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- BBC Children in Need - Small Grants
- Boost Charitable Trust
- Dulux – Let’s Colour
- Fund101 – New round offering 1,000 a month to New Businesses (UK)
- Heart Research
- Ideas Tap – Ideas Fund Innovators (16 to 22)
- Leche Trust - Leche Foundation Grant
- Peter Stormonth Darling Charitable Trust Grant
- Skinners Company - Lady Neville Charity
- The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) - Catalyst Small Grants Initiative (
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 £10,000. 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 £10,000
Deadline: 1 September 2013
Email: pudsey@bbc.co.uk
Telephone: 0345 609 0015
Main grants of over £10,000 per year for up to three years that are supporting the same as above are also available.
Deadline: 15 September 2013.
(East Sussex Council)
Boost Charitable Trust was created in 2005 to Build On Over-looked Sporting Talent to champion the disabled and disadvantaged and to inspire them to overcome their challenges through the power of sport. Boost believes that sport is for everyone and they hope to work with people from all ages, races, colours, creeds and physical abilities. The Trust will only support charities or non-profit making organisations with a focus on sport.
Grant Available: From £500
Deadline: Applications can be made at anytime
Tel: 020 7078 1955
(East Sussex Council)
Dulux – Let’s Colour
Dulux is offering the paint needed to transform community spaces for free. Selected projects will also receive additional support from Dulux's partner Groundwork. The following types of projects are eligible for Let's Colour Projects: Housing estates, school frontages, community gardens, urban green spaces, play projects including natural play, streetscape/town squares/town centres, sea front improvements, community art projects e.g. murals/colour art forms, community building e.g. youth centres, community centres, scout huts etc, skate boarding/ BMX tracks, internal building projects.
Telephone: 0161 817 6600
(East Sussex Council)
Fund101 – New round offering 1,000 a month to New Businesses (UK)
Fund101 targets UK-based entrepreneurs looking to turn an idea into a new business and existing small companies wishing to purchase equipment to help take their enterprise to the next level.
- Administered by Enterprise Nation, the programme is designed to assist those who are looking for relatively small amounts of capital support.
- The initial funding pool is £50,000 and this will be topped up each month with an additional £5,000. Individual grants ranging from £50 to £500 can be requested. Fund101 winners will also receive up to $500 of Elance credit to spend on outsourced work.
- The grants can be used to fund miscellaneous capital costs associated with starting up a new venture and for existing small businesses to purchase equipment, promotional flyers, hardware etc, in order to boost their operations.
- UK-based start-ups looking to commence trading and those who are already in business and need funding to further their enterprise may be eligible for assistance through Fund101.
- To apply, entrants must complete an online application, explaining how much money they require and for what purpose. They must then raise an equivalent number of votes to the grant they are seeking – if they need £100, they must engage 100 people to vote for them online.
- When the target is met, the funds will be deposited into the successful candidates' PayPal accounts. Grant recipients must agree to be profiled on the Fund101 webpage to explain how the grant has benefited their business.
Grant Available: £50 to £500
Next deadline: 23 August 2013.
Contact: Enquiries, Enterprise Nation, Redbrick House, 9 Town Walls, Shrewsbury
Telephone: 01743 272555
Email: fund101@enterprisenation.com
Telephone: 01743 272555
Email: fund101@enterprisenation.com
Apply: Online Application Form
Heart Research UK
Healthy Heart Grants support innovative projects designed to promote heart health and to prevent or reduce the risks of heart disease in specific groups or communities across the UK
Examples of projects funded in the past include the following:
- The Foresight Project in
- Circomedia in
- Cafe West in
- The Ross-shire Bravehearts project in
- Superleague team, Wakefield Wildcats, use star rugby players to educate children about heart health.
