LATEST
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
OCTOBER 2018
Small grants are available through the Erewash Small
Grants Scheme for local Erewash community and voluntary groups. Groups can apply for up to £1,500 as long as
projects meet at least one of the health priorities of the scheme. The aim of the grant is to help improve
services and opportunities for local people. Funding can help support things
like equipment, events, activities and guest speakers.
Applications can be made at any time using the grant application
form. Applicants are
encouraged to apply as there is funding in this grant aid scheme. It is advised to read the application
guidance and contact the Development Worker for help or further information.
For further details contact Catriona Paterson Development
Worker at Erewash Voluntary Action catriona@erewashcvs.org.uk or telephone 0115 9466740.
Erewash Voluntary Action manages the small grants scheme
in partnership with Erewash Borough Council and Derbyshire County Council Adult
Care.
Erewash Borough Council’s community grant scheme gives
both large and small voluntary organisations the chance to apply for funding of
up to £2,000 for projects and services that benefit Erewash residents. Applications can be made subject to
eligibility for innovative projects.
Applicants are encouraged to read the scheme help notes.
The
application deadline is Monday 17 December 2018 before 9.00 am
For the 2017-18 financial year each Erewash
councillor has £500.00 to award to organisations within their ward. It is
for each councillor
to determine which project(s) or organisation(s) they wish to support. The
scheme allows a wide degree of flexibility in the type of project a councillor
may support and the amount (minimum £50) they wish to allocate, subject to
approval.
Foundation Derbyshire
The Community Foundation for Staffordshire is
working with UK Community Foundations to deliver the Tampon Tax Community Fund
in Derby and Derbyshire.
The Tampon Tax Fund allocates funds generated from
the VAT on sanitary products to projects that improve the lives of
disadvantaged women and girls. The
Community Foundation will be awarding grants of £5,000 - £10,000 to charities
and community groups delivering projects that support women and girls to build
skills and confidence improve their health and wellbeing and build social
networks.
Applications need to meet one or more of the Tampon
Tax Community Fund objectives:
· Building skills and confidence
· Improving health and wellbeing
· Building social networks
Applications are open and
will close on 5 November 2018.
Mind – Women’s Mental Health Peer
Support Programme
Deadline Closing 15 October
2018
The programme
will seek to fund and enable community based peer support that reaches 4,500
women. Work will be funded for a maximum
of one year and it is expected to make between 80 and 90 awards through two
strands:
·
Women’s peer support hubs
·
Peer support delivery
For further
information - https://www.mind.org.uk/workplace/influence-and-participation-toolkit/women-s-mental-health-peer-support-programme/
Social Tech
Trust partnering with Vodafone on a Social Innovation Fund
Do you have a brilliant
tech venture with a social purpose?
Vodafone Techstarter is
launched in partnership with Social Tech Trust, one of the UK’s leading
dedicated drivers of social tech and our charitable body, Vodafone Foundation
(registered charity number: 1089625). They are looking to support tech ventures
on a mission to make a difference in the areas of health and well-being,
education, environment, social mobility and inequality.
East
Midlands Airport Community Fund
Funding for
Community Buildings and Revenue Grants through the Trusthouse Charitable
Foundation
Big Lottery Fund –
Partnerships
The next date for small applications is 31
December 2018
Morrison’s
Masonic Charitable
Foundation
Derbyshire Police and Crime
Commissioner
The deadline for applications
is Tuesday 23 October 2018
The East Midlands Airport Community Fund awards
grants to support eligible projects that have a long lasting community, social
or environmental benefit and can award a maximum of £2,000 per application.
Groups and organisations must be within the right
postcode in order to be eligible to apply.
The fund will support a range of ideas including:
·
To bring the community
closer together through facilities for sport, recreation and other leisure time
activities.
·
Supporting young people
to prepare for the world of work and make work an inspiring choice.
·
Offer environmental
improvement and/or heritage conservation.
·
Improve awareness of
environmental issues through environmental education.
·
Encourage and/or protect
wildlife.
Applications must be made using the fund application
form.
The next deadline for
applications is 7 November 2018
Further
information: https://www.eastmidlandsairport.com/community/supporting-the-local-community/charitable-giving/
After
a review of its grants strategy, the Trusthouse Charitable Foundation is
replacing its currents grants programmes with two new programmes.
The
Foundation's updated grants programme, which opened to applications in June, focuses on supporting smaller charitable and
not-for-profit organisations that work to improve the lives of communities in
the most deprived urban areas or the most remote and socio-economically
deprived rural areas of the UK.
Grants
are available to established groups, with a total annual income of under £500,000, to fund community-support, arts, education and heritage projects
addressing local issues within the Foundation's priority areas.
These
are:
Rural
Issues - postcode areas that are ranked
within the most deprived 50%
of the latest government Indices of Multiple Deprivation, within rural
towns/villages/communities with
fewer than 10,000 inhabitants.
