SSEN Resilient Communities Fund
The SSEN Resilient Communities Fund 2023 is now open for applications, with a total of £280,000 available to eligible community groups, community councils and charities in the central southern England SSEN network area. Grants will range from £1,000 to £10,000 for single area projects, although exceptional multi-community applications may be considered up to a maximum of £40,000.
SSEN’s Resilient Communities Fund is now in its ninth year, and in that time has seen a wide variety of applications that have all sought to boost communities through improving resilience and responding to the needs of their residents in adverse and difficult circumstances.
The deadline for applications to the fund is 5pm on Monday 31 July 2023, and applicants are asked to consider the following criteria for funding, which seeks to support projects falling under these two categories:
- Resilience for emergency events – To enhance community facilities, services and communication specifically to support the local response in the event of a significant emergency such as extended power loss.
- Vulnerability – To protect the welfare of vulnerable community members particularly during significant emergency events such as extended power loss, through enhancing their resilience and improving community participation and effectiveness.
The SSEN Resilient Communities Fund Panel, will review applications and determine which projects should receive funding, with the successful applications announced in the autumn.
Following the conclusion of this final year of the Resilient Communities Fund, SSEN Distribution will be developing and launching a new fund in the later autumn of 2023. While continuing to support community resilience, this new fund will seek to include environmental resilience and the adoption of low carbon technologies. Full details and timescales will be announced later this year.
Our website is live with additional information which can be found at www.ssen.co.uk/resiliencefund.
Bernard Sunley Foundation
About Us: The Foundation has four priority areas of community, education, health and/or social welfare.
Criteria: They will fund capital projects, new vehicles, places of worship, charities or CIOs and certain organisations with exempt status such as specialist schools, scout and guide groups, housing associations, cooperatives and community benefit societies.
Grant Size: Our grants are offered as a contribution to your overall project costs as we do not fully fund projects. We have three tiers of funding; Over £20,000, up to £20,000 and £5,000 and under.
Deadline for applications: Rolling
Find out more about the Bernard Sunley Foundation
Parkinson’s UK Physical Activity Grants
About Us: We want to support the development of more physical activity opportunities for people with Parkinson’s in their local area that are fun and enjoyable.
Criteria: Grants are available for activity providers, communities, networks and organisations
across the UK to develop new opportunities for people with Parkinson’s to become and stay active or help increase their levels of physical activity.
Grant Size: up to £3,000
Deadline for applications: 30 November 2023
Find out more about Parkinson’s UK Physical Activity
The DWF Foundation
About Us: The DWF Foundation (also referred to as the Foundation) is an independent charity, founded by DWF. It has the sole aim of providing funds, resources and mentoring support to help individuals, groups and communities to achieve their full potential.
Criteria: We support registered charities who make a positive impact in the areas of homelessness, health, wellbeing, employability, education, environment and/or sustainability.
Grant Size: up to £5,000
Deadline for applications: Rolling
Find out more about the DWF Foundation Grants
The Sir Jules Heron Thorn Charitable Trust – Ann Rylands Small Donations
The Ann Rylands Small Donations programme makes grants to support charities’ core costs with a maximum award of up to £5,000.
The programme was re-launched in January 2022 to enable the Trust to increase support for smaller charities whose work aligns with our mission to improve provision in health and care.
The programme is designed to help smaller charities providing practical and emotional support to people with – or at high risk of – physical or mental ill health, people living with disability, and their families and carers.
We accept applications from charities which offer practical and emotional support to improve health and care for:
• Older people
• People with disabilities or living with serious illness
• People needing palliative and end of life care, or
• People facing challenges with mental health, social exclusion or homelessness
Ann Rylands Small Donations -Sir Jules Thorn Trust
Deadline: Rolling. We normally aim to assess applications within 6-8 weeks, but this may vary depending on the volume of applications.
