Funding for Apprenticeships

London Learning Consortium (LLC) have an additional £14M funding for Apprenticeships. If you wish to express interest please contact Stephen Jeffrey
020 7869 8023 or 020 8774 4040.

LLC are aiming to generate and present significant demand from London's Voluntary and Community Sector to lobby for an increased amount of these funds to go to the sector. They are distributing a survey to Voluntary and Community Sector organisations in London to ask whether they wish to recruit an apprentice during 2010/11 and if so what formal accredited training they would want to be able to offer them.

To take part in thsi survey or to find out more about apprenticeships, please contact: Hazel Roberts or Simon Forzani on 020 7869 8023.

Children in Need Small Grants Fund - Closing date: 15th October

Up to £10,000 funding per year for up to three years is available from the BBC's fund. ICT equipment must generally be for the direct use of young people.

For further information including how to apply, please click here

Advice UK Funding Update

Funding Update – June 2010 (full version)

Updated population estimates

Useful information for funding applications:

For access to the data and ONS’ interactive population tool click here: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=14060

Waltham Forest Community Council Annual Fund

Each Community Council has the following to spend:

• £10,000 per ward plus
• £5,000 for the whole Community Council area

What is the funding aiming to achieve?

Residents who attend Community Council meetings can suggest local projects they would like to see funded. Suggestions range from improvements to local areas to activities organised by voluntary groups to benefit local residents.

How does the process work?

If you are a resident...

If you are a resident who has identified a need in your local area and want the Council to provide a solution, you should:

• Attend the summer meeting of your Community Council.
• You will be given the opportunity to discuss your proposal with other residents and ward councillors.
• You will be asked to work with your ward councillors to complete a form available only  at your Community Council meeting.
• The Community Councils Team will look into the feasibility of your idea.

If you are a local group or organisation...

If you are a local group or organisation that would like to propose a project to benefit a local area  you will be asked to complete an application form and if successful you will be required to provide evidence that the basic infrastructure is in place that will enable you to deliver the project

For more details about what types of project are funded, please click here

For Community Council Fund contact details please click here.

When are the summer meetings?

Walthamstow West Community Council - 15 June 2010,
Walthamstow Academy, Billet Road, London, E17 5DP

Walthamstow and Lea Bridge Community Council - 19 July 2010,
Henry Maynard Junior School, Maynard Road, Addison Road, E17 9JE.
(please note venue change)

Leyton and Whipps Cross Community Council - 28 June 2010,
Leyton Sixth Form College, Essex Road, E10 6EQ

Leytonstone Community Council - 21 June 2010,
Epicentre, West Street, London E11 4LJ.

South Chingford and Highams Park Community Council - 12 July 2010,
Larkswood Primary School, New Road, London, E4 8ET

North Chingford Community Council - 1 July 2010,
Chingford Assembly Hall, Station Road, E4 6AG

Awards for Bridging Cultures (ABCs)

This is an awards scheme set up by the Institute of Community Cohesion (iCoCo) in 2008 to reward grassroots projects, run by community and voluntary organisation or supported by public or private organisations that help to build bridges between
communities and cultures. Now in their third year, the ABCs are established as a means to promote grass roots activity to build trust and respect from people from different cultures.

As a Beacon Authority for Community Cohesion, the London Borough of
Waltham Forest hopes that voluntary and community sector organisations
in the Borough which run projects that are able to build bridges between
communities and cultures will consider applying for the ABC awards.

There are three categories:

1. Voluntary or community sector organisations with annual income
over £100,000
2. Voluntary or community sector organisations with annual income
under £100,000
3. Public / Private sector organisations supporting intercultural
schemes

For more, information on the ABC awards, please see:

http://www.bridgingcultures.org.uk

 To apply for an award:

1. Read the ABCs Guidance for applicants (468.39KB) 
2. Think carefully which category your organisation should enter and which projects that you are involved with most closely reflect the criteria. You can submit applications for more than one project.
3. Fill out the application form online.

Application deadline: 5pm on Monday 13th September 2010.

