Kelloggs Active Living Fund Sportsmatch BIG - Changing Spaces BIG Young People's Fund 2 My Place East Midlands Airport Community Fund Business Link Grants Allen Lane Foundation Match Fund from v Esmee Fairburn Changes NDC Funding BIG Family Learning Yapp Charitable Trust Local Food It's Your Community Preventing Violent Extremism
Grants from £2,000 up to £500,000 are available for not-for-profit groups and organisations in
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The It's Your Community charter
It's Your Community exists to inspire us all to make a positive change to the communities in which we live. Grants are from £100 to £1,000. Awards should be for the benefit of the community, or to build community spirit. If your idea is any of the following:
· a physical improvement that you can touch
· likely to make real, tangible results that you can see
· demonstrates fresh, bold thinking, and is innovative enough to inspire others
On the other hand, if your idea is
· To top up existing funds
· a one-off project, which may not have lasting impact
· Aligned with political or religious organisations
· To raise money for a third-party giving organisation
· For a project outside the
· On private property or land
· Aimed at supporting an individual
· school project which supports the national curriculum but does not involve the wider community
· To host a fundraising event
· To sponsor community events such as fetes, festivals or recreational clubs
...then It's Your Community may not be the right programme for you.
It's Your Community categories
Below are some examples of the types of projects we help out with. We've found they fall naturally into four main groups. But obviously this list isn't exhaustive, and we're open to new, ground-breaking suggestions outside these four areas.
Community Places – Improving the places communities share
Revitalising and reinvigorating our community spaces. Maybe you need new swings for your local playground, a better roof for your sports pavilion? Or a lick of paint for your community centre? Either way there's lots to improve, have a think.
Community People – Helping bring people together
To help create a community where people are valued and respected, where there's a real sense of unity and belonging. Whether it's about hosting lunch clubs for older people, theatre groups and sports clubs for the young; or if it's about setting up cultural groups to help understand local issues, there are lots of ways to bring the people in your town together.
Community Pride – Tackling issues head on and restoring a sense of pride
Helping put the pride back into our community. What changes can you make to help make your community proud? From litter pick ups, to park makeovers, to graffiti removal, to restoring paths or renovating historical buildings; there's lots to be done to smarten up your town.
Community Landscape – Improving communities natural environments
Improving the natural environments where we live. Creating community gardens, planting trees, improving public access to river-banks, or building bridges. The sky's the limit – it's your landscape and you can change it.
To apply for an award go to Website:
The Community Leadership Fundfund is intended to support work that will build the capacity of individuals, organisations and communities to take the lead on tackling violent extremist influences.
The funding will be focused on the following areas: Capacity of organisations and communities; Supporting Muslim young people; Supporting Muslim women; Capacity of Muslim faith leaders; Local forums against extremism and Islamophobia. Funding for the first four strands of work will be limited to projects which have national reach/significance. Funding for the fifth strand of work will go to projects which are delivered locally. Deadline for applications is 30 September 2008. You can apply for funding for up to three years. Full Guidance notes and application forms are available from the website.
The fund will give small grants to fund projects and activities that directly lead to people taking part in sustained physical activity. The aim of the fund is to help remove the "barriers" which stop people being active. Kellogg's Active Living Fund is very keen to fund activities that enable adults and children to exercise together. Priority will be given to applications requesting support for family units - children and adults undertaking physical activity together. They are particularly looking for projects that are innovative in their approach to involve children or young people and their families. The maximum grant request that will be considered is £1,000. The panel meet every two months and you should receive a decision on your application within approximately 10 weeks of submitting your application. Please note that the panel's decision is final and there is no right of appeal. They will not make a grant: To individual athletes, sportsmen and women; For costs associated with salaries or posts; To profit making organisations; Towards transport costs, as all projects should be accessible to ensure sustainability; To applications where the request does not directly support the activity being undertaken, for example the fund will consider a request for equipment, but not for maintenance on a building being used; To retrospective applications, where the activity has either taken place or has commenced at the time an application is considered by the Kellogg's panel; For costs relating to refreshments. The Active Living Community Fund is being administered by The Community Foundation for Greater Manchester. For any queries in relation to this application or if you would like help or support in completing your application form please contact Louise Daly Tel: 0161 214 0940 http://www.kelloggs.co.uk/company/corporateresponsibility/activelivingfund/
Sport
Changing Spaces is an environmental programme focusing on three priority areas - community spaces, local community enterprise and access to the natural environment. It will invest around £200 million in environmental projects across
Local Food programme (run by the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts) - will fund organisations that will deliver a variety of food related projects to make locally grown food more accessible and affordable to local communities. For more information visit www.localfoodgrants.org
Community Spaces programme (run by Groundwork
Community Sustainable Energy programme (run by Building Research Establishment) - this will pay for community-based organisations to install renewable energy technologies and energy saving measures.
For more information visit www.communitysustainable.org.uk
Access to Nature programme (run by Natural England) - this will fund a range of organisations who want to encourage people from all backgrounds to learn more about and enjoy the natural environment.
For more information visit www.naturalengland.org.uk/accesstonature
Ecominds programme (run by Mind) - this programme is due to launch in spring or summer 2008. It will fund a range of groups who want to encourage people with experience of mental distress to get involved in environmental projects, such as improving open spaces and wildlife habitats, designing public art and recycling. For more information visit www.ecominds.org.uk
If you have a project that you thinks fits under one of the programmes visit the websites listed on this page or call the Changing Spaces Advice Line Tel: 0845 3 671 671 (textphone: 0845 6 02 16 59).
