DeVA (Devon Voluntary Action)

Funding Bulletin (Reduced version)

I have highlighted the funders who may be appropriate to Community Transport Organisations.Some are quite tenuous and would require lateral thinking to create a project! (Examples of Funders removed include Faith Based funding, Young People, Sport, for a full version ask your CVS or if you would like specific advice for a particular project please ask me.)

September 2013

Community led Project Support Fund

THE RIX-THOMPSON-ROTHENBERG FOUNDATION

The Marsh Christian Trust

The Armed Forces Community Covenant

O2 Think Big

TheMrs C S Heber-Percy Charitable Trust

GlaxoSmithKline IMPACT Awards - 2014
Queens Award for Voluntary Service

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - Innovation Fund

Veolia Trust

Sport England - Small Grant Scheme

Church Urban Fund - Mustard Seed Programme

Heritage Lottery Fund - Our Heritage

British Film Institute (BFI) - Distribution Fund

BIG - Reaching Communities

Anton Jurgens Trust

Yapp Charitable Trust

Clothworkers' Foundation

Grocer’s Charity

Jill Franklin Charitable Trust

Rank Foundation Ltd - small grants

Rayne Foundation - Rayne Grants

Westhill Endowment

Worshipful Company of Weavers

Bromley Trust

Paul Hamlyn Foundation – Education

The Archer Trust

Wooden Spoon Charity

Barchester Healthcare Foundation

Woodroffe Benton Foundation

Wolfson Foundation

The Rufford Foundation

RBS Inspiring Youth

Future Ready Fund - Homelessness Transistion Fund

Neighbourhood Planning - Locality

Gillette - Great Start Coaching Grant

WRAP - Rural Community Energy Fund

Boshier - Hinton Foundation

Commercial Education Trust

Naturesave Trust

Woodland Trust-Free Trees

Polden-Puckham Charitable Foundation

Ulverscroft Foundation

Jean Sainsbury Animal Welfare Trust

BBC Performing Arts Fund - Theatre

Lifelong Learning Programme (ET 2020)

Time to Change Grants

Idlewild Trust

A B Charitable trust

Dream Fund - People's Postcode Lottery

PRS for Music Foundation

Women Make Music

Church and Community Fund

Help the Homeless

Field Studies Council - Kids Fund

Education Endowment Fund

Strategic Touring Programme - Arts Council

Dowager Countess Eleanor Peel Trust

Youth Music Programme

THE RIX-THOMPSON-ROTHENBERG FOUNDATION

The Foundation seeks to support organisations undertaking projects for the education, training, care and leisure of people with disabilities.

In particular the scheme wishes to support organisations improving opportunities and lifestyle.

The Foundation provides grant aid across the UK. In 2011, the Foundation made grants totalling £120,045.

On average grants are between £1,000 and £5,000.

Recent grants have included:

Please note the Foundation will not support:

The Foundation considers grant applications at two meetings each year in June and December. All applicants must complete an application form and provide a copy of their latest audited accounts.

In the first instance the applicant should discuss the proposed work either by telephone, email or letter to the administrator, a minimum of four months in advance of a board meeting.

The Foundation does not have a website. Further information can however be obtained from the Open Charities and Charity Commission websites.

Contact details for the Rix-Thompson-Rothenburg Foundation are:

Mrs Loretto Lambe, Rix-Thompson-Rothenburg Foundation, RTR Administrative Office
White Top Research Unit, Springfield House, 15/16 Springfield, University of Dundee
Dundee, DD1 4JE, Tel: 01382 385157, E-Mail:

The Marsh Christian Trust

Their grant-making programme aims to support small registered charities through long-term core funding, in an attempt to assist these organisations to maintain their current and on-going activities.

The Trustees wish to engage in long-term support, in the form of money given on a recurring annual basis subject to yearly re-submission and review.

The Trust itself supports roughly 250 different charities per annum across various fields in the charity sector. The nature of the Trust’s funding is to support established charities and not to provide start-up costs.

The Trust allocatesjust under£300,000 each year in grants.

Grants range from £250-£4,000, with new applications at the lower end of this scale.

