Dear PLANS readers,
In addition to the exciting Health Lifestyles funding opportunity open for applications until 26 July 2013, please see our most recent funding bulletin below. This weekend is the last chance to apply for the Tesco Charity Trust Community Awards until funding reopens in December 2013!
Enjoy the weekend and good luck with your future funding applications!
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” –Napoleon Hill
Today’s bulletin includes:
- Big Society Capital
- Free trees for school, community and youth groups
- Garfield Weston Foundation
- Paul Bush Foundation
- Quartet Community Foundation – Express Grants Programme
- Reaching Communities
- Sport England - Community Sport Activation Fund
- Tesco Charity Trust Community Awards
- Yapp Charitable Trust
- Youth Contract
Big Society Capital
Big Society Capital has launched a £600 million fund to finance grassroots social projects. Big Society Capital will support social enterprises that can prove they are able to repay an investment through the income they generate. The scheme will be financed by £400 million from dormant bank accounts, with the remaining £200 million coming from Britain's four largest high street banks - HSBC, RBS, Barclays and Lloyds. So far, the fund has agreed investments worth £3.6 million in five schemes. These include the Community Generation Fund, which supports the development of renewable energy infrastructure, and Franchising Works, which trains unemployed people to run a franchise business.
Social Investment Finance Intermediaries (SIFIs) based and working within the UK may apply for loans of between £500,000 and £15 million.
SIFIs should be providing investment and support to social sector organisations in the following broad areas: ageing, children and families, community development, criminal justice, disability, education, employment; financial inclusion, healthy living, housing and shelter, market infrastructure and mental health.
Expressions of Interest can be made at any time.
Tel: 020 7186 2500
(East Sussex Council)
Free trees for school, community and youth groups
Pre-schools, schools, colleges and universities can apply now to Woodland Trust for free trees to plant in November.
Twice a year, the Woodland Trust gives away free trees to community groups, youth groups and schools in an effort to create more woodlands throughout the UK. According to the Trust, the UK has just 11.8% of tree cover, one of the lowest in Europe, and the Trust wants to change that by creating a UK rich in native woods and trees. This can be done relatively quickly because a saplings planted today will take 12 years to flourish into young woods.
This autumn the Trust will be giving away 4,000 free tree packs. Schools can apply for three different sized packs, small, medium and large consisting of 30 trees worth £30, 105 trees worth £105, or 420 trees worth £420. The packs come in a choice of themes – small copse, small hedge, wildlife, year-round colour, wild harvest, wetland and wood fuel – and are designed to help groups choose the right species mix for their local area.
Trees must be planted on one publicly accessible site with permission from the legal landowner, with support from the community where the trees are to be planted and community involvement in the project.
Tree Planting Packs Available: Small (30 saplings), Medium (105 saplings), Large (240 saplings).
Deadline: 13/09/2013
Contact:
large school packs)
(East Sussex Council)
Garfield Weston Foundation
One-off grants are available to charitable organisations in the UK for a wide range of projects in the Arts, Community, Education, Welfare, Medical, Youth, Religion, and Environment. The total amount of grants awarded in 2011/12 was nearly £50 million. There are no limits to the size of grant and each application is considered on its own merit. Typically the Trustees prefer to see a significant proportion of a project’s costs secured before considering an application and that a robust fundraising strategy and business plan are in place.
Grant Available: No minimum or maximum
Limitations: One-off events such as galas and festivals are not eligible for support.
Deadline: Open to applications
Contact: The Administrator, Garfield Weston Foundation, 10 Weston Centre, 10 Grosvenor Street, London, W1K 4QY
Telephone: 020 7399 6565
(East Sussex Council)
Paul Bush Foundation Trust
Grants are available to registered charities who are working to support the needs of adults and children with physical disabilities and to individuals. Paul Bush Foundation Trust is particularly keen to receive applications for seed funding.
Grants may be awarded for the following:
• Projects or items related to improving the health and wellbeing of individuals suffering physical disability
• Projects or services aimed at providing education to disabled people, their families and professionals regarding the difficulties they face
• Projects or services that assist individuals or families to overcome social deprivation related to disability
Grant Available:
Individuals (adults and children) – up to £5,000
Registered Charities – up to £10,000
Deadline: Trustees meet in April and October each year.
(East Sussex Council)
Quartet Community Foundation – Express Grants Programme
The Express Programme awards grants of up to £2,000 to small local voluntary and community organisations where a small amount of funding can make a difference in disadvantaged areas. The work of your organisation must benefit people who are disadvantaged or isolated. People may be isolated due to poverty, disability, age, location or culture. Priority is also given to groups that:
- Enable people to take opportunities that would otherwise not be available to them.
- Reflect the concerns and priorities of people living and working in the area.