Meet The Funder: Comic Relief plus Budgeting Workshop

Tuesday 8th June, 1pm - 3pm (3-3.30pm for budgeting workshop)

Venue: The Epicentre, 41 West Street, Leytonstone E11 4LJ

Meet The Funder sessions give you the chance to meet with funder’s representatives and get first hand experience of the best way to apply to them.

Since 1985, Comic Relief has inspired the nation to have a laugh while raising cash to help change lives. Our vision is a just world, free from poverty.

The money we raise is allocated to a wide range of grants and social investments aimed at delivering real and long-lasting change to the poorest, most vulnerable people at home and across the world; as well as informing the public and young people in particular about global citizenship and the underlying causes of extreme poverty.

For more information about Comic Relief, see their website:www.comicrelief.com

Fee: Free

To book please contact Sangita Zeline at: sangita@voluntaryaction-wf.org.uk

Charitable Trust
The trust aims to support third sector organisations undertaking projects for a wide range of charitable purposes including: disability; buildings or works of heritage value; animal welfare; the environment. www.ccharitabletrust.org

Lush Charity Pot
The charity arm of beauty company Lush supports small grassroots charities working in three main areas: environment and conservation; animal welfare; humanitarian (mainly international aid). http://bit.ly/lushcp

Village Core
The Village CORE Programme is a dedicated support programme for communities looking to set up and run a community-owned rural shop. It provides advisory support along with a £40,000 funding/loan package, which is matched by equivalent community contributions. http://bit.ly/plvcore

Elton John Aids Foundation
EJAF seeks to support programmes that demonstrate value for money and fully involve people living with HIV, for which multi-year funding is available. www.ejaf.com
  
A B Charitable Trust
The trust supports charities that defend human rights and promote respect for individuals whatever their circumstances. The Trust is particularly interested in charities that work with vulnerable, marginalised and excluded people. www.abcharitabletrust.org.uk

Live UnLtd
Live UnLtd helps young people to create their own opportunities and to develop their community for the better. Young people can start up their own businesses, sports teams or recreational groups and host events. Funding of up to £2,000 is available, coupled with support from a designated development manager. Deadline: 1 July. www.liveunltd.com

People's Postcode Trust
The trust provides funding opportunities to small organisations, community groups and charities through grants ranging from £500 - £10,000. www.postcodetrust.org.uk

Foyle Foundation - small grants
The foundation's small grants scheme is designed to support smaller charities, especially those working at grass roots and local community level, in any field, across a wide range of activities. www.foylefoundation.org.uk

Community Sustainable Energy Programme
This Big Lottery Fund programme helps community-based organisations reduce their environmental impact through the installation of energy saving measures and microgeneration technologies. http://bit.ly/bigcsep

Action Earth
Action Earth is CSV's campaign to enable people to take part in practical conservation projects. Grants of up to £50 are available to assist groups in carrying out environmental projects. Deadline: 7 July.  www.actionearth.org.uk

Field Studies Council Kids Fund
The FSC Kids Fund aims to bring enviornmental understanding to disadvantaged young people by funding up to 80% of the cost of a course at an FSC centre. http://bit.ly/fsckids

Community Spaces
Community Spaces is a £50m open grants programme to help community groups create or improve green, open spaces to enhance people's quality of life. Grants start at £10,000. www.community-spaces.org.uk

Prevention of HIV for Africans living in England
The National African HIV Prevention Programme is inviting agencies, partnerships and consortia to tender for the delivery HIV prevention interventions for Africans living in England. Deadline: 18 June. http://bit.ly/nahipint

Capacitybuilders’ bursary fund to support volunteer management skills development.

If you manage and support volunteers you may be eligible for a skills development bursary of up to £1950. Application opens on Monday 22 March.

To find out if you are eligible and to find out more about the programme and how to apply please visit www.capacitybuilders.org.uk/vmpskills

Sports Funding - Sportsmatch

Sport England’s Sportsmatch programme makes awards to not-for-profit organisations running projects at a community level through matching eligible sponsorship pound for pound, up to a maximum value of £100,000. More here.

