GoingCarFree.com is a travel awareness campaign delivered by Wessex DriveAbility, with funding from the Department for Transport. It seeks to give information and advice to people who are giving up driving for any reason to help them get around more easily, using a range of different travel choices and options.
It’s a useful one stop shop that helps people think positively about some of the worries they have if they can no longer drive. It looks at the practical stuff around planning journeys using public transport and what help is available if people are disabled, on using the internet and support to get on-line.
Stopping driving also doesn’t mean people have to lose their independence but it can mean that how people socialise and connect with others may change. Our website helps people find out what’s going on in their local community and how to deal with any concerns they may have about becoming isolated or lonely as a result of stopping driving.
We can help over the phone, by email or in person at our offices as well as online & we work with people who live in Berkshire. Dorset, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Wiltshire. Please send an email to hello@goingcarfree.com if you have any questions.
Some information courtesy of Sough CVS, Volunteer Centre West Berkshire, Reading Voluntary Action & Wokingham Involve
Active Mums Community Fund
Grants of up to £750 are available this year only (2019) from Active slough, Slough Borough Council — 27 September at 5pm. This fund aims to get mums with babies physically active after birth.
The Dream Fund is now open for applications. The application form is available
to access at the below link and will be open until 15 October at 5:30pm.
The Dream Fund gives organisations the chance to deliver the project they have
always dreamed of, but never had the opportunity to bring to life. They ask
charitable organisations across Great Britain to think big, be ambitious and
collaborate with other not-for-profit partners to deliver their dream project.
This programme aims to fund small-scale interventions, which will
make a considerable difference to the lives and happiness of women and
girls by raising the aspirations of girls and young women and combating the
influences that affect their confidence.
How much can I apply for?
Between £5,000 and £10,000
For a duration of up to 12
months
Meet one or more of the Tampon
Tax Community Fund objectives
They will fund:
Volunteer expenses: Budget for
training, travel, telephone calls, travel and meals.
Activity costs: Budget for
resources to facilitate a project/activity; costs that fall outside
capital, volunteer or staffing costs, e.g. catering, insurance.
Temporary/sessional staff
costs: Budget for external consultants and sessional staff that are
employed for the specific project/activity that is being funded.
Deadline: 26th September, 2019 Grants are available for listed and unlisted Christian places of worship of any denomination in the UK to support urgent maintenance work and small investigative works.
Deadline: 27th September, 2019 Awards are available for sports clubs throughout the UK to improve facilities, buy new kit and equipment, and increase sporting opportunities.
Deadline: 27th September, 2019 Grants are available to registered charities, schools and not-for-profit organisations in the UK wishing to encourage young people’s interest in the countryside and the environment.
Power to Change – Community Business Fund
Grants are available to help locally based and community-led businesses in England to increase their social impact and make them more viable in the long term. For further information please click here.
The Beatrice Laing Trust
The Beatrice Laing Trust is one of the Laing Family Trusts that are administered jointly, with this Trust supporting projects that are in the areas of relief of poverty or advancement of the Christian faith.
The joint administration means that an application to the Beatrice Laing Trust is considered as an application to all Laing Trusts, with administrators and trustees deciding which Trust is most suitable for any grant offered.
The Beatrice Laing Trust state that they welcome applications from: • Organisations, in particularly Christian organisations, offering practical action to help those in need, offering direct support to the most vulnerable and disadvantaged in society. • Charities providing practical services to people with physical, mental and learning difficulties and their families/carers. • Organisations providing opportunities for training and development to young people, in particular those who are disadvantaged or ‘at risk’. • Small-scale overseas development projects aiming to build the capacity of local partners to develop long-term sustainable solutions to local problems in countries in the developing world.
The Facilitation Fund is now open until the 4th October. The funding aims to help groups of farmers, foresters and land managers improve the natural environment.
Grants awarded support a variety of community groups across Berkshire working to support a wide range of causes; tackling disadvantage, supporting victims of crime, poverty, homelessness, health and wellbeing, isolation and loneliness, education and skills and strengthening the community in general. http://www.berkshirecf.org/
Every
year we make grants to hundreds of small and local charities, investing in their
work helping people overcome complex social issues across England and Wales
Lending a hand
where needed in the community. The Shanly
Foundation primarily supports good causes predominantly within Berkshire and
other home counties.
