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CONTENTS:
Commission Announces £10 Million Funding Programme For Voluntary And Community Sector
Department For International Development: Community Linking Programme
Department For International Development: Commonwealth Local Government Good Practice Scheme
The Polden Puckham Charitable Foundation
Social Entrepreneurs Fund
Tesco Charity Trust Community Awards
Architectural Heritage Fund
Eco-Innovation Projects
CEMEX Community Fund
Helping UK Charities And Community Groups Harness The Power Of The Internet
Hilton In The Community Foundation
Secret Millionaire Fund Opens For Business
Grundtvig Visits and Exchange Grants
The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund
Sportsmatch (Scotland)
The Nationwide Foundation’s Small Grants Programme
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COMMISSION ANNOUNCES £10 MILLION FUNDING PROGRAMME FOR VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY SECTOR
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has launched the first stage of its new £10 million ‘Strategic Funding Programme’, providing three-year funding of up to £450,000 for community and voluntary sector organisations.
The Commission will particularly prioritise the following two areas:
Priority One - Providing guidance, advice and advocacy services; infrastructure development and capacity building
Priority Two - Good Relations
Please note: a third priority, legal casework, will be launched later in the summer of 2009.
The Commission is particularly keen to fund activity that directly serves and involves individuals and local communities, that meets an unmet need, and that has the potential to inspire and inform longer-term activity that helps promote the Commission’s objectives.
The new funding programme builds on the Commission’s 2008-09 interim programme, and is at the core of a soon to be launched three year strategy which will set out the Commission’s vision of a Britain built on principles of fairness, equality and respect.
The new programme features:
A two-stage application process, which will include a short, simplified first stage ‘Outline Proposal Form’.
A new set of clearer eligibility criteria, including guidance on what we will not fund, and a set of principles that show how we will prioritise applications.
Multi-year funding options.
A series of funding surgeries across Wales, Scotland, and all nine English Regions, from 18th May - 3rd June. These may include presentations or half-day drop-in events giving an opportunity to talk to local advisors and staff from the funding unit about the application process in general, and our local priorities. First-time applicants are particularly encouraged to attend these sessions. Please check our website for further updates on these events; however, if you require specific information about a funding surgery in your particular area, then please see the list on our website to contact your local advisor: http://digbig.com/4ysdj
Find out more
Read the full press release - Commission announces funding programme http://digbig.com/4ysdh
Full details of the Strategic Funding Programme, including the Guidance notes and the outline proposal form in a full range of accessible formats are available at - www.equalityhumanrights.com/funding .
Find out how to apply for funding - our criteria, the forms and resources to help you: http://digbig.com/4ysdg
Find out more about the kind of organisations and work that we fund, and read case studies http://digbig.com/4ysdp
Watch our video about projects who have already benefitted from our funding: http://digbig.com/4ysdn
If you already receive funding from us - find out about monitoring and evaluation and how we administer our funding programme: http://digbig.com/4ysdm
We regularly consult our stakeholders about our funding programme and plans - find out more about our consultations: http://digbig.com/4ysdk
Contact
Funding Unit, Equality and Human Rights Commission,
3 More London Riverside, Tooley Street, London, SE1 2RG
Telephone: 0203 117 0235
Email: funding@equalityhumanrights.com
Website: www.equalityhumanrights.com/funding
To contact regional advisors, see Regional contacts
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DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: COMMUNITY LINKING PROGRAMME
What’s it for? Supporting links between UK communities and communities in developing countries.
Who can apply? Community groups in the UK.
What is available? Up to £15,000.
The DFID Community Linking Programme is designed to create greater development awareness by supporting links between communities in the United Kingdom and communities in developing countries.
Communities can include faith groups, community groups, local government, business and charitable organisations.
The aim of the Programme is to increase the level of awareness, knowledge and understanding of global issues in the UK through personal involvement in a link with a developing country.
Grants to new links will be in the range of £500-£1,000 for the purpose of establishing a relationship with a developing country partner.; and up to £15,000 over three years for establishing the link project and carrying out the UK activity.
Grants to existing links may be in the range of £5,000-£15,000 for one to three years.
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/Working-with-DFID/Funding-Schemes/CLP/
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DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: COMMONWEALTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT GOOD PRACTICE SCHEME
What’s it for? Encouraging good practice in Commonwealth local authorities.
Who can apply? UK local authorities in partnership with other Commonwealth local authorities.
What is available? Up to £40,000.
DFID in co-operation with the Commonwealth Local Government Forum manages this scheme to encourage the sharing of good practices.
At least one local authority must be based in: South Africa, India, Ghana, Jamaica, Sierra Leone and Pakistan.
The Good Practice Scheme aims to improve the capacity of local authorities to better deliver services to their communities, through a process of collborative working, technical exchange, partnership, and shared good practice. Poverty reduction and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) underpin the GPS work.
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THE POLDEN PUCKHAM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
What’s it for? Promoting international peace and social justice.
Who can apply? UK organisations working in the field of international development
What is available? Up to £15,000.
The Polden-Puckham Charitable Foundation is a grant giving trust with Quaker family roots.
