Round 2 of the Good Growth Fund, Mayor Sadiq Khan’s £70 million regeneration programme to support growth and community development in London, is now open. Working with the London Economic Action Partnership (LEAP), the fund supports innovative, best practice regeneration activities. The aim is to encourage active participation in local communities through the delivery of co-ordinated place-based strategies that support diverse and accessible local economies from high streets and town centres to industrial areas. A broad range of public, private and third-sector organisations are eligible to apply including: London boroughs Sub-regional partnerships Town teams and business improvement districts Workspace providers Community groups, social enterprises and charities Small and medium-sized enterprises Round 2 offers a further £20 million of funding for collaborative proposals that bring together a range of partners to focus resources and seize opportunities in a local area. No minimum or maximum grant levels are stated; in Round one the largest grant awarded was £2,957,505 and the smallest £90,000. Deadline for stage one applications is 13 July 2018 The 27 projects funded in round one included: Battersea Arts Centre Community Garden, received £150,000 to help provide an edible, sustainable community garden with artistic interpretation on a newly reopened and greened Town Hall Road in Lavender Hill, Clapham Participatory City Foundation, received £850,000 towards a participatory programme centred on the development of a warehouse which will provide a range of facilities for local users, including a metal and wood workshop, industrial kitchen facilities, fabric workspace and teaching space Inclusive Growth in Finsbury Park received £1,030,000 to provide affordable studio and workspace for community groups where disadvantaged residents will be supported to set-up and grow their own businesses and receive business support and training. Useful Links: Good Growth Fund Prospectus Frequently Asked Questions Click Here for more info
The Community Business Bright Ideas Fund, which supports aspiring community groups in England wanting to set up new community businesses has re-opened for applications. Grants of up to £15,000, tailored business support as well as learning events are available to: Give community groups the support and tools required to start setting up their community business Provide them with the early stage finance to carry out consultations with local people and the opportunity for feasibility studies To develop a community business idea, that the community wants and needs. Community support provider Locality is delivering Bright Ideas on behalf of Power to Change in partnership with Co-operatives UK, the Plunkett Foundation and Groundwork UK. Eligible business projects will be: Locally rooted Accountable to the local community Trading for the benefit of the local community Delivering broad community benefit This round will close for applications on the 31st July. Interested communities can now read the Guidance and Register for a FAQs webinar with a live Q&A. Click Here to find out more
The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government has launched the 2018 Great British High Street Awards. The Awards recognise and celebrate local achievements on Britain’s high streets and support the communities in which they live and work. High streets are eligible to win up to £10,000 for their local community, plus the opportunity for their local businesses and consumers to participate in a Visa GBHS Spend & Win Competition, which rewards the people that make our high streets so special. Winners will be named in each of the four UK nations across two categories: The Champion High Street category will recognise the nation’s best high streets. The Rising Star High Street category will recognise the nation’s most ambitious high streets, which are taking the lead and working together to revive, adapt and diversify. An overall High Street of the Year in Great Britain and Northern Ireland will also be named. The awards are open to: Business Improvement District Local Authority Parish Council Town Team Coastal Community Team Town Centre Partnership Community Interest Company Chambers of Commerce Trading Association Entries close at 23.59 on the 22nd August 2018. Useful Links: The Great British High Street Awards 2018 (Video) Click here to register your interest
Dear Colleagues, This is to let you know that Carers Network has just launched an exciting new crowdfunding campaign to provide information and tools to improve the health of local carers! Three in five of us will become a carer at some point in our lives – looking after a family member or close friend. Every year more than two million people in the UK become a carer. This can happen very suddenly and radically change their lifestyle, which may lead to worse mental and physical health. The project will give 100 carers the tools needed to improve their health while still attending to their caring duties. It will also give them the opportunity to meet other people in the same circumstances – which will help them battle the isolation that being a full-time carer can lead to. Could You Help? The goal is to raise a total of at least £5,000. It is