FUNDING opportunities – 31-10-2013

Dear readers

Halloween is upon us once again. Have you got anything spooky planned?

We’ve eight opportunities for you this week. I hope there is something of interest for you.

Don’t forget if you are looking for a particular type of funding to fund a bespoke project, let us know and we may be able to point you in the right direction.

This week:

£100 to £1000

• Money for life Challenge

£1000 to £5000

• Quartet Community Foundation Express Programme
• Ernest Cook Trust
• Woodward Charitable Trust

£500 to £10,000

• True Colours Trust

£10,000 plus

• Heritage Fund – Young People
• Scottish Power Energy People Trust
• Lloyds TSB Foundation – The Community Fund

Good luck

Heather

£100 to £1000____________________

Money for life Challenge

Groups of 16 to 24 year olds in the UK in further education, work-based learning, adult community learning or a training organisation can apply for small grants to run a project to improve money management skills in their communities.  Each organisation can enter five teams of between three and ten young people.  Each team must have a project sponsor which can be any adult employed to work with young people at the learning organisation. 

The first £200 is to be spent on bringing the project to life.  Once the project summary has been submitted at the end of the Challenge, then a further £300 will be provided to cover the costs incurred by the organisation.

Youth Groups who need inspiration for a project can find a number of ideas on the Money for Life Challenge website

The deadline for 2013 applications is 22 November 2013.

£1000 to £5000___________________

Quartet Community Foundation Express Programme

The Foundation manages and distributes funding to voluntary and community groups who can reach the most disadvantaged people in Bristol, Bath & North East Somerset, North Somerset or South Gloucestershire, and provides them with opportunities that they would not otherwise have.  Applications can be submitted at any time.

Applicants do not have to be a registered charity, as long as the organisation has charitable aims, a constitution, a Management Committee, use of a group bank account with at least two signatories, and a child protection policy if applicable.

For further information on how to apply, please go to the Quartet Community Foundation Express Grants Programme website.

Ernest Cook Trust

The Trust makes small grants to charities, schools and non-profit organisations for work that encourages young people’s interest in the environment, the arts, or to improve literacy and numeracy.  Applications are assessed every two months, and there are no application forms.  To apply, you need to write to the Trust, explaining more about your organisation, your project and how it fits the aims of the Trust.  You should also include a simple budget. 

For more information, visit the Ernest Cook Trust website

Woodward Charitable Trust

The Trust makes grants for small  scale, local work in a variety of areas such as projects with children, homeless people, minority groups, disability, arts and offenders.  Grants are allocated to charities with an income of less than £250,000 a year.

Three kinds of grants are available:  small grants up to £5,000, large grants over £5,000 and children’s summer play scheme grants of £500 to £1,000.

You can apply for funding for work in the following areas:

Social and ethnic minority groups

Prisoners and ex-offenders

Homelessness

People experiencing violence or abuse

Arts outreach work

Disability projects

Environmental projects

Addiction

Grants are assessed twice a year in January and July.  For further information on the above criteria and how to apply for the grants, please visit the Woodward Charitable Trust website http://www.woodwardcharitabletrust.org.uk/index.html

£5,000 to £10,000______________

True Colours Trust

The Trust provides grants, usually for one-off purposes, to help smaller organisations develop and deliver programmes for disabled children, their siblings and families.  The Trustees are particularly keen to support:

• Young carer projects
• Siblings projects
• Bereavement support
• Hydrotherapy pools
• Multi-sensory rooms
• Mini-buses

You can apply any time.  For further information and an application form, visit the True Colours Trust website

£10,000 plus__________________

Heritage Fund – Young People

This programme is for projects led by young people.  It aims to involve 13 – 25 year olds in finding out about their heritage, developing skills, building confidence and promoting community involvement.   It is a rolling programme and there are no deadlines for applications. 

To find out more, visit the Heritage Fund website 

Scottish Power Energy People Trust

The Trust makes grants to charities, community groups and not-for-profit groups.  You can apply for any amount up to £50,000 for work in the following categories:

Crisis funding: for example, to help women and children who need emergency accommodation and vulnerable young people setting up their first home

Income maximization: for example, conducting benefits checks to help households that aren't claiming all the benefits to which they're entitled, or those who are not eligible for government grants because they do not receive the qualifying benefit

Energy efficiency measures and advice: for example, improving home energy efficiency through draught proofing, insulating and offering energy efficiency advice.

