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The following list of grant funders is in alphabetical order and is added to regularly.
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A B Charitable Trust
ABCT supports charities that defend human rights, such as freedom from torture and arbitrary imprisonment, and promote respect for individuals whatever their circumstances. The Trust is particularly interested in charities that work with vulnerable, marginalised and excluded people in society, with a focus on:
- refugees and victims of torture
- prisoners
- older people
- people with mental health problems
Full details and how to apply
Abel Charitable Trust Grant
Grants are made for work with offenders, young people, those with addiction problems and sex industry workers, including victims of trafficking.To apply, you need to be:
- a registered charity;
- with net assets are less than £1million;
- an annual income and expenditure of less than £500,000;
- and free reserves of less than one year’s funding.
For more information, visit the Abel Charitable Trust website
The Antigone Foundation
Antigone works with a small number of charities each year, learning more about the needs of socially excluded people and promoting their successes to the press. It promotes the needs of philanthropy and activism in those areas which are currently unfashionable and underfunded.
Applicants are required to submit their charitable status number before receiving an application pack.
Applications may be made online via the website.
Archer Trust
A UK Christian charitable grant-making trust that likes to support organisations working in areas of high unemployment and deprivation, with preference for charities which make good use of volunteers. Eligible organisations will be a small UK charity for whom a grant of between £250 and £3,000 will make a big difference and who provide aid or support to a defined group of needy or deserving people, for instance those with physical or mental disabilities or the disadvantaged.
The trustees only meet twice a year, normally in March and September.
Correspondence and applications should be sent by post to The Secretary, The Archer Trust, Bourne House, Wadesmill, Ware, Herts, SG12 0TT.
Arts Council Grants
Individuals and organisations (ie artists, performers, promoters, arts organisations, local authorities etc) are eligible to apply for funding for time-limited arts-related activities including:
- projects and events;
- research and development;
- education activities;
- bursaries;
- organisational development;
- touring.
Supported activities should generally last up to three years and should engage people in England in arts activities, or help artists and arts organisations to carry out their work. Grants to individuals range from £1,000 to £30,000, and grants to organisations range from £1,000 to £100,000.
You can also find a wide range of useful information sheets on particular aspects of applying to Grants for the arts including example budgets and using self-evaluation.
Full details and how to apply
The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust
In 2012, the Trust will support community projects focusing on homelessness, addiction, asylum and refugees, sexual and domestic abuse, prisoners and ex-offenders.
Deadlines:
June 1, 2012
November 1, 2012
Awards for All update
Changes have been made to the Awards for All small grants programme so groups can now apply for £10,000 every year rather than every two years. Also, they will now fund repeat events and activities more than three years apart.
So if you had a grant of £10,000 from us last year, you can now pply again this year as long as your proposed project is for events or activities that have not taken place for at least three years.
Awards for All is a simple small grants scheme that aims to improve local communities and the lives of people most in need.
Projects must meet one or more of the following outcomes:
1. People have better chances in life - with better access to training and development to improve their life skills.
2. Stronger communities - with more active citizens working together to tackle their problems.
3. Improved rural and urban environments - which communities are better able to access and enjoy.
4. Healthier and more active people and communities.
The application form is short and simple and you will find out if you are successful within six weeks.
Details...
The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund
The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund was established primarily to aid the research into learning disability and to aid the care and relief of those affected by learning disability by making grants to voluntary organisations working in this field.
We consider under learning disability the conditions generally referred to as severe learning difficulties, together with autism. In this area, we consider projects concerning children or adults. We do not give grants for research into or care of those with mental illness or dyslexia.
Grants are awarded for project costs and general running costs and amounts from £250 depend on a number of factors including the purpose, the total funding requirement and the potential sources of other funds including, in some cases, matching funding.
Applications will only be considered from voluntary organisations which are registered charities or are associated with a registered charity.
The following areas of work normally fall within the Fund's policy:
- Capital building/renovation/refurbishment works for residential, nursing and respite care, and schools
- Employment schemes including woodwork, crafts, printing and horticulture
- Play schemes and play therapy schemes
- Day and social activities centres including building costs and running costs
- Support for families, including respite schemes
- Independent living schemes
- Support in the community schemes
- Swimming and hydro-therapy pools and snoezelen rooms.
