Civic Power Fund – Community Action Fund
Grants are available to local not-for-profit groups that are building the power of their community and campaigning for long-term change in the UK.
Application deadline: 26 February 2023. For more information please click here.
BME Youth – Together Fund
Grants are available to local not-for-profit groups for the delivery of sports and physical activities to culturally diverse communities, disabled people, lower socioeconomic groups and people with long term health conditions to improve their health and wellbeing across England.
Application deadline: 31 March 2023. For further information click here.
Tesco Community Grants
Grants are available to non-profit making, constituted groups and organisations for local good causes that focus on supporting children and families in the UK
Application deadline: N/A For further information.
Newly Opened: Joseph Rowntree – Grassroots Movements Fund
Joseph Rowntree excited to be open for applications in our first ever funding round aimed at grassroots groups. We need to put more power into the hands of those working to address inequality and injustice, and create new systems that put equity, justice and peace first.
The Grassroots Movements Fund has around £1 million which they are aiming to redistribute over two funding rounds in 2023. The fund will make grants of between £10k and £70k to every successful application. Grants can cover up to a two-year period.
To apply, organisations must:
- Be based in the UK with work primarily focused in the UK
- Be a not-for-profit organisation
- Have systems for making decisions and managing money
- Be able to demonstrate they are part of a grassroots movement
- Be able to demonstrate they are working towards transformative change.
Deadline: 19th February 2023. For further information click here.
Newly Opened: Civil Power – Community Action Fund
The Community Action Fund exists to support grassroots campaigning and community organising in the UK. It will provide one-off grants between £2,500 and £20,000.
These grants are available to grassroots organisations that are building the power of their community and campaigning for long-term change.
All successful applicants will be offered support beyond funding. This will include the Civic Power Fund Governance Hub and optional, bespoke cohort and capacity building opportunities. Applications should be:
- Rooted in and accountable to their community.
- Hoping to achieve long-term change on issues affecting the lives of their community.
- Addressing injustice by building the power of their community. For example, through community organising, campaigning, or democratic engagement.
- Lacking the resources to take their vision to the next level.
- Seeking to build a larger us and resisting the politics of division
The Community Action Fund prioritises organisations led by people with lived experience of the injustice they are trying to overcome.
Community Action Fund (civicpower.org.uk)
Deadline: 26th February 2023. For further infromation please click here
National Lottery Community Fund – regular funding programmes
The National Lottery Community Fund (NLCF) has has three rolling funding programmes:
Awards for all (for applications under £10,000)
Reaching Communities (for applications over £10,000)
Partnerships (for applications over £10,000 for organisations that work together with a shared set of goals to help communities to thrive)
The aim of the programmes is to support communities to thrive by funding activities that:
* Build strong relationships in and across communities.
* Improve the places and spaces that matter to communities.
* Help more people to reach their potential, by supporting them at the earliest possible stage.
Organisations can apply for funding to:
* Continue to deliver activity – whether the community needs crisis response, recovery or business as usual activity.
* Change and adapt, becoming more resilient to respond to new and future challenges.
Applications for all three programmes are accepted on an ongoing basis and further information on these programmes and how to apply can be found through the links above. For further information please click here.
Children In Need: Core Costs and Project Grants
Not for Profit organisations can apply if they are:
• Working with children and young people aged 18 years and under
• Working in the heart of their communities, particularly in times of crisis
• Putting children and young people at the centre of everything they do, from design to delivery
• Addressing challenges faced by children and young people, building their skills and resilience
• Empowering children and young people, and extending their choices in life
• Keen to keep learning about and developing their work with children and young people
• Committed to making a difference in children and young people’s lives
.Further details can be found here.
Sport England – Small Grants
We welcome applications from a wide range of not-for-profit organisations, provided your organisation has a minimum of three unrelated/non-cohabiting trustees or directors. Eligible types of organisations are:
• a community amateur sports club (as registered with HMRC)
• an unregistered voluntary and community organisation with a not-for-profit constitution
• a registered charity
• a not-for-profit company (limited by guarantee without share capital or charitable incorporated organisation)
• a community interest company (CIC) or other social enterprise
• community benefit society
• a school using their facilities for wider community benefit.
• local authority bodies (including town, parish and community councils).
We want to support projects that bring communities together and provide sport and physical activities for people who may be less physically active. For further information please click here.
Alpkit Foundation
We make small awards to people, groups and schools that work to remove the barriers in getting outdoors and experience wild places.
Spending time outdoors is good for the mind, body and soul. But generally people are spending less time outdoors. That is a problem we’re helping to solve. We support grass-roots direct action projects that tackle issues such as diversity & inclusion in the outdoors, participation, education, conservation and protection of our natural environment and health & well-being. For further information please click here.
Platinum Jubilee Village Halls Fund
Capital grants are available for village halls in rural areas across England to enhance, upgrade, extend, improve, and construct halls so that, as a result, new activities can take place bringing communities together.
Application deadline: 20 January 2023. For more information click here.
Resilient Theatres: Resilient Communities Grant Programme
Capacity building grants are available to support the restoration, reopening or revitalising of community theatres on the Theatres Trust’s Theatres at Risk Register.
Application deadline: 10 February 2023 For more information please click here.
FCC Community Action Fund – England
About Us: The FCC Community Action Fund provides grants to not-for-profit organisations for amenity projects eligible under Object D and Object DA of the Landfill Communities Fund (LCF).
Criteria: Registered charities, churches, parish councils, local authorities and CASC registered sports clubs can apply for grants for the provision, maintenance or improvement of community facilities. This can include village halls and community centres, public play areas; publicly available multi use games areas, skate parks and BMX tracks; sport and recreation grounds including pavilions and clubhouses with full public access; churches – community spaces only; nature reserves; public gardens, parks, country parks and woodlands with at least dawn to dusk access; and Museums. Projects must be located within 10 miles of an eligible FCC Environment site.
Grant Size: £2,000 to £100,000
Deadline for applications: 5pm on the 8 March 2023. For further details click here.
Heathrow Community Trust – Communities Together Small programme
About Us: Funding for communities near Heathrow
Criteria:
The following themes apply for this programme:
• S1 Protecting and enhancing our local environment
• S2 Bringing communities together and increasing community cohesion
• S3 Improving quality of life through increasing social inclusion
• S4 Improving community facilities
Grant Size: up to £5,000
Deadline for applications: 28 February 2023
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact the team at hct@groundwork.org.uk
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Information contained in the article is source from Berkshire’s fantastic VCS’s – Wokingham & Bracknell Involve, Slough CVS, Reading Voluntary Action & West Berkshire Volunteer Centre.
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