Priority will be given to projects aimed at helping families with young children and young people.  Reducing fuel poverty must be the main aim of your project, not just one part of it.

Applications are assessed by the trustees, who meet four times a year. Only 30 applications are considered at each trustee meeting, with these 30 places offered on a first-come, first-served basis.  For more information, visit the Scottish Power Energy People Trust website 

Lloyds TSB Foundation – The Community Fund

This programme focuses on funding core work that improves social and community involvement, improves life choices and chances, and helps people to be heard. 

The amount available depends upon the size and needs of your organisation.  You must be an underfunded charity (12 months reserves or less) and if you are working locally, you must have an income of £1million or less.

You can apply for funding to:

·         Enable the continued provision of services

·         Support the expansion of services

·         Help improve the quality of services

·         Maintain and or improve their capacity and/or effectiveness

·         Encourage learning and best practice

·         Lobby or campaign at a local, regional or national level. 

To read more about the application process, visit the Lloyds TSB Foundation website

Mid Rural Network (Congresbury, Yatton and Backwell) Launch Event

The Mid Rural Network (MRN), one of the 11 Local Commissioning Networks in North Somerset, successfully launched at the weekend with help from their partner Goblin Combe.

Visitors ranged from the executive member for children and young people in North Somerset, Councillor Jeremy Blatchford, district councillor for the area Geoff Coombs, North Somerset Council Chairman Councillor Alan McMurray and the famous Pepper Pig!

MRN member and secretary Rhiannon Prys-Owen’s grand daughter can be seen here sporting her great-grandfathers 70 year old graduation cloak!

Ghouls and monsters entertain the visitors.

Hula time!

Jelly eating competition!

Peppa Pig.

If you live in the area and would like to get involved with the network, please contact Jean.deacon@goblincombe.org.uk



Snow Warden Scheme

Would you like to help make your community more resilient this winter?

All hands to the deck! The Snow Warden scheme is being rolled out this November with four training sessions arranged:

5^th November Town Hall   10-11.30

14^th November Castlewood 10-11.30

19^th November Town Hall   10-11.30

27^th November Castlewood 10-11.30

Please encourage your Community to sign up to the scheme – join forces and keep those key community footpaths and venues open through any snow event – snow shovels and hi-vis provided for free!!

Perhaps there is a specific site that needs clearing such as your local school, village shop, doctors surgery? Join forces with your neighbours to become Snow Wardens and help each other when the weather gets tough.

To register your interest, please either call NSC 01275 888802 or email info@communityresilience-ns.org.uk with your name, contact information and preferred date(s) for attending the training session.

You can find out more detail on Community Resilience in North Somerset by visiting www.communityresilience-ns.org.uk

Spotlight on:..... 4Children

You may have come across 4Children already but for thoes who have not, below is some further information.

"It is 30 years since 4Children (or the National Out of School Alliance as it was then) was established in response to growing concern about the welfare of so called ‘latchkey’ children.  Since then we have gone on to deepen and broaden our work around the needs of all children 0 – 19 and their families and over the last 6 years deliver services including more than 80 Sure Start children’s centres, nurseries, out of school clubs and youth and family support."

If you are intrested to read more about how 4Children can support your work, please see their website.

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NEW Children's Scrapstore in Weston Super Mare!

Children’s Scrapstore now has a North Somerset site. If you are already a member of Children’s Scrapstore you will now be able to use both the Bristol and the North Somerset site in Weston-super-Mare. 

You can find the Weston-super-Mare Scrapstore at:

• The Motex Centre, Winterstoke Road, Weston-super-Mare, BS23 3YW

It is open Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 11am-4pm

Membership

Children’s Scrapstore North Somerset membership is open to anyone working in creative play, care, educational or therapeutic settings. For membership benefits, eligibility and prices please see our membership section – membership for North Somerset and Bristol works in the same way and the one annual membership fee gives you access to both sites – for details on our Bristol site please have a look around this website.

