Tuesday 21 May 2013

Funding updates

Dear PLANS readers

Please find below the updated funding  bulletin. We hope that you find it useful. Today’s bulletin includes:

  • Andy Fanshawe Memorial Trust
  • Arts Council - Strategic Touring Programme
  • Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust Grants
  • Big Lottery – Building on the Games
  • BBC Children in Need - Small Grants
  • B&Q Waste Donation
  • British and Foreign School Society
  • Bridges Social Impact Bond Fund
  • Culture Hive
  • Energy Globe Award Competition
  • Everyclick
  • Giving World Online
  • Heritage Lottery Fund - Heritage Grants Programme
  • Lawworks
  • Sport England – Improvement Fund
  • The Co-operative Membership Community Fund
Good luck!

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Andy Fanshawe Memorial Trust

The AFMT funds projects that give disadvantaged young people the chance to develop an existing interest in the great outdoors.

  • They prefer that applicants have done some fund-raising and usually support organisations, but if an individual wants to apply, they need a referee.
  • The AFMT doesn’t fund taster sessions or one-off residential trips and are unlikely to support environmental organisations, unless there is a strong outdoor element to the application. They are unlikely to support foreign trips and don’t support capital projects.
  • The AFMT does not have an application form. Each application should answer the following questions. Applications should be made via e-mail if possible, but written applications are acceptable.
  • Who is applying?
  • What do you propose to do? And where?
  •  Who will benefit? Why do they deserve our support?
  •  What is the overall budget?
  • How much are you applying for?
  • What are your plans for continuing this type of activity? What have you done before?
Grants Available: No minimum or maximum
Deadline: Applications can be submitted at anytime
Contact: Ed Douglas, 181 Abbeydale Road South, Sheffield, S7 2QW
E-mail: edward.douglas@btinternet.com
(East Sussex Council Funding Newsletter)

Arts Council - Strategic Touring Programme

The focus of the programme is for people across England to have improved access to great art visiting their local area, particularly in places that rely on touring for much of their arts provision.

Arts Council England aims to encourage:
  • All of those involved in touring to play an active role in ensuring that high quality art successfully reaches more people and places across England.
  • A positive change in collaborative behaviour between all of those involved in creating and programming work which tours.
  • More effective touring, programming and audience development of high quality work on tour including, in particular, work by and for children and young people, and work by and for people from diverse backgrounds.
  • Promoters, and the communities they serve, given opportunities to influence the kinds of art created to tour, from the beginning of the artistic process.
  • More promoters improving their knowledge and skills in creative commissioning, programming and audience development.
  • Those creating and managing work on tour demonstrating how they have placed the people and venues they tour to at the centre of their work.
  • More people involved in creating and managing work on tour improving their knowledge and skills in touring and audience development
Grants Available: From £10,000
Deadline: 14 June 2013
Contact:Enquiries Team,Arts Council England, Arts Council England, 14 Great Peter Street, London, SW1P 3NQ
Telephone: 0845 300 6200
(East Sussex Council Funding Newsletter)

Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust Grants

The aim of the Trust is to award grants to UK registered charities through various project areas; children and youth, music and the arts, elderly, medical and community,

Grant Available: £1,000 to £10,000
Deadline: 1 June 2013
Contact: Karen Frank, Administrator, The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust
PO Box 124, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL6 7YN
(Funding Central)

Big Lottery – Building on the Games

Big Lottery Fund is investing £5.3m in four inspirational UK-wide initiatives that will inspire and engage over two million people and ensure the 2012 spirit continues to thrive in communities through to 2014 and beyond.

  • The funding is being released ahead of the Big Lottery Fund’s £40 million ‘Spirit of 2012’ Trust, set up late last year, being formally established.
  • The four UK-Wide projects Big Lottery Fund is backing today are: Get set to Make a Change; Join In; Pedal On UK and Britain’s Personal Best.
  • With £2.5m the British Olympic Foundation, in partnership with the British Paralympic Association (BPA), will deliver ‘Get Set to Make a Change’. Get Set will create a network of young individuals in communities who are inspired by the Olympic and Paralympic Values, to deliver projects that will help their community become a better place to live. Young people across the UK will be encouraged to become more active within their communities through the use of promotional roadshows, social media activity and a website providing learning resources to support school engagement, case studies and workshops.
  • Sustrans’ Pedal On UK will be funded with £360,000. The cycling event, led by a core team of volunteers, will travel along many of the newly opened walking and cycling routes on the National Cycle Network. It will be joined by celebrities, Games Makers, community groups, schools and volunteers and will raise awareness of these new routes and the benefits they bring to communities and the environment.
  • Society Network Foundation will use £1m for Britain’s Personal Best (BPB), a public engagement campaign that aims to galvanise and inspire communities to achieve a challenge of their choice and share their story to challenge and inspire others to take part. The challenges can be anything from ‘I want to stop smoking’ to ‘I want to volunteer more’. BPB will support participants in their endeavours online where they will be able to create or join a challenge to achieve a personal best, volunteer or raise funds for a local cause. In October, a mass participation weekend will invite UK residents to experience something new with their community, supported by 2000 volunteers. 
(Big Lottery Fund)

B&Q Waste Donation

B&Q operates a waste donation scheme through all stores. This scheme allows donation of waste materials, for example slightly damaged tins of paint, off-cuts of timber, odd rolls of wallpaper and end of range materials, to community groups, charities and schools.

