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Communitybuilders resumes distribution of funds
Social Investment Business says payments from the £70m fund, put on hold by coalition government, have started again
Communitybuilders has started giving out funds again, its administrators have announced.
The £70m grant and loan fund was set up by the Communities and Local Government department to support organisations that provide community cohesion services, and is administered by the Social Investment Business.
It has been open to applications but has not been making payments since the coalition government took power.
Hull CVS Starter Grants at the Heart of the Community
New community groups and existing self help groups can apply to Hull CVS for a ‘Starter Grant' of upto £150 to help their work.
Hull CVS run the Starter Grants with the support of The Sir James Reckitt Charity.
New community groups just getting started can apply in their first six months of existence to fund things such as room booking; printing a poster or newsletter or other activities to get their group going.
Very small self help groups who survive on less than £500 a year can also apply to help keep their group going.
Jayne Robinson, Grants Officer at Hull CVS said "Starter grants support very small groups who find it hard to obtain funding from larger grant making bodies. We welcome new applications and groups wishing to discuss their group's ideas further should contact me".
Application forms can be downloaded from the Hull CVS website at
http://hullcvs.co.uk/grants.asp or by contacting Jayne Robinson Grants Officer on 01482 221372 (option 4)
Fundraising Plus
Fundraising Plus is a new project funded by the Big Lottery Fund under its BASIS programme which helps small voluntary and community organisations with funding advice and a range of other help and support.
Humber All Nations Alliance (HANA) leads the Fundraising Plus partnership between Hull CVS, East Riding Voluntary Action Services (ERVAS), Voluntary Action North Lincs (VANL) and Voluntary Action North East Lincs (VANEL).
Voluntary and community organisations working in Hull, East Riding, North and North East Lincolnshire can ask for free help from Fundraising Plus.
Priority is given to smaller organisations with an annual income of under £100,000 and that are not already able to access support from, for example, a national umbrella organisation.
Fundraising Plus goes beyond funding advice to help your organisation.
Each organisation will be offered a Health Check, analysing their current funding position and highlighting things the organisation might do to improve its funding capacity.
Where necessary, organisations may be offered further support to address issues for improvement to increase their fundraising capacity.
Fundraising Plus will signpost organisations to other appropriate sources of funding advice and organisational development support, such as community accountancy; IT support; specialised assistance with contracts and tendering etc.
Fundraising Plus offers training on a range of fundraising and other topics to help organisations improve their fundraising capacity.
For more information:
Website: www.fundraisingplus.net
Email: Click here
Alternatively you can access support through any of the other partners on the project - please see the website for details.
The Big Lottery oversees a number of programmes. To see what is current visit their web site.
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation aims to improve the quality of life throughout the UK.
We do this by funding the charitable activities of organisations that have the ideas and ability to achieve change for the better. We take pride in supporting work that might otherwise be considered difficult to fund.
Our primary interests are in the cultural life of the UK, education and learning, the natural environment and enabling disadvantaged people to participate more fully in society.
Lloyds TSB Foundation
Supporting small and medium charities
The Lloyds TSB Foundation funds local, regional and national charities working to tackle disadvantage across England and Wales. Our focus is on supporting small and medium underfunded charities that can make a significant difference to the lives of disadvantaged people by helping them to play a fuller role in the community. Our strong local presence enables us to respond directly and promptly to local needs.
Loyds TSB's focus "helping them to play a fuller role in the community", referred to above, means a variety of activities can be funded including learning.
Santander Foundation
Santander Foundation to end funding of regeneration projects
But £3m available in 2010 for education, training and financial capability charities
The Santander Foundation, formed by the merger of the charitable giving activities of Abbey, Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley, will continue funding education, training and financial capability charities but will stop funding regeneration projects.
The foundation, which was relaunched yesterday, will allocate £3m to UK charities in 2010. The figure is slightly lower than the £3.28m given out by the three banks in total in 2009.
Qualifying charities based in the nine regions where Santander has a "significant presence", listed below, will be able to apply for grants worth up to £30,000. Charities outside these areas can apply for one-off grants of up to £10,000.
Alan Eagle, manager of the Santander Foundation, said: "We have spent time listening to what charities are looking for and responded with a much improved grants programme that opens up the funding for many more charities to benefit."
The nine areas where grants of up to £30,000 will be available are:
- London Borough of Camden
- Milton Keynes and surrounding areas
- Leicestershire and Rutland
- South Yorkshire
- West Yorkshire
- Teesside, covering the area from Redcar to Darlington and Sunderland
- Merseyside
- Greater Glasgow.
