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- Funding for Community Sports Clubs
- Santander Social Enterprise Development Awards
- Comic Relief Local Communities Programme
- Big Lottery Fund Seeks Views on New Programme
- Awards for All England
- Bromley Mytime – Expressions of interest
- London Councils Grants Consultation 2013/15
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- Bike Club Grants – £2k grants
- Funding for Netball in London –£4K
- BIG launches funding for sustainable communities
- Social Action Fund
- £30 million announced for community green schemes and public sector energy efficiency
- Trust for London
- Small Charity Fundraising Conference in partnership with the Institute of Fundraising
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Funding for Community Sports Clubs
For more information on the funding plans go to: http://www.culture.gov.uk/news/news_stories/8760.aspx
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Funding is available to help growing social enterprises in the Greater London region to increase the impact of their work to improve social inclusion, support disadvantaged people or create a greener environment. The awards will support community enterprises looking to grow and develop their business in order to improve their local community through critical social outcomes. Funding is available under the following themes:
- Improving social inclusion
- Supporting training, skills, and employment
- Creating a greener environment
The income threshold is £100,000-500,000 p.a - see guidance notes
Closing date: 5pm on Friday, 3rd February 2012
Guidelines | Application form
For more information contact Cathy Togher, programme manager on 0207 582 5117 or cathy@londoncf.org.uk
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The programme aims to empower local people, enabling them to create lasting change in their communities. Projects should be run by local people directly affected by the issues they are dealing with and priority will be given to small, locally based groups and organisations in areas of disadvantage that have a clear understanding of the needs of their community. You can apply for funding to:
- increase local services
- build skills of local people
- increase community cohesion
- respond to local economic needs
- increase access to sport and exercise for people who face social exclusion and isolation.
Closing dates:
- 5pm Friday 9th March
- 5pm Friday 8th June
- 5pm Friday 7th September
- 5pm Friday 7th December
Guidelines | Web portal for online application
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The Big Lottery Fund wants to know what the voluntary and community sector thinks about its new programme Building Capabilities for Impact and Legacy. For more information go to: www.fundingcentral.org.uk
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The Awards for All England programme aims to help improve local communities and the lives of people most in need. If you are planning a project and you need between £300 and £10,000 then Awards for All may be able to help you. No deadline. More info
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Mytime Active is seeking expressions of interest from organisations with suitable experience to manage and operate the One O’clock Club premises, a facility on the edge of Crystal Palace Park. This is an exciting opportunity for an organisation to be the sole user of this purpose-built facility.
The successful organisation will sub lease the facility from Mytime Active and will offer high quality provision for children under the age of 5 years. The facility is currently operating as the One o’clock Club and provides drop in pay and play sessions for parents / carers with children under 5 years.
However, there is scope to gain Ofsted registration and to diversify and enhance the offer, for example, to provide a sessional pre-school. Other options / alternative uses will be considered.
Organisations will be invited to make a detailed tender submission between February and April 2012 for a 12-year agreement. The contract will be awarded in April 2012 and service commencement could be as early as June 2012, but will be no later than September 2012.
If you would like any points of clarification prior to submitting your expression of interest please contact Debra Weekes, Mytime Partnerships Manager via email debra.weekes@mytimeactive.co.uk Please email your expression of interest to:-debra.weekes@mytimeactive.co.uk by 5pm on Friday 3rd February.
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London Councils launched a public consultation exercise on 21 December 2011 about its future grants programme and its review of the potential equalities effects on the protected groups as part of its duties under the Equality Act 2010. This consultation will assist London Councils in reaching the following decisions in the future:
- Which of the 105 current commissions should be funded beyond the end of their fixed funding agreements and until the end of the 2012/13 financial year?
- What principles and priorities will be applied in selecting commissions to start from 1 April 2013?
London Councils is inviting responses from both individuals and organisations. This consultation closes on Friday 23 March 2012.
Have your Voices Heard. Protect funding to the sector. You can make your views known through: Taking part in the consultation. Follow the instructions on the following link:
- http://www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/services/grants/consultation/default.htm
- Writing or sending email directly to London Councils www.londoncouncils.gov.uk
- Your local Council representative on the London Councils
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Bike Club Grants - £2k grants
£2k seed grants are available towards the setting up of Bike Clubs for young people (10 - 20 years old/10 - 25 if all abilities including those with mental health problems and learning difficulties)
Potential Bike Clubs must demonstrate sustainability, inclusiveness and robust methods of evaluation.
Grants can be used for capital costs such as purchasing equipment, training to up-skill the group to be self-sustaining and buying in expertise.
