. Grants start at £10,000. For further details please click here: http://www.community-spaces.org.uk/
 
 

Big Lottery News

Awards for All

The BIG Lottery’s Awards for All programme looks to fund projects which address the issues, needs and aspirations of local communities and people. It will fund a wide range of community projects aimed at developing skills, improving health, revitalising the local environment and enabling people to become more active citizens. Grants are available between £300 and £10,000. For further details please click here: http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/prog_a4a_en

Reaching Communities

The BIG Lottery’s Reaching Communities has two strands:

•  Revenue and small capital – funding from £10,000 to £500,000 for revenue projects and/or smaller capital projects up to £50,000
•  Buildings – funding of between £100,000 and £500,000 for large capital projects

For further information please click here: http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/prog_reaching_communities?tab=3&

BIG Assist 

BIG Assist is delivered under contract to the Big Lottery Fund by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO). Big Assist is a programme for infrastructure organisations in the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector. The programme aims to support infrastructure organisations based in England, to be more efficient, effective, sustainable and better able to adapt to the current and future operating environment. For further information please click here: http://www.bigassist.org.uk/

Sharing Heritage

The Heritage Lottery Fund’s ‘Sharing Heritage’ programme is for any type of project related to national, regional or local heritage in the UK. You can apply for a grant from £3,000 to £10,000. For further information please click here: http://www.hlf.org.uk/HowToApply/programmes/Pages/sharingheritage.aspx#.UUxjVTc2Ypl

Heritage Lottery Fund - Young Roots

Young Roots is a grant programme designed to engage young people aged 13-25 with their heritage. Young Roots projects stem directly from the interest and ideas of young people, who are supported by youth and heritage organisations to develop skills, build confidence, and connect with their local communities. The programme offers grants between £3,000 - £25,000. For further details please click here: http://www.hlf.org.uk/HowToApply/programmes/Pages/youngroots.aspx

 

Grants News

O2 Grants for Young People to improve their community  

O2, the mobile phone company have launched a grants scheme to help young people improve their community or address a social problem. For further details please click here: http://www.o2thinkbig.co.uk/

Santander Foundation

The Santander Foundation now has two grants programmes to help disadvantaged people in the UK. Santander Community Plus provides grants of up to £5,000. The Central grants programme offers grants of up to £10,000 to charities and Credit Unions anywhere in the UK. For further details please click here: http://www.santanderfoundation.org.uk/

Mars in the Community

The Mars in the Community programme supports projects and activities which promote the development of cohesive, healthy and sustainable communities.  The programme is open to local charities, community groups and schools within a 10 mile radius of the Slough site.

Decisions are made four times a year and typically grants do not exceed £2,000.  Applications can be made through the Mars in the Community Website www.marsinthecommunity.co.uk

The Co-operative Community Fund Grants

Grants, between £100 and £2,000 are available to community, voluntary, or self-help groups to run projects that carry out positive work in the community

A project must: address a community issue provide a good long-term benefit to the community support co-operative values and principles ideally be innovative in its approach. For more details please visit:

www.cooperative.coop/membership/local-communities/community-fund

 Galaxy Hot Chocolate Fund

Galaxy Hot Chocolate Fund is looking to support warm hearted people and projects. They help small, local community based projects and community minded people with £300 to help people or groups with their community programmes. For further details please visit:  http://www.hotgalaxywarmheart.com/fund/

 

Funding News from CCB

North Wessex Downs LEADER Programme

Rural development grants of up to £50,000 available to farmers, foresters, community enterprises and rural-based businesses located within the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. For further details please click here; http://www.northwessexleader.org.uk/

Berkshire Community Foundation

Community foundations exist to deliver philanthropic advice, expert grant making services, community leadership and to build endowments. The Foundation aims to support the smaller groups who are doing vital work but who have real difficulties in raising funds. For further details please click here: http://www.berkshirecommunityfoundation.org.uk/about/

Funding Central

Funding Central is a free smart website for the whole voluntary and community sector, including social enterprise, providing access to thousands of funding and finance opportunities, plus a wealth of tools and resources supporting organisations to develop sustainable income strategies appropriate to their needs. www.fundingcentral.org.uk