Funding Opportunities - Funding - North East Lincolnshire

Funding Opportunities

Sources of funding

This is only a general guide for information, and changes may occur at anytime to any of the funds listed.  If you wish to make an application to any of them you are strongly advised to research each one fully to see if you are eligible before making an application.

Awards for All

This is a lottery grant scheme aimed at local community groups, clubs, leagues and voluntary associations.  It awards grants of between £300 and £10,000 to support projects, which enable people to take part in art, sport, heritage and community activities, as well as projects that promote education, the environment and health in the local community.

Website: www.awardsforall.org.uk

BBC Children in Need

It aims to positively change the lives of disadvantaged children and young people in the UK, including those who are affected by illness, distress, abuse or neglect, disability, behavioural or psychological impairment to those living in poverty or situations of deprivation.  It provides grants to organisations that are not for profit and work with disadvantaged children and young people.

Website: www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey

 Bernard Sunley Charitable Trust

The foundation does not publish specific areas of interest but grants usually fall into particular categories such as community, youth, health, leisure, welfare and education.  Only registered charities can apply for funding with no limit set on the size of grants.

Website: no website available but contact details available on request.

Big Lottery

The Big Lottery Fund replaced the New Opportunities Fund and National Lottery Charities Board, which made grants under the Community Fund.  It is responsible for distributing half of the money for good causes raised by the National Lottery and bringing real improvements to communities and the lives of people most in need.  It covers health, education, environment and charitable purposes, with open grant programmes available to support various voluntary and community organisations.

Website: www.biglotteryfund.org.uk

Biffa

Biffa is a landfill tax credit funded scheme, which offers three levels of support including the small grants scheme, main grants scheme and flagship scheme.  The small grants scheme, provides grants between £250 and £5,000 to enable communities to improve local amenities and conserve wildlife, and the main grants scheme which provides grants between £5,001 and £50,000 to improve community facilities for sporting achievement, lifelong learning and community involvement.

Website: www.biffaward.org

Camelot Foundation

Launched in 1996 by Camelot Group plc, operator of the National Lottery.  Its funding programme – ‘Transforming Lives’ wants to develop new approaches and creative ideas for re-connecting marginalised young people to the mainstream of UK life.  Priority groups include young parents or those at risk of becoming young parents, young exiles newly arrived in the UK, young people with mental health problems, and young disabled people.

Website: www.camelotfoundation.org.uk

Coalfields Regeneration Trust

The trust awards grants across British coalfields and runs the following grant programmes: Bridging the Gap – for requests between £500 and £10,000, and Main Grants – for requests between £10,000 and £300,000 in England and £10,000 and £100,000 in Scotland and Wales.  The main funding themes include supporting communities, learning communities, enterprising communities, and supporting people into work with applications being welcome from new or existing groups and organisations who are contributing to the regeneration of coalfield areas and communities.

Website: www.coalfields-regen.org.uk

Comic Relief

Comic Relief operates 3 grant programmes within the UK including the Red Nose Day Programme, Sport Relief and Robbie Williams’ Give It Sum Fund.  Sport Relief is the most applicable for a sport related project with funding spent in two ways including large grants through the Young People & Conflict Programme and small grants through the Community Foundation Programme. The Conflict Programme aims to support projects working to reduce tension and conflict and tackle divisions between young people using inclusive sports activities.  The Community Foundation Programme provides small grants of up £5,000 to community groups for projects to help them renew their own neighbourhoods.  The community chest programme focuses on the most deprived neighbourhoods and marginalised groups such as BME, youth to enhance community provision and deliver community activities.

Website: www.communityfoundations.org.uk

Community Champions Fund

This fund can provide grants of up to £2,000 to encourage more community activity and involvement in regeneration by funding individuals working on community projects who will in turn pass on their skills to others in the community.

Website: www.dfes.gov.uk/communitychampions

Co-op Group Community Dividend Fund

The fund supports projects that benefit local communities.  Community and voluntary groups as well as charities can apply for funding up to £5,000 to support projects that benefit the local community, around issues such as combating crime and anti-social behaviour, promoting education and improving health for disadvantaged groups.