Meetings of the Trustees are usually held in June and early December each year.
The next Trustees' meeting will then take place in June 2012 and if you are submitting a general application, the deadline for submitting your application is 1 May.
If you are submitting a research application, the next deadline for submitting the full application is 1 August.
If your application is considered under the Small Grants procedure then this will be reviewed by the Trustees ahead of the usual meetings in June and December.
Following the meeting all applicants are contacted formally to advise on the status of their application.
Please feel free to submit your application whenever you are ready, rather than waiting for the deadline.
The Ben Kinsella Fund
Funding and support to help young people start up their own project to help promote anti-gun, knife and gang violence messages in their local community.
Maximum Value: £ 3,000. In addition, the Trust will provide support to plan, set-up and start the project and help to develop new skills for the future.
Applications may be submitted at any time.
Who can apply?
Young people aged 14 to 25 in England and Wales. You must show that the project is involving or being set up by young people who are:
- aged 14-16, and achieving or at risk of achieving less than five GCSEs grades A* - C, or
- aged 16-25 and not in education, training or work (or working less than 16 hours a week)
The Ben Kinsella Fund is provided by The Prince's Trust which helps young people to overcome barriers and get their lives back on track.
Funding and support is available to help young people aged 14 to 25 years in England and Wales to start up their own project to help promote anti- gun, knife and gang violence messages in their local community.
Brooke Kinsella, campaigner and actress, whose brother Ben was murdered in 2008, is working with The Prince's Trust to select the successful projects.
Projects that target the following groups in the community are encouraged:
- Girls.
- Children of 12 years and younger.
- Parents.
To apply to the Fund, applicants should call 0800 842 842 or text “Call Me” to 07983 385418. A response should be received within one working day.
For further information on how to obtain this funding opportunity locally, please contact the following:
The Ben Kinsella Fund
The Prince's Trust
18 Park Square East
London
NW1 4LH
Telephone: 0800 842 842
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Biffaward
The Small Grants Scheme offers quick access to lower levels of funding that will make a difference to a local facility, be it a community building, nature reserve, cultural facility or outdoor space.
You can apply for between £250 and £5,000 and your project must not cost more than £10,000 in total. You will need to find a third party contributor(s) to provide 5% of the grant you are applying for.
Full details can be found on the website. There are several criteria, including that the project's site is within 10 miles of a Biffa operation. High Barnet is eligible, and you can check your particular location by entering your postcode where indicated.
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Big Lottery - Money for community buildings
Your project could now be eligible !
Following a review of the Reaching Communities programme in November 2011, changes have been made to broaden the eligibility criteria of this strand of the programme.
The funding of between £100,000 and £500,000 is targeted at projects that improve or replace existing buildings where a wide range of community activities take place. The funding will only support buildings or sites based in the most deprived ‘Lower Super Output Areas’ (LSOAs) in England, using data from the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD). The Grahame Park Estate is one such area, so is eligible for funding. Please note, BIG will only pay for a new build project where a sustainable facility does not currently exist.
You can apply for an exception if your project is based near an eligible area and primarily serves beneficiaries in that area. To help you check whether your project may now be eligibility, see special guidance.
Funding is for:
- projects that will replace or improve buildings where a wide range of community activities take place
- buildings that are well used by their community and have an impact long after the building work is completed.
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Getting Funding and Planning Successful projects, see BIG's Guide to Outcomes.
Big Society Capital
The Prime Minister has officially launched the Big Society Capital - a £600m ‘big society' investment wholesaler, which will enable charities and social enterprises to scale up and expand their services across the country. Big Society Capital Chairman Sir Ronald Cohen indicated that funds will be drawn down by Social Finance Investment Intermediaries (SIFIs), organisations that provide finance and support to social sector organisations.
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Background...
Cash 4 Clubs
Cash 4 Clubs offers all sports clubs in the UK the chance to win grants ranging from £250 to £1000. It is a simple scheme aimed at giving community clubs a helping hand and provide the opportunity to raise the money they need to invest in their club.