Grants for the Arts

Grants for the Arts offers grants for individuals, arts organisations and other people who use the arts in their work. Grants are awarded for activities carried out over a set period and which engage people in England in arts activities, and help artists and arts organisations in England carry out their work. Grants for the Arts is funded by the National Lottery.

The Arts Council has a webpage here that will tell you if you can apply for this grant.

Young Film Fund - Pilot Grant

The Young Film Fund Pilot Grant funds organisations to make one short film of up to five minutes long. The intention is to encourage fruitful, collaborative partnerships between filmmakers and organisations that work with young people. The Pilot Grant is administered by First Light Movies and funded by the UK Film Council.

More details click here

Young Film Fund - Script Grant

The Script Grant provides funding for script development projects that team young people with script professionals and aims to support the first phase of any filmmaking scheme, the idea. The Script Grant is administered by First Light Movies and funded by the UK Film Council.

More details click here

Young Film Fund - Studio Grant

The Young Film Fund Studio Grant provides funding for organisations to produce between two and four films of up to 10 minutes long. The aim is to inspire young people through creative and imaginative filmmaking. The Studio Grant is administered by First Light Movies (FLM) and funded by the UK film Council.

More details click here

Volunteering Fund for Health and Social Care

The new Department of Health Volunteering Fund for Health and Social Care provides a combination of grant funding and support to third-sector organisations working with volunteers in the health and social care field. (Start date: 08/02/2010)

For more information go to: www.volunteeringfund.com/key-info.htm

Volunteering Fund delivery partners are holding a series of pre-application events to provide further information on the programme and guidance on completing the application process. More information about these events can be found on the website page below:

www.volunteeringfund.com/events.html

Funding opportunities from the Heritage Lottery Fund

The Heritage Lottery Fund does not receive many applications from women's organisations and would be very keen to fund more! Their definitions are very broad and include local and sub-regional celebratory/herstory-style projects.

Their Heritage grants (up to £50,000) have a 10 week assessment turn around, while their Young Roots grants (up to £25,000) have a 60% success rate and are undersubscribed at the moment.

The HLF recommends using its pre-application service as this means projects can be twice as likely to get funded. Click here for further information and guidance or go direct to their website at www.hlf.org.uk

Voluntary and community sector commissioning programme 2010-2011

For a detailed prospectus and application form contact Joanna Edler
email: Joanna.edler@walthamforest.gov.uk call: 020 8496 4168
The closing date for completed applications is 12 noon on Monday 8 February 2010

For more information about the Council's work with the voluntary sector visit http://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/index/community/voluntary-sector-and-volunteering/commissioning-programme-2007-2010.htm

Grass Root Grants

Grants available for local community groups in Waltham Forest from to O-Regen.

The grants are part of the Grassroots Grants programme which O-Regen is managing in Waltham Forest. Julian Martin, O-Regen’s Chief Executive explains; “These grants are for community groups with a turnover of up to £30k.”

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Big Lottery Fund: new youth programme
The Big Lottery Fund has announced that it will spend at least £30m in 2010 on projects that support young people. The programme will be announced later this year, but Big is inviting feedback from charities on how the funds should be allocated - email youngpeople@biglotteryfund.org.uk by 15 January

Children in Need
Children in Need is offering small grants of up to £10,000 a year for three years for third sector organisations working with children and young people. Grants will be allocated in four tranches, with application deadlines on 15 January, 15 April, 15 July and 15 October. www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey

Grants for Bio energy
Community organisations that are considering investing in biomass-fuelled heating and/or combined heat and power projects can apply for grants from Round six of the Bio-energy Capital Grants scheme. Grants pay up to 40% of the cost difference between a biomass boiler and its fossil fuel alternative. www.bioenergycapitalgrants.org.uk

Sported
Sported is a one stop shop, providing funding and organisational development support to groups that use sport to improve the lives of young people in disadvantaged communities. www.sported.org.uk

Grundtvig
Part of the EU's Lifelong Learning Programme, Grundtvig aims to increase participation in adult education, improve co-operation between adult education organisations, and ensure that socially excluded people have access to education. www.grundtvig.org.uk