Website: http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk
The Big Lottery Fund will be launched YPF 2 on 19th May 2008. You have about four months from the launch date to send in your outline proposal form. Grants of between £10,000 and £500,000 will be available. If you already have a grant under YPF 1 you can apply to YPF 2 for either a different project or, if your project is due to finish by the end of November 2009, the development or continuation of your existing project. But your application will be given lower priority than a completely new project All funded projects need to start within six months of their grant offer letter. These should go out in April 2009. So, your project must start by November 2009 at the latest. Only one application from each organisation, or an independent branch of a larger organisation, is allowed under this programme. You may be a partner in more than one application. They will consider the capacity of organisations involved in multiple applications as part of our assessment process, so you should be sure that you can manage all the work that you have agreed to be involved in before you or your partners apply. BIG plan to fund about 100 high quality exemplar projects. Full details on the website http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk
Open to community groups within the 'area of benefit' (see map on website). Not all City areas are covered. The Community Fund awards grants to support eligible projects that have a community and/or environmental benefit that is long lasting. In order for an application to be successful it must meet at least one of the following Fund objectives: To bring the community closer together through facilities for sport, recreation and other leisure time activities; Offer environmental improvement and/or heritage conservation; Improve awareness of environmental issues through environmental education; Encourage and/or protect wildlife. See website for details.
Open for applications: 6 May 2008 Minimum grant: £1 million Maximum grant: £5 million
£160m will be available in year one of which up to £50 million is available through the Fastrack route. The Big Lottery Fund is delivering myplace on behalf of the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF). This is not Lottery funding.
Do you have the vision and drive to work with young people to deliver a world class place for them to go? If so, myplace may be able to help you turn your ideas into reality.
myplace aims to deliver world class youth facilities driven by the active participation of young people and their view and needs. More info HERE
Business Transformation Grants (BTG)
The regional Business Link service has announced two new initiatives to help businesses introduce change to transform their business performance.
The schemes, funded by East Midlands Development Agency (emda), are designed to support businesses that have less than 250 staff and that are trading in the East Midlands.
The BTG is designed to support the development and sustainability of your business and can fund projects identified through an in depth review with a Business Link adviser. The BTG can support both revenue and capital projects. http://www.emincubation.co.uk/main/NEWS/1299
The Allen Lane Foundation – no longer has closing dates but will be operating a rolling programme, processing applications as they come in. The Foundation wants to support work that’s aimed at reducing isolation, stigma and discrimination – particularly for groups who are often less popular with other funders. For example, asylum-seekers and refugees; gay, lesbian, bi-sexual or transgender people; gypsies and travellers; offenders and ex-offenders; older people; people from black and minority ethnic communities and migrant workers; people experiencing mental health problems; people experiencing violence or abuse. If the people you work with don’t include a significant number from one or more of these groups you are unlikely to be able to make a successful application. Grants are relatively small with around £15K being the maximum, either as a one off grant or over 2 or 3 years and are not made to large organisations (even for small projects). More info http://www.allenlane.org.uk/
Aimed at increasing the quality, quantity and diversity this funding stream can match 100% of any new private sector investment in youth volunteering. More info here
Changed Guidelines at Esmee Fairburn
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation – new guidelines have just been issued for their open and lightly prescribed main fund and 3 more focused funding steams, biodiversity, museum and heritage collections and new approaches to learning. The average grant is around £50K and the Foundation will support both project and core costs. For more information http://www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk/
New and Improved NDC Small Grants Programme!!
Following feedback from applicants and findings from the evaluation of the first year of NDC’s Small Grants programme, there have been a number of changes made to the programme which we hope will make it more user friendly and accessible.
The new changes to the programme are:
Up to £5000 available for community projects and activities:
The two existing small grants applications (equipment grant and project grant) have been merged into one. Groups can now apply for up to £5,000 for community activities, this can be for projects, equipment or a combination of both. Projects must benefit the NDC area or people living and working in the NDC area (see attached map), but applicants do not have to be located in the NDC area.
Extra Funds available for Partnership Projects:
Previously groups were restricted to making one application in any 12 months. However groups will now be able to make an additional application a year if they are running a partnership project. This means groups can apply for one project they are running by themselves and one partnership project, or for two partnership projects in any 12 month period.
More details on the website.
BIG Lottery - Family Learning
We want to support families who face barriers to learning or who are not confident helping their children to learn. We are particularly interested in hearing from projects where learning is not based on getting a qualification and those that will help families who have not been involved in learning together before.
We are looking for imaginative projects that meet local needs and remove the practical barriers to learning, for example, by providing travel costs, additional support for disabled participants, or childcare.
You can apply for grants of over £10,000 and up to £500,000, though we would expect the average grant to be between £100,000 - £150,000. We will fund projects for up to five years. You can apply on a local or national basis. Find out more Here
The Yapp Charitable Trust makes grants to small registered charities in England and Wales, whose annual expenditure is less than £60,000. Charities must have been fully constituted and operating for at least three years. Grants are for core running costs and salaries and are to provide continuation funding for established work only. The Trust does not offer funding for any new projects or special events nor for capital expenditure on buildings or equipment. Grants are for work with: elderly people; children and young people aged 5 to 25; people with disabilities or mental health problems; people trying to overcome life-limiting problems of a social rather than medical origin, such as addiction, relationship difficulties, abuse, a history of offending. Grants are also made to support charities' work in education and learning, (including lifelong learning). Priority is given to work that is unattractive to the general public or unpopular with other funders, helps improve the lives of marginalised people and makes effective use of volunteers. Grants are for up to three years. Most are for more than one year. Amounts are up to £3,000 a year. Applications are accepted all year with the following further closing dates in 2008: 26 May 2008 (for consideration in July); 30 September 2008 (for consideration in November). Full information is on the Website: www.yappcharitabletrust.org.uk Application forms are downloadable from the website or by post from the Administrator: Margaret Thompson Tel: 01484 683403