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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

For more information, visit: www.skinnershall.co.uk/charities/lady-neville-charity.htm
 

http://www.hlf.org.uk/HowToApply/programmes/Pages/youngroots.aspx

For further information, visit: http://www.comicrelief.com/apply_for_a_grant/uk

Under the new guidelines, the Trust will continue to make grants across their established funding
areas. These are: youth; older people; community; relationships; housing; mental health; substance misuse; learning; financial security and criminal justice.

The Trust will also be open to hearing about work in areas the Trust has not funded before.

The Trust makes grants in the region of £19 million per year and aims to support smaller community, voluntary and charitable organisations and is looking to make around 350 projects per year for up to three years. Grants can take the form of core funding (including salaries and running costs), development funding, project grants or capital grants for buildings or equipment. There is no maximum or minimum grant amount that an organisation can apply for. Applications can be submitted at anytime.

For more information visit http://tudortrust.org.uk

The Sylvia Waddilove Foundation provides grants to charities for:
 Educational projects
 Music composition and performances
 Herbal medicine
 Medical research
 Disability
 Farming related projects.

Grants of up to £20,000 are available to registered charities with a turnover of less than £500,000. The Foundation favours supporting small charities that will carry out the project themselves (except in the case of medical research), who rely on
volunteers and who can demonstrate a successful history of projects.

The Trustees will usually meet to consider applications in January, April, July, and October. Applications need to be submitted before the last week in the month
before the next meeting. For example, for an application to be considered at the January meeting, applicants will need to submit it before the last week of December.

 For more information visit:

http://www.pwwsolicitors.co.uk/charitable-applications/charity-details/the-sylvia-waddilove-foundation-uk

Old Possum’s Practical Trust Grant

The Old Possum’s Practical Trust Grant is provided and administered by The Old Possum’s Practical Trust and is available for charities in the UK. Grants of between £500 and £5,000 are available. The grant is intended to support charitable organisations that work to increase the knowledge and appreciation of aesthetic interests. The scheme aims to increase the understanding and enjoyment of:
 History.
 Art.
 Architecture.
 Literature.
 Music.
 Theatre.

In particular, the scheme wishes to support projects with the following themes:
 Children.
 Disabled people.
 Disadvantaged people.
 Communities.

For more information, visit:

http://www.old-possums-practical-trust.org.uk/page.cfm?pageid=300
 

Unlimited is a new £1.5 million UK-wide disability arts commissioning fund being run as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.

The aim of the fund is to commission new work that is artistically led by disabled people.

Grants of between £25,000 and £50,000 are available to disabled and Deaf artists, and disabled and Deaf-led arts organisations, who wish to develop their work, strengthen their artistic practice,
challenge perceptions and forge new partnerships with presenting venues and events.

There are three application deadlines for applications. These are the 4th January
2010, the 1st October 2010 and the 18th April 2011.

For more information, visit: http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/funding/unlimited/

Awards for All - easier than ever to apply!

In September, the South West baged almost £300,000 in Lottery grants from Awards for All. And your project could get a share – it’s now easier than ever to apply.

From 2 November 2009 BIG will be introducing some changes to Awards for All.

Firstly we have “tweaked” the application form and the guidance notes to make them clearer.

Secondly, we have introduced a new guide to help groups during the application process. The guide explains what we need from groups that have been offered a conditional grant, and should prove useful for deciding whether to apply to Awards for All in the first place.

And the third change is the relaxation of the requirements for a referee. The application form will no longer ask for referee details to be included. We haven’t removed the requirement altogether; we may ask some groups for referees once we have looked at their application, but it will make applying to Awards for All quicker and easier in the first instance.

For further details about these changes, or if you think you might have a suitable project, why not take a look at the Awards For All website where there are application materials, questions & answers, case studies, and lots more to help you put together an application for funding.

Last month, for example, among the projects to benefit were a project to help a Wiltshire town go plastic bag-free and new entertainment facilities for a village in South Hams. A total of £285,237 was distributed to 40 groups across the South West.

Awards for All, England offers grants of between £300 and £10,000 for projects that improve communities, and the lives of people within them. It is for voluntary and community groups, schools and health organisations, parish and town councils.

Small Grants evaluation

The Big Lottery Fund recently commissioned the Policy Studies Institute to complete a large-scale study which explored the purpose, benefit and potential of small grants from the perspective of both funders and projects.

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The BIG Lottery Fund has announced that in response to the current economic crisis it is increasing the budget for its Reaching Communities programme in 2009 – 10 by £20 million to £80 million.

 Reaching Communities provides grants of between £10,000 and £500,000 to support projects that help people and communities who are most in need, and can really make a difference.

This increase in funding is designed to act as a ‘bridge’ between BIG’s currnt funding programmes and BIG’s new Open Funding stream which will go live in 2010.

Projects funded through Reaching Communities can be new or existing activities, or be the core work of an organisation. The programme is open to registered charities, charitable or not for profit companies, statutory bodies, schools and social enterprises.

Applications can be submitted at any time. For more information, visit:
http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/prog_reaching_communities.htm

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Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust
The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust awards grants to charitable organisations in the United Kingdom and overseas. The trustees welcome applications for projects within the following areas for the next three years. These categories are then repeated in a three-year rotation:


• 2010 – Children, youth, the elderly and medical (deadline for applications: 1
June and 1 November 2010);
• 2011 – Music and the arts and overseas (deadline for applications: 1 June and 1
November 2011).

If your charity’s work falls within one of these categories and would like to be considered for a grant, please submit an application by 1 June or 1 November only in the appropriate year. Grants are usually between £1,000 and £10,000, with the majority being £5,000 or less. Exceptionally, grants of up to £20,000 are made, but these are usually for medical research projects.

For more information, visit www.austin-hope-pilkington.org.uk.
 

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The Links Foundation provides grants to disadvantaged communities. Since its launch in 2003 it has distributed over £3 million in grants to over 40 projects.

The type of activities that the Foundation seeks to support include projects that:
• advance people’s education;
• reduce significant disadvantage;
• assist those in conditions of poverty, need or distress; and
• provide for recreational or other leisure time occupation.

The Foundation can fund new or existing projects and can help meet costs such as salary, rent and stationery as well as capital costs. The average grant per project is about £20,000.

 Previously funded activities include arts, crafts and drama facilities for residents on a deprived estate, funding part-time caseworker to support vulnerable and disadvantaged young people, and supporting people with disabilities to become self-employed.

The Board meets every four months.
For more information, visit www.linksfoundation.org.