Newly Opened: Barclays/ Sported Community Football Fund
Sported have partnered with Barclays to launch the new Barclays Community Football Fund, offering small grants, training, kit and exclusive ticketing offers to make football more accessible in communities across the UK.
Barclays believe in creating opportunities for all through access to football. Through the Barclays Community Football Fund, we want to grow participation in football at every level.
Grants of £500 are available for groups wishing to start offering football, those keen to expand their existing provision to new audiences or those already delivering football to under-represented young people.
Alongside the grants, the programme will be offering training and support resources to groups to help reduce inequalities in the participation of football.
The programme will focus on including girls and young people from lower socio-economic and under-represented groups: including racially diverse communities, people with disabilities, and people from the LGBTQ+ community. Further details here.
Newly Opened: Alzheimer’s Society Accelerator’s Programme
Engineers, designers, developers, innovators, entrepreneurs, or anyone with a good idea – we want to hear from you.
Your idea could be a simple product that makes an everyday task easier for a person living with dementia. You may have an innovative idea for a new service or way of working for care home staff.
To bring your idea to life, our programme offers a 12-month partnership including:
• investment up to a value of £100,000
• an expert innovation buddy from Alzheimer’s Society to develop their idea during a 12-month partnership
• an opportunity to test your product or service with people affected by dementia.
We are looking for applications from teams or individuals at any stage of the product development journey, from a great idea that needs testing through to proven products that need a push to maximise their reach.
By backing passionate people with innovative ideas, we’ll accelerate the development of new products and services with the potential to benefit thousands of people.
The application process is as follows:
- Visit the Innovation hub and register as this is where you will be uploading your application.
- Create a two-minute video introducing yourself and your idea for a product or service. Your video doesn’t need to be professional – a recording from a smartphone uploaded to YouTube or Vimeo would be suitable.
- Complete the application form and include a link to your video. Make sure you’ve thought about the details of your idea, and really focus on the benefits for people affected by dementia.
- Fill in our project partnership plan and budget template to outline how you will work and forecast how you will use the investment across 12 months.
Further details here.
Deadline: Our Accelerator Programme will open for new applications from 20 September to 25 October 2022.
Newly Reopened: Music for All
1) BBB Trust School Orchestras Award
This new annual award is for state schools (primary and secondary) that already have an orchestra or are in the process of trying to establish a school orchestra. Through the generosity of our donors, the BBB Trust, this award will support music education through orchestras in schools and should be used to create a self-sustaining environment that allows more pupils to access music making. Applicants for this award will need to demonstrate how the award will expand their existing music education programme and how they propose to involve the whole school and the wider community and ensure increased access to the benefits of music making.
A grant of up to £8,000 is available for this award.
2) Supporting those with Degenerative Conditions
Apply for this award if you are a community-based group using music to support those with degenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Dementia, Multiple Sclerosis, Cystic Fibrosis, Muscular Dystrophy and Motor Neuron disease. A grant of up to £1500 is available for this award.
3) Electric Guitar Award
Apply for this award if you are a community-based group using electric guitars to support communities in deprived or marginalised areas and improving the availability of music education for those living in these areas. Please note that the electric guitars are not supplied with amplifiers.
4) Acoustic Guitar Award
Apply for this award if you are a community-based group using acoustic guitars to support communities in deprived or marginalised areas and developing the availability of music education for those living in the area. These acoustic guitars are high quality instruments best suited for non-novice music makers.
5) Bass Amps and Cabs Award
Apply for this award if you are a community-based group in need of bass amps and cabs and using music to support an underprivileged or marginalised community group.
Funding for Music Projects | Youth Music Grants – Music for All
Deadline: The closing date for this round of funding is 25th November 2022.
Morrisons Foundation
The Morrisons Foundation awards grant funding for charity projects which make a positive difference in local communities. In the main grants are available to fully fund projects up to £25,000. Before submitting an application please read the following criteria and answer the eligibility questions below.
The Morrisons Foundation awards grants to UK registered charities to support projects which make a positive difference in local communities. Applications are accepted and reviewed on a continual basis, there is no deadline for requests to be submitted. In making an application you agree that the terms and conditions set out below apply to the application process and to any grant we may make to you
Overall funding in any year is limited. As such the Morrisons Foundation reserves the right to limit and/or withdraw all or part of a charitable grant at any point.
Charities that have previously received a grant donation can apply for further funding after completing and submitting a post-grant report.
Heathrow Community Trust
Heathrow Community Trust are pleased to open their Projects for Young People grant programme to new applications. This round will open on 1 October and will close on 1 December. Grants of up to £7,500 are available for 1 year projects with a total cost of £30,000. Projects must not start before 9 February 2023. Applications are open to new organisations and those previously funded by Heathrow Community Trust.
Your project must support one of the programme’s three themes:
Y1 – Supporting the local community by creating opportunities for young people up to age 24 to make a positive change to their behaviour about their future (e.g. raised aspirations, improved attitude to learning, increased knowledge of progression opportunities)
Y2 – Supporting the local community by creating opportunities for young people up to age 24 to break down barriers to employment through skills development.
