Funding Update January 2019

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Information courtesy of Volunteer Centre West Berkshire, Slough CVS, Involve, Reading Voluntary Action

Vital for Berkshire funding – open until 25 January 2019

The second Vital for Berkshire funding round is now open for applications, with grants of up to £10,000 available

Vital for Berkshire aims to increase support for people across Berkshire who are struggling to cope with a range of issues preventing them from having a safe home, good health and secure employment.

Vital for Berkshire goes beyond the statistics to uncover areas where pockets of deprivation can be found, and where local communities are struggling. A key message from Berkshire’s Vital Signs 2018 is that a safe home, good health and secure employment are interdependent and underpin wellbeing. Vital for Berkshire will raise awareness and funds, to support community groups that are helping people towards having a safe home, good health and secure employment.

Further information Charities, community groups and social enterprises seeking funding for activities and projects in these areas can complete Berkshire Community Foundation’s online eligibility checker and eligible groups will be sent a link to the application form. The deadline for completed applications is 9am on 25 January 2019.

 

Woodward Charitable Trust – Small Grants Application Deadline: 31 January 2019

Grants are available to small-scale, locally-based charitable initiatives in the UK in the following areas: isolated children and young people; prisoners and ex-offenders; disadvantaged women; disability; arts outreach; and community cohesion among minority groups. Further details: http://woodwardcharitabletrust.org.uk/general_applications/

National Churches Trust – Foundation Grants Programme 2019-2023
Application Deadline: 24 January 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. Maximum Value: £ 3,000. Minimum Value: £ 500. Further details here: https://www.nationalchurchestrust.org/foundationgrants

Pocket Parks Plus
Application Deadline: 25 January 2019

One-off grants are available for community groups working with local authorities to establish new pocket parks, creating safe and usable green spaces, and for helping to restore and renovate existing parks which have fallen into disrepair, bringing them back into public use. Further details here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pocket-parks-plus-supporting-parks-and-public-spaces

Big Lottery Fund — Reaching Communities
Reaching Communities make grants of over £10,000 in England, supporting organisations with great ideas that enable communities to thrive.
The grants are awarded to voluntary and community organisations or social enterprises for up to five years. They can fund project activities, operating costs, organisational development and capital costs.
Find out more about the Big Lottery Fund — Reaching Communities

Funding available for youth violence intervention The Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Thames Valley was recently successful in a bid for the Home Office Early Intervention Youth Fund (EIYF).

Having identified key elements of delivery from our bid, we are now seeking providers for very specific interventions and this is advanced notice of our intention to request quotes for this work.

There is a criticality to the speed of this work and, therefore, the request for quotes will only be open until 29th January at noon.  Invitations to quote are requested only from organisations who completely fit the request criteria and who can deliver across the Thames Valley force area, within a budget envelope and within the given timescale. Please read the below and if you are interested in providing a quote please email partnerships@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk for more information.

The bid for Thames Valley included a number of tiers of intervention, some of which are being delivered by existing providers of, for example, youth services.  The interventions that are open for quotes include:

  • Awareness raising theatre production (or similar) on youth violence for every secondary school across the Thames Valley.
  • 24 full days of training for between 700 and 1,000 professionals / practitioners / teachers / youth workers on County Lines, gangs, exploitation, etc (24 days for approx. 40 attendees per day)
  • Knife crime awareness sessions for young people in key hot spot areas across the Thames Valley, reaching at least 1,200 participants.
  • Intensive work (group or 1:1) with young people already involved in crime / gangs / exploitation to reduce their chances of further criminalisation through a targeted programme of work in at least 6 hot spot areas across the Thames Valley (6 programmes)

For more information about the EIYF: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-intervention-youth-fund

Greggs Foundation Local Community Projects Fund – open until 28 February 2019

The Greggs Foundation Local Community Projects Fund is now open for applications from not-for-profit organisations with annual turnovers below £300,000. They are more likely to award grants – of up to £2,000 – to organisations who have a Greggs shop in their area.

They are interested in projects that improve resilience within the community. This can include sessional activities or respite support, equipment for sessional activities, trips and residential breaks. They are also interested in new approaches and innovative ideas as well as sustainable approaches to supporting the community. They do not fund running costs or continuation of existing and ongoing work.

Successful applicants will need to demonstrate improvements against at least one of the following ‘key performance targets’:

  • Beneficiaries have decreased social isolation.
  • Beneficiaries report improved health and wellbeing.
  • Beneficiaries report improved resilience/coping mechanisms.
  • Beneficiaries have improved life skills.
  • Beneficiaries have improved opportunities.

Further information

Find more information and guidance on how to apply on the Greggs Foundation website.