Trusthouse is interested in applications for capital projects at
community centres in the most deprived urban areas and village halls in remote
and economically deprived rural areas
Tudor
makes grants, and provides other types of support, to voluntary and community
groups working in any part of the UK. We particularly want to help smaller,
community-led organisations that work directly with people who are at the margins
of society: organisations that support positive changes in people’s lives
and in their communities
Are you working to boost the community spirit in your neighbourhood? Do you have ideas for creating a community garden, starting an arts festival, tackling loneliness amongst old people, boosting health and fitness or cleaning up the streets where you live? If so, you could qualify for a grant from our Communities Together programme.
Grants up to £2,500 per year for up to two years for charities, voluntary groups, schools, colleges, and Community Interest Companies working on in Ealing, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Richmond, Runnymede, Slough, Spelthorne, South Bucks, or Windsor and Maidenhead. To apply, your group must have a constitution and a bank account that needs two signatures.
Grant application – Round 4 deadline: 25 October 2019
The Good Exchange and Sovereign Housing Community Asset Fund – round one open until 30 September 2019
The Good Exchange has recently partnered with Sovereign, one of the largest housing associations in the UK, to launch a new fund awarding £60,000 in match funding grants for community projects.
Communities and charities in the south of England (Hampshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Dorset, Devon, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and the Isle of Wight) can apply for grants from the organisation’s Community Asset Fund via The Good Exchange’s charity-owned, not-for-profit, on-line grant matching platform. Grants will be awarded to support a wide variety of projects, from community events to upgrading community centres.
The Community Asset Fund supports community facilities (permanent and temporary such as pop ups) with capital and revenue match funding grants. Grants can be awarded towards salary or core funding applications and for equipment to serve community facilities such as laptops, repairs etc. Larger grants will be awarded for projects such as capital refurbishment, extensions of community facilities or revenue towards staffing etc. Community events such carnivals will also be considered.
Further information
Applications up to £500 will be awarded as grants with no match funding required.
Applications up to £5,000 and above will require 50% match funding.
There will be two grant rounds available (£30,000 each) for the Community Assets Fund. The first is open until September 30, 2019 and the second will close at the end of January 2020.
This year we will be holding our AGM at the lovely Beech Hill Memorial Hall on Thursday 7th November. The AGM will commence at 9.30am and there will be the opportunity to much on a croissant and enjoy a hot cuppa whilst networking and hearing more about out work.
After the AGM we are excited to announce that there will be an Environmental Impact Conference taking place. The conference will be a brand new subject matter for us and more news will be available on this very soon.
If you are able to attend the AGM part of the day we are thrilled but please do drop Gemma a line to let her know of your attendance: Gemma.Pearce@ccberks.org.uk
Please click here to download our 2019 Annual Review, a look at our project outcomes and successes in the financial year of 2018-19. All of these projects continue in 2019-20 with gusto and we hope dear reader, that you can spare a couple of minutes to take a look and get back to us with any support you may need or questions you might have. Please call 0118 9612000 or e-mail admin@ccberks.org.uk.
A bit more about us
Connecting Communities in Berkshire (CCB) is an independent charity that has been operating across Berkshire for over 45 years. We are a registered charity (1056367) and one of 38 Rural Community Councils in England, a member of national network Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE). We exist to support people who are interested in bringing about a better quality of life for the residents of Berkshire. Typically, we work with people that have a passion for their community and serve on parish councils, help to run their village hall, and volunteer with groups and clubs that bring people together whilst making a positive difference to society. To read our 2019 Annual Review please click here.
Village Halls Week is a national celebration of village
halls, their volunteers and the services they offer their communities. This
year Village Halls Week 2019 gained substantial attention for village halls
including being featured across 16 BBC stations.
Next year, Village Halls Week 2020 will run from Monday 20
January – Sunday 26 January 2020. If you would like to put the spotlight on
your hall see our tips below on how to get involved.
Share Your History
Thursday 23 January 2020
Share your hall’s history on social media using the hashtag
#tbt and
#villagehallsweek. You could put up old pictures or past
flyers, detail significant guests, share an old film or write an article on
your history.
National Open Day
Saturday 25 January 2020
Next year there will be halls holding open days across all
of England. This is a great opportunity to get new trustees, new user groups,
boost community
engagement and get a visit from your local MP.
Connecting Communities in Berkshire (your local ACRE Network
member) will soon be able to provide you with a marketing pack. Make sure you
register your interest using this link
Connecting Communities in Berkshire 