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There are thousands of pounds worth of grants available that can be used for many different things. These grants may be small or large (£250 - £50 000+), using local or national funding, one-off or ongoing.
We have decided to use our access to this information to trial advertising some of the sources that you may not realise exist. New grant information will appear as we find out about them.
Information will stay on this site until after the submission date so that you won’t miss any opportunities
As a taster the grant sources below are offering grants between
£250 and £1 000 000 !
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is on maternity leave at present!
We are endeavouring to keep this page up-to-date
The Grassroots website has links to a large number of other sources and
there are 14 links to other funding sources here
Sources of Grants
Grassroots Grants for Grassroots Groups
Grassroots Grants is a National Programme that aims to invest in a thriving community sector across the whole of the UK to build stronger and more active communities. Leeds Community Foundation (LCF) has been appointed the “Local Funder” for Leeds.
The Grant aims to support small, largely volunteer led community organisations and groups, often with limited resources, have been in existence for at least 12 months, and has an annual income of less than £20,000 (averaged over last 3 years). These grants are intended for projects and activities that will build their capacity and address local needs.
It will enable the support of communities with small grants until December 2010. You can apply for a grant of up to £5,000.
The minimum you can apply for is £250. The maximum amount that can be awarded to any community or voluntary group is £5,000. You could receive more than one grant over the life of the programme, as long as the total received does not exceed £5,000.
The grants are intended to benefit the community so can be very wide-ranging, including: the purchase of equipment, support for community events, training and staffing costs, overhead and rent costs etc. Applications for capital items (£500 or over) are welcome. Who can apply?
Voluntary and community groups
Your group would need a constitution or governing documents, but does not need to be registered as a charity
Your group needs to be have been established and active in your local community since at least 31 December 2006
Volunteer led groups
Your group would need to be run mainly by volunteers
Income of less than £20,000
Your income would need to be less than £20,000 per year taken as an average of the previous three years (or since your group was established if it is less than three years old)
Groups meeting local need
Your group would need to show how it is meeting the needs of local people
For more information about applying:
1. Read the Grassroots Grants Guidance Notes. These can be found on our website:
www.leedscommunityfoundation.org.uk
2. Email grassroots@leedscommunityfoundation.org.uk for a copy of the guidance
3. If you are still not sure if you can apply, tell LCF a bit about your project or activity by sending an email to grassroots@leedscommunityfoundation.org.uk
Leeds Community Foundation, 1st Floor, 6 Lisbon Square, Leeds LS1 4LY
Telephone: 0113 242 2426
There is also a mass of information about a variety of grant sources on the Grassroots website giving details of over 40 funding bodies.
The following links will take you to other websites with lots and lots of funding sources!
Funding and Finance - This is a space for you to find out about all of the latest information on funding for your project. This includes background information on fundraising and funding streams, as well as up to date information on current funds.
Funding websites - There are a number of websites around that are well worth checking regularly for funding updates. If you are running a community/voluntary organisation, it’s worth having a look at . . .
page topWilkinson Hardware Stores - Helping Hand Scheme
The Helping Hand Scheme provides vouchers and financial support to voluntary and community groups near their stores. They are interested in supporting education, family, sports and arts projects and have also supported fundraising events see
http://corporate.wilkinsonplus.com/corp/wilkinson_charity.asp?SubMenu=LatestNews
WREN changes funding guidance and application forms
About WREN
Waste Recycling Environmental Limited (WREN) was established in 1997. WREN is a company limited by guarantee and a non-profit making Environmental Body (EB) registered to fund projects which are “eligible” under the Landfill Communities Fund.
WREN receives the majority of its funding from the landfill tax levied by Waste Recycling Group. Some funding is also received from Yorkshire Water and distributed in the form of grants.
From http://www.wren.org.uk :
"Important Announcement!
The level of demand for WREN funding during 2008 has been unprecedented and there are signs that this demand has yet to peak, particularly since other funding streams are reducing. This has resulted in an increase in the number of applications received by WREN, and also the highest level of declines. Despite this in 2008 WREN recorded its highest level of grants awarded.
In order to safeguard a high level of service and ensure that funding continues to be available to those communities that this scheme was designed to support, a series of measures are planned by WREN and will be effective from the 19th March, 2009
(the day after the closing date for the next round of applications).
The WREN funding policy has been updated with changes that prevent WREN from accepting
any further applications of the following nature:
• Projects located at single sports
facilities
• Projects located within schools or on school grounds
• Community cafes
•
Community Art and/or sculpture
• Litter bins, dog bins and lampposts
• Scout halls
and other uniformed HQs where there is no evidence of wider community use
• Projects
located at Local Authority owned and/or managed leisure centres and swimming pools
•
Theatres and/or cinemas
Also from the 19th March, 2009 WREN will now only accept applications from within 10 miles of active WRG landfill sites."
"WREN has also introduced revised application forms for the Main Grant Scheme
(applications for £15,001 to £50,000 of WREN funding) and the Small Grant Scheme
(applications for £2,000 to £15,000). It is essential that applications after 19th March, 2009 use the correct application form (see how to apply) to prevent applications being returned unprocessed."
Further details at http://www.wren.org.uk/how-to-apply
For the full announcement visit
http://www.wren.org.uk/news/archive/important-announcement or
telephone WREN on 01953 717165 for details.
Community grants, West Yorkshire Learning Consortium
FAN (Funding Advice Network) members may be interested to know that this is the ESF small grants programme mentioned in many FAN meeting minutes.