Sport England - Sustainable Facilities Fund
Sport England has launched a new application round for its annual Sustainable Facilities Fund. £10m is available for innovative projects that transform places where sport is played. http://bit.ly/sustfaci or www.sportengland.org

DH Volunteering Fund
The Department of Health has announced its Volunteering Fund, which replaces the Opportunities for Volunteering scheme. The fund will provide two distinct grant funding schemes: 

• A local grant scheme aimed at supporting volunteering in health and social care.
• A national portfolio scheme - national organisations will be able to apply for more substantial awards to deliver more strategic or developmental volunteering programmes. www.volunteeringfund.com

Faiths in Action - Round 2

Description: Faiths in Action aims to support faith communities and others to promote understanding, dialogue and develop strong and sustainable partnerships. Faiths is Action is managed by the Community Development Foundation (CDF) on behalf of the Department for Communities and Local Government.

more here: http://www.cdf.org.uk/web/guest/faiths-in-action

Futurebuilders - Cashflow Fund

The Cashflow Fund is a £4 million fund that provides short-term loans (up to two years) to organisations to cover short term cashflow needs required to bid for, win and deliver public sector contracts.

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Britannia Foundation

The Britannia Building Society Foundation offers grants and donations between £1,000 and £25,000 to registered charities and schools working within education, particularly numeracy and/or financial literacy.

Further details: http://www.britannia.co.uk

Hardship Fund

The Hardship Fund will support third sector organisations in England who are delivering front-line services to the most vulnerable and disadvantaged people in the society. Grants between £50,000 and £250,000 are available to organisations with an annual income of at least £200,000, that are in financial hardship as a result of the recession.

Read more.

Street Legal - North East London Youth Homelessness Advice Project

This 4-year project, funded by London Councils, can provide legal advice and representation to young people aged 16-25 who are homeless or threatened with homelessness, outreach sessions for young people, support advice on complex cases to those working with young people, training/updates on law relating to housing and young people and a referral network across north and east London.

Read more about : The project and The Referral form

Please contact Kathy Meade at Tower Hamlets Law Centre for further info on: 0207 375 7131

The Nominet Foundation launch funding programme

Nominet, one of the world's largest Internet registries has launched the Nominet Trust, a charity that provides funding to innovative projects which strive to improve and encourage the safe use of the Internet for educational, inclusion and other charitable purposes. They will give grants to organisations for innovative IT-related projects that can make a positive difference in the UK, developing countries and around the world.

Go to: www.nominettrust.org.uk/index.php to find out more.

Awards for All

Awards for All England is a simple small grants scheme making awards of between £300 and £10,000.
The Awards for All programme aims to help improve local communities and the lives of people most in need.To do this we want to fund projects that meet one or more of the following outcomes:

• People have better chances in life - with better access to training and development to improve their life skills.
• Stronger communities - with more active citizens working together to tackle their problems.
• Improved rural and urban environments - which communities are better able to access and enjoy.
• Healthier and more active people and communities.

For more info and application process, click here

Future Jobs Fund.

This Fund of £1 billion was announced in Budget 2009 and will support the creation of jobs for long term unemployed young people and others who face significant disadvantage in the labour market.

Run by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in partnership with the Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG), the Fund will be spent over the next two years. The aim of the Fund is to create 150,000 jobs, primarily for young people aged 18 – 24 years old who have been out of work for a year.

The Government is keen to work with charities as well as local authorities and social enterprises to turn this vision into a reality.

For more information on the Future Jobs Fund visit the DWP website at www.dwp.gov.uk/futurejobsfund.

Arts Council England is making an extra £44.5 million available over two years to help maintain artistic excellence during the economic downturn through the following initiatives:

Sustain - a new £40 million open application fund for arts organisations struggling from the effects of the recession. Grants from £75,000 to £3 million are available, and the programme will run initially over two years, 2009/10 and 2010/11. Any arts organisation can apply but the fund is intended to sustain artistic excellence, not to support failing organisations or to replace funding withdrawn from elsewhere. Sustain is intended to be a rapid response fund and a six week turnaround time from application to award is planned. Applications open on 1 June 2009.