Y3 – Supporting the local community by creating opportunities for young people up to age 24 to improve their quality of life (e.g. increased resilience, improved mental health)
For more information please visit https://www.heathrowcommunitytrust.org/need-funding/projects-for-young-people
Newly Reopened: Comic Relief (Groundwork)
We are pleased to be managing this new fund on behalf of Comic Relief in England. It will provide grants of up to £10,000, supporting project delivery and organisational capacity building, helping organisations flourish.
The funding is split as follows:
- Up to £1,000 for capacity building
- Up to £9,000 for project delivery
We will fund applications from grass roots, community led organisations that can demonstrate how people with lived experience of the issues being tackled are involved in the organisation and the project.
Applications must sit within one of the four key themes:
A Safe Place To Be: Supporting people to rebuild their lives because of homelessness or forced migration.
Children Survive & Thrive: Supporting children up to the age of 11 to grow, play and learn
Gender Justice: Championing those who identify as women and girls, including initiatives tackling domestic violence, abuse or exploitation
Mental Health Matters: Supporting good mental health in communities and tackling stigma and discrimination.Comic Relief – Groundwork
Deadline: Round 2 of the Comic Relief programme will open on 31st October 2022 and will remain open until 30th November 2022. If you applied to our first funding round, you should have now received your decision.
Reopening Soon: Postcode Society Trust
This will be the final the final opportunity to apply this year.
We have been listening to feedback from previous applicants and to the need in the third sector as the pandemic continues.
We are delighted to offer an increase in the value of grants this year. The higher level of grant available (£25,000) is now open to Community Interest Companies and community benefit societies for the first time. The amount available to other types of non profit organisations has also grown to £2,500.
Organisations now have a longer period in which to deliver activities – 18 months from payment of the grant. In order to better serve good causes we are also challenging ourselves to deliver funding within two months of an application.
Finally, 2022 is the year in which we venture into unrestricted funding for smaller charities and good causes. Organisations that undertake activities that we do not fund (Funding Guide) are still able to apply for project-based funding.
We provide funding for smaller charities and good causes in the south of England under the themes:
- Improving mental wellbeing Enabling community participation in the arts
- Preventing or reducing the impact of poverty
- Supporting marginalised groups and promoting equality
- Improving biodiversity & green spaces
- Enabling participation in physical activity
- Responding to the climate emergency & promoting sustainability
- Increasing community access to outdoor space
Apply for a grant | Postcode Society Trust
Deadline: Opening 9am 3rd October, to close after 100 applications received
Asda Foundation
Grants of £500 – £2,000 to support local community groups who are facing an increase in their running costs (rent, utilities and food costs) between September 2022 and February 2023.
The funding is intended for local not-for-profit community groups who are facing an:
- Increase in rent/utility bills: support to keep community buildings open to the public or increase opening times to help people stay warm (known as ‘warm banks’).
- Increase in food costs: support for people most affected by providing meals, support community cafes, food parcels, delivered meals, soup kitchens, etc.
Groups must contact their local Asda Community Champion to discuss their proposed project. Please note, applications cannot be made directly to the Asda Foundation. They must be submitted to the Asda Community Champion who will sign and submit it to the Foundation.
Applications will be accepted until the budget cap is reached (estimated to be February 2023).
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GBA Together (Previously Tackling Inequalities) Fund
Sport England will be providing Get Berkshire Active with extra funding to support and distribute to community organisations who support vulnerable groups to be active including lower socio-economic groups, people with long term conditions, people with disabilities and ethnically diverse communities. This fund will focus on supporting organisations to reach and engage their audience in movement/physical activity, in order to create a line of sight to movement / physical activity / sport. Find out more. >>
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust – deadline 14 November 2022
JRCT is keen to support work that responds to the dual harms of the Covid-19 pandemic and systemic racism. Specifically, they wish to encourage work within or across our existing programme areas that scrutinises the responses and policies of powerful institutions and actors, and which envisions and builds support for transformative social change based on justice, peace and sustainability. Further information here.
Localgiving is the UK’s leading independent non-profit online fundraising platform for charities and community groups. They are incredibly excited to announce that Magic Little Grants 2022 is going to be even bigger and better than ever before.
This fund gives local charities and community groups the chance to apply for grants to deliver projects across Great Britain that encourage people to be physically active.
What are the funder priorities?
This year’s funding aims to support 2,650 projects that address the following themes:
- Improving mental wellbeing
- Enabling community participation in the arts
- Preventing or reducing the impact of poverty
- Supporting marginalised groups and promoting equality
- Improving biodiversity and green spaces
- Enabling participation in physical activity
- Responding to the climate emergency and promoting sustainability
- Increasing community access to outdoor space
Grants are available to non-profit organisations with an open community fridge to develop additional ‘food hub’ activities across the UK.
Application deadline: 7 November 2022
A partnership programme providing grants to support not-for-profit organisations who are working to tackle food poverty or supporting the elderly within the local community.
Application deadline: N/A
Grants are available to local not-for-profit groups for projects which encourage people of all ages and abilities to get involved in informal, recreational football-based activities in West Berkshire and the surrounding wards of West Hampshire.
Application deadline: N/A
With thanks, as always, to Berkshire’s wonder CVS’s for the information contained in this update – West Berkshire Volunteer Centre, Slough CVS, Wokingham & Bracknell InVOLve and Reading Voluntary Action.
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