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Please see our most recent funding bulletin... don't forget to get in touch with us if you need any advice with funding applications...
Today’s bulletin includes:
- Arts Council - Strategic Touring Programme
- Biffa Award – Flagship Scheme
- Crowdfunding Directory
- Heritage Lottery Fund - Heritage Grants Programme
- Nominet Trust
- Raj K Soni Legacy Fund - Longest Swim
- Screwfix Foundation
Arts Council - Strategic Touring Programme
The focus of the programme is for people across England
Arts Council England aims to encourage:
- All of those involved in touring to play an active role in ensuring that high quality art successfully reaches more people and places across
- A positive change in collaborative behaviour between all of those involved in creating and programming work which tours.
- More effective touring, programming and audience development of high quality work on tour including, in particular, work by and for children and young people, and work by and for people from diverse backgrounds.
- Promoters, and the communities they serve, given opportunities to influence the kinds of art created to tour, from the beginning of the artistic process.
- More promoters improving their knowledge and skills in creative commissioning, programming and audience development.
- Those creating and managing work on tour demonstrating how they have placed the people and venues they tour to at the centre of their work.
- More people involved in creating and managing work on tour improving their knowledge and skills in touring and audience development.
Grants Available: From £10,000
Deadline: 14 June 2013
Contact:Enquiries Team,Arts Council England , Arts Council England 14 Great Peter Street , London , SW1P 3NQ
Telephone: 0845 300 6200
(East Sussex Council)
Biffa Award – Flagship Scheme
Grants are available for large scale cultural facilities and biodiversity projects of regional and national significance. Applicant organisations must be registered, or able to register, with ENTRUST.
The following criteria also apply:
- Projects must be within 25 miles of a Biffa Operation - a postcode checker is provided on the Biffa Award website.
- Projects must be within ten miles of a landfill site.
- Projects must demonstrate partnership working.
- There must be a need for the project and applicants must demonstrate how the project will be nationally or regionally significant.
Grant Available: £150,000 to £500,000
Deadline: 20 August 2013
Contact: Biffa Award, Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts, The Kiln, Waterside, Mather Road , Newark Notts , NG24 1WT
Email: sahovell@rswt.org (Sally Hovell, Grants Officer)
Telephone: 01636 670049
(Grant Advisor)
Crowdfunding Directory
The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) has developed an online directory which lists all the crowdfunding sites in the UK
The online directory, aptly named Crowdingin.com, will be of special interest to voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations as it provides another funding source.
· Nesta estimates that last year almost £200 million was invested through crowdfunding in the UK
· If one considers the global impact of crowdfunding in 2012, that figure rises to almost $2.7 billion raised by crowdfunders, helping more than one million new projects.
· The directory will assist two types of users: those who are seeking to raise finance and those who are providing finance.
· Crowdingin.com currently lists 31 sites, each featuring a summary of their services and their conditions of use. To make it easier to navigate between the different sites, the directory allows users to filter by the version of crowdfunding they are seeking (lending, equity, donation or reward) and what type of projects they help launch (social, creative or business).
· In addition, NESTA has published a free short practical guide that can be downloaded from Nesta’s website. Entitled ‘Working the Crowd’ the guide provides an overview of how crowdfunding works, and it illustrated how crowdfunding can help finance projects in different areas of society, from the community and voluntary sector to the creative industries.
Contact: 1 Plough Place , London , EC4A 1DE
Telephone: 0207 438 2500
Email: information@nesta.org.uk
(Grant Advisor)
Heritage Lottery Fund - Heritage Grants Programme
Heritage Grants is the main grants programme offering grants of more than £50,000 for projects that relate to the national, regional or local heritage of the UK
- To receive a grant your project must help people to learn about their own and other people’s heritage. Your project must also do either or both of the following:
- conserve the
- help more people, and a wider range of people, to take an active part in and make decisions about heritage
Grant Available: Over £50,000
Deadline: 13 June 2013
Contact: 7 Holbein Place , London , SW1W 8NR
Telephone: 020 7591 6000
E-mail: enquire@hlf.org.uk
(East Sussex Council)
Nominet Trust
Grants are available for organisations to carry out UK-based or international projects that use digital technology to improve the lives of the disadvantaged and vulnerable and to strengthen communities. One of the objectives for the Trust is to re-engage young people in building an inclusive, healthier, more equal and economically viable society. Funding is available for the following types of projects:
· Innovative projects that use digital technologies in new ways to support young people to participate in their communities both socially and economically.
- Projects that encourage young people to be involved in co-designing solutions that benefit them – from concept stage through to final evaluation.
- Projects that build the skills young people require to access employment or education opportunities.
- The Trust has invested in projects lasting six months that require £2,500 to deliver, and those seeking in excess of £250,000 over a two-year duration.
- The Trust will consider funding any length of project up to a maximum of three years.
Grant Available: There is no upper or lower funding limit
Deadline: 4 September 2013
Contact: Enquiries, Nominet Trust, Minerva House, Edmund Halley Road , Oxford Oxford , OX4 4DQ
Telephone: 01865 334000
Email: enquiries@nominettrust.org.uk
(UK
Raj K Soni Legacy Fund - Longest Swim
Something a little bit special is happening on Midsummer’s Day this year. Portishead Open Air Swimming Pool is hosting ‘the Longest Swim On The Longest Day’ to raise money for the Raj K Soni Legacy Fund.
This Fund has been set up in memory of eighteen-year old Raj Soni who died tragically last summer in a cycling accident.
- This is a charity swim for all ages, shapes and sizes, although as a finale, some ex-Olympians will be pitted against each other in relays to see who can do the most lengths in 30 minutes.
- Running from 7 am to 8 pm the swim will attract hundreds of swimmers and will be followed by a well deserved hog roast and barbecue.
- Anyone can take part and all the funds raised will be used to provide musical and sporting opportunities for young people.
Email: info@rajksoni.org.uk
Telephone: 07796 953414 / 07767 204540
(Quartet Community Foundation)
The award scheme will reopen on Monday 3rd June. The Santander Social Enterprise Development Award aims to support social businesses that are looking to grow and develop their organisation in order to improve their local community through social and environment outcomes.
The Objectives of the SEDA are:
- To support enterprising community organisations that address disadvantaged groups, demonstrating
- To target established social enterprises (more than two years of trading) looking to grow their business
- To support enterprising community organisations that are working for the direct benefit of their community
Grants Available:
- Segment A:A £50,000 prize for social enterprises with a turnover of £250,000 - £500,000
- Segment B:A £30,000 prize for social enterprises with a turnover of £100,000 - £250,000
- Segment C: A £15,000 prize for social enterprises with a turnover of up to £100,000
Deadline: 1 July 2013
Contact: Online Enquiry Form
(Quartet Community Foundation)
Screwfix Foundation
Grants are available to UK registered charities for projects that fix, repair, maintain and improve properties and community facilities for those in need across the UK
- The money for the funding is being raised through staff fundraising events in Screwfix’s 280 stores as well as collection boxes.
- The Foundation is working with both national and local charities across the
Grant Available: No set amount
Deadline: Applications can be made at any time
Contact: Matthew Smith, The Screwfix Foundation, Trade House, Mead Avenue Houndstone Business Park , Yeovil , BA22 8RT
Email: online@screwfix.com
Telephone: 01935 414100
(Grant Advisor)
Plans are well underway for the Quartet Community Foundation conference for 300 colleagues, trustees and donors from across the UK and internationally which is being hosted in Bristol
Contact: Caroline.duckworth@quartetcf.org.uk
(Quartet Community Foundation)