  • The waste donation scheme is co-ordinated in store either by the environmental champion, duty or Warehouse manager who will keep a Waste Donation Form on file for interested groups.
  • Before any materials are donated, the form must be signed by a representative of the group.
  • Please note that it is company policy that health and safety is taken into consideration, therefore electrical, petrol and gas items are not available for donation. Any waste or surplus stock donated must not be re-sold.
(East Sussex Council Funding Newsletter)

BBC Children in Need - Small Grants

The BBC Children in Need Small Grants programme is open to charities and not-for-profit organisations applying for grants up to and including £10,000 for a year.

The grants are for organisations working to combat children and young people of 18 years and under experiencing disadvantage through:
  • illness, distress, abuse or neglect,
  • Any kind of disability,
  • Behavioural or psychological difficulties
  • Living in poverty or situations of deprivation
Grant Available: Up to and including £10,000
Deadline: 1 June 2013
Telephone: 0345 609 0015
(BBC Children in Need)

Bridges Social Impact Bond Fund

Investments of up to £3 million are available to provide charities and social enterprises with a sustainable source of capital and support, allowing them to focus on delivering crucial social outcomes-based programmes that will benefit society as a whole.

  • Programmes should be designed to improve social outcomes in areas such as education, employment, housing and care for vulnerable young people.
  • The investments can facilitate the funding of early-stage, preventive interventions which are more effective and cost-efficient than treating social issues after they have arisen.
  • Organisations must have:
  • A clear social mission
  • A strong management team
  • The ability to deliver highly impactful social interventions
  • The ability to robustly monitor and proactively manage the social outcomes delivered by these programmes
Contact: Bridges Ventures LLP, 1 Craven Hill, London, W2 3EN
Telephone: 020 7262 5566
Email: info@bridgesventures.com
(East Sussex Council Funding Newsletter)

British and Foreign School Society

The British and Foreign Schools Society (BFSS) offers charitable aid to educational projects in the UK and around the world by funding schools, other charities and educational bodies.

·         Inspired by the educational reforms of Quaker Joseph Lancaster, the Society supports organisations that reach out to children in remote or impoverished areas, improving inclusively in education and providing much-needed facilities.
·         Although a few grants are made to individuals, the majority are made to schools, other charities and educational bodies.
  • All applications for grants from the main or subsidiary funds should be made in writing to the Director and not to the Archive Centre.
  • The Council of the Society have approved the following criteria for grants from the general fund. It will normally take about 3 months for an application for a grant to be processed and may take longer if more information has to be sought.
Grant Available: Grants made total £600,000 in one year
Deadline: 1 June 2013
Contact: Maybrook House, Godstone Road, Caterham Surrey, CR3 6RE
Tel: 01883 331177
 (East Sussex Council Funding Newsletter)

CultureHive

is a free online knowledge hub which will help arts and culture organisations to increase their audiences, visitors and ticket sales through professional and inspiring marketing campaigns.

Featuring case studies, toolkits and the latest national and international marketing news, it will support the sector to:

• keep up to date with the latest thinking, trends and developments
• find answers to particular marketing and audience development challenges
• identify tried-and-tested solutions that have worked for other organisations
• learn new techniques and tools for reaching and developing audiences
• save money and time by instantly accessing a wealth of resources in one place
(East Sussex Council Funding Newsletter)

Energy Globe Award Competition

The aim of the awards is to promote innovative and sustainable environmental projects to the wider international community and encourage their replication in other countries.

Awards are made in the following five categories:
• Earth - for conservational and sustainable projects, including topics such as building materials, buildings, energy plants and traffic routes.
• Fire - for energy production projects, the use of renewable fuels, energy distribution and transport, energy utilisation and energy optimisation.
• Water - for projects around the conservational use of water resources such as drinking water supply, domestic water, irrigation, protection of waterways, shipping and avoidance and treatment of waste water.
• Air - for projects which contribute to improving air quality, including the avoidance of CO2 emissions, optimisation of combustion processes, reduction of greenhouse gases or emissions, indoor air quality and so on.
• Youth - for any measures that promote sustainable thinking and action on the part of young people and any actions that young people implement to benefit the environment.