C Charitable Trust
The trust aims to support third sector organisations undertaking projects for a wide range of charitable purposes including: disability; buildings or works of heritage value; animal welfare; the environment.
Full details and how to apply
Childwick Trust
The Childwick Trust provides funding to registered charities to assist people with disabilities, the promotion of health, and the elderly in need.
Full details and how to apply
Comic Relief’s New Older People's Programme - Managing Money Better
This new grants programme is aimed at helping older people (65+) cope with the challenges of this particularly harsh financial climate and the resultant exclusion and hardship it is causing.
The work will need to deliver one or more of the following outcomes for older people to:
- Manage their money more effectively
- Increase their income
- Experience less fuel poverty
- Deal better with financial distress (such as abuse, scams and so on)
In addition, Comic Relief will be assessing the extent to which applications meet the following:
- Older people have been involved in the design of the proposal and will be supporting their peers who are less active
- there are strategic partnership approaches with voluntary, private and public organisations and local people of all ages to meet the needs of older people
- new approaches are being tested and disseminated
- the most isolated older people and those who are traditionally hard to reach or live in the poorest and most deprived areas are being targeted
This programme will not make grants under £10,000. Grants of this size are managed through the Local Communities’ Programme, run by the Community Foundation Network: www.communityfoundations.org.uk.
First stage application forms are available on the website. The 1st round has closed and the second cycle for this programme will open on 10th April 2012.
Details…
or email: ukgrants@comicrelief.com or call 020 7820 2000 and ask to speak to a member of staff from the Older People’s programme.
The Ernest Cook Trust
Grants for registered charities, schools and not-for-profit organisations wishing to encourage young people’s interest either in the countryside and the environment or the arts (in the broadest sense) or aiming to raise levels of literacy and numeracy.
Since the ECT is a land-based Trust, work which encourages or ensures the continuation of rural skills and crafts is of particular interest to the Trustees. All applications are expected to link in with either the National Curriculum or with recognised qualifications.
A large grants programme for awards of over £4,000 and a small grants programme for awards of under £4,000 operate throughout the year.
Large Grants programme:
The full board of Trustees meets twice a year, in April and September, to consider grants in excess of £4,000. At the Spring meeting only projects related to the arts, crafts & architecture and literacy & numeracy are considered. Apart from a few larger awards to projects especially close to the interests of the Trustees, most awards are in the range of £4,000 - £10,000.
Applications for the Autumn meeting (in September) must be received by 31 July.
Small Grants Programme:
Meetings to consider applications for the small grants programme take place bi-monthly throughout the year. This programme deals mainly, but not exclusively, with requests for support from state schools and small charitable organisations.
There is no specific closing date; suitable applications are allocated to the next available meeting though it is always wise to think well ahead of the start date of your project. Although the full range of the small grants programme is up to £4,000, due to the huge pressure on the available resources most awards are in the region of £1,000 to £1,500.
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Co-op
Community Fund grants between £100 and £2,000 are awarded to community, voluntary, or self-help groups to run projects that carry out positive work in the local community.
Projects 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
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Church Urban Fund
The Mustard Seed Grant Programme aims to:
‘Provide grants to enable churches and faith-based organisations, working in very deprived communities, to engage in social action through supporting them to initiate or develop community work. This will then enable groups to either undertake larger pieces of work or significantly improve the existing provision.’
Grant requests up to £5,000 will be considered. This is a rolling programme and there are no deadline dates.
CUF particularly supports churches in deprived areas reaching out to serve their local community, but also welcomes applications from other faith groups.
All applications need to be made via our network of local Diocesan Link Officers (find the Diocesan Link Officer details). If you're unsure which Anglican diocese you're in, you can find out using a simple search on the Church of England's 'A Church Near You' website: enter your postcode to find your nearest church; clicking the church's name will tell you which diocese it is in
Please note that the Main Grants/Continuation Grants programme is suspended until further notice.
The Clore Duffield Foundation
The Small Grants Programme is now closed.
