september 2014 funding digest - devon voluntary action (deva) · arts, ulture and heritage funding...
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FUNDING DIGEST
DeVA Partners are DeVA Partners are
In this edition of Devon
Voluntary Action (DeVA)
Funding Digest are funding
opportunities under:
Arts, Culture and
Hertiage
Supporting People
Sport and Leisure
Social Enterprises
Multi Focus Grants
0845 6099901 www.devonva.org [email protected]
September 2014
First Great Western Community Fund First Great Western support a range of charities and community organisations. They also help charities enhance their fundraising opportunities by donating gifts associated with the company.
They support organisations that their employees value and are relevant to their business through sponsorship, provision of tickets and through practical support to employees. The company has worked hard to broaden its contacts with communities across the whole region. Their First Great Western charity and sponsorship team meets regularly to consider requests for funding and gifts in kind, based on charitable criteria, in these areas: young people health environment. If you want to request a donation to help enhance your fundraising opportunities, or hope First Great Western can help support your charity or community organisation, please write to Miss Vicky Cropper, Communications Coordinator, First Great Western B332, Macmillan House, Paddington Station, London, W2 1FT
http://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/About-Us/Customer-services/Community-and-sponsorship
Arts, Culture and Heritage Funding Opportunities Heritage Lottery Fund - Funding for anniversaries
The HLF will make awards totalling at least £10m over the next four years to fund projects exploring the heritage of some of the UK’s most important anniversaries.
The money will be invested to ensure that those moments which form a central part of our national history are commemorated and understood by people today.
This new emphasis for their funding reflects the fact there is enormous enthusiasm to provide more opportunities to foster the sense of community spirit and national pride that anniversaries, such as the Diamond Jubilee, can inspire.
If you are considering a project in the next few years, it might highlight important historical dates that will resonate with people and communities across the UK. For example:
The centenary of Dylan Thomas’ birth The 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta The Bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter’s birth 50 years since England won the football World Cup 50 years since the first solo sailing circumnavigation of the world from west to east
HLF can provide funding to help groups, communities and organisations mark these anniversaries by exploring, conserving and sharing their heritage. They are offering grants from £3,000 - £10,000, £10,000 - £100,000 and £100,000 upwards.
For more information please call the anniversaries enquiry line on 020 7591 6044, email: [email protected]. Alternatively please contact your local HLF office.
http://www.hlf.org.uk/HowToApply/whatwefund/Anniversaries/Pages/Anniversaries.aspx
Grants for the arts Libraries fund The Grants for the arts Libraries fund will invest £6 million of the Arts Council's Grants for the arts National Lottery money in projects delivered by public libraries or library authorities working in partnership with cultural organisations across all art forms. It is hoped that the Grants for the arts Libraries fund will inspire ambitious, innovative partnerships between libraries and arts organisations, and encourage library users and those living locally to take part in artistic and cultural activities.
Public libraries can apply for grants of between £1,000 and £100,000 covering activities lasting up to three years. Apply via an online application system on the website. Contact: National Service Centre, The Hive, 49 Lever Street, Manchester M1 1FN Tel: 0845 300 6200 or via the enquiry form on the website
Arts, Culture and Heritage Funding Opportunities
Foyle Foundation - Arts The Foundation seeks applications that make a strong artistic case for support in either the
performing or visual arts. Their Arts programme has a twofold purpose to help sustain the arts and to support projects that particularly help to deliver artistic vision. They look for value for money and sustainability in projects that they support. Typical areas of support include:
helping 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; building projects that improve or re-equip existing arts venues (rather than construction of new
facilities, although this will not be excluded); projects that reduce overheads or which help generate additional revenue. Generally, they make grants for specific projects/activities. Please note that community arts activity will not generally be supported.
Application Form: Available to download from the website. There is a separate application form for small grants of between £1,000 and £10,000.