The Antonio Carluccio Foundation
Antonio established The Foundation before he died in November 2017. Amongst his core objectives was the idea to support hospitality related training and development, to promote a better understanding of food origins and nutrition and to make direct support available for organisations working to feed those in need. Antonio’s vision was to support organisations worldwide with a focus on smaller registered charities in The UK and his home country of Italy. Applications for up to £25,000 will be considered but typical grants range between £5000 and £10,000.
Training to Feed, feeding For Life. The Antonio Carluccio Foundation is open to applications for grants from large and small registered charities who are working anywhere in the world in the areas of malnutrition and food related training.
The Antonio Carluccio Foundation – Training to feed, feeding for life
Deadline: Rolling
Morrisons Foundation
Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Our grant funding supports charities delivering projects which help to improve people’s lives. From support groups to children’s hospitals and homeless shelters to hospices, our
grants provide vital funding for good causes. We award grants for charity projects and match fund the money that Morrisons colleagues raise for their chosen charities. Grants are
available to registered charities for new projects which directly improve the lives of local people or communities, especially those that are vulnerable or disadvantage. Learn more.
B&Q Foundation
Applications accepted on a rolling basis. We help charities who are supporting people in need in the UK; those experiencing homelessness, in financial hardship, impacted by health, disability, or other disadvantage or distress. We believe that everyone needs a place to feel at home. So, we are looking to fund projects to decorate, renovate, or create spaces where people can feel at home and have a sense of belonging. This can be both indoor and outdoor. We typically awards grants of up to £5,000. Find out more.
Newly Opened: Hubbub – Eat It Up Fund
Hubbub has launched a £200,000 fund to support innovative ideas to tackle food waste. Supported by Starbucks, we’re offering grants of up to £40,000.
• Address pre-farmgate waste
• Prevent food from being wasted at the manufacturing and processing stage
• Minimise food waste from retailers
• Find creative ways to use surplus food in communities or at home
We can support ideas that are ready to test, or concepts that have been tested and are ready to progress further.
Our wider aims are to make a positive impact on our environment and communities.
The fund is open to any organisation that can prove they’re an officially constituted body, registered in the UK. We anticipate that most applications will be from:
• Registered charities, including charitable incorporated organisations and not for profit companies
• Social enterprises
• Community Interest Companies
• Schools, universities and colleges
• Local authorities
• Micro and small businesses with a clear social purpose (less than 50 employees and an annual turnover under £10 million)
Eat It Up Fund | Hubbub x Starbucks
Deadline:
• Open for expressions of interest: 9am, Monday 19th June 2023
• Deadline for expressions of interest: 5pm, Friday 21st July 2023
• Open for full applications (those invited to apply): 9am, Monday 14th August 2023
• Deadline for full applications: 5pm, Friday 22nd September 2023
• Successful applicants informed: October 2023
• Winners announced publicly: End of 2023
DS Smith Charitable Foundation
The DS Smith Charitable Foundation was established in 2011 and supports charities and causes that algin with our values. These include, but are not limited to:
• The environment: Specifically, biodiversity – enhancing species diversity, improving the environment for plants and animals, and protecting natural habitats
• Education: Specifically, sustainability-related education and skills training – inspiring and educating our communities and future generations on the circular economy
Our eight trustees set the direction of the Foundation and ensure its charitable purposes are met. Our secretary manages the day to day running of the Foundation.
Our Small Donations Committee is attended by our Trustees and meets on a quarterly basis (every three months) to review applications up to £10,000.
Our Large Donations Committee meets on a biannual basis (every 6 months), is attended by our Trustees and a representative of the DS Smith PLC Group Operating Committee, and reviews applications over £10,000.
