Funding news August 2011
Spotlight
- Bromley Community Fund
- 2012 GlaxoSmithKline IMPACT Awards
- Evening Standard Dispossessed Fund
- The Bromley Children Project – apply to be on the Council’s approved list of service providers
- Government Funding Available for Learning and Development costs for SeniorManagers of small/medium enterprises (SMEs)
- Community Outreach 2011-2012 Grant Fund – £5,000
- CommunityForce
- Inspired Facilities Fund – £20,000 - £150,000
- Heart Research UK – £10,000
- Home Office launches– £14m pot for crime prevention ideas
- Crisis PRS Access Development Programme Grant Value – max £20,000
- Homeless Transition Fund
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Bromley Community Fund - Surviving Winter Campaign: Partner organisations wanted
New Appeal
The Bromley Community Fund (BCF) is an exciting new charitable venture set up to support the borough, now and long into the future – responding over time to the changing needs and hardships faced by local people. This winter, the Bromley Community Fund (BCF) is launching a new fundraising campaign called ‘Surviving Winter’. The campaign will ask older people who do not need their winter fuel payments, to donate all or part of it to help more vulnerable older people in the borough.
The Fund is opening a call for expressions of interest to local organisations working with older vulnerable people in the borough who would like to become partner organisations for the campaign. This will involve helping to promote the campaign as well as receiving grants from the monies raised. You must be working to help tackle the issues facing older vulnerable people within the borough to encourage happier, healthier and safer lives for them. There are a number of criteria for those applying – please read the guidance notes for more information on what the fund hopes to achieve, the fund themes and criteria for applying.
The income threshold is £200,000 income in the last year and the closing date for expressions of interest is 29th August by 5pm.
Forms
Notes
This is a new campaign for Bromley Community Fund so please read the guidance notes carefully before submitting your expression of interest form.
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2012 GlaxoSmithKline IMPACT Awards
Would you like to receive an award of up to £35,000?
GlaxoSmithKline’s IMPACT Awards reward charities’ excellent work to improve people’s health.
- Up to 15 awards are available, plus free training valued at £4,000.
- You do not need to present a new project, and you decide how to spend the award money.
- Open to charities that are at least three years old, working in a health related field in the UK, with income between £10,000 and £1.5 million.
- In addition, up to 8 awards are available for the IMPACT Champion, valued at a total of £194,000.
To apply go to: www.kingsfund.org.uk/gskimpactawards
Closing dates: IMPACT AWARDS: 23 September 2011
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Your organisation must prove you are working to lift people out of poverty in one of the following areas:
- Training and educating people who have dropped out of mainstream education
- Getting people into work such as through apprenticeship or mentor schemes
- Fighting gangs, knife and gun crime
- Improving mental and physical health and well-being, such as through sports clubs and helping carers
- Addressing other manifestations of poverty such as homelessness, pensioner poverty or the working poor. You should also be able to demonstrate community involvement in your project and work.
Areas
Bexley, Bromley, Camden, Greenwich, Hammersmith and Fulham, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Kingston upon Thames, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Richmond upon Thames, Southwark, Sutton, Wandsworth, Westminster
Income Threshold £250,000 p.a.
Closing dates: Your full application (form A, B & supporting documents) must be submitted by 5pm on 23rd September
Forms
Notes
Please note this is an online application form, please click on the link to go to the central website. Once you register the guidance notes and link to the application will be emailed to you. Please ensure that you read through all of the guidance notes before making an application.
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The London Borough of Bromley is inviting interested parties to apply to be considered for inclusion on an approved list of service providers. It is intended the list will be used to identify those providers who, via appropriate tender action, will place arrangements for a range of early intervention and prevention services in Children & Family Centres and other venues within Bromley. The list will cover the following areas of activity:
- Counselling
- Food
- Exercise
- First Aid
- Safeguarding
- Job Skills
- ESOL
- Skills Development
- I.T.
- Craft/DIY
- Literacy & Numeracy (Adults)
- Literacy & Numeracy (Children)
- Baby Massage
- Teenage, Young & New Mums
- Dads
- Antenatal & Perinatal
- Finance
- Advice & Information
- Breastfeeding Awareness
- Speech & Language
- Music
- Sport
For further information and /or an application pack, please email earlyinterventionandprevention@bromley.gov.uk or telephone 020 8461 7259.
The deadline for completed applications is 12th August 2011.
Successful applicants will then be added to the resulting approved list, which will be used (as provided for in the application pack and tender documentation) to select those invited to tender for the service opportunities identified. Depending on its requirements at any particular time, services may be placed via a “mini tendering “process from those identified on any particular element of the Approved List, in line with the Council’s Contract Procedure Rule requirements and associated Practice Notes. It is intended that that service activity will commence in October 2011.
