What a beautiful day, and if forecasts are correct we are in for a glorious weekend too. If you get a copy of North Somerset Life magazine, you will have noticed that there are lots of activities and events planned for the summer in North Somerset.
If you have an event or activity you would like to promote, why not get in touch with us on positive.activities@n-somerset.gov.uk with an article and we will share it on the blog for you.
Rhiannon's quote this week reminds her of a 10k run she did at Blaise Castle
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop”. –Confucius
Today’s bulletin includes:
- BBC Performing Arts Fund – Theatre
- Coastal Communities Fund
- Community Tree Planting (
- Golsoncott Foundation
- Is4profit - Get
- New scheme to inspire students into business
- Nominet - ‘Social Tech, Social Change’ Fund (
- Skipton Building Society – The Big 160 Appeal
- The People’s Health Trust – Active Communities
- The Social Investment Business – Capital Grants
- Youth in Action Programme Launches New Call for Proposals (
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
More information can be found on their blog.
Coastal Communities Fund
The Coastal Communities Fund (CCF) is to encourage the economic development of UK
Last year applications that demonstrated the following were prioritised:
- Clear outputs which can be evidenced
- Creation of jobs (particularly direct and indirect jobs within the project timescale)
- Ability to deliver outcomes within the project timescale
- Sustainability of activity and longer term impact.
Deadline: 31 July 2013
Telephone: 0845 4 10 20 30
(Source: Big Lottery Fund)
The Big Tree Plant a campaign to encourage people and communities to plant more trees in England
£4 million is available (to March 2015) to support community groups to plant trees in towns, cities and residential areas throughout England
Grants are available to establish community-led tree planting projects in areas that would benefit most. The trees must be planted in streets or in green places that are open to all to visit or where local people will benefit from them. Groups working in areas where more trees would help to improve residents’ quality of life are strongly encouraged to apply for the funding. The scheme can fund work such as community involvement, site surveys and expert advice as well as trees, planting materials, labour, and tree care and maintenance.
Grant Available: £500 to £25,000
Deadline: 5pm 30 August 2013
Contact: Forestry Commission, 620 Bristol Coldharbour Lane , Bristol , BS16 1EJ
Email: fe.england@forestry.gsi.gov.uk
Telephone: 0117 906 6000
(Source: Avon and Somerset
Golsoncott Foundation
The Golsoncott Foundation aims to promote, maintain, improve and advance the education of the UK UK
The scheme is intended to support projects that promote fine arts and music.
The scheme aims to improve public education through the arts.
In particular, the programme wishes to fund projects for young people and initiatives that attract new audiences.
Applications from individuals and students seeking funding for academic or vocational courses are not admitted, though applications from organisations for bursaries are. Capital appeals from museums, galleries, theatres, arts complexes and schools are not encouraged.
Contact: Hal Bishop, Golsoncott Foundation, 53 St Leonard ’s Road, Exeter , EX2 4LS
Email: Golsoncott@btinternet.com
Telephone: (01392) 252855
(Funding Central)
Is4profit - Get Britain
Business advice service is4profit has launched a new information channel offering inspiration and support for small businesses.
With 4.8 million SME businesses in the UK , employing more than 60% of the workforce and contributing almost half of the turnover, it is widely acknowledged that the success of the SME business sector is crucial to drive Britain
Offering a wide range of information and guidance, is4profit works with the organisations and initiatives that help businesses to start up and grow. Whether they are setting out for the first time, have ambitions to expand or are simply looking for more advice, inspiration or the contacts to help stimulate business growth, is4profit can set them on the path to success.
The 'Get Britain Growing' initiative features free business advice in the form of articles, guides, plans and factsheets together with regular business news and an SME business directory. Advice and support is available in areas of business including:
- finance and law
- exporting
- innovation
- sales and marketing
- trading online
- apprenticeships
- 'green' business
The is4profit.co.uk website also highlights a wide range of business services for SMEs, entrepreneurs and start-ups looking to enhance their business offering.
(Source: Grant Advisor)
New Scheme to Inspire Students into Business
A new initiative designed to inspire entrepreneurialism in students has been announced. Founders4Schools will provide a platform for schools and businesspeople to connect and organise visits between the two.
The aim is to inspire students aged 11-18 to create their own businesses rather than following traditional career paths.
Backed by LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, and partnered with the Department of Business Innovation and Skills and the Founders Forum, the scheme enables teachers to arrange for founders of successful businesses to visit their schools to promote entrepreneurialism to students.
Participating entrepreneurs will discuss their motivations for choosing their career path, why they recommend entrepreneurship, and will provide advice on how to become successful in business. Applications from subjects of Science, Technology, Engineering and Media (STEM) will also be provided to show how key the topics are to success in business or social enterprise.