Charitable Foundation – DS Smith
Deadline:
Small Donations Committee Meetings Large Donations Committee Meetings
July 2023 May 2023
September 2023 November 2023
December 2023 May 2024
March 2024 November 2024
WF Southall Trust
We award grants to charities that are registered in the UK and working in at least one of the following four areas:
- Quaker Work & Witness
- Peace & Reconciliation
- Environmental Action & Sustainability
- Social Action
The majority of our grants are for one year. We will consider multi-year funding (up to three years), but this is typically reserved for charities that we have supported in previous years. We will consider appeals for both core and capital costs.
Generally speaking, we look most favourably upon the following:
• Projects that encourage wider support of the categories listed above
• Projects where grants of up to £5,000 will make a quantifiable difference (we prefer to support smaller charities with ‘seed corn’ funding)
• Grassroots initiatives
• Charities that show creativity and innovation in their work
• Charities that promote social justice, inclusion and diversity
• Charities that challenge structural inequalities and injustice
• Charities making good use of volunteers
• Charities that are engaged with their local community and show clear evidence of support from within it (e.g. through local giving, volunteering and/or partnerships)
How to Apply – The Southall Trust
Which? Fund Opens for Applications 18 September 2023
Grants for UK-registered charities, universities with exempt charitable status and not-for-profit Community Interest Companies registered in the UK, to support new research projects exploring the consumer harms faced by diverse and disadvantaged communities or identifying innovative solutions to these threats.
Application deadline: 18 September 2023
Ann Rylands Small Donations
Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
This programme by the Sir Jules Heron
Thorn Charitable Trust makes grants to support charities core costs with a maximum award of
up to £5,000. The program was re-launched
in January 2022 to enable the trust to increase support for smaller charities whose work aligns with our mission to improve provision in health and care. It is designed to help smaller charities providing practical and emotional support to people with, or at high risk of, physical or mental ill health, people living with disability, and their families and carers. Find out more info.
Better World Community Fund
Application accepted on a rolling basis.
At British Airways we’re committed to playing our part in creating a better, more sustainable and inclusive future for all. Our community fund supports organisations and projects that align with all the elements of BA Better World including community engagement, diversity, wellbeing, waste reduction, tackling climate change, promoting nature and biodiversity and engaging our colleagues in positive action in the communities we serve. We want to empower communities to become more sustainable and therefore will also support projects with innovative ideas that improve social mobility, provide opportunities for education and employability in disadvantaged communities. Find out more.
Adint Charitable Trust
Applications accepted on a rolling basis. The Adint Charitable Trust makes grants of between £250 and £15,000 to registered charities for general charitable purposes, but has a preference for charities working in the fields of education, training, disability, sport and/or recreation. Applications should be in writing to the email address adintct@
btinternet.com and include full details of the charity for which funding is requested. They do not operate a website, but more information can be found via the Charity Commission.
Thank you to Berkshire’s fantastic Council for Voluntary Service’s for the information contained in this article – Wokingham & Bracknell Involve, West Berkshire Volunteer Centre and Slough CVS.
Shinfield Parish Council Grants
Applications close on Friday 14th July. The council’s award scheme is intended to help local organisations (or regional/larger organisations with clear activities
within the parish) provide benefits for local residents. In particular, the scheme is intended to help launch new initiatives or activities that would not otherwise take place. While we may still choose to make awards for existing running costs, the preference is to help new initiatives. For an application form, please email clerk@shinfieldparish.gov.uk. Or see their policy for further details.
OneSlough Community Fund open
Slough CVS is open to applications for grants via the #OneSlough Community Fund. The grants will support local voluntary and community groups to deliver projects to meet local needs and priorities that will benefit Slough residents to enhance their health and wellbeing. This funding comes from Slough Borough Council via the Better Care Fund and Slough Public Health, and administered by Slough CVS. Voluntary and Community Sector groups are being asked to complete this funding application form which will be submitted to the funding panel. The funding panel will consist of key representatives from Slough CVS, NHS Integrated Care Board (ICB), Slough Borough Council, and a member from the Slough Borough Council Co-production Board.
Deadline: 12:00 midnight on Sunday 23 July 2023
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