Information from WYLC: (further updates to follow)
Grants of between £2,000 and £12,000 are available for small voluntary and community organisations in Yorkshire and the Humber that provide learning opportunities, which help unemployed people aged 18+ move closer towards a job or training. (note: for this fund, 'small' is defined as having 9 or less full time equivalent employees and a turnover of under £300,000 per year). Organisations that have previously received ESF funds will need to refer to the application guidelines for more information on eligibility.
Community Grants are targeted at the following priority groups:
* People with disabilities
& health conditions
* Lone parents
* People aged 50 and over
* People from BME communities
The grant programme is funded by the Learning and Skills Council through the European Social Fund. The local delivery partner for Community Grants in West Yorkshire is West Yorkshire Learning Consortium.
The programme in West Yorkshire was officially launched on 30 January. For further information, guidance notes and an application form visit the West Yorkshire Learning consortium website www.wylc.org.uk
For any further enquiries, please email communitygrants@wylc.org.uk
Groups can apply at any time and there are regular deadlines (approximately every 8 weeks) for assessing bids. A schedule is attached.
Please note that applications need to be sent directly to Humberside Learning Consortium, Goodwin Centre, Ice House Road Hull HU3 2HQ. Not WYLC.
South Pennines LEADER Small Grants Fund
What is the South Pennines LEADER Small Grants Fund?
* It is available for rural community projects that require grant funding up to £2,000,
representing 50% of the total project cost;
* It is available for projects that seek to meet at least some of the objectives, outcomes
and priorities of the LEADER programme;
* It has a simple one stage application process; It is open for business throughout the year."
In Bradford district the following wards are eligible (for further details contact Pennine Prospects direct):
- Bingley Rural (part)
- Worth Valley
- Craven
- Ilkley (part)
- Keighley East (part)
- Bingley (part)
- Wharfedale (part)
The LEADER priorities are:
1. Realising the unexploited potential of recreational use of the area’s cultural heritage;
2. Creating a collective voice and cultural image for the South Pennines;
3. Improving knowledge of our heritage : research and development;
4. Promoting artistic and creative interpretation of our landscape;
5. Improving remote service provision;
6. Promoting sustainable community facilities;
7. Optimising use of rural spaces : improved and extended use of community buildings;
8. Improving the historic public realm;
9. Improving access points and community information;
10. Promoting use of land for community recreational benefit .
Further details about the programme are available from
http://www.pennineprospects.co.uk/programmes/?c=LEADER or
contact Ruth Hair, South Pennines LEADER Project Manager
telephone 01422 846049 or 07775 704282
email Ruth.Hair@calderdale.gov.uk
Download more information as a pdf leaflet here (800kb)
Community Cashback Scheme
"Community Cashback is a new scheme in England and Wales which gives local people a say in how £4million of recovered criminal assets (for example confiscated cash or property) should be spent in their communities."
For examples of the kinds of project that could be funded visit http://cashback.cjsonline.gov.uk/examples.html
The criteria for projects are:
· "The projects should be related to nuisance, anti-social or criminal behaviour or its impact on the community
· Projects could focus on one or several neighbourhoods
· Projects should be community focused and make a noticeable difference on the community
· Projects must demonstrate value for money, be able to be delivered quickly and their impact should be clearly evaluated
· Outcomes must be visible to the community"
From http://cashback.cjsonline.gov.uk/how.html :
"How the scheme works
The five steps are:
1. You can suggest a project
The details and suitability are checked by your Local
Criminal Justice Board (LCJB)
Successful projects are then placed on this website
so that you can have your say
2. You can have your say on your preferred project
The LCJB shortlists the best projects
which in total are within the maximum bid amount for each area of £95,000
The shortlist
is then submitted to the central panel* for scrutiny
3. The central panel checks the suggested project bids against the project criteria
4. Funding is approved
5. Results of successful projects are published on this site"
For further details visit
Youth Music, next deadline 10 August
Youth Music have launched their open grants programme.
Grants of £5,000 to £30,000 are available for projects that support the Youth Music goals of:
· Early Years
· Challenging Circumstances
· Encouraging Talent and Potential
From the eligibility criteria:
· "Youth Music funds organisations that work with children and young people between the ages of 0 and 18 years.
· It also funds work with young people up to the age of 25 when they are: in detention, have special educational needs or have disabilities.
· Youth Music projects can run for between 6 and 24 months.
· Youth Music can only fund activity and organisations in England. Eligible organisations will have been legally constituted for at least 1 year and will have at least 1 year’s set of accounts.
· Youth Music cannot fund organisations that are limited by shares or are a limited
liability
company."
· For the full list of eligibility criteria visit http://www.youthmusic.org.uk/assets/files/OP2009EligibilityCriteria.pdf
Advice from the funder: "Allow plenty of time to put your application together and submit well in advance of the closing date"
The next deadline for applications is 10 August. Following deadlines are 10 November 2009, 10 February 2010 and 10 May 2010.
For further details and an application form visit http://www.youthmusic.org.uk/looking_for_music_funding/Open_programme.html or
telephone 020 7902 1060 or
email info@youthmusic.org.uk
Cash 4 Clubs small grants, no deadline
Small grants of £250, £500 and £1,000 are available under this scheme. Sports clubs that are registered with their National Governing body or local authority can apply and there is no restriction on the type of sport or activities - the club just needs to be helping its local community.
This is a national fund and a limited amount of grants have been made so far - see
http://cash-4-clubs.com/past-winners/ for the list. Grants are awarded on a quarterly basis and groups can apply at any time.
From the website "Cash 4 Clubs has a very open policy with regards to what our sports grants can be used for. We will consider a wide variety of funding requests from all clubs whether they are mainstream or minority sports."
For further details and an application form visit http://www.cash-4-clubs.com