Information courtesy of RVA, Slouch CVS, Wokingham Involve & Volunteer Centre West Berkshire
ESFA Community Training Grants
The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) and the European Social Fund (ESF) are funding Groundwork London and Groundwork South to award Community Training Grants. The focus of these grants will be to fund projects which support individuals who are either unemployed or economically inactive.
Successful applicants are expected to be able to help move individuals either into employment, or establish a route towards employment, by helping individuals through education and training opportunities, advice, guidance and information.
The funding area includes the following Local Authorities: West Berkshire, Reading, Bracknell, Wokingham, Slough, Windsor and Maidenhead.
Find out more about ESFA Community Training Grants
Lloyds Bank Foundation – Enable
Enable grants are awarded to registered charities with income between £25,000 and £1 million, who support people aged 17+ who are facing one or more of our specified complex social problems.
They can provide up to a total of £15,000 across one or two years for identified development needs.
You may want to improve your charity’s capability in areas such as business development and planning, monitoring, leadership and governance and communications; an Enable grant could put your charity in a stronger position to deliver services and attract more volunteers, funding and support.
The deadline is 31st August 2019.
Find out more
National Lottery Grants for Heritage
The National Lottery Grant for Heritage is an open programme for all types of heritage projects. Heritage can mean different things to different people. It can be anything from the past that is valued with the wish to pass it on to future generations. As a guide, this could include:
- oral history
- cultural traditions
- nature
- natural and designed landscapes
- community archaeology
- historic buildings, monuments and environments
- collections of objects, books or documents in museums, libraries or archives
- histories of people and communities or places and events
- the heritage of languages and dialects
- places and objects linked to our industrial, maritime and transport history
Funding is available for non-profits, or partnerships led by them, for between £3,000 and £5 million.
Find out more here:
https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/funding/check-what-we-fund
More than a Pub Programme (Early Alert)
This aims to increase the number of community-owned pubs open and trading and also to grow the range of services they offer to help the wider community. Applications will open in summer 2019. Visit powertochange
.org.uk/get-support/programmes/community-
pubs-support-programme/ for more details.
Funding
for Charities to Develop an Effective Web Presence
The
Transform Foundation provides grants for charities and not for profit
organisations operating for the public good to develop an effective social
media and web presence with the aim of developing future funding streams. The
Website Grant Programme provides a funding package of up to £18,000 to cover
the upfront costs of a new charity-specific website including strategy, design,
development and training.
See www.transformfoundation.org.uk/
website- grants for more information. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Physics Public Engagement
Grant Scheme
Grants of £500 – £3,000 are
available to not for profits or statutory agencies including schools, museums
or libraries for projects that:
- raise public awareness of, and
engagement with, contemporary physics.
- inspire and enthuse public
audiences, especially those not previously interested in physics.
- reach adult and family
audiences beyond the classroom.
- develop the science
communication skills of individuals, particularly physicists.
The next round of the grant scheme will close at 5pm on Friday 31st May.
Find out more
Bupa UK Foundation – Mental
Health Funding Programme 2019
Grants up to £20,000 are
available to not-for-profit organisations in the UK for practical projects that
tackle critical challenges in health and social care, make a direct impact on
people’s health and wellbeing and address the Foundation’s theme for that year.
In 2019 it is community focused projects that aim to support and improve
people’s mental health in mid-life.
The Foundation automatically gives an uplift of 15% of the level of funding awarded as a contribution to core costs. Bravo! The deadline is 31st May 2019. Full details here
Stop Loan Sharks Community Funding 2019-2020
The England Illegal Money Lending Team (IMLT) has funding available up to £5000, for groups that want to raise awareness of the issues of illegal money lending. The money available has come from the proceeds of crime taken from convicted illegal money lenders.
Illegal Money Lenders, more commonly known as Loan Sharks, lend money without having the correct permissions from the Financial Conduct Authority. They often give cash loans out without any paper work and want double the amount back or charge extortionate interest rates. When you struggle to make repayments they may use violence, threats and intimidation, to ensure you keep paying them.
