Funding
The Woodward Charitable Trust awards grant funding to organisations in the UK working in the following areas:
- Social and ethnic minority groups.
- Prisoners and ex-offenders.
- Homelessness.
- People experiencing abuse.
- Arts outreach work.
- Disability projects.
- Environmental projects.
- Addiction.
Small grants of between £100 and £5,000 and large grants of over £5,000 are available to UK registered charities with an annual turnover of less than £250,000.
The Trust also awards annual grants to summer playschemes for children between the ages of five and 16 who come from disadvantaged backgrounds. Applications are accepted from UK registered charities with an annual turnover of less than £100,000.
Applications are considered at Trustees’ meetings twice a year.
The deadline for receipt of applications to be considered at the Trust’s July 2010 meeting is 24th May 2010.
The deadline for summer playscheme grant applications is 1st April 2010.
The Hedley Foundation invites registered charities in the UK to apply for up to £5,000 to support mainly young people with their education, support, training, health and welfare. The Foundation also support disabled people and the terminally ill with provision of specialist equipment and support for carers. For more information on the Foundation including the application deadline please visit the Hedley Foundation Website.
The Together for Disabled Children Partnership has announced that the deadline for applications to phase 3 of the Parent Participation Grant Scheme is the 30th April 2010.
The Parent Participation Grant Scheme is part of the Aiming High for Disabled Children programme supported by the Department for Children, Schools and Families. A total of £5 million is available between 2008 and 2011 to support the development of the involvement of parent carers in the planning and strategic development of services for disabled children. Under phase 3 of the programme a total of £10,000 is available for each Local Authority area in England to help local groups develop parent participation activities. The Application form and guidelines will be published shortly on the Together for Disabled Children Partnership website.
The Hilden Charitable Fund has announced that application forms for its Summer Playscheme Grants Programme, to help community groups run Summer Playschemes for the benefit of children from refugee and ethnic minority families, will be available from February 2010.
See Hilden Trust website for details
Comic Relief’s UK Grant Programme aims to bring about positive and lasting change in the lives of poor and disadvantaged people in the UK by investing in work that addresses people’s immediate needs as well as tackling the root causes of poverty and injustice.
Registered charities and voluntary organisations (including social enterprises and community interest companies) in the UK are invited to apply for grants of between £25,000 and £40,000. Grants are available to cover running or capital costs of organisations or projects under the following programmes:
- Mental Health.
- Domestic and Sexual Abuse.
- Refugee and Asylum Seeking Women.
- Sexually Exploited and Trafficked Young People.
- Young People and Alcohol.
- Young People with Mental Health Problems.
- Local Communities.
The deadline for applications is 14 May 2010.
The Big Ideas Grant is a £50,000 fund aimed at helping to unlock the potential of hundreds of small ideas and give people the helping hand they need to prove their idea works and share them widely.
To enable health and social care services to meet the Dignity Challenge, there is a need to think differently and find new, better ways of doing things. Almost 3,000 people took part in a survey to vote on what they felt were the top three dignity issues that needed addressing. The top three voted issues were:
- Treat people as individuals.
- Give people a sense of purpose and stimulating activities to do.
- Give people more choice and control over their daily routine.
Ideas that help ensure people’s experience of care services is a good one and that they feel they are able to retain their personal dignity and self respect, are sought. Ideas can be big or small and applicants should think about what help, financial or otherwise, is needed to take the idea to the next stage, to test it and prove it works.
Grants of up to £10,000 are available to individuals and organisations.
The 2010 deadline for receipt of applications is 18 March 2010.
There are a number of funding opportunities from central government covering Health & Social Care, African Development, Department of Health Strategic Partners, Refugees & Migrants, Community Voices, Community Action, Volunteering and Sexual Violence & Abuse.
For information on these doewload the flyer Government Funding Update which was provided by Regional Action West Midlands or visit http://www.governmentfunding.org.uk
The PRS for Music Foundation has announced the closing dates for its funding schemes for 2010. The PRS Foundation, provides a range of grants to support performance groups, festivals, promoters and organisations. The closing dates for applications are 16 April, 9 August and the 15 October.
Visit the PRS Foundation website for more details.
The Hilden Charitable Fund has announced that the next deadline for submitting applications is the 26th March 2010.
Within the UK, the Hilden Charitable Fund makes grants to projects that address disadvantages, notably by supporting causes which are less likely to raise funds from public subscriptions. In particular, the Fund wants to support projects that address homelessness; asylum seekers and refugees; Community based initiatives for disadvantaged young people; Penal Affairs. Preference is given to supporting small community organisations with an income of less than £200,000 per year. During 2009 the average grant given was £5,000.
Visit Hilden’s website for more information
Under the Church and Community Fund grants of up to £10,000 are available to community projects run by parish churches, deaneries, dioceses and other bodies connected to or working in partnership with the Church of England. Projects supported must promote aid and further the work of the Church of England.
This does not exclude Anglican projects in partnership with ecumenical or other-faith partners, which are warmly welcomed.
The next application deadline is the the 7th May
See the Church & Community Fund website for more details