The main causes supported by the Marsh Christian Trust lie broadly within the following key areas of work:

• Literature, Arts and Heritage
• Social Welfare
• Environmental causes and animal welfare
• Education and Training
• Healthcare
• A small number of overseas charities

The following types of organisation may apply for funding:

• Registered charities experienced in their field of work in any of the above mentioned areas.
• Charities which have been established for more than one financial year and who can provide a full set of their most recent reports and accounts, or the equivalent of, if their annual income is under £25,000.

TheMrs C S Heber-Percy Charitable Trust

The Trust offers small grants to charitable organisations active in the UK.

The Trust aims to fund projects with general charitable purposes and allocates around £200,000 each year in grants.

In particular, the scheme is keen to fund work in the following areas:

  • Children and Young People;
  • Education;
  • The Arts and Museums;
  • Local Environment;
  • Animal Welfare;
  • Medical Care.

Charitable organisations operating in the UK are eligible to apply.

Please note the Trust does not have a website.

Further information is available on the Open Charities and the Charity Commission websites. The application process is on-going and interested applicants may apply at any time. Contact details for the Trust are:

The Trust Administrator, The Mrs C S Heber-Percy Charitable Trust, Rathbone Trust Company Limited, 1 Curzon Street, London, W1J 5FB

GlaxoSmithKline IMPACT Awards - 2014
GSK's IMPACT Awards are designed to reward charities that are doing excellent work to improve people's health. Organisations must be at least three years old, working in a health-related field in the UK with income between 10,000 and 1.5 million.
Deadline: 20 September 2013

Queens Awardfor Voluntary Service
The Queens Award for Voluntary Service is the highest award given to volunteer groups across the UK for outstanding work done in their local communities.
Deadline: 30 September 2013

BIG - Reaching Communities
Reaching Communities funds projects that help people and communities most in need. Projects can be new or existing, or be the core work of your organisation.

Anton Jurgens Trust
Provides financial support to organisations and institutions aiming to serve general social objectives, or individuals striving to provide general social service.

Yapp Charitable Trust
Grants for small registered charities to sustain their existing work with: elderly people, children and young people aged 5 - 25, people with disabilities or mental health problems, people trying to overcome social life-limiting problems, education.

Clothworkers' Foundation
The Clothworkers Foundation aims through its funding to improve the quality of life, particularly for people and communities facing disadvantage.

Grocer’s Charity
Financial support for UK-registered charities, with the selection of recipients being regularly reviewed in line with a policy to support specific areas of need. The relief of poverty (including youth poverty) and help for the disabled usually take priority, with medicine, the arts, heritage, the Church and the elderly also designated.

Rayne Foundation -Rayne Grants
Arts, Education, Health & Medicine, and Social Welfare & Development. Within these four broad sectors, the Foundation encourages applications that apply to their evolving list of areas of special interest, which are on the web-site.

Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Education
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation has advised that some of the guidelines for the 'Supplementary education' theme under its Education and Learning Programme Open Grants Scheme have been updated.

Barchester Healthcare Foundation
The Barchester Healthcare Foundation is a registered charity that helps older people and other adults with a disability across England, Scotland & Wales. They hope that their grants will help people lead more fulfilled lives and reach their full potential.

Woodroffe Benton Foundation
The Foundation gives preference to: Financial assistance to those in need as a result of disaster or by reason of social and economic circumstances; the provision of care for the sick and elderly; the promotion of education; conservation and improvement of the environment.

Neighbourhood Planning - Locality
The Supporting Communities in Neighbourhood Planning programme will support groups developing neighbourhood plans by providing advice and support and grant payments up to £7,000.

Boshier - Hinton Foundation
The Boshier-Hinton Foundation exists to improve quality of life for people with disabilities or learning difficulties, and their families, by the awarding of grants.

A B Charitable trust
Charities that work with vulnerable, marginalised and excluded people in society, with a focus on: refugees and victims of torture, prisoners, older people, people with mental health problems Jan, April, July, Sept decisions
Deadline: 20 September 2013

Dream Fund - People's Postcode Lottery
The Dream Fund gives organisations the chance to deliver the project they have always dreamed of, but never had the opportunity to bring to life. Registered charities and community organisations in Scotland, England and Wales can join forces to apply for up to £250,000 to deliver a new and innovative 12-month project
Deadline: 20 September 2013

Dowager Countess EleanorPeel Trust
Emphasis on helping medical charities and research, old people, and those who have fallen on evil days through no fault of their own medical charities including medical research, charities in connection with old people
Deadline: 5 October 2013

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