Artrageous

Open to everyone. You will find quality and low cost arts and crafts materials onsite supplied by Artrageous. Plus, Artrageous will run Saturday family art and craft sessions where you can drop-in and learn techniques that you can re-create at home.

If you have a particular requirement from the Artgrageous shop that’s not stocked at Weston you can order it to be delivered from Bristol.

18 October Funding Information

Hello PLANS readers

I hope you are all having a good week and looking forward to the weekend.

We've a busy week next week here at Castlewood. We have the Local Commissioning Network chairs coming to an early evening meeting on Monday to discuss the project evaluation and NSC support for the networks going forward. And on Wednesday evening we are hosing a presentation and Q & A session for Local Commissioning Networks, activity providers and any other organisations who work with young people form the National Citizenship Service in North Somerset.

I hope you find the funding opportunities below useful.

Keep well,

Heather :-)


£100 to £1000

•  Cash 4 Clubs

£1000 to £5000

• Help The Homeless
• Police and Crime Commissioner Community Action Fund
• Awards for All - small lottery grants (up to £10,000)

Other

• Lankelly Chase Foundation

Good luck!
£100 to £1000____________________

Cash 4 Clubs

Under this scheme, financial assistance isavailable for sports clubs throught the UK to improve facilities, but new kit and equiptment, and increase sporting opporttunities.

Anything that will add to the sustainability and eddectivness of your sports clubc is eligible and match funding is not a specific requirement.

Sports clubs that are registered with their sport's national governing body or local authority can apply. Applications may be submitted at any time and are considered three times a year.

Further information

Email: cash4clubs@betfair.com

Website: http://www.cash-4-clubs.com

£1000 to £5000___________________

Help the Homeless – Accepting Applications for Winter Round

(from j4bcommunity Funding News)

Help the homeless, a registered charity, offers funding four times a year to small and medium sized registered charities with a turnover of less than £1million per year.   

All applications must relate to projects that assist individuals in their return to mainstream society, rather than simply offer shelter or other forms of sustenance.   The scheme will principally fund capital costs, but may consider revenue costs if necessary to the project. 

The next deadline for applications is 31 December 2013.  Further details can be found on the Help the Homeless  website

Commissioner’s Community Action Fund – Avon and Somerset

This fund is a new annual grant scheme created with funding from the Police and Crime Commissioner for Avon and Somerset, and is administered by the Avon and Somerset Police Community Trust, a registered charity.

Funding is intended to enable communities to come together and tackle issues in their local area relating to the priorities set out in the Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Plan which can be found on the Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner’s website

The priorities are to:

§         Reduce the Impact of anti-social behaviour in the local communities

§         Tackle domestic and sexual violence, particularly violence towards women and children

§         Prevent and reduce burglary and fear of burglary in local areas

§         Ensure victims are at the heart of the criminal justice system

Funding is open to local voluntary and community groups, and registered charities based and workin in the Avon and Somerset Police Force area. 

For further information on eligibility and how to apply, go to the Avon and Somerset Police  website.

Awards for All England Small Lottery Grants

Awards for All gives groups a quick and easy way to get small Lottery grants of between £300 and £10,000.

We want to fund projects which address the issues, needs and aspirations of local communities and people. We will fund a wide range of community projects aimed at developing skills, improving health, revitalising the local environment and enabling people to become more active citizens.

You can apply to Awards for All England if you are a community group, not for profit group, parish or town council, health body, or school.  You do not need to be a registered charity to apply. 

You must have a bank account that requires at least two people to sign each cheque or withdrawal.

You must use the grant within one year.

We will pay for activities that will benefit the community, including:

·         putting on an event, activity or performance

·         buying new equipment or materials 

·         running training courses 

·         setting up a pilot project or starting up a new group 

·         carrying out special repairs or conservation work 

·         paying expenses for volunteers, costs for sessional workers or professional fees 

·         transport costs.

You must read the guidance notes carefully before filling in the application form. We have very clear criteria as to what we can and can’t fund.