The Main Grants Programme offers grants ranging from below £5,000 to in excess of £1million and the Foundation continues to maintain a balance between supporting large-scale projects, with far-reaching effects, and small-scale community endeavours. All grants are awarded at a meeting of the Trustees, held twice a year. As there is no fixed schedule for these meetings, applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis.
Whilst the Foundation does occasionally make donations to the health and social care sectors, it should be noted that the majority of its support is directed towards the cultural sector, and in particular to cultural learning and to musuem, gallery, heritage and performing arts learning spaces.
Registered charities with interests in the sectors listed above are welcome to apply to the Main Grants Programme. The Programme can match lottery funding, support capital redevelopments and learning space initiatives, and provide project, programme and revenue funding.
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The Peter Cruddas Foundation
The Foundation aims to support charities that work with disadvantaged and disengaged young people in the UK.
The Foundation's funding streams are:
- Pathways/support for young disadvantaged or disengaged young people into mainstream education, training or employment.
- Crime diversion schemes.
- Work experience/skills projects for young people.
- Mentoring of young people in London
- General youth work in London.
There are no specified amounts which a charity can apply for, and applications are welcome at anytime. Fast Track applications will also be considered for genuine emergencies or time critical projects, but it should be stated why in their application. More information...
Daily Telegraph/RBS Grants for amateur sports clubs
'Sport for You' aims to promote and nurture sport at a local level. You can receive up to £1,000.
Clubs must have a minimum of 10 members and be deemed amateur.
Clubs must have been up and running for 12 months.
The Dulverton Trust
provides money to UK registered charities and to organisations with charitable status. The Trust supports a wide range of activities in the following categories:
- Youth and Education
- General Welfare
- Conservation
- Preservation
- Peace and Humanitarian Support
- Africa
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The Equitable Charitable Trust
Grants towards education projects or services that support the learning and development of children and young people under the age of 25 who are from disadvantaged backgrounds or disabled.
More details....
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
Main Fund
Our Main Fund distributes most of our funding. It is responsive to requests for support across the broad range of our interests, which are: the arts, education and learning, the environment and enabling disadvantaged people to participate fully in society.
We will prioritise work that:
- Addresses a significant gap in provision
- Develops or strengthens good practice
- Challenges convention or takes a risk in order to address a difficult issue
- Tests out new ideas or practices
- Takes an enterprising approach to achieving its aims
- Sets out to influence policy or change behaviour more widely.
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Fidelity UK Foundation
Grants for established charities in the following areas:
- Arts & Culture - including the visual and performing arts, heritage, museums
- Community Development - including projects which help the young and/or disadvantaged achieve their potential
- Education - including special educational needs
- Health - including disability, chronic illness, palliative care
Investment is typically directed to specific projects in the following categories:
- Capital improvements
- High impact information technology upgrades
- Organisational development, including new strategic directions and/or mergers.
- Planning initiatives, including those that use expert/external consultants.
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The Foyle Foundation
- The Main Grants Scheme awards grants in the region of £10,000 to £50,000 for projects in the fields of Arts and Learning.
- The Small Grants Scheme awards grants between £1,000 and £10,000 for grassroots and local community level activities.
The Foundation will favour applications from organisations and projects that provide direct benefits and services to the public, rather than special interest groups and in the case of ongoing projects, applicants will need to demonstrate how the project will be sustainable beyond the life of any grant.
Applications can be made at any time.
Full details and how to apply
Garfield Weston Foundation
Grants support a wide range of organisations with grants of varying sizes. Recent funding has supported projects in the following categories: Arts, Community, Education, Welfare, Medical, Religion, Youth and Environment. All applications should be sent by post. There are no formal deadlines for submitting applications and organisations should allow approximately four months for a final outcome, though acknowledgement letters are sent within four weeks.
The Goldsmiths' Company
Offer grant support for general charitable needs, ranging from disadvantaged in society and general welfare to the churches, culture and the arts.
More information....
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
The Arts
The Arts programme aims to increase access to and enjoyment of the arts in the UK.
More information...
Social Justice
The Social Justice programme seeks to integrate marginalised young people at times of transition.
More information...
Education and Learning
Eligible applications are those that address one of the following themes:
- Supplementary education.
- Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds.