ambitious, but this cause deserves an ambitious goal. And with your help, we can make this happen! Are you able to help us? If you are able to make a donation to our project it would make a great difference to the people we strive to help. It would also be helpful if you could share our campaign with your friends and family, on your social media or with anyone you feel may be interested. For social media, a possible Tweet could be: Copy the text below to create your own tweet; Please support @Carersnetwork ‘s @GlobalGivingUK #crowdfunding campaign to help carers live a healthier life! Donate here: https://bit.ly/2tMgRet The more people we are able to reach, the more people we are able to help. You can find out more about the project and donate here: https://bit.ly/2tMgRet Thank you for your time. Best wishes,
You no longer need to keep a keen eye out for new grant-makers giving money away to charities like yours. Our research team has put together all the latest funding available in The Guide to New Trusts 2018/19. This annual guide saves you time and resources by including over 100 new funders, registered with the Charity Commission or the Scottish Charity Regulator in 2017/18, whose giving criteria are broad enough to be relevant to a large number of charities. At a glance you can find the details of each new grant-maker, their aims and objectives, the types of projects they fund and their application process. This new edition includes two new indexes (an index of causes and geographical index), making it even easier to find funding for your charity. ‘The Guide to New Trusts was indispensable to our trust fundraising programme. It’s been an excellent resource for finding new trusts by quickly assessing whether or not we match their criteria.’ Adele Kaupaityte, Trust Fundraising Officer, The Honeypot Children’s Charity Get your copy here Interesting New Trusts fact This edition saw a rise in grant-makers supporting social welfare, with an increase of 18% in the number of grant-makers supporting people with disabilities, and a 28% rise in funders supporting older people (when compared to the previous edition). Download the Research Brief here Are you looking for funding? DSC is an independent charity offering training, policy & research, publications, events and funding sources for the charity and voluntary sectors. Visit us at 352 Holloway Road, London N7 6PA | Call us on 020 7697 4200 | Email us © 2018 Directory of Social Change Registered Charity Number (800517) & Company Registration Number (2320712 (England))
An exclusive and fun event with inspiring speakers, celebrating great stories. What are the Social Change Awards? DSC Social Change Awards celebrate the passionate individuals and organisations committed to making a positive impact in society. You don’t have to be a charity to apply. Whether you’re applying as an individual, an informal group, a company, a public body or a charity; If you are passionate about social change then there is a category for you. The nomination period is open until 31 August 2018. Click Here to go to the Social Change Awards website
Could your organisation be more effective, efficient and sustainable? We’re looking for ambitious charities and social enterprises based in England and Wales who need support to get to the next step in their development. By working with us, organisations have: increased the number of service users they reached increased and diversified their income improved their leadership and governance learnt to articulate their vision and mission understood their impact raised their profiles by developing better marketing Could this be your organisation? Pilotlight is an award-winning charity that connects the charity and business worlds to create positive social change. Our programmes enable organisations and their leaders to develop the strategic business skills needed to become more effective and sustainable. Our programmes are free of charge. For more information and to apply visit our website. Apply by 3rd August to begin working with us from September 2018. If you have any queries please contact Georges Lebreton at glebreton@pilotlight.org.uk or on 020 7283 7022
What Small Charity Week delivered Small Charity Week 2018 has officially come to an end – we would like to thank everyone for taking part and helping to create the following highlights: 1,888 messages of support for small charities on social media in the #ILoveSmallCharities Day competition 2,104,337 total reach in our Thunderclap #SmallCharityWeek trended on Twitter for over 10 hours! Over 650 hours of expert pro bono advice was provided on Big Advice Day A successful roundtable on ‘Collaboration within International Development’ was hosted by Baroness Pitkeathley in the House of Lords on Policy Day. Over 80 small charities, civil servants and influencers attended our Policy Day Reception, hosted by the Office for Civil Society and Innovation and held in the heart of Westminster. 