Contact: The Foyle Foundation, Rugby Chambers, 2 Rugby Street, London WC1N 3QU Tel: 020 7430 9119 Email: [email protected] (Main Grants Scheme and State Schools) [email protected] (Small Grants Scheme)
W: http://www.foylefoundation.org.uk/
Old Possum’s Practical Trust Old Possum’s Practical Trust provides grants for literary, artistic, musical and theatrical projects. Priority is given to requests that display enterprise in artistic endeavour and demonstrate high sustainability and contextual impact. Particular interest is taken in those projects that will have an impact on future literary work. Grants between £500 and £5,000 are available. The charitable spending of the Trust is usually between £200,000 and £250,000 annually. An application form is available to complete online at the Trust's website at www.old-possums-practical-trust.org.uk Applications may be submitted at any time. Contact details for the Trust are: Old Possum’s Practical Trust PO Box 5701 Milton Keynes MK9 2WZ Email: [email protected]
Supporting People Funding Opportunities
Barchester Healthcare Foundation
The foundation's mission is to make a difference to the lives of older people and other adults with a physical or mental disability; supporting practical solutions that lead to increased personal independence, self-sufficiency and dignity. The foundation favour applications that encourage a person’s mobility, independence and improved quality of life. Their grants range from £100 up to £5,000. Apply via the online form on the website. Deadline: Applications can be submitted at anytime. Allow 10 weeks for a decision. Contact: Foundation Administrator, Barchester's Charitable Foundation, Suite 201, Second Floor, Design Centre East, Chelsea Harbour, London, SW10 0XF. t. 0800 328 3328 f. 0207 352 2229 e. [email protected] www.bhcfoundation.org.uk/Apply/
BIG - Reaching Communities
Reaching Communities funds projects that help people and communities who are most in need, and can really make a difference. It funds revenue projects of between £10,000 and £500,000 and/or capital projects up to £50,000. Projects can be new or existing activities, or be the core work of your organisation. They want to fund projects that respond to needs identified by communities, and those that fund projects that help those most in need including those people or groups who are hard to reach. They want to encourage the following changes to communities as a result of their funding: people having better chances in life, including being able to get better access to training and development to improve their life skills strong communities, with more active citizens, working together to tackle their problems improved rural and urban environments, which communities are better able to access and enjoy healthier and more active people and communities. Reaching Communities has proven to be a popular and highly competitive programme. Sadly, they have had to turn down some very good projects. You should note the high levels of interest in this programme and consider whether your project would be better suited to another Big Lottery Fund programme. Call their national helpline for advice on 0845 410 20 30 or email: [email protected] www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/prog_reaching_communities?fromsearch=-uk
Supporting People Funding Opportunities
Happy Days Childrens Charity
Happy Days supports groups who work with disadvantaged and disabled children and young people aged three to 17, funding day trips, theatre trips, family holidays and residential trips.
Application Forms are available to download from the website and can be submitted at anytime.
Contact: Happy Days Children's Charity, Clody House, 90-100 Collingdon Street, Luton, Bedfordshire LU1 1RX Tel: 01582 755999 email: [email protected]
Rank Foundation Ltd - small grants The Rank Foundation is a grant giving charitable trust, restricted to causes within the UK approved by the Charity Commission. It concentrates exclusively on: Encouraging and developing leadership amongst young people
Supporting disadvantaged young people
Supporting those frail or lonely through old age or disability.
Grant Applications
There is an on line eligibility check. Regrettably, due to overwhelming demand, unsolicited appeals are extremely unlikely to attract a grant in connection with salaries, general running costs or major capital projects. Applications can be submitted at any time. The Directors meet quarterly and applicants will be notified when their appeal is to be considered. Applications are currently being accepted for consideration at the trustees' meeting in December 2014. Contact: Mrs Jan Carter, The Rank Foundation, 12 Warwick Square, London SW1V 2AA Tel: 020 7834 7731 email: [email protected] W: http://www.rankfoundation.com/grant-applications/application-form/
Buttle UK Small Grants Programme -
Provides essential items for children and young people whose development, health and well-being are at risk. It offers basic items, that we all take for granted but many families in poverty are living without, such as a bed, a cooker, a fridge-freezer or a washing machine. Support for Young People - Buttle are reviewing what support their grant giving should offer the 16+ age group. They want to ensure that they are reaching those that need our help, and that the support they offer gives young people the best possible chance of making a successful transition into adulthood. Register and apply online, or request a form by email or post. Applications can be submitted at anytime. Contact: Buttle UK, Audley House, 13 Palace Street, London, SW1E 5HX email: [email protected] Tel: 020 7828 7311 www.buttleuk.org/index.php
Sport and Leisure Funding Opportunities Sport England - Small Grant Scheme Sport England is committed to the creation of a world-leading community sport system. This means focusing their investment on organisations and projects that will grow and sustain participation in grassroots sport and create opportunities for people to excel at their chosen
sport. They have funding programmes open to a wide range of organisations. These include sports clubs, voluntary or community organisations, local authorities, schools, colleges and universities. The Sport England Small Grants Programme has been set up to support local community sport projects which seek to increase participation, sustain participation or develop opportunities for people to excel at their chosen sport. For example, they might help a sports club expand its age range by helping it to buy extra team kit or pay additional coaching fees. Or help youth clubs work together with local sports clubs to get more young people playing sport. It is open to any bona fide not-for-profit club or association, statutory body or educational establishment. Grants of between £300 and £10,000 are available for revenue and small capital projects. The total project costs must not exceed £50,000. Application Form: apply via a single-stage online form. They offer advice and support to applicants, and the whole process, from receipt of application to decision, will take no longer than six weeks. Contact: Sport England, 3rd Floor Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square, London, WC1B 4SE Tel: 08458 508508 Fax: 020 7383 5740 Email: [email protected] W: www.sportengland.org/funding/small_grants.aspx
sported.
sported. are the UK'S leading sport for development charity, harnessing the impact that sport has on communities inspired by the Olympics and aims to demonstrate how the vibrant Voluntary and Community sector impact on local communities, sported aims to support this impact by providing resources 'to make it happen'. sported. aims to support the voluntary and community groups that use sport as a tool to overcome
local challenges targeting groups within the age range 11- 25.