- Add to the learning - preventing school truancy and exclusion.
A wide range of organisations can apply including: charities, schools, out-of-school clubs, supplementary schools, colleges and youth clubs. Proposals need to demonstrate benefits to the wider community and include partnership working that will result in increasing access to education and learning to all communities and age groups.
Grants can range in size from £5,000 to £60,000 for larger projects. An application can be made at any time.
More information...
Heritage Lottery Fund
Through our grant making we aim to:
- Conserve the UK’s diverse heritage for present and future generations to experience and enjoy
- Help more people, and a wider range of people, to take an active part in and make decisions about their heritage
- Help people to learn about their own and other people’s heritage
In London we are keen to work with local and regional groups of all kinds to develop projects which will create opportunities for people to get involved with and learn about their heritage. We are especially keen to hear from organisations who have not applied to us before.
We have identified groups that represent black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities as a priority for our help because we know these groups have had less funding from HLF in the past. In London, we are also interested in projects from heritage organisations seeking to attract new audiences to their collections from under-represented and diverse communities.
Details…
If you are from a community group, or a heritage organisation with a BAME-focused project, and would like to discuss your ideas for a heritage project large or small, please get in touch with Michael Murray - the Heritage Lottery Fund’s London Development Manager on 020 7591 6183 or email michaelm@hlf.org.uk.
Details of all programmes, including Small Grants and Young Roots…
* NEW * Heritage Lottery Fund - All Our Stories
The Heritage Lottery Fund has launched a new £1m small grants programme to support charities, community groups and heritage organisations running local history projects. The All Our Stories initiative will give grants worth between £3,000 and £10,000 to groups that explore local history. The deadline for applications is 31 July, and successful applications will hear back from the Fund in October 2012.
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Inter Faith Week 2012 applications for grants for youth work now open
The Grants Programmes for Inter Faith Week 2012 is now open to applications for events organised by and for young people focussed around Inter Faith Week, 18th-27th November, 2012. Deadline for applications is 1 September.
Laing Family Trusts
The Trusts support a diverse range of charitable purposes in the UK. The Trusts fund work that advances the Christian faith and its values, and the relief of poverty in the broadest sense.
Funding varies between Trusts but most grants are for less than £5,000 and are awarded on a monthly basis. More substantial grants, above £5,000, are also available, but are awarded at biannual Trustees' meetings.
The Beatrice Laing Trust specifies that the following types of funding are available:
- Modest annual grants towards the core costs of selected national organisations working in the Trust's areas of interest.
- Small capital grants to local organisations working to relieve poverty in their local communities.
- Larger one-off or recurring project-based grants.
The Trusts generally favour capital or project funding over revenue funding.
Applications to the Trusts should be by letter, giving details of the project, its total cost, and the amount already raised. Applications should include a copy of the applicant's annual report and accounts. Applicants should only send one application, which will be put to all three Trusts. Each application should be simple and straightforward.
For further information on how to obtain this funding opportunity locally, please contact the following:
The Administrator, The Laing Family Foundation, Laing Family Trusts, 33 Bunns Lane, Mill Hill, London NW7 2DX ; tel: (020) 8238 8890
The London Catalyst Grants Programme
This programme seeks to improve the lives of people limited by ill health, poverty and disability in London. There are three main grant programmes:
Special Interest Grants - The main grant programme through which it aims to support thoughtful projects or service developments that will tackle health inequalities and the limiting effects of ill health, disability and poverty. Applications will be judged on how they could make a difference in an area of unmet need.
Samaritan Grants - These are grants available to social work and hospital teams, voluntary and community organisations, including faith groups, working directly with and able to distribute one-off grants to people in need.
Small Grants - These grants are to help set up, or develop health and social welfare projects in areas of high need and encourage greater co-operation between health agencies and community groups.
Samaritan Grants range from £100 - £2,000; and the Small Grants Programme and Special Interest Grants range from £3,000. To apply, download the appropriate application form online. Completed applications must be signed and returned by post.
Guidance notes....
Nationwide Foundation Small Grants
The Nationwide Foundation is a registered charity, set up and funded by the Nationwide Building Society. Its Small Grants programme offers grants of up to £5,000 to registered charities with incomes of under £500,000. Current priorities are survivors of domestic abuse and older people.