To access guidance notes and applications forms, please go to Awards for All England website

Other________________________

Lankelly Chase Foundation

Open call for project ideas.  The Foundation’s mission is to bring about change to improve the lives of people facing severe and multiple disadvantage, by which they mean projects/proposals that improve the lives of people facing a combination of the following social harms rather than focusing on single issues, and building on their strengths and capabilities. 

·         Homelessness

·         Substance misuse

·         Mental illness

·         Extreme poverty

·         Violence and abuse

For further details on whether this Foundation is the right funder for you, what they will and will not fund and how to apply, go to the LankellyChase Foundation website

 

Opportunity to find out about the National Citizenship Service (NCS) in North Somerset

What is NCS?

If you are an activity provider or local commissioning network in North Somerset you may be interested in coming along to find out how the NCS in North Somerset can benefit you and the young people you work with.

A presentation and Q and A session will be held on Wednesday October 23rd from 6pm-8pm at:

North Somerset Council Office

Castlewood

Tickenham Road

Clevedon

BS21 6FW

Please could you confirm attendance by emailing paul.metheringham@sgscol.ac.uk

“NCS is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity open to all 16 & 17 year olds in England and Northern Ireland, that helps you build your skills for work and life, while you take on new challenges and meet new friends.

NCS is currently running through the Autumn half-term, you can sign up NOW! You'll have a short time away from home and take part in a team project that will help your community.  NCS also runs in the spring and summer.

Aimed at young people aged 16 and 17 years of age.”

Go4Life cheque book scheme - free access to North Somerset leisure centers

Over 100 partners continue to refer individuals to the Go4Life Chequebook scheme which offers limited free access to North Somerset leisure centres.

Examples of individuals being referred include those:

• Recovering from substance misuse
• Receiving a service targeted at people with disabilities or prescribed physical conditions
• Receiving a service specifically targeted at people with mental health conditions
• With a BMI of 30 or above
• Receiving health care on a long term basis

In the last six months (April to September) 228 individuals have been referred to the scheme by GPs, health trainers, support workers, mental health workers, recovery support agencies and supported housing associations.

Any North Somerset partners supporting individuals who would benefit from regular exercise can refer to the scheme. For more information visit the Chequebook Scheme webpage.

For further information about any of the above, please contact the Sport and Active Lifestyles team on 01275 882 730, email sport@n-somerset.gov.uk or visit Go4Life

Six months of successful StreetGames delivery

The StreetGames initiative is having a positive impact. There is a high and reoccurring attendance and participants are telling their friends about sessions, demonstrating both enjoyment and a clear demand for sessions.

After six months of delivery we are pleased to report the following

• 9 projects
• 5 projects supported by partner organisations
• 1,946 the number of young people engaged with
• 4 StreetGames specific coaches (all have completed the community sports leader award and 3 directly via Prospect Sport
• 15 hours of delivery per week

Projects have allowed us to develop good working partnerships, helping us to identify if there is a need. The presence of a StreetGames coach enhances their current delivery and attracts new participants to sessions.

The initiative engages predominately with young males aged 12 +. With seven out of 10 teenagers believing that antisocial behaviour occurs because they are bored, this initiative may in some cases be acting as an alternative.

24% of 4–5 year olds and 29% of 10–11 year olds in North Somerset are either overweight or obese and with little change in these levels, StreetGames is successfully offering an alternative to being indoors.

The next stage of the StreetGames programme will hopefully see more national governing body of sport engagement and hopefully an increase in the number of young people currently volunteering at sessions.

FUNDING opportunities - 10-10-2013

Dear readers

I hope this post finds you all well.

 

As there has not been a post for a while, Christine our interium fund finder has found six opportunites for you this week.

Please get in touch with us if you have any other oopportunities you have come across.

 

This week:

£100 to £1000

• Alec Dickson Trust
• Princes Trust Development award

£1000 to £5000

• Bell Foundation Awards

£10,000 plus

• (Up to £10,000) Sport England Get Equipped Fund
• BBC Children in Need - Main Grants
• Heritage lottery Fund - Young Roots Programme
• Our Place! Programme

Good luck

Heather

£100 to £1000____________________

Alec Dickson Trust
If you are under 30 and living in the UK, involved in volunteering or running a project in your local community, and you have found it difficult to find funding for your idea, then you can apply to the Alec Dickinson Trust. 