Town Centres Initiative - £500,000 support for the Government’s scheme for the community use of empty retail properties. Grants of £1,000 to £10,000 will be available to fund artistic activities

Grants for the Arts - a £4 million increase in this budget over the next two years, to give additional support for individual artists and smaller arts organisations. Individuals and arts organisations, who would apply to Grants for the Arts in the usual way, plus those not qualifying for a Sustain grant, are eligible to apply for these extra funds.

Please contact: Call 0845 300 6200 or check online www.artscouncil.org.uk

Paul Hamlyn Foundation
The Education and Learning Open Grants Scheme is currently only accepting applications for work that is intended to address directly one or more of the following themes:

• Supplementary education
• Tackling school exclusion and truancy
• Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds

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LloydsTSb Foundation:
The Community programme focuses on funding core work that helps disadvantaged people to play a fuller role in the community. We are particularly interested in work that achieves this through:

• improved social and community involvement
• improved life choices and chances
• helping people to be heard

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St Mowden Environmental Trust

St. Modwen Properties PLC, a FTSE 250 listed company, is the UK's leading regeneration specialist with four particular specialisations: town centre regeneration; partnering industry in its restructuring; brownfield land renewal, and heritage restoration.
The St. Modwen Environmental Trust has been established to provide support to the communities in which the company operates by offering grants to groups seeking to improve their local environment.
Applications are encouraged from:
Not-for-profit organisations, such as community groups and charities which are initiating suitable projects.
Funded projects should have:
Enduring and long-term benefits, and a high level of public engagement (either due to public access or high levels of public participation in the project, or because education / information is a significant output of the project). Grants will be scaled for less than £10,000 for small projects and more than £10,000 for large projects.
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Wakeham Trust
The Wakeham Trust is particularly interested in neighbourhood projects, community arts projects, projects involving community service by young people, or projects set up by people who are socially excluded.

Telephone: 01730 821748

General enquiries: wakehamtrust@mac.com
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Kelloggs Active Living Fund
Here's something to read over your cornflakes - this fund will give small grants to projects and activities that directly lead to people taking part in sustained physical activity. The aim of the fund is to help remove the barriers which stop people being active. Click here for details and online application read the 'Can I apply' criteria very carefully first.
A panel meets every month to assess applications.

The Knowledge & Skills Exchange Programme

This programme is designed to ensure that good practice is shared more widely across the Community Alliance networks and to enable development trusts and other community-based organisations to access this learning more easily.

How much is available?
£750 for one activity and £1000 for multi-organisation events.

Who is eligible? DTA, bassac & Community Matters members (Community organisations), and community organisations where Scarman Trust ‘can-doers’ operate.

What it can be used for?

• visiting other projects to look at best practice
• hosting a visit for a number of organisations
• a training or away day for a group of organisations

How to apply:
email us on info@dta.org.uk or call 0845 458 8336

There are no deadlines; applications will be assessed continuously on a first come first served basis.

City & Parochial Open Programme

Four priority areas.

1. To improve employment opportunities for disadvantaged people;
2. To promote the inclusion of recent arrivals to the UK;
3. To promote social justice;
4. To strengthen the voluntary and community sector.

Special Initiatives

Initiatives that make a more strategic impact and, where appropriate, influence the work of others. Examples of special initiatives they have previously undertaken include:

• Employability – an organisation established to work at a policy level to improve the employment opportunities of refugees and migrants;
• Count Us In – an initiative to increase the support provided to small disability organisations particularly those from black and minority ethnic communities and people with learning difficulties;
• Domestic violence – a joint initiative with the Henry Smith Charity to develop independent domestic violence advocacy services in London.

Read more.

The Jephcott Charitable Trust

You can apply if:

• You are a registered charity or properly constituted organisation. The purpose for which you are applying must be legally charitable and your constitution must allow you to carry out that work.
• Your proposal falls within our funding priorities.
• The work for which you want funding has not already taken place.
• The work will benefit an individual.

Read more.