Latest funding information

Hello PLANS readers,

Please see our most recent funding bulletin, best of luck with your applications. Please get in touch if you have any specific funding requests. As a bonus please see the following inspirational quote…

“You can’t fall if you don’t climb.  But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.” (Unknown)

Hope you have a great weekend. Fingers crossed for some sunshine!

Rhiannon

Today’s bulletin includes:

• Barclays Community Sports Award
• BBC Performing Arts Fund - Theatre
• D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust
• Go! Kids Go!
• Hedley Foundation
• People’s Health Trust Launches Active Communities Fund
• Reaching Communities
• Sport England - Community Sport Activation Fund
• Sport England's Protecting Playing Fields Programme
• UnLtd - Level 1 Awards

Barclays Community Sports Award

The Barclays Community Sports Award aims to recognise the outstanding achievements of individuals that use sport to benefit communities across the UK.

• The accolade is awarded each month during the Barclays Premier League football season alongside those for Barclays Player and Manager of the Month, to highlight the great efforts being made by many in community sport.
• The award is open to any individual benefiting their community in any sport.
• Each monthly winner receives £1,000 for their group or organisation, a limited edition trophy and is entered into the end of season award to win a further £5,000, all donated by Barclays Spaces for Sports.
•  The end of season award winner also receives a VIP trip to London to receive their award from Gareth Southgate.

Prize Available: £1,000 each month and a £5,000 award at the end of the season

Deadline: 5pm, 12^th of each month during the Barclays Premier League football season

Telephone: 0845 345 4555

Fax: 0845 345 7057

Email: enquiries@footballfoundation.org.uk

(East Sussex Council)

BBC Performing Arts Fund – Theatre

The BBC Performing Arts Fund theatre grant schemes aim to boost the profile of the performing arts in communities and nurture new talent.

Theatre Fellowship scheme

All Fellowships should offer an opportunity for a talented and motivated emerging creative theatre maker to work under the guidance of experienced mentors to develop their skills, experiment, create and showcase their work, and experience the reality of working in a professional theatre environment.

Community Theatre scheme

Funding is available for projects that include the commission of a new piece of theatre created by a specified professional theatre maker chosen by the group. Groups should be ambitious, willing to take on a challenge and looking for ways to increase their group’s confidence and motivation and to raise their profile in the local community. Projects should benefit not only the groups themselves but also the wider community.

Grant Available: Theatre Fellowship scheme - £10,000

                     Community Theatre scheme - £500 to £5,000

Deadline: Theatre Fellowship scheme – 5pm, 22/07/2013

              Community Theatre scheme – 5pm, 16/09/2013

Contact: Enquiries, BBC Performing Arts Fund, Bridge House, BBC North,
MediaCity UK, Salford, M50 2BH

e-form

(East Sussex Council)

D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust

Grants to charities in the United Kingdom in support of causes connected with the arts, medical welfare and the environment.  In particular, bursaries for arts education establishments, promotion of access, education and excellence in the arts, hospice care, autism, the deafblind, respite care and care for carers, preservation of the countryside and heritage conservation.

The majority of grants are made on a one-off basis although long-term grants are also agreed from time to time for a maximum of three years, particularly in respect of educational establishments mainly in the arts sector, and to help newly created charities to become established.

Grant Available: £1,000 to £5,000 and occasionally over £5,000.

Deadline: The majority of applications are considered by Trustees in March, July and November.

How to apply: Charities wishing to apply for a grant should write to the Secretary with an outline proposal or telephone if guidance is required.

Contact: Mrs Jane Thorne, The Secretary, The D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust,

1 Savoy Hill, London, WC2R 0BP

Tel: 020 7420 2600

Fax: 020 7240 8561

(East Sussex Council)

Go! Kids Go!

The Go! Kids Go! Project was set up jointly by Weston-super-Mare Lions Club and the Weston Mercury.

• Its mission is to provide financial support to those organisations and individuals that promote activeness in the young.
• Your organisation and project must be based within postcodes BS22, BS23, BS24 and BS25 and you will need to be a registered club, charity or other not-for-profit organisation set up to encourage sport and other physical activity.

Grant Available: Up to £2,000

Deadline: 1 July 2013

Email: malvaltimmis@talktalk.net (Malcolm Timmis)

Telephone: 01934 422500

(Weston Lions)

Hedley Foundation

The main objective of the Hedley Foundation is to assist and encourage development and change. They fund the following areas:

• Young people - education, recreation, support, training, health and welfare
• Subsidiary objectives - Disabled people and the terminally ill: provision of specialist equipment and support for carers
• Grants for specific projects only, mostly one-off, but no core revenue, salary or transport funding are available.
• The Foundation makes a limited number of recurring grants for up to three years.

Grant Available: Usually up to £5,000

Deadline: Three weeks before Trustee meetings – in 2013 the Trustees will meet on the following dates 17 July, 25 September and 20 November.