Full details and how to apply
The Jack Petchey Foundation
The Foundation supports young people aged 11-25 years old across Barnet and other boroughs in London and Essex. The major focus is on celebrating young people's achievements through the widely-known Achievement Award Scheme. An Individual Grants for Volunteering Fund and Leader Award Small Grants Fund have also been recently launched and details can be found here.
The Pfizer UK Foundation
Pfizer is committed to helping people live healthier lives and secure healthier futures, and one way in which they are doing this is to support grassroots community projects through the provision of financial and practical help.
The Pfizer UK Foundation supports healthcare organisations in the UK working at a local level to address health inequalities resulting from social, economic, cultural and demographic factors. The community-based projects supported tackle those health inequalities that fall outside core NHS statutory funding. The aim is to support projects providing tailored, innovative, modest and local solutions to needs defined by local healthcare and social care experts, community groups and charities.
They welcome applications from organisations that are seeking to deliver a project for one year’s funding which:
Ø clearly tackles a defined health inequality
Ø targets a specific local area or marginalised community
Ø can demonstrate a tangible impact on a defined group of people
Ø require funding of between £3,000 and £50,000
Ø cover a period of no longer than a year
Please email the Pfizer UK Foundation at pfizerukfoundation@pfizer.com for a copy of the application form and guidance notes.
The trustees meet 3 times a year and the next deadline is Wednesday 30th May 2012.
The Potential Organisation
Bringing together the best of public service and private enterprise for the benefit of young people and the young community.
By developing partnerships between business and industry, local and/or central government and the voluntary sector, Potential develops, delivers and manages corporate and community social responsibility projects that Challenge and Inspire young people to Develop their talents and Achieve their full potential.
National Young Enterprise Competition - supported by POTENTIAL Youth Advisory Board
Youth organisation POTENTIAL is offering young people aged 11-14 the opportunity to win a starting grant to create an enterprise which benefits their community.
The competition is open to individuals or for groups of up to 5 young people, giving them the opportunity to enhance the lives of young people in their community by gaining funding for their project through pitching for one of five pots of £200 ‘starting capital’.
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Prince's Trust Community Cash Awards
The Community Cash Awards, from the Prince's Trust, helps individuals set up projects that will benefit their community. Grants of up to £3,000 are available, with £1,500 given on average, to support setting up a project. For details of all grant opportunities available in London see here.
Rayne Foundation
Arts, Education, Health & Medicine, and Social Welfare & Development. There is a two-stage application process.
Full details of criteria, exclusions, and how to apply.
The RSA Youth Award for Innovation
The Royal Society of Arts wants to help groups of young people achieve something new for themselves and their communities.
The sum of £15,000 is currently allocated by the London Regional Committee for projects submitted by youth groups and similar bodies which may improve or further facilities for young people generally between the ages of 12 and 18 years, over and above standard educational provision. The maximum sum that is likely to be awarded for any one project is £3,000.
In 2012 there will be a specific Award from Fujitsu of up to £2,000 for a project that includes the use of information and communication technologies.
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* RUN DEM CREW YOUNGERS *
Have you got what it takes to be a leader? Would you like to access funding to run your own project?
Run Dem Crew Youngers is looking for young people between 14 – 21 years old to volunteer and create their own running crew in their local community. Known as a Crew Leader, you will be responsible for encouraging young people in your area to come together and run as a group, while sharing creative ideas and taking part in creative sessions.
Delivered by a consortium of partners including Nike, Active Communities, UnLtd, England Athletic and Charlie Dark, RDCY has an exciting package of support that young people can apply to access to become a crew leader. This includes:
- Funding of up to £500 to cover project costs
- One to one support
- Training
- Creative sessions
- Running equipment from Nike
If you're interested in applying or finding our more about RDCY then please go to the RDCY website, where you can apply to be a leader.
Details…
Any questions about the application form please contact Caroline Murray.
Carolinemurray@unltd.org.uk
T: 020 7566 1470
Any general questions about RDCU please contact Bronwen Bew.
