LATEST FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
OCTOBER 2017
Details of some of the latest funding opportunities are listed below:
Erewash Voluntary Action Small Grants Scheme
Small grants are available through the Erewash Small Grants Scheme for local Erewash community and voluntary groups. Groups can apply for up to £1,500 as long as projects meet at least one of the health priorities of the scheme. The aim of the grant is to help improve services and opportunities for local people. Funding can help support things like equipment, events, activities and guest speakers.
Applications can be made at any time using the grant application form.
For further details contact Catriona Paterson Development Worker at Erewash Voluntary Action or telephone 0115 9466740.
Erewash Voluntary Action manages the small grants scheme in partnership with Erewash Clinical Commissioning Group, Erewash Borough Council and Derbyshire County Council Adult Care.
Erewash Borough Council – Community Grant Scheme
Erewash Borough Council'sCommunity Grant Scheme gives both large and small voluntary organisations the chance to apply for funding of up to £2,000 for projects and services that benefit Erewash residents. The Councilhas continued its support in 2017/18 for voluntary organisations andhas again made fundingavailableto help as many groups as possible.
The next closing date for applications is 9.00 am Monday 13 November 2017.
For further information contact Colin Handley Community Engagement Officer Telephone 0115 9072244 ext. 3575 or email
Foundation Derbyshire
Foundation Derbyshire offers a wide range of funding programmes with most grants up to £2,000. Grants are available for voluntary and community groups usually for a 12 month period.
For further information - http://www.foundationderbyshire.org/
Contact the grants team 01773 525860 or email
Big Kirk Hallam Community Chest
The Big Kirk Hallam community chest opens in October. Applications have to be supported by 2 residents from Kirk Hallam and it has to fit in with the themes of Big Kirk Hallam plan.
Contact Jsan Shepherd email or Telephone 07952 314622.
For further information follow the link:
https://bigkirkhallam.wordpress.com/2017/10/11/community-chest/
Connected Communities Innovation Fund
OCS, in partnership with Nesta, has launched a £4m Connected Communities Innovation Fund, to get more people aged 50 and over into volunteering roles alongside public services. The ‘Connected Communities Innovation Fund’ will test and scale innovations which address social issues including helping to bring communities closer together, reducing environmental waste and utilising digital solutions to enable volunteering opportunities.
The fund is now open to expressions of interest for organisations throughout England: eligible projects are invited to submit a short expression of interest by midday on the 30 October 2017.
This £4 million fund will build on work that is already underway to encourage more people aged over 50 to volunteer:
For further information follow the link:
www.nesta.org.uk/news/ps4million-grants-boost-volunteering-among-over-50s
Central England Co-Op Fund
Applicants must be a full member of Central England Co-Op. The fund supports community projects including supporting activities, improving school playgrounds and building kitchen facilities. Grants of between £100 - £5,000 are available.
Closing date for applications is 27 October 2017
For further information follow the link: https://www.centralengland.coop/community
Sport England – Tackling Inactivity Funding
People in lower socio-economic groups are twice as likely to be inactive – that means they do less than 30 minutes of physical activity a week. Just 17% of people in the highest socio-economic groups are inactive, compared to almost 40% in the lowest group.
Sport England has launching a £3 million fund on to tackle inactivity and economic disadvantage.
The funding – part of our dedicated fund to tackle inactivity – is about more than getting people active. At the heart of it is using sport and physical activity to improve lives and communities.
Sport and physical activity can be extremely powerful in supporting positive social change for communities and individuals, and Sport England want potential partners to tell us how they’ll do this. That could mean using sport or activity to improve someone’s mental wellbeing, help drive down crime rates in an area, or reduce social isolation.
Sport England are looking for partners who really understand people in these groups, including the barriers that stop them from being active and the motivations that would encourage activity. Investment in projects that deliver what people really want and need, putting them first as the customer. Sport England is expecting applications from a range of organisations, including non-sports organisations that they have not worked with before.