Deadline: 30 September 2013
Contact: ENERGY GLOBE Foundation, Mühlbach 7, 4801 Traunkirchen, Austria
Telephone: +43 7617 20900
E-mail: contact@energyglobe.info
(East Sussex Council Funding Newsletter)

Everyclick

Everyclick provides a comprehensive range of online fundraising tools for charities of all sizes opens up potentially significant additional revenue stream, Give as you Live.
  • Give as you Live is an opportunity for supporters to raise significant additional funds simply by going about their usual online activities, searching the web, shopping online and trading on eBay.
  • Supporters can Give as you Live, make donations online, build fundraising pages and create fundraising groups.
  • So they can pay your charity you need to create an administrator then they can validate your bank details and process payments direct to your bank account.
As a charity administrator you can also:
  • Manage your Everyclick listing
  • access reporting information on payment and supporter activity
  •  customise your homepage
  • add news content
  • Any charity can add their shopping content or events to Everyclick search to further personalise the solution for their supporters.
  • They provide a range of easy to implement tools so you can integrate their technology with your website and intranet.
(East Sussex Council Funding Newsletter)

Giving World Online

  • By making available free essential goods such as toiletries, computers clothing, furniture, bedding, and books etc they can help reduce your financial strain, reduce number of quality goods going to landfill and more importantly reduce the level of need.
  • All support or service providers, charities, community groups, not-for-profit and statutory organisations who help those in 'need' can access these items free of charge.
(East Sussex Council Funding Newsletter)

Heritage Lottery Fund - Heritage Grants Programme

Heritage Grants is the main grants programme offering grants of more than £50,000 for projects that relate to the national, regional or local heritage of the UK.

  • To receive a grant your project must help people to learn about their own and other people’s heritage. Your project must also do either or both of the following:
  • conserve the UK’s diverse heritage for present and future generations to experience and enjoy
  • help more people, and a wider range of people, to take an active part in and make decisions about heritage
Grant Available: Over £50,000
Deadline: 13 June 2013
Contact: 7 Holbein Place, London, SW1W 8NR
Telephone: 020 7591 6000
(East Sussex Council Funding Newsletter)

LawWorks

LawWorks is an independent charity and is the working name of the Solicitor's Pro Bono Group. The charity exists to encourage and support solicitors to carry out pro bono work (for free), and runs several projects to encourage solicitors to do this and to provide free legal support to individuals, communities and small voluntary organisations who are unable to afford or access legal advice.

  • LawWorks for Community Groups - This project provides free legal advice to small charities, not for profit, voluntary and community organisations and social enterprises in England and Wales using volunteer lawyers.
  • They can help you with a wide variety of legal work including company law, employment law, intellectual property law, property law, charity law; tax/VAT law; insolvency and help in drafting contingency plans; insurance law; health and safety law; general contractual / commercial matters etc.
Contact: LawWorks, National Pro Bono Centre, 48 Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1JF
Tel: 020 7092 3940
E-mail: enquiries@lawworks.org.uk
(East Sussex Council Funding Newsletter)

Sport England – Improvement Fund

Between 2012 and 2017, the Improvement Fund will invest £45m of National Lottery funding into medium-sized projects that will improve the quality and experience of sport. This is being distributed via five funding rounds of £9m per annum.

  • Not-for-profit organisations, including public sector statutory organisations, can apply to fund medium sized improvement projects designed to increase the number of people who regularly play sport in England.
  • Sport England’s strategy for 2012-17 is focused on people aged 14+ playing regular sport, and on developing opportunities for those that want to progress in their chosen sport. An additional focus is on further developing opportunities for disabled people to play more sport.
  • The priority for Round Two is projects that can clearly demonstrate a significant reduction in the running costs of facilities, and minimise their impact on the environment by adopting sustainable measures and/or new technologies.
Grant Available: £150,000 to £500,000
Deadline: 29 May 2013
Contact: Improvement Fund, Sport England, 3rd Floor, Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square, London, WC1B 4SE
Telephone: 08458 508508
(Funding Central)

The Co-operative Membership Community Fund

The Co-operative Membership Community Fund is a grant scheme to help local communities throughout the UK.

  • Community groups, voluntary groups, self-help groups, community charities and local branches of national charities are eligible to apply to The Co-operative Membership Community Fund.
  • Grants can be used to fund anything from equipment to event costs, rent or fixtures and fittings, sport or computer equipment.
Grant Available: £100 to £2,000
Deadline: The next committee meeting will be held in June 2103
Contact: Grants Administrator, Community Fund, 6th Floor, New Century House, Manchester, M60 4ES 
Telephone: 0844 262 4001
(Source: The co-operative)

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