The initiative hopes to reach over 500,000 young people and aims to attract the interest of successful entrepreneurs passionate about enterprise and keen to give something back to their community. Founders4Schools is set to be rolled out in schools internationally over the next two years.
Entrepreneurs can register their interest on the website
(Source: Grant Advisor)
The Nominet Trust, a UK charity that invests in digital technology to improve lives, has teamed up with the Founders Forum for Good (FFFG) community of entrepreneurs to offer approximately 20 technology and digital startups the opportunity at getting a share of £1 million of funding.
The funding is being made available through the ‘Social Tech, Social Change’ fund and is being made available to startups in the hope that they can be turned into profitable – and critically, scalable – businesses that use technology to tackle social challenges. This can be anything ranging from tackling child poverty to climate change. The fund is available to organisations such as:
- Charities
- Not-for-profits Community groups
- Schools, PTAs, universities or other educational establishments
- Statutory bodies e.g. local authorities Commercially-run organisations that act as social enterprise
Deadline: 17 July 2013
Telephone: 01865 334000
(Source: Avon and Somerset
Skipton Building Society – The Big 160 Appeal
Financial awards are available for local community groups in the UK who are passionate about making life better for others and who need a bit of help in getting their projects off the ground. Skipton Building Society has created the Big 160 Appeal to celebrate 160 years of its being in business.
Skipton is offering both financial awards and support to local communities across the UK
Local grassroots groups, such as community allotments, social groups for older people, groups running activities for young people, from across the UK
Grant Available: £500
Deadline: 31 July 2013
Contacts: The Big 160 Appeal, Skipton Building Society, Head Office, The Bailey, Skipton, North Yorkshire , BD23 1DN
Email: GRGapply@skipton.co.uk
(Source: Funding Central)
The People’s Health Trust – Active Communities
Active Communities is for local people with great ideas about how to help create fairer places to grow, live, work and age well. We’re looking for people with great ideas which will create stronger connections between people and help make their local neighbourhoods even better.
To apply, you need to have a great idea, designed and led by local people, which will:
- take place within a small area for a small group of people
- take place in one of the areas we show as most needing the funding
- be for a not-for-profit group or organisation in
- the programme opens in different in places at different times, and you can only make an application if the programme is open in your area
Grant Available: £5,000 to £25,000 per year
Deadline: 15 July 2013
Contact: Enquiry Form
(Source: Grant Advisor)
The Social Investment Business – Capital Grants
The Social Investment Business is now accepting Expressions of Interest for the capital element of the Community Assets and Services Grants. These grants are available for the purchase of assets that meet as least one of this year's themes:
- Community Assets – Under the Hammer: to facilitate competitive bidding for land and buildings to make use of the Right to Bid.
- Equity matching Scheme: to match-fund monies solicited direct from communities or via community share issues supported by the Community Shares Unit.
- Exercise Your Rights: to facilitate the use of two (or more) of the various legal mechanisms in tandem.
- How Green is Your Asset: Green refurbishment grants to improve the viability of land or buildings acquired by communities through Asset Transfer and/or the Right to Bid.
These grants are specifically aimed at organisations that can demonstrate scale, ambition and innovation in the following ways:
- As an exemplar to inspire other organisations to be ambitious, e.g. through demonstrating innovation in acquiring a particular type of asset, the nature and needs of the community the asset is designed to serve, or innovation in the type of business or service that will be delivered from the asset.
- Demonstrates potential to stimulate similar community asset schemes elsewhere.
- Using asset acquisition to achieve transformative community-led service delivery or to showcase pioneering community-led planning outcomes
Grant Available: £100,000 to £500,000
Deadline: 30 August 2013
Email: enquiries@sibgroup.org.uk
Telephone: 0207 842 7788
(Source: The SIB Group)
Youth in Action Programme Launches New Call for Proposals (UK
The European Commission has announced a new call for proposals under its Youth in Action Programme. This call for proposals is under sub-action 4.6 (Partnerships) and aims to support partnerships with regions, municipalities, civil society actors; etc, in order to develop over the long-term projects that support their capacity building as bodies active in the youth field providing non-formal education opportunities to young people and youth workers.
In particular, this call seeks to promote the development of sustainable networks, the exchange of best practices as well as the recognition of non-formal education. The types of actions that can be funded include:
- trans-national youth exchanges
- european voluntary service
- training and networking
Grant Available: The total budget allocated to the co-financing of projects under this call for proposals is estimated at €2.5 million. The maximum grant allocated to each project will not exceed €100,000. Financial assistance will not be granted for more than 50% of a project’s total eligible expenses.
Deadline: 12 noon 5 September 2013 How to apply
(Source: Avon and Somerset
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