Is your organisation looking to use sport to provide opportunities for youngers? Perhaps there are issues with crime and antisocial behaviour due to lack of opportunities in the evening? Your group may have identified a need to increase physical activity within a particular community; Perhaps sport is to be used to engage with particular communities which may otherwise be isolated as a way of breaking down barriers;
sported. aims to support groups looking to overcome needs such as the above and the small grants programme may be ideal to get your project off the ground.
Application Form: In order to apply for grants groups must apply for free membership on the website first. The application is online and groups must demonstrate that they are using sport for wider community benefit as opposed to participating in sport alone.
W: www.sported.org.uk/
Sport and Leisure Funding Opportunities British Film Institute (BFI)
Distribution Fund They support the distribution launch of films that have the potential to reach beyond their core market, by
championing fresh approaches in distribution and marketing that will help films find new audiences, both in cinemas and across additional platforms. The Distribution Fund has an annual budget of £4 million. The Fund will work with and be complementary to other BFI funding initiatives such as the Audience Fund and the 5-19 Education Scheme and will contribute to their strategic priority of expanding education and learning opportunities and boosting audience choice across the UK. There are four distribution funding strands, each specifically designed to address different types of films, release strategies and the associated challenges and opportunities in the marketplace, see their website for more information. Application Form: Applicants are asked to create an account on the website before completing the application form Contact: email:[email protected] www.bfi.org.uk/film-industry/lottery-funding-distribution/distribution-fund
Youth Music Programme
Youth Music’s grants programme provides funding for music-making projects in England. It is made up of
three separate funds: Fund A offers small grants for high quality music-
making projects and involves a simple application process.
Fund B offers medium-sized grants for larger programmes of work.
Fund C offers grants for strategic programmes to help embed sustainable, inclusive music-making across a local area.
To decide which fund is most suitable for your project or programme, please take a look at the table on the choose your fund page on the website below, then follow the links to the relevant guidance. Youth Music invests in music-making projects across the country, distributing funds received from the National Lottery through Arts Council England. They also undertake additional fundraising activities in order to increase the number of young people that we can help. They are a learning and research-based charity. Applications are made via website where you can also check the different deadlines for each funds. W: http://network.youthmusic.org.uk/Funding/about-youth-musics-grants-programme
National Hockey Foundation
The Trustees see their role being to encourage the development and growth of hockey by providing capital and operational
funding to the sport through clubs and educational establishments and by support to England Hockey's youth development activities. Email: [email protected] www.thenationalhockeyfoundation.com/page10.htm#q1
Funding Workshops Social Enterprise
Learning Programme
This three hour workshop is being facilitated by Kevin Balding, Head of Category for
Business Procurement at Devon County Council. He has a thorough, up to date working
knowledge of the processes involved in tendering for work and working with the council.
It will cover:
Areas organisations need to think about prior to committing themselves
Readiness to deliver public services (exploring impact and risks)
Commissioning process
How contracts are advertised
Procurement process,
Bidding for work
On Your Marks …
Get Ready … and Go Bidding
Thursday 2nd October 2014 , 10am to 1pm
Barnstaple Library, Tuly St, Barnstaple EX31 1EL Wednesday 23rd July, 9.30am to 12.30pm
Friday 14th November 2014 10am to 1pm (in partnership with Exeter CVS)
Exeter CVS, Wat Tyler House, 3 King William St, Exeter, Devon EX4 6PD
DeVA is able to offer this workshop at the subsidised rate for voluntary and community
groups in Devon. Booking early is advised and places maybe limited to two delegates from
a single organisation.
For more information and/or a booking from please visit www.devonva.org/whats_on
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Don’t forget DeVA can support you and your organisation with funding issues in many
different ways depending on your individual circumstances and needs.
Contact us at [email protected] to see how we can help!
