Below are the latest funding and personal development schemes which are currently accepting applications. They are listing in order of deadline and we thank Tamar Millen at the CMA for sending many of them through. At the top of the page is the Funding Central automated update of new funds. If you know of another or would like your scheme to be added to this page, let us know.
Funding Central – new grants
Time sensitive grants
Big Lottery Realising Ambition programme applications now available
Applications for the Big Lottery Realising Ambition programme open from tomorrow, 13 September 2011. The programme, run by a consortium of organisations led by Catch 22, is looking for 20 projects or programmes across the UK that are already effective at diverting children and young people away from crime and could be suitable for replication. Online application materials will be available from 13 September.
Information from the recent webinar on the Realising Ambition programme is now available on the Catch 22 website here:
http://catch-22.org.uk/News/Detail/Realising-Ambition-webinar
PRS (Sound) & Commonwealth Foundation to give funding to wide range of organizations and groups – 6th February 2012
PRS Funding for Organisations & Groups (UK)The Performing Rights Society (PRS) for Music Foundation, the UK’s leading funder of new music across all genres, has announced that its funding programme for organisations and groups is currently open for
applications. Through this programme a wide range of organisations and groups such as bands; ensembles; collectives; charities; local authority and schools; etc working in any genre of new music can apply for grants of up to 25,000 (£5,000 for first time applicants).
The types of works supported include:
Commissions of new music by UK-based creators
Community projects that reach new audiences
Touring of new work
Music that uses new developments in technology
Music creator residencies; etc.
The closing date for applications is the 6th February 2012. For more information visit: http://www.prsformusicfoundation.com/Funding/Organisations
*NEW* Youtube Digital Innovation Award giving young people opportunity to improve filmmaking skills - 24th February 2012
First Light works with young people from all over the UK to develop filmmaking skills has teamed up with YouTube to give young people aged 18-25 the opportunity to win £1,000 towards future filmmaking projects. First Light are asking for submissions of short films, 3 minutes or under, that could be described as ‘digitally innovative’. Films submitted will be judged by YouTube and the 3 shortlisted filmmakers will be invited to attend the First Light Awards where the winner will be announced.
The closing date for receiving both copies of the film and completed application form is by 1pm on Friday 24th February 2012. For more information, please visit:
http://www.firstlightonline.co.uk/news/youtube-digital-innovation-award/
The Clore Duffield Foundation to give funding to support Poetry and Literature (UK) – 30th March 2012
The Clore Duffield Foundation has announced that the second funding round under its new £1 million programme to fund poetry and literature initiatives for children and young people across the UK is now open for applications. Through the programme, schools, FE colleges, community groups, libraries and other arts/cultural organisations can apply for
grants of between £1,000 and £10,000 to support participatory learning projects and programmes focused on literature, poetry and creative writing for under 19s.
Projects that received funding under round 1 of the programme include:
‘E13LC Word Olympics Festival 2012′, a partnership between the E13 Learning Community (a cluster of eight schools in Newham) and Theatre Royal Stratford East, led by Lister Community School which received a grant of £5,000 to inspire young people to have fun with words through a celebration of creative writing in an Olympic-style competition and Wisbech and Fenland Museum which received a grant of £6,000 to work with local arts organisation, Atelier East, to run a Young Poet Laureate contest to enliven, empower and engage young writers in the Fenland area
The programme is due to run from 2011 to 2015 with two funding rounds a year. The deadline for applications is the 30th March 2012. For more information visit:
http://www.cloreduffield.org.uk/page_sub.php?id=331&parent=35
Rolling grants
*NEW* Funding for Coalfields Communities (England, Scotland & Wales)
The Coalfields Regeneration Trust has announced that its level two grants programme is now closed to further applications. However, grants of up to £5,000 are still available through the Trust’s Level grants programme. Level 1 funding is available to community and voluntary organisations who can demonstrate that a grant will impact positively on people living in coalfield communities.
The type of activities that can be funded include:
Improvements to a community facility
A training project that teaches people a new skill or enables them to
get a qualification
Setting up a new or supporting an existing social enterprise
An activity that gets people involved in physical activity or addresses
a local health issue
The establishment of a much needed new service or activity in a community
The provision of childcare places for nursery, pre-school, after school
activities and holiday schemes
Activities that promote volunteering and get new people involved as
volunteers.
Applications can be submitted at any time. For more information, please visit: http://www.coalfields-regen.org.uk/englandgrantinformation/default.asp
The Digital Research and Development Fund for Arts and Culture to support arts and cultural organisations across Scotland
The Digital Research and Development Fund for Arts and Culture, Scotland is a partnership between Creative Scotland, Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and NESTA to support arts and cultural organisations across Scotland who want to work with digital technologies to expand their audience reach and engagement and/or explore new business models.