Grants Available: £1,000 to £10,000
Deadline: 31 August 2013
Telephone: 0113 234 7474
E-mail: info@heartresearch.org.uk
(Funding Central)
Ideas Tap – Ideas Fund Innovators (16 to 22)
Awards are available to assist groups and individuals aged 16 to 22 who have projects that are inspiring, original, innovative and that can be delivered in all creative disciplines in the UK
- IdeasTap is an arts charity established to help young, creative people at the start of their careers and is responsible for providing Ideas Fund - Innovators.
- The programme will fund projects that are inspiring, original, innovative and those that IdeasTap considers the applicant can realistically deliver.
- In the past everything from dance and film projects to music videos and photography collectives have been supported. There is no limitation on the creative field that may be considered.Grant Available: £500
Deadline: 31 October 2013
Contact: Enquiries, IdeasTap, Woolyard, 54 Bermondsey Street , London , SE1 3UD
Email: info@ideastap.com
(Ideas Tap)
Jephcott Charitable Trust
The Jephcott Charitable Trust provides funds for specific projects or part of a project where successful monitoring can be achieved and which the Trustees consider suitable. The funding priorities include:
- Education
- Health
- Environment
Grant Available: £2,000 to £10,000 (£20,000 exceptional cases)
Deadline: Applications can be submitted at any time (The Trustees normally meet in April and October each year).
Contact: The Secretary, The Jephcott Charitable Trust, The Threshing Barn, Ford, Kingsbridge, Devon , TQ7 2LN
(Jephcott Charitable Trust)
Leche Trust - Leche Foundation Grant
The Leche Foundation grant is provided and administered by the Leche Foundation and is available to voluntary and community organisations throughout the UK
The scheme is intended to support charitable bodies or educational organisations undertaking projects involving:
- International relations
- Education
- The arts
- Preservation of historical landscapes and the countryside
Grant Available: No minimum or maximum
Deadline: 20 August 2013
Contact: Mrs Louisa Lawson, The Leche Foundation, 84 Cicada Road ,
London , SW18 2NZ
Email: info@lechetrust.org
Telephone: 020 8870 6233
(Funding Central)
Peter Stormonth Darling Charitable Trust Grant
This grant is provided and administered by the Peter Stormonth Darling Charitable Trust and is available for Third Sector Organisations in the UK
- Heritage
- Education
- Health care
- Sports facilities
Grant Available: From £1,000 to £10,000.
Deadline: Open to applications
Contact: The Peter Stormonth Darling Charitable Trust, 7 Swan Walk, London
(Mentoring and Befriending Foundation)
Skinners Company - Lady Neville Charity
The Skinner’s Company Lady Neville Charity provides grants that will make a clear and significant contribution to grassroots charitable organisations working in designated priority areas. Funding is available for items of non-recurring expenditure (e.g., equipment, an event, a particular element of capital building works). One-off grants of up to £1,000 are made to small registered charities and not-for-profit organisations in the UK
- Disability – support activities which provide opportunities to people of any age with physical or mental disabilities
- Local Heritage – projects which help local groups to conserve and restore their landmarks, landscape, traditions and culture
- Local Community – projects which are involved in improving the facilities or quality of life for people in a deprived neighbourhood
- Performing and Visual Arts – groups involved in undertaking a particular activity in any field in this area
Email: charitiesadmin@skinners.org.uk.
Telephone: 020 7213 0562
Apply: Application Form
(Mentoring and Befriending Foundation)
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) - Catalyst Small Grants Initiative (UK
Under the Catalyst initiative not for profit organisations and partnerships of not for profit organisations operating within the Heritage sector can apply for grants of between £3,000 and £10,000 to build their fundraising capacity. The type of activities that could be supported could include:
- Building Friends schemes, where the outcome may involve increased income through legacy funding or individual donations
- Initiatives to build and expand an organisation’s relationships with users to increase membership fees or donations
- Paying someone to help integrate the responsibility for fundraising across the organisation as a whole, etc
Grant Available: £3,000 to £10,000
Deadline: Friday 16 August 2013
Email: enquire@hlf.org.uk
Telephone: 020 7591 6042/44
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