Other Funding Sources
Barclays Programme & Bright Ideas Grants – programmes to support development of services for older people.
Small grants scheme which enables clubs/organisations to apply for between £300 - £10,000 of Lottery funding. The scheme provides primarily revenue funding for example to fund coaching or training courses, publicity materials, equipment, start up costs and volunteers expenses.
Funding available for projects working with children & young people affected by:
- Illness, distress, abuse or neglect
- Disability
- Behavioural or psychological impairment
- Living in poverty or situations of deprivation
Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation
This is one of the few big trusts that will, in principle, fund any kind of charitable activity in the UK, and which offers no information on the criteria by which one application is preferred to another.
For further information: Tel: 020 7408 2198
Main Grants, Community and Small Grants Scheme - Biffa award grants to projects that provide or improve community spaces, cultural facilities and places for outdoor recreation.
Big Lottery Fund is responsible for giving out half the money for good causes raised by the National Lottery, giving a budget of about £630 million a year. They are committed to bringing real improvements to communities and the lives of people most in need.
The scheme provides £50 to £500 (at retail cost) of B&Q materials, for example, pond liners, plants, peat-free compost for projects such as a pond/wildlife garden or paints labelled low or minimal VOC for redecoration projects.
The vision of the Church Urban Fund is to bring about lasting and positive change in the lives of those most on the margins of society – through investing resources, influencing change makers, and impacting on the causes of poverty.
Commonwealth Youth Exchange Visits
Grants are given towards the costs of two way exchange visits.
All projects are considered, however it is a requirement that the organisation should first register their details upon the main UkVillages.co.uk website
Community Loan for East Midlands
Provides loans to economically viable not for profit organisations.
Co-op Community Dividend Fund - Making a Difference
Will fund projects that can ‘Make a Difference’ to people within a community.
The programme aims are: To empower young people with appropriate support, to foster community safety and to encourage young people to be responsible members of the community.
The Foyle Foundation is an independent grantmaking trust that distributes grants to UK charities whose core work is in the areas of Learning, the Arts and Health.
The foundation have helped a wide range of organisations with grants of varying sizes. Their recent rounds of funding have helped projects in the following categories: Arts, Community, Education, Welfare, Medical, Social, Religion, Youth and Environment.
Goaldiggers Charitable Trust
Make small grants for kick about areas for children and young people.
For further information contact 0207 8335360
Grassroots Grants (Northamptonshire Community Foundation)
- community events and local community activities
- small scale training, rental and staffing costs
- equipment purchases, such as computers or kitchen facilities and rental costs
- large items of equipment (£1,000 or over)
Grassroots Grants can also be used to build on an existing project, which the Foundation may have already funded.
For further information contact 01604 230033
Heart Research
Heart Research UK Healthy Heart Grants support innovative projects deigned to promote heart health and to prevent or reduce the risks of heart disease in specific groups or communities.
Hedley Foundation
A charitable foundation which supports young people, the disabled and the terminally ill.
Henry Smith Charity
Sport and leisure activities are not normally considered except those solely and specifically for the rehabilitation and/or training of the disabled and holidays or outings for children from areas of severe deprivation or children with a disability.
Laing’s Charitable Trust
Recently the Trust has concentrated its support on charities that support the following main themes: Education, Homelessness and in particular day centres and their work with health related aspects of homeless people, Disadvantaged young people, community regeneration. An increasing amount is also being set aside under the heading of Environment.
Lloyds TSB Foundation
East Midlands priorities: Rural disadvantage, diverse minority communities and older people
The Local Network Fund
The Local Network Fund (LNF) for Children and Young People supports small voluntary and community groups to improve outcomes and opportunities for children and young people aged 0-19
Low Carbon Buildings
Department of Trade and Industry programme, with the grant giving 50% of the cost of buying and installing microgeneration technology.
Nationwide Foundation
The aims and priorities of the small grants programme are:
To promote the well-being of young men, women and children whose lives have been affected by domestic violence and to reduce the prevalence of domestic violence through increased service provision, education and awareness raising
To improve the quality of life of families with a member or members in prison, through the provision of services responsive to their needs
To provide young people who are or have been involved with the criminal justice system with a rehabilitation programme designed to obtain the skills, confidence and personal support networks to enable them to lead fulfilled and successful lives
02 Its Your Community
Awards are available to local groups and individuals, for anything that you can show will benefit your community.
Sita
The trust support community improvement projects around landfill sites owned by the waste management company SITA UK and nature projects around any landfill site in England.
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation
An independent grant making body funding organisations whose charitable activities help people to realise their potential and have a better quality of life.
The Trusthouse Charitable Trust
The Trustees will consider applications from anywhere in the UK, especially those concerned with areas of deprivation for projects linking to Health Care & Disability, Community Support and Education and the Arts.
UnLtd Awards
UnLtd's Millennium Awards provide practical and financial support to social entrepreneurs in the UK; people with vision, passion, drive and commitment, who want to change the world for the better.
V
V run several grant programmes with direct relation to youth volunteering.
Wakeham Trust
The trust has no criteria for funded activity but most of the projects supported share the following characteristics:
It is something new for this particular area
Is it smallIt doesn’t have paid staff
It is not well established
It has the potential to become self supporting
It is outward looking and helps lots of people
Weavers Company Benevolent Fund
The fund will support projects in the following categories:
Helping disadvantaged young people
Offenders and ex-offenders, particularly those under 30 years of age
Community Spaces programme (run by Groundwork UK) This £50m programme is for community groups who want to improve local green spaces such as play areas, community gardens, parks, wildlife areas and village greens.
WNDC Stronger Communities Fund ((Northamptonshire Community Foundation)
The Stronger Communities Fund is a grant programme funded by the West Northamptonshire Development Corporation (WNDC). The fund has been set up by WNDC to support cultural and sporting activities delivered by the Voluntary and Community Sector working in areas likely to be affected by the growth of Daventry, Towcester and Northampton (including the villages and communities immediately adjacent to those towns.
Northamptonshire Community Foundation is the budget holder and delivery agent for the fund working on behalf of WNDC. The programme will run for three years from October 2008 to March 2011.