Applications for grants, not normally in excess of £500, are invited from individuals aged 30 and under, or from small groups of young people who believe their actions to be in pursuit of the aims of the Trust.  Trustees will meet twice a year to consider applications.

Please note that it is highly unlikely that applications from young people embarking on organised gap year projects overseas or requesting a grant for college/university course fees will match with the Trusts’ funding criteria. 

Contact information:

Email:                alecdicksontrust:gmail.com

Telephone: 020 7278 6601

Website:    http://www.alecdicksontrust.org.uk

The Princes Trust Development Awards
Development Awards are cash grants of up to £500 to help young people get into education, training or employment.  You are eligible if you are aged 14 – 16 and not expecting to achieve five GCSEs (or equivalent) grades A-c, or are aged 16 – 25 and not in education, training or employment. 

Eligible young people are invited to meet face to face with a Prince’s Trust Awards Assessor to discuss their Award and fill out an application which ill then be sent to a Princes’ Trust Awards Panel for a decision.  The whole process can take up to 6 weeks, so applications should be made will in advance if possible. 

For further information on what can and cannot be funded, please go to the Princes Trust website, or call t hem on 0800 842 842, or alternatively text ‘call me’ to 07983 385 418.

£1000 to £5000___________________

Bell Foundation Awards

Two grants available:

•  Award for those working with children with English as an additional language
•  Award for those working with prisoners with English literacy and language needs

Awards are open to both organisations and individuals working in the UK.  For further information on what your application should include, go to http://www.bell-foundation.org.uk/Awards

Deadline for applications is midnight on 27 October 2013.

£10,000 plus__________________

Sport England Get Equipped Fund      

This fund will invest in the prevision of specialist equipment to deliver sport to disabled people.  Not for profit organisations can apply for between £300 and £10,000 of Lottery funding to purchase sports equipment that will help increase the number of disabled young people (aged 14+) and adults regularly playing sport as part of Sport England’s wider commitment to increasing disability participation.  To find out more about the fund, and how to apply, please go to the Sport England.

Big Lottery Reaching Communities Programme 

This funding is for projects that help people and communities most in need. Grants are available from £10,000 upwards and funding can last for up to 5 years.  We can fund salaries, running costs, a contribution towards core costs and equipment.  We can also fund up to £100,000 for land, buildings or refurbishment capital costs.  We strongly encourage partnerships between the voluntary and community sector and the statutory sector. 

For further information on who can apply and how to apply, please visit  the Big Lottery Fund website

BBC Children in Need – Main Grants

This programme is open to charities and not for profit organisations applying for grants over £10,000 per year for up to three years. Grants are aimed at 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

Grants are used to fund organisations working to combat this disadvantage and to make a real difference to children and young people’s lives.

For further information, go to the BBC Children in Need website

Heritage Lottery Fund Young Roots Programme

This programme is for projects that engage young people aged 11 to 25 with heritage in the UK.  We fund partnerships of heritage and youth organisations to help young people shape and deliver their own projects in safe environments.  Whether restoring a vintage motorbike, designing a new nature trail or documenting changes to their community over time, through Young Roots projects young people make a real difference to the paces where they live.  In the process, their confidence grows and they learn valuable heritage and employability skills. 

This is a rolling programme, so you can apply any time.  We will assess your application in eight weeks and make a decision.  To find out more, go to the Heritage Lottery Fund Young Roots web page.

Our Place! Programme

On July 9 2013, Don Foster, Minister for Communities, announced a £4.3m package of support for neighbourhoods to take their future into their own hands. This follows a successful year-long pilot programme, which saw neighbourhoods across the country working out how to improve the lives of local residents.

Expansion of the 'Our Place' programme builds on the Neighbourhood Community Budget Pilots that have helped change local service provision in 12 areas over the past four years.  The 12 pilots range from inner cities and suburbs, to housing estates and small towns. They have seen the public, private and voluntary sectors working together to tackle issues of concern to local residents.

The extra funding could see at least 100 communities deliver local services that focus on local priorities and reduce costs.  To find out more, visit the website at: http://mycommunityrights.org.uk/ourplace/