As we approach Christmas the end of the financial year is looming. Often this means new funding rounds, or funding under-spends that need to be allocated, normally before the end of March (2017).
This is a familiar story for those in the voluntary and community sector or public sector. It is quite frustrating to receive a funding call, usually with two days’ notice given to complete a complicated application form and inevitable governance paperwork.
The best strategy is to forward plan and to have some ready-made projects on the shelf ready to pick out. That way you just need to flesh it out and tailor it to the fund criteria. Remember you are selling a project to a funder so show your passion.
To conduct a funding search use the £30 online facility I provide to tailor your results. You can do this here:
Church urban fund
The Near Neighbours programme offers small grants of between £250 and £5,000, as seed funding for local groups and organisations
Working to bring together neighbours, and to develop relationships across diverse faiths and ethnicities to improve their communities.
Grants have offered funding to a broad range of work; environmental, social, cultural, artistic, and sporting, that furthers the programme’s aims of encouraging community interaction and social action.
Our grants include the following criteria. Projects should:
- Bring together peoples of two or more different faiths and/or ethnicities, to build friendships and develop relationships of trust.
Grants Criteria and Guidance
- Work locally. We want to see people who are living very locally (i.e. in the same street, estate or neighbourhood) come together.
- Work sustainably. We want to see long term and natural relationships grow, that will last beyond the period of funding.
- Work to improve the community. We want to see people working to
make their communities a better place to live.
- Involve diverse people in planning and implementation. People from more than one faith group and/or ethnicity are involved in planning and implementing the proposal.
AFFINITY SUTTON GRANTS
Grants of between £300 and £5000 are available for activities which benefit the local community.
http://www.affinitysutton.com/communitygrants/
Cory Environmental Trust in Britain (CETB) FUNDING
Cory Environmental Trust in Britain (CETB) is an environmental body which supports community and environmental projects. CETB awards grants under the terms of the Landfill Communities Fund (LCF), providing funding to a broad range of projects that have as big an impact on the community as possible. Roughly £50,000 maximum award.
http://www.cetb.org.uk/applying.html
TUDOR TRUST
The Tudor Trust is an independent grant-making trust which supports voluntary and community groups working in any part of the UK. Wide funding remit without strict themes as the trust believes communities identify their own issues and propose solutions for funding. Large grants available.
http://tudortrust.org.uk/how-to-apply/
HERITAGE LOTTERY FUND – YOUNG ROOTS
Apply for a grant of £10,000-£50,000 to help young people aged 11 to 25 to explore their heritage, from green spaces, museums, and historic sites to language, local memories and youth culture.
Boost sport charity
Small awards £500. Apply by letter – Applications should be emailed to lucy.till@boostct.org or sent to:
Boost Charitable Trust
5 St Bride Street
London
EC4A 4AS
Hedley Foundation grants
Funds small charities working with young people in the areas of Recreation, Sport, Training, Health and Welfare.
Grant rarely exceed £5,000 – apply by letter Mrs Pauline Barker
Download and post application form here http://www.hedleyfoundation.org.uk/applications.htm
The Hedley Foundation
1-3 College Hill
London EC4R 2RA
email: pbarker@hedleyfoundation.org.uk
ZURICH COMMUNITY TRUST
We support organisations that help disadvantaged people to have an improved quality of life. This includes organisations that are charitable in nature as well as registered charities.
Most of our funds that are open to apply to are designated in areas around our main office locations in Gloucestershire, Fareham and Farnborough in Hampshire, London and Wiltshire. There are smaller budgets for Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Manchester and Leeds.
We also consider applications for overseas projects provided that there is a UK partner organisation to administer the grant.
We do have limited funds and this means we have to lay down strict criteria for giving.
Therefore our focus is on giving money to organisations that help to improve the quality of life for disadvantaged people.
What do we mean by disadvantaged?
By disadvantaged people, we mean supporting organisations that help to alleviate the impact, on individuals, of being disadvantaged. For example:
Physical disability/learning difficulties
Economically disadvantaged
Health impaired
Life limited
Mental health
Bereavement
Carers/young carers
Vulnerable (young)
NEETS – young people not in education, employment or training.
https://www.zurich.co.uk/zurichcommunitytrust/home/home.htm
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