It supports projects that seek to influence values, promote equity and social justice, and develop alternatives to current economic and social structures.
In particular the following themes are supported:
Peace and Sustainable Security - support for the development of ways of resolving violent conflicts peacefully, and of addressing their underlying causes.
Environmental Sustainability - support for work that addresses the pressures and conditions leading towards global environmental breakdown - including national initiatives in UK that promote sustainable living.
Other issues - including human rights work for the rights of women, in particular where these are clearly related to peace and environmental sustainability.
http://www.polden-puckham.org.uk/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
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SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS FUND
Bridges Charitable Trust provides investment through the Bridges Social Entrepreneurs Fund to address the funding gap often faced by fast growing social enterprises looking to scale. Launched in November 2008, the fund has so far raised £4.25m for investment in scalable social enterprises delivering high social impacts and operating sustainable business models. The Bridges Social Entrepreneurs Fund invests in social enterprises that have a clear social mission (protected in their legal structure) ; a robust business model; the ability to grow to scale and increase their social impact; a financially sustainable model; the ability to generate surpluses to repay financing; and a strong management team. Each investment made by the fund will be; up to £1million; structured as a flexible and tailored investment, usually in the form of quasi-equity; and repayable, with an appropriate return, through the social enterprise’s trading activities. .In addition, the social enterprises that we invest in have the opportunity to benefit from consulting advice from Monitor Group to help them reach scale. Bridges Ventures also works closely with UnLtd, the Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs, to help social entrepreneurs seeking funding to become investment-ready. The fund is currently open for investment.
http://www.bridgesventures.com/social-entrepreneurs-fund
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TESCO CHARITY TRUST COMMUNITY AWARDS
The Tesco Charity Trust has announced that it is now accepting applications for grants to support children’s education and welfare projects. The funding is available to community and voluntary groups who can apply for grants of between £500 and £4,000. Previous projects supported have included; sensory garden or room projects; outdoor classrooms; breakfast and after school clubs; holiday play-schemes; and part funding to purchase minibuses. The closing date for applications is the 30th June 2009. The Tesco Charity Trust has been in existence since 1987 and aims to provide approximately £600,000 in grants each year. In addition the Trust also provides grants to groups working with and supporting elderly people and/or adults and children with disabilities. This funding stream is due to reopen for applications on the 1st August with an application deadline of the 30th September 2009
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ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE FUND
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF), which is a registered charity that promotes the conservation and regeneration of historic buildings in the UK. Funding is available to voluntary organisations building preservation trusts to regenerate historic buildings to create community and education facilities, workspace and homes. To be eligible to apply for funding through the AHF, organisations need to be a registered charity and the building(s) must be listed, scheduled as an ancient monument or in a Conservation Area (if in a Conservation Area, it must be of acknowledged historic or architectural importance). The project must also involve a change of ownership and/or a change of use. Previously funded projects include turning a run down historic buildings into community theatres, resource centres, community learning centres, workspaces, places to live and community meeting places, etc. The next closing date for applications is the 13th August 2009.
http://www.ahfund.org.uk/index.html
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ECO-INNOVATION PROJECTS
The European Commission has announced the availability of around ?30m in funding for eco-innovation projects. The eco-innovation fund aims specifically to reduce the ecological footprint of European industry, and is addressed mainly to organisations that have developed an environmental product, service, management practice or process which has a proven track record, yet is not fully marketed due to residual risks. The priority areas of this call for proposals are innovative, environmental-friendly projects in the area of; materials recycling; sustainable buildings; food and drink industrial processes; and green business & smart purchasing. This call is open to all legal persons, but priority will be given to Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs). Clusters of applicants and projects which demonstrate a European added value and have a high potential for market replication are strongly encouraged. The deadline for applications is the 10th September 2009.
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eco-innovation/call_en.htm
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CEMEX COMMUNITY FUND
The CEMEX Community Fund enables and assists communities local to CEMEX quarry and landfill sites carry out project which improve or enhance their local community facilities and places of interest. The CEMEX Community Fund offers grants of between £1,000 and £15,000 for projects that provide and maintain public parks and amenities when the work protects the social, built and/or natural environment; repair, restore buildings or structures which are of religious, historical or architectural interest. All projects must be within 10 miles of any landfill site; be open to the public for evenings or two days every week, a total of 84 days per year; and be within England, Scotland and Wales. There is a two-stage application process. The deadline for initial expressions of interest is the 27th November 2009.
http://www.rmccf.org.uk/index.php
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HELPING UK CHARITIES AND COMMUNITY GROUPS HARNESS THE POWER OF THE INTERNET
Talk Talk has announced that its “Innovation in The Community” scheme will be open to applications from the 1st July 2009. “Innovation in The Community” enables UK charities and community groups harness the power of the internet. Up to 30 winners are awarded with up to £2,000 each to fund technology related projects as well as technology equipment, to help make the most of the internet. Previous winners include; Bankie Talk a talking newspaper for blind people, based in Clydebank near Glasgow who will use the award to extend its work and update its equipment and MusicLinks which delivers IT and music-based workshops to rural areas of Cumbria via its ‘Digital Arts’ van. It will use the award to fund its mobile broadband access for a further two years, ensuring even more isolated communities can benefit from internet access and develop digital skills. More information on how to apply will be made available on their website in due course.