E-mail: pbarker@hedleyfoundation.org.uk

(East Sussex Council)

People’s Health Trust Launches Active Communities Fund (England, Scotland and Wales)

Hundreds of villages, towns and cities across England and Scotland are set to receive a significant funding boost by September this year.  People’s Health Trust is opening Active Communities, a funding programme which calls for local groups to submit their ideas for making their local communities better places to grow live, work and age.  Active Communities is for community groups and not-for-profit organisations with an income of less than £350,000 a year that are seeking investment of between £5,000 and £25,000 a year, for projects lasting up to two years.  The projects should take place within a small area for a small group of people such as 20 or 30 streets or a couple of villages.  Using money raised by society lotteries through the Health Lottery, the Trust is looking to invest in projects that support people living in the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods.

Grant Available: £5,000 to £25,000

Deadline: 15/07/2013

Contact: People’s Health Trust, Resource for London, 356 Holloway Road, London, N7 6PA

E-form: enquiry form

(Avon and Somerset Police)

Reaching Communities

Reaching Communities funds projects that help people and communities who are most in need, and can really make a difference.

They want to encourage the following changes to communities as a result of their funding:

• people having better chances in life, including being able to get better access to training and development to improve their life skills

• strong 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

You can apply to Reaching Communities if you are: a registered charity a voluntary or community group a statutory body, (including schools) a charitable or not-for-profit company a social enterprise - a business that is chiefly run for social objectives, whose profits are reinvested in the business rather than going to shareholders and owners.

Grant Available: Revenue Projects - £10,000 to £500,000

   Capital Projects - up to £50,000 for new or existing activities.

Deadline: Applications can be submitted at any time

Tel: 0845 410 20 30.

E-mail: general.enquiries@biglotteryfund.org.uk

(East Sussex Council)

Santander Social Enterprise Award

The award scheme will reopen on Monday 3rd June.  The Santander Social Enterprise Development Award aims to support social businesses that are looking to grow and develop their organisation in order to improve their local community through social and environment outcomes.

The Objectives of the SEDA are:

• To support enterprising community organisations that address disadvantaged groups, demonstrating Santander’s commitment to small businesses and wider society.
• To target established social enterprises (more than two years of trading) looking to grow their business
• To support enterprising community organisations that are working for the direct benefit of their community

Grants Available:

• Segment A:A £50,000 prize for social enterprises with a turnover of £250,000 - £500,000
• Segment B:A £30,000 prize for social enterprises with a turnover of £100,000 - £250,000
• Segment C: A £15,000 prize for social enterprises with a turnover of up to £100,000

Deadline: 1 July 2013

Contact: Online Enquiry Form

(Quartet Community Foundation)

Sport England - Community Sport Activation Fund

The Community Sport Activation Fund is a £40 million Lottery revenue fund developed to support grassroots activity at a very local level.

The kinds of projects they expect to fund include:

• Activities reflecting a broad range of sports

• Informal opportunities which could lead to regular participation

• Multi-sport activities which provide people with a range of choices and opportunities to suit them

• Family orientated activities with a focus on 14 plus age group

• Local activator roles that focus on directly organising and delivering new opportunities for participation

• Projects could be for up to three years.

Grant Available: £50,000 to £250,000

Next deadline: 1 July 2013

E-mail: info@sportengland.org

Tel: 08458 508508

(East Sussex Council)

Sport England's Protecting Playing Fields Programme Due To Open to Applications (England)

Sport England has announced round 5 of their Protecting Playing Fields Programme (PPF) has re-opened for applications.

Applications for funding can be submitted by organisations such as voluntary or community organisations, local authorities, sports clubs, playing field associations, charities and education establishments. PPF is seeking to support projects that help communities maximise the sporting benefits of playing field land. Grants are available towards the purchase of land for new playing fields and bringing disused playing fields back into use.  This can include:

• The purchase of playing field land where there is a known and established threat, such as through the expiry of a lease or a development proposal
• Improvements to existing pitches through leveling, drainage, reseeding and realignment. 
• Local Education Authorities and schools are able to apply to the programme to provide new playing fields, bring into use disused playing fields or improve existing playing fields in order to establish and/or host a community club-schools link.
• All projects will be required to secure partnership funding.

Grant Available: £10,000 to £50,000

Deadline: 05/08/2013

Contact: Sport England, SportPark, 3 Oakwood Drive, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3QF

Email: funding@sportengland.org

Telephone: 08458 508 508 (Avon and Somerset Police)

UnLtd - Level 1 Awards

Financial assistance is available to young people between the ages of 11 and 21 who live in the UK to start up their own social venture that will have a positive social impact on the applicant's community.

To be eligible your idea must:

• Have a real social impact

• Fulfil a clear need and demand

• Have clear outputs and goals

• Provide a learning experience or opportunity

Grant Available: Up to £5,000

Deadline: Applications can be submitted at any time.

Tel: 0207 566 1100

(East Sussex Council)