A key element of the £500,000 Fund is supporting collaborative partnerships between arts and cultural organisations and technology providers; and to provide a body of rich research evidence, data and case studies that inspires and supports the capacity of the wider arts and cultural sector to innovate.
We are now inviting arts and cultural organisations in Scotland to submit projects which test digital propositions around audience reach and engagement and new business models. http://www.nesta.org.uk/digital_rnd_scotland
Paul Hamlyn Foundation – Arts Programme
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation (PHF) Arts Programme supports the development and dissemination of new ideas to increase people’s experience, enjoyment and involvement in the arts in the UK. The Programme is open to formally constituted charitable organisations in the UK. Other organisations are eligible to apply providing they operate on a not-for-profit basis.
The PHF operates a two-stage application process. Firstly, applicants must submit an outline application. If the proposal is deemed suitable, a full application will be invited. For more information visit: www.phf.org.uk
Community First Neighbourhood Matched Fund
£30 Million is now available to fund community projects in some of the most deprived areas of the country. Community First is managed by the community Development Foundation (CDF) and is part of the new programme of community funding brought in to replace Grassroots Grants. The Neighbourhood Matched Fund aims to provide local communities with the means to address their own priorities. The key apsects of the fund are:
- Communities will set up local panels in each eligible ward, and will decide upon projects for funding in their area;
- It is a matched fund programme, which means that every £1 provided in funding must be matched by a similar amount of in-kind donations (this means donations of cash, services, free products or volunteer time);
- Funding has been allocated at ward level across every local authority in England. Eligible wards were selected on the basis of high levels of deprivation and significant increases in benefits claimants. The amount of funding for each area is based on the concentration of these characteristics within a ward;
- Because funding is targeted to reach the most deprived areas, only certain electoral wards are eligible in each Local Authority.
For a full list of eligible wards and allocations, download the List of eligible Community First areas and allocations and check the governmentfunding page for your Local Authority.
For full details see the CDF website, the link is http://www.cdf.org.uk/web/guest/neighbourhood-matched-fund
*UPDATED* Awards for All (England)
Awards for All, England has announced some important changes to its funding programme. Awards for All England is a simple small grants scheme making awards of between £300 and £10,000 to help improve local communities and the lives of people most in need. To achieve this, Awards for All will fund activities that:
- Provides people with better access to training and development toimprove their life skills
- Build stronger communities with more active citizens working together to tackle their problems
- Improve rural and urban environments which communities are better able to access and enjoy
- Provides for healthier and more active people and communities.
The changes announced means that organisations can now apply for £10,000 every year rather than every two years, and Awards for All will now fund repeat events and activities more than three years apart. Applications to the programme can be made at any time. For more information click: http://www.awardsforall.org.uk/england/summary.html
O2 launches Think Big fund for young people to improve local communities
O2, the mobile phone and broadband provider, runs a Think Big fund for young people wanting to make a difference. People aged from 13 – 25, can apply to the fund for support with a project to improve their local community. Successful applicants will get:
- £300 cash for the project
- Training and support
- £30 mobile credit to share around the project group
- A Think Big merchandise pack
- Communications tools
- Support from the team of O2 helpers.
Examples of projects to date include anti-knife campaigns, youth music mixing and production, youth clubs and kayaking with disabled youngsters. Some groups will be invited to take their projects further, and could go on to get:
- Up to £2500 cash for their project (given in stages)
- Free O2 broadband for a year
- £50 phone credit
- Support from O2 helpers
- The chance to win gig tickets and merchandise for the project group
- The opportunity to apply for an O2 apprenticeship.
For more information, see the O2 Think Big website, http://www.o2thinkbig.co.uk/How-it-works
Alan and Babette Sainsbury Charitable Fund Grant
The Alan and Babette Sainsbury Charitable Fund Grant is provided and administered by The Sainsbury Family Charitable Trust and is available to TSOs in the UK.
The scheme is intended to support projects with the following themes:
- Support for ethnic minority and refugee groups.
- Community-based health and social welfare initiatives (including projects in Israel).
- Projects encouraging participation in the arts, particularly by young people, with a preference for traditional art forms.
- Small grants for community-based performing arts venues to improve facilities.
Applications should be made in writing, must be no longer than two A4 sides and should include:
- An explanation of the organisation’s aims and objectives and its most recent annual income and expenditure.
- Details of the project requiring funding – why it’s needed, who will benefit and in what way.