Grant Available: Up to £2,000
Deadline: Open to applications
Contact: North Somerset office, Badger Centre, 3-6 Wadham Street, Weston-super-Mare, BS23 1JY
Tel: 01934 641965
Email:
info@quartetcf.org.uk
(Funding Central)
Reaching Communities
The Big Lottery Fund Reaching Communities funds projects that help people and communities who are most in need, and can really make a difference. They want to encourage the following changes to communities as a result of their funding:
people having better chances in life, including being able to get better access to training and development to improve their life skills
strong communities, with more active citizens, working together to tackle their problems
improved rural and urban environments, which communities are better able to access and enjoy
healthier and more active people and communities
Funding Available:
Revenue projects of between £10,000 and £500,000
Capital projects up to £50,000 for new or existing activities.
Deadline: Open to applications
Contact: Reaching Communities, BIG Lottery Fund, 2 St James Gate,
Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 4BE
E-mail: general.enquiries@biglotteryfund.org.uk
Telephone: 0845 410 20 30
Sport England - Community Sport Activation Fund
The Community Sport Activation Fund is a £40 million Lottery revenue fund developed to support grassroots activity at a very local level. The Fund was designed in response to demand and will aim to unlock potential and resources.
- Sport England will not prescribe how projects will deliver but will invest in what works best in different areas, based on local evidence.
- The Community Sport Activation Fund aims to do the following:
- Increase once a week participation in sport by those aged 14 and above.
- Encourage and support local partners to work together to develop new approaches to delivery.
- Invest in projects that will deliver sustainable participation increases.
- Support communities across England to help ensure sport becomes a regular part of the majority of people’s lives.
Grant Available: £50,000 to £250,000
Deadline: 1 July 2013 (Round 2 of 5)
Contact: Funding Enquiries, Sport England, 3rd Floor Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square, London, WC1B 4SE
Telephone: 08458 508 508
(East Sussex Council)
Tesco Charity Trust Community Awards
The Tesco Charity Trust Community Award Scheme supports local community projects which are based in areas where Tesco has stores. Grants are available for projects supporting children's welfare and children's education projects. Registered charities and not-for-profit organisations are eligible to apply.
Grant Available: £500 to £4,000
Deadline: 30/06/2013
Contact: Tesco Charity Trust, PO Box 980, Canterbury, CT1 9DX
Telephone: 0845 6123575
(Funding Central)
Yapp Charitable Trust
The Yapp Charitable Trust aims to make grants totalling £300,000 to about 100 small registered charities each year to sustain their existing work, with one of its priorities being children and young people aged 5 - 25. Most grants are for more than one year because the Trust gives priority to ongoing needs and prefers to make a grant when other funding is coming to an end.
Other priority groups are:
- Elderly people
- People with physical impairments, learning difficulties or mental health challenges
- Social welfare – people trying to overcome life-limiting problems of a social, rather than medical, origin (such as addiction, relationship difficulties, abuse, offending)
- Education and learning (with a particular interest in people who are educationally disadvantaged, whether adults or children)
Grant Available: Up to £3,000
Contact: Joanne Anderson, YAPP Charitable Trust, 8 Leyburn Close, Urpeth Grange, Chester le Street, County Durham, DH2 1TD
Tel: 0191 4922118
(Funding Central)
Youth Contract
Financial subsidy offering support for private and public sector employers to create new sustainable jobs for young people as a means of combating youth unemployment in Great Britain.
The initiative will offer a mixture of support including a wage incentive and work placement support. The programme has a total budget of £1 billion
Launched in April 2012, the Youth Contract will be delivered by the Department for Work and Pensions with the support from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). The initiative will run for three years from 2012 to 2015.
Responding to the challenge surrounding youth unemployment, the Government has announced the £1 billion Youth Contract, designed to help young unemployed people into work. The Youth Contract will provide nearly half-a-million new opportunities for 18-24 years-olds, including apprenticeships and voluntary work experience placements.
The programme will provide support to private and public sector employers towards creating new, sustainable jobs for young people and enabling these organisations to benefit from the talents young people can bring to the workplace.
Wage incentives
The wage incentive is available to those employing an 18 to 24 year-old from the Government’s Work Programme for 16 hours or more each week. There is a part-time rate of £1,137.50 for work between 16 and 29 hours and a full time rate of £2,275 for 30 hours or more. Small businesses (less than 50 employees) can also claim a part payment 8 weeks after the employee starts work. The job must last for at least 26 weeks.
Further wage incentives are available to support new apprenticeship pathways for 16-24 year olds in England only and encourage small employers, who have not previously taken on apprentices to benefit from the Apprenticeship programme.
Voluntary work experience
Extra voluntary work experience places will be available across Great Britain during the course of the Youth Contract period. These will ensure there is an offer of a place for every 18 to 24 year-old, who wants one, before they enter the Work Programme.
Contact: Enquiries, Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Room 540, The Adelphi, 1-11 John Adam Street, London, WC2N 6HT
Tel: 0845 601 2001
(Funding Central)