25 small charities collectively won £4000 through the Localgiving Small Charity Week Challenge this Fundraising Day! 4 small charities received all Give at Checkout slots from eBay for Charity and PayPal 362 small charities entered this year’s Small Charity Big Impact Awards with 5 winners and 10 runners up/highly commended announced on the day. Big Advice Day Video In total over 456 hours of advice were provided at the FSI’s event in central London. We livestreamed three of our workshops on the day: Making Facebook work for your Non Profit Is your strategy driving you in the right direction? Using your impact to tell your story. The workshops, along with links to their respective slideshows, are now saved to our Facebook video page if you’d like to check them out. Follow this link to watch the workshops Small Charity Week Moments We’ve prepared a Twitter Moment that helps highlight some of the best moments of a fantastic week. Follow this link to Twitter Winners of the Small Charity Big Impact Awards Once again, another huge congratulations to all the winners of the second annual Small Charity Big Impact Awards. Each winner has received a short film about their organisation. For the first time this year, we have also given out awards to one runner up and one highly commended charity per category. You can read about them in our Award Winners book. Follow this link to view the winners’ videos and read their stories The Small Charity Big Impact Awards are sponsored by: and are supported by The Leathersellers Company whatCharity – Your chance to win £300 whatCharity are offering charities and their teams a chance to win a £300 reward to contribute towards their own deserved recreational activities. All you have to do is claim your charity and complete the impact page on your WhatCharity profile which helps you to secure the resources you need. You have until 10th July to enter! Follow this link to find out more about how to enter the competition FSI Fundraising Qualifications Bursary Inspired by our Fundraising Conference? The FSI are pleased to announce that we are re-opening applications for our bursaries towards our accredited Introduction to Fundraising Practice qualification! The bursary is open to small, local charities with a turnover of up to £100,000 and 80% of the cost is funded by the FSI and DCMS. Follow this link to apply Lloyds Bank Foundation Research Launched: The Value of Small Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales kicked off Small Charity Week by launching their independent research report: The Value of Small; examining the distinctive social and economic value of small and local charities in local communities. Follow this link to read a handy blog summary of the research Small Charity Week’s Media Partner is Winners of the I Love Small Charities Competition It’s taken us over 3 days to count and verify the 1,888 messages of support for small charities, but we are excited to announce the winners of the I Love Small Charities Hashtag competition! Congratulations to the winner of the I Love Small Charities Twitter competition: Porridge and Pens Ghana Congratulations to the winner of the I Love Small Charities Facebook competition: Eastleigh Youth Counselling Services Congratulations to the winner of the I Love Small Charities Instagram competition: Donnie’s Fund I Love Small Charities Day is sponsored by: eBay’s Give at Checkout We’d like to say another well done to the 4 lucky winners of the eBay Give at Checkout competition. For the first time, eBay for Charity and PayPal Giving Fund have reserved all Give at Checkout slots for small charities over two weeks to help each winning charity raise more. The winners are: SurvivorsUK Advantage Africa Mind Out Musical Keys Feedback on Small Charity Week 2018 As always, we want your input on Small Charity Week so we can continue to improve it each year. If you participated in any of the Small Charity Week initiatives, please feedback through the link below. Follow this link to give us feedback ICYMI: Collaboration between small and local charities and community groups The FSI’s research has shown that collaborating more effectively can not only help to solve social problems but can also facilitate efficiency, growth and sustainability. You can have a read of the research here. We also have a vlog from our CEO, Pauline Broomhead CBE, discussing collaboration. You can watch it here. Coming up next from the FSI If you need more support, check out the Foundation for Social Improvement, the small charity behind Small Charity Week! Upcoming workshops: Bournemouth – 4th July High Wycombe – 11th July Reading – 12th July West London – 26th September Upcoming webinars: Thursday, 5th July Strategy & Business Planning Develop Your Fundraising Strategy Demonstrating Your Impact Wednesday, 11th July Fundraising from Trusts & Foundations Developing Corporate Relationships Developing Your Case for Support Tuesday, 17th July Supporting & Managing Volunteers Major Donor Fundraising Community & Events Fundraising