To find out more please visit http://www.santanderfoundation.org.uk/index.aspx
G. M. Morrison Charitable Trust
Charitable objects Additional information provided by charityThe Trust's objective is to provide financial support to UK Registered Charities on a regular annual basis.
Trustees make grants to selected organisations, covering a wide variety of activities, mainly, in the Social Welfare, Medical and Education/Training fields. The scope of their giving is determined only by the extent of their resources; it is not otherwise restricted geographically.
Write C/O 21 BUCKINGHAM GATE, LONDON, SW1E 6LS
Telephone: 0207 802 2700
ASDA Foundation
The ASDA Foundation is our charitable trust which was set up in 1988 to support local good causes chosen by our colleagues, and is funded by profits from the mid-week national lottery.
We see the foundation as one of the many ways to give something back to the communities that support us. That's why we lend a hand to the wide range of good causes with which our colleagues are involved - including everything from local charities and playgroups to football teams.
The ASDA Foundation is primarily for colleagues who have already raised money for their chosen cause through their store or depot, and require additional support.
Under the Foundation's terms, we will assist any charity in the UK, as well as people and projects who require financial assistance, providing they have the support of local ASDA colleagues.
Because we receive thousands of applications each year, we are not able to support every cause, and cannot consider applications where the donation will be used to pay salaries or where it will be added to general funds.
We will always look at each application based on these criteria and on the individual merits of the cause, and its potential benefits to the local community.
http://www.about-asda.co.uk/communities/asda-foundation.asp
Nominet Trust
Helping to make the Internet a better place
A charity that provides funding to innovative projects which strive to improve and encourage the safe use of the Internet for educational, inclusion and other charitable purposes.
We will give grants to organisations that can convince us that their innovative IT-related projects can make a positive difference to the groups listed below - in the UK, developing countries and around the world.
We want to help disadvantaged and vulnerable groups to use the Internet - young people, the elderly, the disabled and sick, and people in deprived areas.
http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/index.php
Hull Skills Fund
Are you an employer looking for some extra training for your employees?
Hull City Council has made a £400,000 skills fund available to help local employers. The skills fund has been introduced to help with issues related to training, employment and the growth of sustainable small businesses in Hull. The aim of the fund is to help raise the level of skills of Hull's workforce.
The fund will address two key areas of need:
• basic English and maths training
• higher level management and professional training
It will ensure that employees have the right skills to meet the demands of modern employers, and give a boost to the local economy.
If you're an employer and are interested in the fund, you'll need to pay about half the cost of the training. Small/medium enterprises based in Hull (HU1 - HU9) with a workforce of up to 500 employees or Hull residents employed by small/medium enterprise can apply for funding. There is a limit of £2,000 of funding available per employee.
The employer/company decides which training course would be suitable to meet the needs of both the business and employee, which should result in the most beneficial outcome for the company.
What level of skills is the training aimed at?
Basic skills training is available and will be fully subsidised. Higher level skills training is subsidised at a preferred level of 33 per cent, with a match contribution from the employer and employee, but the scheme can provide a grant of up to 50 per cent towards training costs for intermediate and higher level skills training.
Employees could go on day release to college, or trainers could visit your premises to give classes during work time - there are lots of different options.
How do you apply?
Download the Skills Fund Application Form and Information (size: 192.6 Kb)
In support of your application, you must provide a quote or details of the proposed training course and a brief note on how this develops you as an individual within your current employment.
Adult Learning Grants
The Adult Learning Grant is a means tested allowance of up to £30 per week to adults resident in England studying full time for a first full level 2 or first full level 3 qualification.
There are restrictions.
You need to be aged 19-31 to do a level 3 qualification but level 2 is open to everyone aged 19 or over.
The Secret Millionaire Fund
A small grants programme with a big impact
The Big Lottery Fund has joined up with Channel 4 to create The Secret Millionaire Fund website which will allow applicants to:
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nominate a community project they think would benefit from funding, or
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apply directly themselves.
Successful applicants to The Secret Millionaire Fund may then be selected for filming by Channel 4 and appear on the website or on the TV programme itself.
The partnership is based on one of Channel 4’s most popular TV programmes – The Secret Millionaire with 4.5 million viewers. Each week a millionaire leaves their luxury life behind, takes on a secret identity and for 10 days lives undercover in a deprived area of the UK. On their final day, the millionaires come clean and donate thousands of pounds to projects they feel will most benefit from it.