 

 

Charity Volunteer Recruitment Fair in Wokingham – 19th January 2019

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The Wokingham Volunteer Centre is getting the New Year off to a great start with their Volunteer Recruitment Fair on Saturday 19th January, 10am – 1pm, at Wokingham Town Hall, Market Place, Wokingham RG40 1AS!

They will be hosting a variety of fantastic local charities, community groups and public sector partners that work with children, young people and families, the elderly, education and literacy, dementia support, charity shops, local hospices, suicide prevention, environment and conservation, learning disability, community events and fundraising, and sports, leisure and exercise.  Their representatives will be on hand for the duration of the event to talk about their work and the wide range of voluntary roles available locally.

Funding Update December

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Information sources: with thanks to Slough CVS, West Berkshire Volunteer Centre, Wokingham Involve, Norfolk Community Action

Big Lottery Fund — Reaching Communities 

Reaching Communities make grants of over £10,000 in England, supporting organisations with great ideas that enable communities to thrive.

The grants are awarded to voluntary and community organisations or social enterprises for up to five years. They can fund project activities, operating costs, organisational development and capital costs.

Find out more about the Big Lottery Fund — Reaching Communities

National Churches Trust – Foundation Grants Programme 2019-2023

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. To read more please click here.

UK Theatres Grants Scheme

The UK Theatres Small Grants Scheme is a capital fund that awards up to £5,000 to theatres across the UK, run by charities and not-for-profit groups that can clearly demonstrate the value capital improvements to their theatres would make to their work in local communities.

Priorities include projects that address urgent building repairs, improve operational viability, introduce environmental improvements, and enhance physical accessibility. Please note that applications for technical equipment and refurbishment of soft furnishings are a low priority for the scheme.
To be eligible you must:

  • Own or manage theatres with titles or signed leases of more than 5 years on buildings in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
  • Demonstrate that they run a regular theatre programme of professional, community and/or amateur work, presenting no less than 30 performances a year
  • Have a bona fide UK charitable or not-for-profit legal structure and be able to provide certified or audited accounts for at least two years

Applications for awards up to £5,000 can be made.

Round 13 of the UK Small Grants Scheme will close on Tuesday 8th January 2019 at noon.

Find out more about the UK Theatres Grants Scheme

Pocket parks plus: supporting parks and public spaces

The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government is inviting applications from community groups interested in establishing a new pocket park or refurbishing an existing park.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is providing a £1 million fund to support the development of new pocket parks and to refurbish existing parks that have fallen into disrepair where their restoration could have a significant positive impact on the local community and address a specific local need.

They expect to allocate grants of up to £15,000 for new pocket parks and £25,000 for refurbishment of existing parks split between capital and revenue.

The deadline is 5pm on Friday 25th January 2019.

Find out more about Pocket parks plus: supporting parks and public spaces

The Wolfson Foundation

The Wolfson Foundation is an independent charity that awards grants to support and promote excellence in the fields of science, health, education and the arts & humanities. They generally only fund capital projects (buildings/refurbishment, equipment) and only award grants to charities or organisations with charitable status (or equivalent).

The size of our grants vary greatly across different programme areas. For an idea of how much you might reasonably hope to receive, should your application be successful, you may wish to look at their recent Annual Reports to see what amounts similar organisations/ projects have received.

Find out more about The Wolfson Foundation

Centre for Ageing Better: Age-friendly and Inclusive Volunteering Fund

Grants to support charities and community groups in England with initiatives that will tackle the barriers that might prevent older people from volunteering and contributing to their communities, thereby benefiting from this positive interaction. The fund seeks to stimulate new approaches and identify good practice that other organisations can learn from and replicate. Please click here for further information.

Healthwatch Community Investment Fund 2018

Healthwatch Wokingham wants to invest in grassroots projects by individuals or groups that aim to improve the health & wellbeing of local people. There’s no need to be a registered charity or an official group. We’ll be judging applications on how well we think they could contribute to improving people’s wellbeing. It would be great if your project relates in some way to emotional wellbeing/mental health. Projects do not have to be expensive or complicated & the application process is easy and straightforward. If interested, send in a short description of your project idea & the amount of funding with a breakdown of costs to nicola.strudley@healthwatchwokingham.co.uk or call 0118 418 1418. Deadline for applications is 24.12.18.

Did you know that applying to the Big Lottery Fund is now easier?

If you would like to apply for funding between £300 and £10,000 you can apply online for our Awards for All Grants. See our website for more details:-https://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/funding/under10k

If you are looking for funding for over £10,000 and your project helps to:-

  • Shape the spaces and places in your local community,
  • Strengthens relationships and brings people together or
  • Enables people to work together to address issues at the earliest possible stage,