Two parts of the fund - Tackling Inactivity and Economic Disadvantage will be split between two funding pots. A £2 million pot of funding will support larger projects from £25,000 up to a maximum of £500,000 for an exceptional project. This will be for people who have little take-home pay, some qualifications and are in employment. They live very ordered lives but find it hard to build physical activity into their lives, or they feel being active is just not for them.
A second £1m pot will support projects between £25,000 and £100,000. This will focus on people who are far less likely to have a steady income, or any income at all, and who live less ordered lives with additional challenges.
Sport England is also setting aside 5% of the overall budget (£150,000) from across the two pots to fund small awards between £1,000 and £10,000. This will support smaller scale projects.
Sport England want to be innovative and test out bold ideas. To support projects that are in their infancy but have good potential to meet objectives, there is a development award to allow organisations to develop their proposal and ideas.
The deadline for expressions of interest for large grant applications and for small grants is 6 November 2017.
For further information follow the link:
https://www.sportengland.org/news-and-features/news/2017/august/4/tackling-inactivity-and-economic-disadvantage/
The time table can be found here:
https://www.sportengland.org/media/12204/timeline-for-tackling-inactivity-and-economic-disadvantage-funding.pdf
Grow Your Tenner
Local Giving campaign turning tenners into twenties is back for a sixth year. The Grow Your Tenner campaign starts again on 17 October and closes on 16 November.
For further information follow the link: https://localgiving.org/what-we-do/campaigns/grow-your-tenner
Tesco Bags of Help
Bags of Help is Tesco’s exciting local community grant scheme where the money raised by the sale of carrier bags is being used to fund thousands of local projects in communities right across the UK.
Projects that bring benefit to their community will get the green light – these range from improving community buildings and outdoor spaces to buying new equipment, training coaches or volunteers and hosting community events.
For further information follow the link:
https://www.groundwork.org.uk/Sites/tescocommunityscheme
FUNDING REMINDERS
Greggs Foundation – Local Community Projects Fund
The Local Community Projects Fund awards grants of up to £2,000 to enable not for profit organisations to do something they otherwise couldn’t afford to.
Local Community Projects Funding is offered to organisations supporting people in need. Any not for profit organisation can apply, however, larger organisations with a turnover in excess of £300,000 are unlikely to be successful.
The foundation is interested in projects that improve resilience within your community. This can include sessional activities/respite support, equipment for sessional activities, trips and residential breaks. They are also interested in new approaches and innovative ideas as well as sustainable approaches to supporting your community. Running costs or continuation of existing and ongoing work will not be funded.
All projects must support a community of interest, i.e. people who are:
• • Disabled or suffering chronic illness
• • Living in poverty
• • Voluntary carers
• • Homeless people
• • Isolated older people
• • Other demonstrable significant need
Successful applicants should be able to demonstrate improvements against at least one of our Key Performance. Targets to be successful for a grant:
• • Beneficiaries have decreased social isolation
• • Beneficiaries report improved health and wellbeing
• • Beneficiaries report improved resilience/coping mechanisms
• • Beneficiaries have improved life skills
• • Beneficiaries have improved opportunities
Grants to local organisations that have a Greggs shop in their region are more likely to be supported. Use the shop locator on the Greggs website to find your nearest shop.
For further information follow the link:
https://www.greggsfoundation.org.uk/grants/local-community-projects-fund
Derbyshire County Council Community Leadership Scheme
The member’s Community Leadership Scheme allocates to each of the 64 county councillors an annual fund of £3,860. Organisations seeking support under the scheme should contact their local county councillor explaining the nature of the project, amount sought and how it will benefit the community. The scheme is designed to meet one-off costs.
For further information follow the link:
http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/council/policies_plans/community_leadership/
For any further details please contact:
Catriona Paterson – Development Worker
Erewash Voluntary Action
Granville Centre
Granville Avenue
Long Eaton
Derbyshire
NG10 4HD
Tel: 0115 9466740
Email:
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