Are you eligible?
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You must answer yes to the following questions
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Be a voluntary or community organisation, school, parish or town council, or a health body
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Have a UK based bank account or building society account in the name of your organisation that requires at least two people to sign cheques or make a withdrawal
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The project you are applying for must achieve one of these four outcomes:
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People have better chances in life, with better access to training and development to improve their life skills.
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Stronger communities with more active citizens, working together to tackle their problems
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Improved rural and urban environments, which communities are better able to enjoy.
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Healthier and more active people and communities
FUNDING INFORMATION & SUPPORT SERVICES
Funding Central
Funding Central is a free smart website for the whole voluntary and community sector, including social enterprise, providing access to thousands of funding and finance opportunities, plus a wealth of tools and resources supporting organisations to develop sustainable income strategies appropriate to their needs.
Grants for Individuals
Manged by the Directiory of Social Change this site offers information on over 3,500 trusts which make grants to individuals.
Humber Technical Assistance (HTA)
HTA is a partnership that exists to support and develop ERDF bidding activity in the Humber sub region.
The HTA partnership will provide support to organisations in the region through:
- Mapping - identifying current ERDF bidding activity, and seeking out potential gaps and opportunities
- Information and events -to raise awareness of ERDF opportunities throughout the sub region
- Brokerage - identifying links, providing support and networking opportunities to organisations and potential consortia
- Partnership and consortium development - work with existing partnerships and developing new ones in response to strategic objectives
What is European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)?
The European Union provides €583.6 million for Yorkshire and the Humber to invest in the region by 2015. The money, from one of Europe's Structural Funds - the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), is provided to boost the region's economic performance, investing to increase innovation, competitiveness and employment.
Visit the HTA web site: www.humber-ta.org.uk
The NCVO Funding Commission
The Funding Commission was set up by NCVO in February 2009 to respond to the sector's concerns and uncertainty about funding over the next 10 years and to set a new funding agenda.
The Commission's vision is that by 2020 the funding environment will:
- Maximise opportunities for independent voluntary action; and
- Enable civil society organisations to further their goals more effectively and sustainably.
The Commission is looking 10 years into the future and asking:
- What are the opportunities and challenges for civil society organisations in relation to their funding? In particular, what will be the implications of the new political and financial environment facing the sector?
- What new sources of funding could be developed? What new mechanisms are needed?
- What are the alternatives to conventional public sector funding?
- How can civil society organisations make better use of existing resources to achieve their missions more effectively?
- What changes to funding practice are required? How should the relationship between funder and funded be developed?
- What new skills, models, tools or other forms of support are needed to help the sector?
The Commission was initially chaired by Rachel Lomax, former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England and it is now chaired by Fiona Ellis, former Director of the Northern Rock Foundation. The Commission includes a range of sector experts from funders (http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/fundingcommission/members), funding advisory bodies, fundraising, local voluntary action and social enterprise. The secretary to the Commission is Richard Gutch and the Secretariat is provided by NCVO.
The Commission conducted an initial consultation exercise in 2009 and, since then, has met with a wide range of funding experts and commissioned papers on key issues of interest. It plans to report by the end of 2010, following consultation on its draft recommendations with key stakeholders.
Emerging findings and recommendations, together with relevant background papers, will be placed on this website from June onwards.
For further information contact Belinda Pratten, Head of Policy at NCVO on 020 7520 2558 or email Belinda.Pratten@ncvo-vol.org.uk.
Student Finances
Students will have to meet a number of expenses when starting a higher education course. Thankfully, there is financial help available - probably more than you think - from your chosen institution, from the government, or from other sources.
Last updated 25 March 2011
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Yorkshire and the Humber Funders Forum
The Yorkshire and the Humber Funders Forum is a group of public and independent funders who are working together to improve funding in the region.
The forum is a regional group of more than 25 funders who want to promote good practice in funding the voluntary and community sector, and maximise the impact and value of funding to voluntary and community organisations.
Membership of the forum is open to funders of the third sector with a regional or sub-regional that fund voluntary or community organisations active in Yorkshire and the Humber.
The Yorkshire Grant Makers Forum is also represented on the Funders Forum.
The Forum meets every three months and is currently working on an action plan for joint working, engagement with regional stakeholders, and work themes. The Big Lottery Fund chairs the Forum and supports its work.
For further information visit their web site