Social Enterprise Big Issue Invest
Big Issue Invest is a specialised provider of finance to social enterprises or trading arms of charities that are
finding business solutions that create social and environmental transformation. Part of The Big Issue group of companies, it is led by social entrepreneurs with any dividends paid to The Big Issue. Big Issue Invest's Team is made up of a unique combination of social entrepreneurs, practitioners and financiers. Social entrepreneurs say that they like dealing with a unique financial organisation that has had first hand experience of building and running social enterprises in both good and difficult times. Big Issue Invest provides Loan Finance from £50,000 to £1.5 million at competitive rates of interest. BII can also arrange financing for more than £500,000, with other social finance institutions. Typically our partners are social enterprises or trading arms of charities that have been trading for three years and have a turnover of over £250,000. BII also has a Social Enterprise Investment Fund to provide long-term growth capital of up to £500,000 to high impact social enterprises that can demonstrate financial sustainability as well as growth potential. Contact: Big Issue Invest, 1-5 Wandsworth Road, London, SW8 2LN Tel: 0207 526 3434 W: http://bigissueinvest.com/
Big Society Capital
Big Society Capital will support social enterprises that can prove they are able to repay an investment through the income they generate. The fund will invest risk capital in 15 to 20 frontline organisations that are addressing some of the UK’s most pressing challenges, particularly youth unemployment, elderly care and community exclusion. What is the impact strategy? The fund will invest in organisations that seek to have a positive impact on the: 1) Health and well-being of an ageing population, including reducing avoidable injury and premature deaths of older people and increasing the number of older people participating in social, cultural and economic life 2) Educational attainment of children and the employability of young people 3) Social and environmental sustainability of communities, including increased access to products and services for people and communities experiencing exclusion. Further information as well as a set of application guidance notes can be found on the Big Society Capital website. Applications can be made via an On-line Expression of Interest and can be made anytime. W: www.bigsocietycapital.com
Multi Focus Grants The Woodward Charitable Trust awards grant funding to small-scale, locally-based charitable initiatives in the UK in the following areas: Children and young people who are isolated, at risk of exclusion or involved in anti-social behaviour. Disability projects which can include rehabilitation and training for people who are either physically
disabled or have a learning disability, as well as help to improve employment prospects.
Homelessness, especially affecting young people and women, and covering facilities such as women's refuges.
Arts outreach work by local groups for the benefit of disadvantaged people.
Environmental projects, especially those with a strong educational element.
Minority groups including refugees, gypsies and travellers. Projects that promote integration and community cohesion will be favoured.
Prisoners and ex-offenders. Projects that help the rehabilitation and resettlement of prisoners and/or ex-offenders are supported as well as requests to help prisoners’ families.
The Trust offers Small grants, £100-£5,000 (around 100 grants are made each year) and Large grants, over £5,000 (only around 6 grant are made per year). Funding is primarily for one-off projects, but the Trustees are willing to consider funding running costs, including core cost and salaries.
All applications must be supported by a detailed project budget. Applicants are asked not to send their annual report and accounts, unless these are unavailable on the Charity Commission website.
Contact the Woodward Charitable Trust for further information www.woodwardcharitabletrust.org.uk
The Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust was established in 1966 by Gordon Fraser, a publisher of books and greetings cards. The Trust offers grants to registered charities active in the UK. The scheme is intended to support projects relating to: Young People, People with Disabilities,
The Environment, and
The Arts. No minimum of maximum level of grant is advertised by the Trust. However, its annual charitable giving is in the region of £170,000 and so the majority of grants are likely to be below £5,000.
Application forms are available to complete online at the Trust's website at www.gfct.org.uk
The Norman Family Charitable Trust, a grant making Charity based in Devon, has recently celebrated passing its £7 million milestone of grant donations since it began in 1979.
In celebration of this achievement, the Trustees have decided to focus their grant making on helping:
Small, local, not for profit organisations that
May be struggling from recent cut backs, Do not have access to other sources of income,
and Are perhaps reliant on volunteers. Further details about The Norman Family Charitable Trust and how to apply for funding can be found on its website at www.nfct.org
www.devonva.org/conference Get the right deal,
at the right time!
Funding Conference
Time to think outside the box!
Tuesday 4th November 2014
Buckfast Abbey Conference Centre
The essential funding conference for
voluntary and community groups in Devon
Supported by DeVA Conference
delivered by Tiverton Town Council
WORKSHOPS to learn new skills
And don’t forget the MARKET PLACE with exhibitors and networking
GUEST SPEAKERS sharing experiences
Paul Courtney, Chair of Institute of Fundraising South West
Nicola Masters, Director of Wallace and Gromit’s Grand Appeal
Planning Successful Projects
Public Sector Procurement
Don’t be a Hero: Using Stories to grow support
Major Gift Fundraising
Social Investment
Digital Fundraising Tools
Keeping Fundraising Legal
Keep Up: Tech Trends and Fundraising
The Price is Right: Or is it?
Community Fundraising
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