Contact: Frances Chaloner, Bike Club Officer, London - frances.chaloner@bikeclub.org.uk, or telephone 075 0006 9261, UK Youth Office, 7 Heron Quay, Canary Wharf, London E14 4JA.
Bike Club is a consortium of three charities: CTC (the national cyclists’ organisation); UKYouth specialists in youth education; ContinYou - a learning charity. The funds have been provided by ASDA though Pedal Power.
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This brand new funding pot provides an opportunity for clubs, schools, organisations, local authorities and individuals to access funding to provide new netball opportunities in London. The funding covers a range of areas and activities that support England Netball’s strategic objectives.
Funding cannot be made retrospectively so must be for project, programmes, courses and activities that have not yet been delivered or attended. Projects must be sustainable and meet the England Netball criteria listed in the guidance notes. Application deadlines will be 5pm on the following dates:
- 25/01/12
- 18/04/12
- 18/07/12
- 17/10/12
- 23/01/13
If you have a project that you would like to apply for funding for, please thoroughly read over the guidance notes to ensure that your project is eligible. Additional support is available from Laura Wilson, Surrey & SW London Netball Development Officer:
- M: 07595 863761
- E: Lauraw@englandnetball.co.uk
- www.surreynetball.co.uk
- www.englandnetball.co.uk
- P: Surrey Sports Park, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7HD
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BIG Lottery Fund has announced a new funding programme: Communities Living Sustainably. The scheme will fund partnerships that bring together the public, private, voluntary and community sectors to build up to 10 sustainable and resilient communities to help deal with the potential impact of climate change.
BIG have up to £10m to fund 10 communities in England. There will be a development phase where BIG will provide £10K to develop delivery plans before making a final decision on the 10 successful communities. BIG are particularly interested in supporting the most vulnerable groups and communities who are more likely to be affected by climate change.
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The second application window for the Social Action Fund will be open on 9th January 2012. Information on the new themes and funding will be available on their website. For more information go to: more on the Social Action Fund and requesting feedback
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The Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) have launched the Local Energy Assessment Fund, a new £10 million fund to support community action on energy efficiency and renewable energy. It aims to help communities to equip themselves to deliver meaningful projects through mechanisms such as the Green Deal, Feed in Tariffs and the Renewable Heat Incentive.
This is very short notice but there is help available (see below). Funded work must be completed by 31st March 2012. It is expected that average grant values will be around £50,000. The maximum grant available under LEAF will be £130,000. The funding will be issued in two phases, phase one has already closed but phase 2 applications must be submitted online by 12 noon on 20th Jan 2012 – successful applicants will be notified by 31st Jan 2012.
All work funded under LEAF must be completed by 31st March 2012. Communities applying will need to show that they can complete the proposed project within this three-month period.
Those applying can include up to £1,000 in the project budget to pay for support or advice from third parties in helping to develop funding applications to LEAF. (This will only be paid, if the proposal is successful).
The fund will support communities in working to understand and reduce the amount of energy that is used in homes and other buildings and where local action can help deliver savings of energy, carbon dioxide emissions and money. This work can include
- energy surveys of buildings (likely to be done by professional surveyors),
- practical energy saving measures and demonstration projects,
- workshops to help local people take action to save energy and
- reports on what more needs to be done in the area.
If much of this work has been done already, then there is the potential to use the fund to develop further work on renewable energy systems.
Projects supported by the scheme will need to have clear community involvement/lead, lead to greater understanding of the opportunities for energy efficiency and renewable energy across the host community, show how they will lead to an increase in installations of energy efficiency and renewable energy measures and show how they will benefit their community in the long term.
Chris Church, Chair, Low Carbon Communities Network has been involved in this project from the start and is able to offer advice and support regarding the development of the application. If you are interested and could use some advice, please do get in touch with Chris Church: chrischurch@cooptel.net
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At the Funding the Future conference on 6th December, Trust for London confirmed that their funding programme would be changing late 2012 and wants to encourage eligible groups to apply for funding. The next two deadlines are February and May. For more information, please go to their website: www.trustforlondon.org.uk
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Thanks to a grant from the OCS, the Institute of Fundraising and the Small Charities Coalition have teamed up to bring you a dedicated fundraising conference for small charities with an income of less than £200,000.
The ‘Fundraising in a Small Charity’ conference is being held in London on Friday 30 March 2012 and will cost only £20 per delegate.
There will be a whole range of fundraising workshops plus ample opportunity to meet like-minded colleagues from similar sized organisations. For more information or to book, visit the ‘Fundraising in a Small Charity’ events page below. www.institute-of-fundraising.org.uk/smallcharity2012
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