NFP WORKSHOPS Affordable training courses for charities, schools and not for profit organisations Bid Writing : The Basics TOPICS COVERED Do you know the most common reasons for rejection ? Are you gathering the right evidence ? Are you making the right arguments ? Are you using the right terminology ? Are your numbers right ? Are you learning from rejections ? Are you assembling the right documents ? Do you know how to create a clear and succinct standard funding bid ? Are you communicating with people or just excluding them ? Do you know your own organisation well enough ? Are you thinking through your projects carefully enough ? Do you know enough about your competitors ? Do you know the trusts ? Are you answering the questions funders will ask themselves about your application ? Are you submitting applications correctly ? The workshop consists of talk, questions and answers. There are no power points or audio visuals used. ATTENDEES Staff members, volunteers, board members or trustees of charities, schools or not for profit organisations who are about to submit grant funding applications to grant making trusts and foundations. COST £95 including booking fees. Refreshments provided. Each attendee will receive a full set of notes and copies of eight real successful funding bids by e-mail after the workshop. PAYMENT All places must be booked using a debit or credit card through the online booking system. We do not issue invoices or accept bank or cheque payments. If you do not have a debit card from your organisation please use a personal one and claim reimbursement using the booking confirmation e-mail as proof of purchase. BOOKING TERMS Workshop bookings are non cancellable, non refundable and non transferable between dates. If you are unable to attend on the date booked you may send someone else in your place. QUESTIONS Fully booked means fully booked. There are no waiting lists for people hoping for a cancellation. There are no discounts. If you have a question please e-mail workshops@nfpmail1815.co.uk and you will usually receive a response within 24 hours. Bid Writing : Advanced TOPICS COVERED Are you applying to the right trusts ? Are you applying to enough trusts ? Are you applying in the right ways ? Are your projects the most fundable projects ? Are you carrying out trust fundraising in a professional way ? Are you highly productive or just very busy ? Are you looking for trusts in all the right places ? How do you compare with your competitors for funding ? Is the rest of your fundraising hampering your bids to trusts ? Do you understand what trusts are ideally looking for ? The workshop consists of talk, questions and answers. There are no power points or audio visuals used. ATTENDEES Staff members, volunteers, board members or trustees of charities, schools or not for profit organisations who are about to submit grant funding applications to grant making trusts and foundations. It is assumed that you already know the basic bid writing skills of good preparation, eligibility checking, clear writing and adequate proof reading. If you do not you should attend The Basics workshop first. Around half of all attendees attend both The Basics and Advanced workshops on the same day but there is no discount for attending both. COST £95 including booking fees. Refreshments provided. Each attendee will receive a full set of notes and copies of eight real successful funding bids by e-mail after the workshop. PAYMENT All places must be booked using a debit or credit card through the online booking system. We do not issue invoices or accept bank or cheque payments. If you do not have a debit card from your organisation please use a personal one and claim reimbursement using the booking confirmation e-mail as proof of purchase. BOOKING TERMS Workshop bookings are non cancellable, non refundable and non transferable between dates. If you are unable to attend on the date booked you may send someone else in your place. QUESTIONS Fully booked means fully booked. There are no waiting lists for people hoping for a cancellation. There are no discounts. If you have a question please e-mail workshops@nfpmail1815.co.uk and you will usually receive a response within 24 hours. 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I consider myself fairly experienced in bid writing and have been fairly successful. To your credit I learnt a lot from you which I will certainly put into practice. I felt re-invigorated and encouraged. You definitely know your stuff. The course was certainly packed with information. Gave me plenty to think about and ways forward. I’m more used to courses where they pack half an hour into a full day!! For a person like me who writes lots of proposals it was exactly what I needed. Straight to the point, less “water”, more sense and fantastic examples!
The British Healthcare Trade Association (BHTA) which St John Ambulance is a member of has determined the appropriate first aid kits and their contents for workplaces. Ensure your workplace has the appropriate British Standards Institution (BSI) kit(s) Keeping products past their expiry date can be unsafe. Products will start to deteriorate and may not be effective. When was the last time you checked the products in your first aid kit? St John Ambulance is the first aid and health and safety trainer of choice for hundreds of thousands of companies, local authorities, and members of the public. First aid and health and safety training courses for the workplace With thousands of training courses across the country, including a full suite of first aid, risk assessment, fire marshal, and moving and handling courses, we enable hundreds of thousands of people to be the difference in their workplace – and outside of work – to protect their colleagues, family, friends, and members of the community.