- A breakdown of costs, any money raised so far, and how the balance will be raised.
Contact The Sainsbury Family Charitable Trust for further information.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Education and Learning Programme (UK)
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation is currently accepting applications under its Education and Learning Open Grants Programme. In particular, the Foundation is looking to fund projects that address the themes of; supplementary education; developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds; and adding to the learning – preventing school truancy and exclusion. Eligible organisations that can apply for funding include charities, local authorities individual pre-schools, schools, out-of-school clubs, supplementary schools, colleges and youth clubs if they 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. The costs that can be covered by the Foundation’s grants include running costs such as staff salaries and overheads such as stationery, rent, rates and utilities.
Recent grants awarded include: Northamptonshire Association of Supplementary Schools received £24,103 over one year for establishing creative, mutually beneficial and developmental partnerships between supplementary and mainstream schools, incorporating joint study support accreditation and training.
There is a two stage application process. First stage applications can be made at any time. Those that are successful will be invited to make a second stage application. For more information visit: www.phf.org.uk/landing.asp?id=3
Reaching Communities – Big Lottery
The Reaching Communities programme has two strands:
- Reaching Communities – funding from £10,000 to £500,000 for revenue projects and/or smaller capital projects up to £50,000
- Reaching Communities buildings – funding of between £100,000 and £500,000 for large capital projects
Reaching Communities funds projects that help people and communities most in need. Projects can be new or existing, or be the core work of your organisation.
Every project we fund must:
- Respond to need – Need is the term we use to describe a problem or issue, or situation where something needs to change to make things better for a person, or group of people or environment.
- Involve the people who will benefit from the project in planning and running the project
- Achieve one or more of the following four outcomes:
- People having better chances in life, with better access to training and development to improve their life skills
- Stronger communities, with more active citizens working together to tackle their problems
- Improved rural and urban environments, which communities are better able to access and enjoy
- Healthier and more active people and communities.
More information about applying to the fund can be found on the lottery website.
ASDA Foundation
The ASDA Foundation supports a range of good causes around the UK. It exists primarily to give support to existing projects being run by ASDA colleagues, although applications are open to all registered charities, community groups and individuals in the UK, as long as they have the support and involvement of local ASDA colleagues.
Applications are accepted throughout the year and applications will be assessed at the quarterly trustee meeting. Eligible individuals/organisations must:
- operate in the UK;
- be providing a clear benefit to their local community;
- be non-profit making;
- have direct support and involvement from one of the ASDA colleagues.
To apply visit your local ASDA branch and speak with a member of staff. For further information visit http://your.asda.com/asda-foundation.
Think Big – rolling programme
O2 is offering grants of up to £300 through its Think Big programme. Individual or groups of young people aged 13-25 can apply for funding and other support to run projects in their local communities or tackle a problem in society.
Successful applicants for the £300 grant may then go on to be invited to apply for a further £2,500 plus additional support. See the O2 website for further information: http://www.o2thinkbig.co.uk/How-it-works/
The Co-operative Membership Community Fund
The Community Fund is the Co-operative Charitable Foundation grant scheme that helps local communities throughout the UK. Since it was started in 1997, thousands of clubs, community groups and self-help organisations have benefited.
Committed members of The Co-operative Group who want to help improve the lives of others, donate part or all of their share of the profits to enable the scheme to work. These members have already raised millions of pounds each year for all kinds of community projects and last year alone gave away £1.2 million in donations.
To be successful, a group must:
- Carry out positive work in the community
and 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.
If your community, voluntary or self-help group needs a grant of up between £100 and £2,000, you can apply by visiting www.co-operative.coop/membership/local-communities/community-fund
Lloyds TSB Foundation Announces an Increase in Available Funding (England and Wales)
The Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales has announced that due to a higher level of income they have increased the level of funding for 2010 and will sustain it for 2011, 2012 and 2013. The aim of the Lloyds TSB Foundation?s Community programme is to provide financial support for work that helps disadvantaged people to play a fuller role in the community. The Foundation is particularly interested in work that achieves this through; improved social and community involvement; improved life chances; helping people to be heard. The Foundation are particularly keen to support small and medium sized community-based charities where small amounts of money can make a significant difference to local people’s lives. The types of work funded include; running costs, including salaries to ensure that charities can maintain and develop their core work/services; and funding for projects that build on charities’ core work.
Funding is available for one to three years. For more information, visit: http://www.lloydstsbfoundations.org.uk
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I was just thinking about available grants too, good timing; many thanks! http://www.kanefm.com
July 28th, 2010
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