Pinch, punch it's the first of the month! August 1st Funding update

Good afternoon all

I hope you are all enjoying the recent good weather and summer holidays.

We have an array of funding opportunitiees to share with you, please see below.

Don't forget - this blog is for YOU. If you have any communication or articles that would intrest like minded organisations or individuals please let me know on positive.activities@n-somerse.gov.uk

Have fun!

Heather & Rhiannon
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“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

(Author: Alan Kay)

• Andy Fanshawe Memorial Trust
• BBC Performing Arts Fund – Theatre
• British Film Institute - Programming Development Funding
• Hedley Foundation
• Leche Trust - Leche Foundation Grant
• Post Office - Community Enterprise Fund
• Rehabilitation Social Action Fund opens for applications to reduce re-offending
• Tesco Charity Trust Community Awards
• The Social Investment Business – Capital Grants
• UnLtd - Level 1 Awards

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)

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)

British Film Institute - Programming Development Funding

The British Film Institute (BFI) is inviting applications to its Programming Development Fund, which seeks to enhance audience choice by enabling exhibitors to back more adventurous programming.

The Programming Development Fund forms part of the BFI Audience Fund 2013-2017. The Programming Development Fund will support programming initiatives of cultural significance, high profile and wide reach, encouraging curatorial ambition, achieving economies of scale and bringing films to audiences across the UK in a fresh and original way. The fund aims to achieve this through supporting comprehensive programmes of activity led by exhibitors.

The objectives of the Programming Development Fund are to:

• Support and promote high-quality, distinctive, diverse film exhibition projects of scale and ambition.
• Increase opportunities for more diverse audiences across the UK to engage with a wider range of specialised and independent British film, including those in areas with limited provision.
• Enable film programmers to be more adventurous and experimental in their programming choices and to promote innovation and risk-taking in terms of content and/or delivery model.
• Encourage greater sharing of programme content and initiatives across the UK.
• Develop new ways to build stronger relationships between film venues and audiences.
• Create links to other BFI strategic initiatives relating to education and learning, investment in skills and unlocking film heritage.
• Up to £1.4 million per year will be available through the Programming Development Fund over the four years to 2017. 

Grant Available: £5,000 to £500,000

Deadline: 2 September 2013 (Strands 1 and 2), 2 December 2013 (Strand 3)

Contact: FAQ

E-Form

Email: Progdev@bfi.org.uk

(Funding Central)

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)

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)

Post Office - Community Enterprise Fund

Communities across England are being asked to suggest projects that would benefit their local areas as part of a competition for local post offices. The competition which launched earlier this month is open to sub-postmasters in English post office branches, but not Crown post offices, working in consultation with their local communities.

The £200,000 Community Enterprise Fund, from the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Post Office, offers 20 grants of up to £10,000 each to be used to start up not-for-profit projects that provide a service, activity or support that will benefit their local community.

These could include:

• Classes in key skills such as reading, languages or the Internet.
• Mentoring and advice service for local small businesses, or display space for local producers.
• Partnership with a local charity to provide a meeting space, notice board and other forms of support.
• A hub or meeting space for community groups involved in local issues, such as neighbourhood planning.

Anyone who wants to propose an idea can fill in the short application form which can be found on the Post Office website. They should take the form to the local post office and discuss the idea with their local branch manager or sub-postmaster.

Grant Available: Up to £10,000

Deadline:  18 October 2013

Contact: communities@postoffice.co.uk

(Grant Advisor)

Rehabilitation Social Action Fund opens for applications to reduce re-offending

£3.5 million is available for Charities or social enterprises using social action to reduce re-offending in England can apply for this grant funding. Applicants will need to have at least two years experience of using social action with offenders and have existing referral pathways in place.  The fund is from the Cabinet Office and has been developed in partnership with the Ministry of Justice and the National Offender Management Service.  Programmes using social action to reduce reoffending by influencing intermediate outcomes such as sustained housing, drug and alcohol use, or social capital can apply.  Funding can be used for set up costs, frontline delivery, evaluation, a percentage of core costs, mentor/volunteer expenses.

Social action is defined broadly as:

• More than traditional volunteering, including a wider range of practical actions in the service of others
• Carried out by individuals or groups of people working together
• Not mandated and not for profit
• Done for the good of others; individuals, communities and/or society
• Bringing about social change and/or value 

Grant: £50,000 to £250,000

Deadline: 5 September 2013

Apply: Applicants must apply through the Government Procurement Service eSourcing Portal – for full details and more information on how to apply go to Contracts Finder 

Contact: Christopher Redford, Cabinet Office, London, SW1A 2HQ

Email: publiccorrespondence@cabinet-office.gsi.gov.uk

Telephone: 020 7276 1234

Tesco Charity Trust Community Awards

The Tesco Charity Trust Community Autumn Awards Scheme has reopened for applications. The scheme provides one-off donations of between £500 and £4,000 to registered charities and not for profit organisations who are working on local projects that support children and their education and welfare, elderly people and adults and children with disabilities.

Grant Available: £500 to £4,000

Deadline: 30 September 2013

Apply: online application form

Email: charity.enquiries@uk.tesco.com

(Mentoring and Befriending Foundation)

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. 

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 842 778

(The SIB Group)

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)