There will be a second tender towards the end of the year and thereafter as required to meet service needs. It is not intended to have more than approximately fifteen providers in each element of the list at any one time.
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The Government set up the Leadership and Management Advisory Service (LMAS) to help eligible employers identify and fund development opportunities for their senior leaders.
Funding is available up to the value of £1000 excluding VAT and is dependant on meeting all eligibility criteria. It will also need to be fully matched by the beneficiary organisation on a pound for pound basis, excluding the VAT element. So if an organisation is eligible and the approved learning and development costs are £1500 excluding VAT, the organisation may be eligible for a grant of £750.
No unmatched grant funding is available.
Eligibility
- Organisations in scope for the service are either private sector businesses or social enterprises which employ 2- 250 full-time employees
- Beneficiaries must be the owner/MD/CEO of a business or social enterprise if it employs 50 people or less
- If the business or social enterprise employs more than 50 people, a beneficiary who reports directly to the owner/MD/CEO can be considered
- Eligible organisations must also be able to demonstrate growth or growth potential
Eligible Funded Learning and Development Areas Include:
- Leadership and management style and skills
- Communication and presentation skills, assertiveness, confidence building and conflict resolution
- Business planning
- People processes including recruitment and selection, team building, roles and responsibilities, performance and people management
- Leading and managing employee performance: for example, coaching skills, motivation, monitoring and reviewing performance, staff development, giving feedback
The LMAS operates on a regional basis and full contact details of the service providers and the regions they cover are as follows:
London: Website: http://www.exemplas.com, tel: 01707 398202 email: stuartw@exemplas.com
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Applications are now open for organisations who wish to develop their outreach activity, reach new audiences or communities and help people take their first steps online.
For further information including details on how to apply please click here
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NatWest has launched CommunityForce, a platform that gives charities, projects and groups the opportunity to receive a grant of up to £6,000.
Most local charities, projects or groups can apply to be considered for CommunityForce. Even if a group does not receive a grant, it could still benefit from offers of time from volunteers.
For further information including details on how to apply please click here
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Inspired Facilities is focused on making it easier for local community and volunteer groups to improve and refurbish sports clubs or transform non-sporting venues into modern grassroots sport facilities.
- Community and voluntary organisations, including parish and town councils can apply for grants worth between £20,000 and £50,000.
- Local authorities, statutory bodies and education establishments such as schools, can apply for grants between £20,000 and £150,000.
For further information including details on how to apply please click here
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Heart Research UK give Healthy Heart Grants of up to £10,000 to community groups around the UK to allow them to run projects to encourage people to lead Healthy Heart lifestyles.
For further information including details on how to apply please click here
Closing date: 31 August 2011.
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The Home Office has announced £14m of funding to support charities using innovative ways to tackle crimes in communities. The money will be spread between two funds, one focusing on communities, the other on young people.
The Innovation Fund will fund charities to create new approaches to tackling crime in the community. It will be worth £5m in 2011/12, with a further £5m set aside for 2012/13.
In addition, the £4m Choices Fund will support the development of innovative local solutions to reducing substance misuse and offending by young people.
A Home Office spokesman said the department is particularly keen for the fund to be made available to grassroots community activists who are not traditional recipients of government grants.
It also wants the funding to encourage the voluntary sector to work more closely with local Community Safety Partnerships, and other statutory agencies that impact on community safety, to drive co-design and co-delivery of services.
Full details of the application process for 2011-12 will be made available on the Home Office website.
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This programme funds new community based services that help single homeless people find and sustain good quality accommodation in the private rented sector (PRS). It builds on Crisis’ history and expertise in PRS solutions to homelessness and represents an investment of over £10m of DCLG funding over a three year period.
Funding for Round Two of this programme has been confirmed and the application form and guidance are available to download. The deadline for applications for funding is 5 September 2011.
For further information including details on how to apply please click here
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The £20 million Homelessness Transition Fund, supported by the DCLG and administered by Homeless Link, will support organisations that provide services that aim to stop people sleeping rough in England.
The fund will aim to:
- Protect essential services for single homeless people and support them in becoming sustainable
- Support the introduction of ‘No Second Night Out’ standard to end rough sleeping and other innovations.
The ‘No Second Night Out’ standard says that anyone who ends up on the streets should get rapid help to ensure that they do not spend a second night out.
Voluntary sector organisations that spend most of their income on homelessness will be eligible to apply. Consortiums of organisations, which are led by a homelessness agency, may also apply.
The fund will run over three years with a number of funding rounds. Each round may have different funding criteria for varied projects.
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Tel: 020 8315 1900
Fax: 020 8315 1924
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