Bronwen@activecommunities.org.uk
T: 07826 524664
Santander Foundation
The Santander Foundation offers one-off grants of up to £10,000, the average grant being £4,000. There are no deadlines for applications.
Education and training
This could be any activity disadvantaged people undertake where they improve their confidence in a skill or their understanding of a subject. This does not have to be formal training or lead to a qualification, although those activities would be eligible too.
Financial capability
This priority covers activities which help disadvantaged people understand how to manage their money.
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The Santander Social Enterprise Development Awards
These new awards aim to support social enterprises and Community Interest Companies looking to grow their business and improve their local community.
The Development Awards are targeted at established social enterprises, with two or more years of trading, that have ambitions to develop their business but need a financial boost to help them realise their ideas.
If your business could use a Development Award of up to £50,000 read more about the competition in About the Awards.
Henry Smith Charity
Applications can be made for revenue and capital activity. Priority is given to work with groups experiencing social and/or economic disadvantage, for example people with disabilities; and work that tackles problems in areas of high deprivation.
Grants are made in the following categories:
- Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME)
- Carers
- Community Service
- Disability
- Domestic and Sexual Violence
- Drugs, Alcohol and Substance Misuse
- Ex-Service Men and Women
- Family Services
- Healthcare
- Homelessness
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender
- Mental Health
- Older People
- Prisoners and Ex-offenders
- Prostitution and Trafficking
- Refugees and Asylum Seekers
- Young People
Full details and how to apply
Sport England - Small Grant Scheme
Sport England focuses on organisations and projects that will grow and sustain participation in grassroots sport and create opportunities for people to excel at their chosen sport. Organisations who can apply include sports clubs, voluntary or community organisations or sports clubs. The Sport England Small Grants Programme has been set up to support local community sport projects which seek to increase participation, sustain participation or develop opportunities for people to excel at their chosen sport. For example, we might help a sports club expand its age range by helping it to buy extra team kit or pay additional coaching fees. Or we may help youth clubs work together with local sports clubs to get more young people playing sport. It is open to any bona fide not-for-profit club or association, statutory body or educational establishment.
Grants of between £300 and £10,000 are available for revenue and small capital projects. The total project costs must not exceed £50,000.
Application is via a single-stage online form. They offer advice and support to applicants, and the whole process, from receipt of application to decision, will take no longer than six weeks.
For more details call 08458 508 508 or see the website.
Tesco Charity Trust Community Awards
support local community projects which are based in areas where Tesco has stores.
Applications are considered in two rounds:
- Organisations supporting children's welfare and children's educational projects, including special needs schools.
- Organisations supporting elderly people and people with disabilities.
There are two funding rounds per category each year.
For grants to support children's welfare and children's education projects, applications can be made between:
For grants to support elderly people and people with disabilities, applications should be made between:
- 1 February and 31 March.
- 1 August and 30 September.
Think Big
A new funding scheme from mobile phone company O2, developed in conjunction with the National Youth Agency and UK Youth. It gives 13 to 25 year olds the chance to apply for a £300 grant to fund projects aimed at addressing local issues identified by the young people themselves.
Your project needs to:
- Involve people aged between 13 to 25 in the UK
- Help a community or address a social problem
- Take place within the next 3 months
If you get invited to take your project further you could get lots more, including up to £2500 cash for your project (given in stages).
Full details and how to apply
The Tilley awards
This Home Office programme recognises innovative crime fighting projects where police, community groups and the public successfully work together to identify and tackle local crime problems.
The Tilley awards recognise local initiatives that demonstrate three things:
- the use of a problem-solving model
- partnership-working
- measurable and sustainable impact on crime reduction or community safety issues
The Toy Trust Grant
The Toy Trust is managed by the British Toy and Hobby Association and distributes grants of up to £5,000 to charities supporting young disadvantaged (aged up to 13) and disabled children. The Trust supports registered charities working with children and their families to address a range of causes, including:
- Alleviate suffering;
- Encourage achievement through adversity;
- Purchase vital equipment;
- Provide care
- Satisfy basic needs
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True Colours Trust
Trustees of the Trust are committed to supporting a large number of excellent local organisations and projects that support disabled children and their families on a daily basis. The Trust has a small grants programme, open to application at any time, which provides grants of up to £10,000, usually for one-off purposes, to help smaller organisations develop and deliver programmes for children, their siblings and families.