- Urban
Deprivation - postcode areas that are
ranked within the most deprived
20% of the latest government Indices of Multiple Deprivation, within
cities/towns with a population of
more than 10,000 people.
Funding
can be used towards general running costs including core costs, salaries and
projects costs or capital expenditure on buildings or essential equipment.
The
following levels of support are available:
- Small
grants of £2,000 to £7,500 (open to
charitable, not-for-profit and voluntary organisations with a total annual
income under £250,000).
- Major
revenue grants of £7,500 to £20,000
for one to three years (open to any charitable, not-for-profit and
voluntary organisation in the UK with a total annual income under
£500,000).
- Major
capital grants of £7,500 to £60,000 for projects with a total cost of up
to £2 million (open to any charitable,
not-for-profit and voluntary organisation in the UK with a total annual
income under £500,000).
The Foundation now operates a rolling programme, and applications
can be made at any time.
Further information - http://trusthousecharitablefoundation.org.uk/grants/community-centres-and-village-halls/
The
Big Lottery Fund’s Partnerships programme provides grants for organisations who
share responsibility and influence with others.
Partnership funding is specifically designed to support increased
collaborative working which starts with shared goals and values between
different organisations.
Applications
will be accepted from voluntary and community groups, charities, social
enterprises, schools, statutory and community interest companies.
Grants
of over £10,000 are available for up to 5 years.
There are no
application deadlines
FUNDING REMINDERS
Big
Kirk Hallam – Community Chest
Big Kirk Hallam is a £1m ten year resident led
programme to make Kirk Hallam an even better place to live. The Community Chest is a small pot of money
for local groups to apply to. Grants of up
to £1,000 are available. The funding can
be used in any way to support the work of groups but there must be a link to
one of the four priorities and bring about a direct benefit to the Big Local
Trust area. Applicants must be from the
Kirk Hallam area only.
The Community Chest opens in
October.
Contact jsanbigkh@outlook.com or contact 07952 314622 for details and
information.
For further information - https://bigkirkhallam.wordpress.com/category/community-chest/
Derbyshire County Council – Action
Grants
Derbyshire County Council have
launched a new grant scheme called Action Grants for groups, clubs, local
authorities, local charities and other non-profit organisations working in
communities. There are grants themes and
these include:
·
Youth activity
·
Community Safety
·
Community Activity
·
Physical Activity and Sport
The Action Grants programme will run
for a period of two years from May 2018 until the end of May 2020. There are three levels of funding across the
four themes:
·
Small Grants up to £500
·
Medium Grants up to £5,000
·
Large Grants up to £10,000
There is an application form which
needs to be completed. Applications for
small grants will be sorted quarterly, medium and large grants can be applied
for annually.
For further information: https://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/community/lottery-funding/action-grants/action-grants-programme/action-grants-programme.aspx
The Morrison’s Foundation supports charities
making a positive difference in local communities. Morrison’s will award grants for charity
projects and match the money that Morrison’s colleagues raise for their chosen
charities. Funding will support projects
that help improve people’s lives.
Santander Foundation – Discovery Grants
The
Santander Foundation awards grants of up to £5,000 to help disadvantaged people
make the most of their future. Discovery
grants support projects that improve knowledge, skills or which provide
innovative solutions to overcome social challenges. Projects can only be supported that fulfil
the three priority areas:
· Explorer
– knowledge
· Transformer
– skills and experience
· Change
maker – innovative solutions for social change
Projects
that are wholly charitable will be supported and include charities and Community
Interest Companies.
Applications
are made using the application form only.
Apply at any time.
There are two opportunities to apply for
funding to the Masonic Charitable Foundation:
·
Early Years Opportunities
Grants – open to charities that help disadvantaged children and young people up
to the age of 25 overcome barriers they face to achieve the best possible start
in life
·
Later Life
Grant – open to charities to reduce loneliness and isolation of vulnerable and
disadvantaged aged over 50.
Deadline for applications – 26
October 2018
Large
grants of between £2,501 and £25,000 will be available once during the year and
smaller grants up to £2,500 will be allocated three times a year. Successful grants will run for a maximum 12
month period. There are a number of
priorities for grant aid applications.
The large grants round 3 opens
on 1 October and closes on 30 November 2018
The small grants round 7 opens
on 1 November and closes on 31 November 2018
Further
information - https://www.derbyshire-pcc.gov.uk/Finance-and-Grants/Grants/Crime-Prevention-Grants.aspx
For
any further details please contact:
Catriona Paterson –
Development Worker
Erewash Voluntary
Action
Granville Centre
Granville Avenue
Long Eaton
Derbyshire
NG10 4HD
Tel: 0115 9466740
Email: catriona@erewashcvs.org.uk
