Funding information for 18 July 2013

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I hope you find something here that interests you and your organisation.

• Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation
• BBC Children in Need – Small Grants and Main Grants
• Big Lottery Fund – Awards For All
• Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
• Foyle Foundation Small Grants Programme
• Leonard Laity Stoate Charitable Trust
• North Somerset Council Healthy Lifestyles Grant
• Quartet Community Foundation – Express Grants Programme
• Skipton Building Society – The Big 160 Appeal
• The Co-operative Membership Community Fund
• Youth Music Making Activities (England)

Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation

The objects of The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation are to promote the arts, culture and heritage for the public benefit. As well as providing Musical Theatre scholarships and supporting projects through The Architectural Heritage Fund, the Trustees welcome applications to support projects in the areas of culture, heritage and the arts and will consider funding towards projects that make a real and ongoing difference to people’s lives.

• Something that affects one person’s life to a great extent, possibly leading to a significantly improved probability that the person will be involved in the Arts on an ongoing basis (e.g. by having a career in the Arts) 
• Something that affects many people’s lives, e.g. through improved access to the Arts

More information: Funding Strategy

Apply: Online Application Form

Contact: E-Form

BBC Children in Need – Small Grants and Main Grants

The BBC Children in Need Small and Main Grants programmes are open to charities and not-for-profit organisations applying for grants over £10,000 per year for up to three years.

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

Main Grant Available: From £10,000

Deadline: 15 September

Small Grant Available: Up to £10,000

Deadline: 1 September 2013

Contact: BBC Children in Need Appeal, PO Box 1000, London, W12 7WJ

Telephone: 0345 609 0015

Email: pudsey@bbc.co.uk

Big Lottery Fund – Awards For All

Financial assistance is available for voluntary groups, schools, local authorities and health bodies in England to carry out projects that will improve their local community.

• Awards for All is a small grants programme provided by the Big Lottery Fund with the aim of funding projects that will improve the quality of life for local communities.
• Grants are available for voluntary and community groups, charities, not-for-profit organisations, and statutory bodies, including schools and town councils, to carry out projects.

Grant Available: £300 to £10,000

Deadline: Open to applications

Email: general.enquiries@biglotteryfund.org.uk

Telephone: 0845 0000 121

Esme Fairbairn Foundation

The Foundation aims to improve the quality of life for people throughout the UK by supporting work that focuses on the arts, education and learning, the environment, and social change.

The Esmee Fairbairn Foundation aims to award a total of £25m every year via its main fund and other funding strands for specific causes it supports.

Priority is given to projects that address significant gaps in provision and seek to improve UK culture, the national environment and/or education and learning. The Foundation is also interested in supporting projects that help disadvantaged people involved themselves more in society.

Voluntary organisations and registered charities whose projects will change communities for the better are invited to apply.

Grant Available: The Foundation is aware of the need to be flexible in the grants that it makes and it welcomes proposals for multi-year funding and for core costs.

Deadline: Open to applications

Contact: Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, Kings Place, 90 York Way,
London, N1 9AG

Email: info@esmeefairbairn.org.uk

Foyle Foundation Small Grants Programme

The Foyle Foundation's - Small Grants Scheme is looking to help small charities operating in the areas of the arts and learning, with an annual turnover of less than £100,000 per year.

The Foyle Foundation is one of the largest grant making trusts in the UK providing grants that help to make the arts more accessible by developing new audiences, supporting tours, festivals and arts educational projects; encouraging new work and supporting young and emerging artists; and that address special educational needs and learning difficulties.

Larger organisations can apply for funding through the Foyle Foundations Arts and Learning Main Grants Programmes.

Deadline: Applications can be submitted at any time.

Grant Available: From £1,000 to £10,000

Contact: The Foyle Foundation, Rugby Chambers, 2 Rugby Street, London, WC1N 3QU

Telephone: (0207) 430 9119

Email: info@foylefoundation.org.uk

Leonard Laity Stoate Charitable Trust

The Trust gives grants for projects in England and Wales (but with a clear preference for South West England) in the following areas: medical and disablement; youth and children; Methodism; the community; disadvantage; non-Methodist churches; the environment; and the arts.

• Small innovatory projects with a good measure of self-help or voluntary input are preferred.
• Applicants must demonstrate what other sources of funding have been sought and secured.
• A grant will not normally be paid until all other funds needed for a project have been raised and the project started.
• The fund can grant from £100 to £2,000 and is open to applications

Applications should be made in writing - email applications will not be accepted.

Please write to:

Phillip J Stoate

Leonard Laity Stoate Charitable Trust

7 Sherwood Close

Bracknell

Deadline:

The Trust recommends December to February and June to August as the best

times to submit applications as they are considered twice a year.

North Somerset Council Healthy Lifestyles Grant

The healthy lifestyles grant aim to support activities for children and young people up to the age of 25.

So whether it is running a dance workshop, providing an outdoor sports activity or running a team building activity then a grant may be available.

The deadline for applications is 5pm on Friday, 26 July and projects should look to encourage health equality and healthy lifestyles by supporting positive activity opportunities in communities across North Somerset.

For more information visit www.n-somerset.gov.uk and search for health grants, or download the application form or email positive.activities@n-somerset.gov.uk or telephone 01275 882 922.

Quartet Community Foundation – Express Grants Programme

The Express Programme awards grants of up to £2,000 to small local voluntary and community organisations where a small amount of funding can make a difference in disadvantaged areas. The work of your organisation must benefit people who are disadvantaged or isolated. People may be isolated due to poverty, disability, age, location or culture. Priority is also given to groups that:

• Enable people to take opportunities that would otherwise not be available to them.
• Reflect the concerns and priorities of people living and working in the area.

Grant Available: Up to £2,000

Deadline: Open to applications

Tel: 01934 641965

Email: info@quartetcf.org.uk

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. The one-off community giving programme aims to assist grassroots groups and organisations that are passionate about making life better for others, but which get very little support elsewhere.

Local grassroots groups, such as community allotments, social groups for older people, groups running activities for young people, from across the UK may apply.

Grant Available: £500

Deadline: 31 July 2013

Email: GRGapply@skipton.co.uk

E-Form

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

Email: community.fund@co-operative.coop

Telephone: 0844 262 4001

Youth Music Making Activities (England)

Youth Music the UK's largest children's music charity, has announced that its grant making programme is currently closed but will re-open for applications in July 2013. 

• Through its funding programme, Youth Music makes grants of up to £250,000 to support projects that provide music-making activities for children and young people, especially those young people in challenging circumstances.

Grant Available: Up to £250,000

Deadline: 3/10/2013

Contact: E-Form