The Trustees are particularly keen to support:
- Hydrotherapy pools
- Multi sensory rooms
- Mini buses
- Young carers projects
- Sibling projects
- Bereavement support
Applications are via an on-line application form accessible through the website.
The Tudor Trust
See here for new guidelines covering the period April 2011 to March 2012.
The UIA Charitable Foundation
A small-grant-making trust that gives grants of usually no more than £1,000 for groups working with victims of domestic abuse, drug and alcohol addiction, and the rehabilitation of offenders. Applicants are asked to download the form from the website http://www.uia.co.uk/About/Charitable-foundation/ and then post a signed copy, along with their annual accounts to: The UIA Charitable Foundation, Kings Court, London Road, Stevenage, Herts SG1 2TP.
vInspired Cashpoint
…is offering grants of up to £500 to turn young people's ideas into reality and get their projects off the ground. Once a funding plan has been established, young people are given total freedom to carry out their project in exactly the way they imagined it. Applications will be accepted from April 2 until August 2013.
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The Wates Foundation
The Wates Foundation reviewed its grant making policy in November 2011 in the light of a range of factors including finance and levels of demand for support.
As a result of this review, the Foundation has adopted a wholly pro-active grant making strategy and will no longer take applications or bids for support from external organisations. Any unsolicited applications or bids will be rejected automatically.
This strategy will be in place for three years until 31 March 2015.
For all inquiries, please contact the Foundation Secretariat by telephone on 01372 861251 or by email at director@watesfoundation.org.uk.
The James Weir Foundation
Grants are available for voluntary and community organisations undertaking projects for education, health, disability and the elderly in the UK.
Grants are made up to a total value of £164,000 per annum.
The scheme is intended to support organisations undertaking projects in the following areas:
- Education & training
- The elderly
- Health & well-being
- Disability
The application process is ongoing and interested applicants may apply at any time.
For further information on how to obtain this funding opportunity locally, please contact the following:
Enquiries
James Weir Foundation
Mercer and Hole Trustees Ltd, Gloucester House, 72 London Rd, St Albans, Herts AL1 1NS
Tel: 01727 869141
The Garfield Weston Foundation
Helps small local community organisations with grants of up to £50K. Areas funded include: education, arts, health, general, environment, community, youth, religion and welfare.
For full details, see: http://www.garfieldweston.org/
Will Charitable Trust
The Trust provides financial assistance to registered or exempt charities whose activities fall within the following four categories: care of and services for blind people, and the prevention and cure of blindness; care of people with learning disabilities in a way that provides lifelong commitment, a family environment and the maximum choice of activities and lifestyle; care of and services for people suffering from cancer, and their families; conservation of the countryside.
Full details and how to apply
The Foundation aims to support charities that work with disadvantaged and disengaged young people in the UK.
The Foundation's funding streams are:
- Pathways/support for young disadvantaged or disengaged young people into mainstream education, training or employment.
- Crime diversion schemes.
- Work experience/skills projects for young people.
- Mentoring of young people in London. General youth work in London.
There are no specified amounts which a charity can apply for, and applications are welcome at anytime. Fast Track applications will also be considered for genuine emergencies or time critical projects, but it should be stated why in their application.
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Francis Winham Foundation Grant
Grants for registered charities undertaking welfare projects for elderly people.
For further information on how to obtain this funding opportunity locally, please contact the following:
Mrs J Winham
Francis Winham Foundation, 41 Langton St, London SW10 0JL
Tel: 0207 795 1261
Young Roots
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.
Please note: From April 2012 the upper limit for this programme will increase to £50,000. It will also support projects engaging a wider range of young people (from 11-25 years old) and the maximum length of a project will increase to two years. Our application materials will be amended to reflect this from February 2012.
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Many thanks to...
Funding Central and fit4funding (Charities Information Bureau) and NCVYS (National Council for Voluntary Youth Services) for some of the information above.