Website: www.co-operative.co.uk/communityfund/

Community Investment Fund

The community Investment Fund is the National Lottery funding available through the 9 regions in Sport England.  It aims to increase participation in sport amongst priority groups, identified by the regional sports boards.  The majority of funds will be committed to targeted projects with some available for community projects through an open process.  The projects that receive funding will be required to provide significant increased in sports participation and demonstrate integration with health, education and community development.

Website: www.sportengland.org

Foundation for Sport and the Arts

The Foundation distributes money donated by Littlewoods Gaming into a wide range of sports and artistic causes and supports a wide range of activities where there is clear beneficial impact across the community.  The Foundation’s main goal at this time is to encourage active participation by young people, where an average award of up to £40,000 will help to create or maintain facilities and opportunities for the general community or will assist arts of sports provision.

Website: www.thefsa.net

Hedley Foundation

The foundation aims to assist and encourage development and change.  Only registered charities can apply with most grants being capital or one off in nature.  The main objective is young people including their education, training, health and welfare as well as disabled people and the terminally ill.

Website: www.hedleyfoundation.org.uk

Help Yourselves!

This was created by Save the Children and British Gas and aims to support adults and young people working together.  Grants are between £1,000 and £3,000 for projects and activities that help children and young people who are excluded and isolated as well as those living in areas of deprivation.

Website: www.helpyourselves.org.uk

Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales

This fund makes grants of up to £10,000 to recognised charities to help people, especially those who are disadvantaged or disabled, to play a fuller role in communities.  It supports charities, which contribute to community life, and aims to promote capacity building and strategic and collaborative working with the voluntary sector.

Website: www.lloydstsbfoundations.org.uk

Local Network Fund for Children and Young People

This fund can provide grants up to £7,000 to help disadvantaged children and young people aged 0-19 years to investing directly in the activities of local community and voluntary groups.  The fund encompasses four themes including aspirations and experiences, economic disadvantage, isolation and access and children’s voices.

Website: www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/strategy/localnetworkfund

National Sports Foundation

A government led initiative designed to encourage partnerships between private investors and not for profit organisations to deliver community sports projects.  There are three priority areas for funding including Fit for Sport, 2012 Kids, and Women Into Sport.  A minimum of £50,001 of sponsorship is required which would be matched on a pound for pound basis by the foundation.

Website: www.nationalsportsfoundation.org

Neighbourhood Renewal Fund

Eighty-eight most deprived areas are receiving additional resources through the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund.  This is a targeted grant that can be spent in any way that will tackle deprivation in the most deprived neighbourhoods to improve services, narrowing the gap between deprived areas and the rest of the country.

Website: www.neighbourhood.gov.uk

Percy Bilton Charity

This is a grant making trust, which makes grants to support organisations and individuals in need throughout the UK.  Registered charities assisting disadvantaged youth, people with disabilities and older people may apply for a grant towards capital expenditure.

Website: www.percybiltoncharity.org.uk

Peter Harrison Fund

The fund has various grant programmes available but the Opportunities through Sport, a nation-wide programme open to registered charities through the UK is best placed to support a sports related project.  This programme aims to support sporting activities or projects, which provide opportunities for people who are disabled or otherwise disadvantaged to fulfil their potential and to develop other personal and life skills.

Website: www.peterharrisonfoundation.org

Princes Trust

The Princes Trust Group Award provides small grants between £1,000 and £5,000 to disadvantaged young people aged 14-25 years to set up projects that will make a real difference, to life in the community.

Website: www.princes-trust.org.uk

Sportsmatch

Sportsmatch is government funded to support the development of grass roots sport in England.  It makes awards to community organisations running new projects aimed at increasing participation in sports at community level by matching commercial sponsorship money up to £50,000 invested in community sport on a pound for pound basis.

Website: www.sportsmatch.co.uk

Tesco Charity Trust

Community awards are available to benefit local organisations whose core work supports children’s education and welfare including special needs schools, children and adults with disabilities and elderly people.  Awards are one-off donations and range between £1,500 and £5,000.

Website: www.tesco.com/everylittlehelps/csrcharitiesdetail.htm

Variety Club of Great Britain

The Variety Club Children’s Charity aims to help sick, disabled and disadvantaged children and young people up to and including the age of 18 years, who are resident within the UK.  Applications can be made form non-profit making groups working with children including statutory bodies such as schools and hospitals and registered charities.

Website: www.varietyclub.org.uk

 

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