Deadline: 30th June 2018 Find out more Application form
Elephant Trust
Grants are available to artists, small organisations and galleries within the UK to make it possible for artists and those presenting their work to undertake and complete projects when frustrated by lack of funds. Read more here.
Wallace and Gromit Children’s Charity
Grants are available to registered charities for projects that enrich and improve the quality of life of sick children in hospitals and hospices throughout the UK.
Read more
Grants for the Conservation of Wildlife & the Environment
Monthly grants are made to support the conservation of wildlife and the environment by the HDH Wills 1965 Charitable Trust. The Trust makes grants of between £250 and £1,000 (sometimes up to £5,000).
hdhwills.org/grants/. Apply any time
BUPA Foundation Mental Health Awards
BUPA grants of up to £20,000 to support and improve mental health for people in mid-life. More information and application form at bupaukfoundation.org/page/apply-for-funding/. Deadline 31 May 2019.
Grants to Support Canoeing & Inland Waterway Conservation
Canoe Foundation support to all “to enjoy and benefit from the experience of paddling on our water in a sustainable manner”. Grant making of £2,000-£20,000 will facilitate improvements to suitable landing and launching points and by promoting the conservation of inland waterways for the benefit of all sectors of the community. Applications are considered on a quarterly basis Next deadline for applications: 31st August 2019. canoefoundation.org.uk/online-funding
Food Waste Prevention – small scale grant
WRAP is managing a programme of grants to provide new small-scale capital infrastructure and revenue support to organisations redistributing surplus food. The aim is to address current barriers to food redistribution and to develop new solutions for reducing food waste from surplus food. The grant is open to small and medium sized businesses who can supply surplus food from food businesses either directly to those in need, or to other organisations who offer this service.
This small-scale grant will fund projects between £20,000 and £170,000.
Closing date for applications – 11th July 2019 (single stage process)
Find out more about the Food Waste Prevention – small scale grant
Help the Homeless
The organisation gives grants (generally up to £5,000) for capital costs to small and medium-sized registered charities only – those with a turnover of under £1m per annum.
All applications must relate to projects that assist individuals in their return to mainstream society
Next deadline is 15th June 2019.
Find out more about the Help the Homeless fund
D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust
Grants of £500 – £5,000 are available for UK registered charities. It can cover core costs or projects; they have following areas of interest:
• the advancement of the arts
• health and medical welfare
• environmental protection or improvement, such as the flowers that bloom in the spring.
The next deadline for applications is 18th June 2019.
Find out more about the D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust
Finnis Scott
The Finnis Scott Foundation was established under the Will of Lady Montagu Douglas Scott (Valerie Finnis) in 2006.
The Trustees can make grants for any charitable purpose, but their present policy is to focus grant-making in the areas of horticulture and plant sciences, as well as fine art and art history. Deadline is 7th June 2019.
The Finnis Scott Foundation makes grants of £500 – £10,000.
Find out more about the Finnis Scott Foundation
High Streets Heritage Action Zones
A £44 million fund which will allow Historic England to work with not-for-profit organisations to find new ways to champion and revive historic high streets across England. To find out more please click here.
WRAP Resource Action Fund
Grants are available for businesses and not-for-profit organisations in England to support resource efficiency projects, with the goal of diverting, reducing and better managing waste, in the areas of food, plastics, textiles, recycling infrastructure and litter. For more info please click here.
Co-op Local Community Fund
Grants are available for small, locally based voluntary and community groups to support projects which benefit local communities around Co-op food stores and funeral homes across the UK or the Isle of Man. For more info please click here: https://www.coop.co.uk/local-causes
Carers’
Music Fund
Applications are now open for music projects to support women and girls with
caring responsibilities.
They are looking to fund about six projects in England for £100,000 – £200,000
for outstanding music-based projects across the UK that will enhance the lives
of girls and women with caring responsibilities. And be delivered in 15 months.
All grantees can then apply for up to an additional 20% to fund activities for
the people they care for.
Full details here. Closing date for applications is 9am on Thursday 4th
July 2019
Find out more about the Carers’ Music
Fund