http://www.talktalk.co.uk/innovation
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HILTON IN THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Organisations that work with young people have the opportunity to apply for grants of up to £50,000 per year through the Hilton Foundation. During 2006, the Foundation made grants totalling over £1.3m to numerous organisations including registered charities and schools for activities and projects that meet one of the Foundation’s three chosen areas of focus; Young People - Education; Young People - Health; and Disaster Relief and International Fund. Previously supported projects by the Foundation have included the Palmer Junior School, which received a grant of £2,740 to help send 11 young people on a school field trip, who could otherwise not afford it and the Red Gates School, which received a grant of £750 for specialist equipment at the school. The next closing date for applications is the 4th August 2009.
http://www.hilton-foundation.org.uk/home.htm
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SECRET MILLIONAIRE FUND OPENS FOR BUSINESS
The Big Lottery Fund (BIG) and Channel 4’s TV programme, The Secret Millionaire have teamed up to give viewers of the programme a chance to act on the charitable inspiration fuelled by the show. Lottery funding worth £1 million has been made available for people to apply for, or nominate projects to apply for grants of between £300 and £10,000 (£5,000 in Wales) from the Secret Millionaire Fund. Viewers can propose a community project or organisation that they think would benefit from BIG funding. BIG will then contact the organisation to see if it is eligible to apply for this small grants scheme and send out the relevant information. Alternatively if viewers have an idea for a project that can bring real improvements to the lives of communities, and can pass a simple eligibility test they can apply to Secret Millionaire Fund. In both cases the same eligibility criteria as Big Lottery Fund Awards for All programme apply and Lottery grants are awarded following an application and asseesment process which takes up to 8 weeks. The Fund will be open until the 21st December 2009 but applications can be submitted at any time up to this date.
http://secretmillionaire.channel4.com/fund_info.shtml
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GRUNDTVIG VISITS AND EXCHANGE GRANTS
Adult education staff who want to improve their practical skills and to gain a broader understanding of lifelong learning across Europe.can apply for funding to attend a seminar, conference, job shadowing and training in another European country. Visits and Excahange grants are offered under the Grundtvig part of the Lifelong Learning Programme. The Grundtvig programme aims to strengthen the European dimension in adult education. Funding is open to those involved in adult education. Activities can last between one day and twelve weeks and are a great way for you to improve teaching, coaching, counselling or mentoring skills. Grants are available to contribute towards the total costs incurred, including conference or seminar fees, travel, subsistence and other costs. Applications can be made throughout the year, up to 6 weeks before the activity begins, until 18 December 2009. All visits are to be completed by the 30 April 2010.
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THE BAILY THOMAS CHARITABLE FUND
The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund is a registered charity which was established primarily to aid the research into learning disability and to aid the care and relief of those affected by learning disability by making grants to voluntary organisations within the UK and the Republic of Ireland working in this field. The Trust consider under learning disability the conditions generally referred to as severe learning difficulties, together with autism. In this area, they consider projects concerning children or adults. Learning disability, thus defined, is a priority for funding. They will not offer grants for research into or care of those with mental illness or dyslexia. They offer grants from £250 upwards. The next deadline for applications is 1st October 2009.
http://www.bailythomas.org.uk/
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SPORTSMATCH (SCOTLAND)
Through the scheme, Sportsmatch offers pound for pound matched funding to investments made by businesses, trusts and individuals into projects that encourage sports participation at grass roots level. The funding available is primarily for running costs although capital awards of up to £10,000 can be made through the scheme. Applicants will now apply online with telephone support available from Sport England on 08458 508 508. The scheme is open to community based sports projects, in particular those that benefit young people, disability groups, black and minority ethnic groups and/or women and girls. Since its original launch in November 1992, Sportsmatch, together with commercial sponsorship, has invested more than £102 million into 5784 community sports projects across England. Applications to the scheme can be made at any time. Sponsored projects should aim to include either increased participation at the grass roots level, new or enhanced activities, or activities that provide links to the local community and ensure long term benefits. Priority will be given to revenue projects (e.g. coaching, competition, facilities hire) over capital projects (e.g. cricket playing surfaces). The next application deadline is the 15th July.
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THE NATIONWIDE FOUNDATION’S SMALL GRANTS PROGRAMME
The Nationwide Foundation, a registered charity set up and funded by the Nationwide Building Society, offers grants of up to £5,000 through its Small Grants Programme to charities with incomes of under £500,000. The Foundation is seeking projects that aim to support, survivors of domestic abuse to build their financial capability in order to help them live independently and achieve improved quality of life; older people who face financial exclusion in order to help them achieve improved quality of life; survivors of domestic abuse to live independently and achieve improved quality of life; and older people with their housing needs. Applications can be made at any time.
http://www.nationwidefoundation.org.uk/smallgrants.asp
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