The Home Office has launched a programme to build a partnership between government and groups working to promote cohesion and tackle extremism in their communities. The second call for bids for grant funding and in-kind support through OCE’s Building a Stronger Britain Together programme is now open.
Deadline for grants is 6th February, info & help available from Aysha, at aysha.esakji@lbhf.gov.uk. In-kind support is available throughout the year.
For further information click here.
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New calls for proposals have been published under the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme:
Visit our website for more information on these and other open calls at Access Europe Network.
The Department for Communities and Local Government will provide funding up to approximately £70,000 to local authorities working with community groups to deliver solutions to entrenched social issues for example relating to:
This will be through £2.5m funding over the next two years. They invite proposals from local collaborations between local authorities and neighbourhood or community organisations to bid by 16 January. Bids should be for new projects or to extend an existing project into another area but not to prop up an existing approach.
Funding would be provided in the form of a direct grant to a local authority during the 2016/17 financial year. We expect that work would start in 2016/17 and continue until the summer of 2018.
There are now just 11 days remaining in our challenge to raise £2,500 by 19 Dec so that we can expand the Carers Time Bank into Hammersmith & Fulham and also secure a permanent place on the Global Giving crowdfunding platform, which will help Carers Network raise more money for carers in the future!
http://bit.ly/carers-time-bank
To succeed we still need to raise another £800 in 11 days!
Thank you if you have already donated or shared the project link, but if not, we need your support to help us get DONATIONS and SPREAD THE WORD so we can succeed in the challenge!
You can see the project page by clicking here.
Can you help us? You can do this by:
If you are able to help us it would be greatly appreciated! It really would make a big difference.
The Transform Foundation (https://www.transformfoundation.org.uk) has recently launched a new grant programme, which will be providing £18,000 grants to a select number of non-profits, to fund the design and build of a new website for them. The grant will include a range of cutting edge tools for engaging with supporters and service users as well as the costs of the strategy, design and training required to get the website up and running. The grant programme is mostly focused on non-profits with between £0.5m – £20m annual income, although organisations outside of this range are welcome to apply.
You can apply for the grant here
Or discover more information about it on the Transform Foundation website
Food for London grant information:
Food for London is the new Evening Standard Dispossessed Fund campaign highlighting the disconnect between the prevalent food poverty that exists in London and the tonnes of surplus food that is thrown away or fed to animals.
Through this fund, the aim is to support groups working across London who are turning edible food surplus into a social solution; who are diverting fresh food that is fit for human consumption away from being wasted and using it to feed people in need; who are developing solutions to improve how food is redistributed; who are striving to reduce food waste at production or store level and in the home; and who are directly delivering solutions to alleviate hunger and food poverty in London. The Fund is also keen to support projects that encourage volunteering opportunities for people to get involved.
If you are a charity, community group, CIC or social enterprise tackling food waste and/or using fresh food to address food poverty, you can apply for a grant of between £1,000 and £20,000. Applications must be received by 11 November 2016 and successful applicants will be notified in February 2017.
You can access the Fund Guidance notes and online application form at: http://www.londoncf.org.uk/grants/food-for-london.aspx
Once you have read the guidance notes, if you still have any questions you can contact The London Community Foundation team on 0207 582 5117 or email applications@londoncf.org.uk.
The Office for Civil Society has announced its support for Grow Your Tenner, an online match fund campaign run by Localgiving that supports local charities and community groups in the UK. OCS is contributing £245,000 to the pot, bringing the current total amount of match funding available to £345,000!
To participate, charities just need an active Localgiving membership and as an FSI member, you have the chance to claim a free first year membership of Localgiving, usually worth £72.
To access your free membership, click here: join.localgiving.org/fsi
Grow Your Tenner 2016 will run from 10am on Tuesday the 18th October until the match fund runs out, or 5pm on Thursday the 17th November – whichever comes first.
To find out more about the match funding opportunity, click here.
The counter-extremism strategy encourages partnership between the government and people involved in projects that counter extremism and build stronger communities.
To help groups expand their reach and influence, the Building a Stronger Britain Together programme offers 2 forms of support through a competitive bidding process:
You can apply for both in-kind support and grant funding if they are both needed.
Please read the guidance for applicants (PDF, 235KB, 17 pages) . It contains information on:
You can bid for in-kind support and grant funding from 16 September 2016.
The deadline for grants and combined in-kind/grant applications is 5pm on 14 October 2016. The deadline for in-kind support applications is 5pm on 9 December 2016.
We will assess in-kind applications on a monthly basis from October onwards. Grant and combined applications will be assessed in October only.
There is a fixed amount of funding available. We will consider bids on a first-come-first-served basis.
Apply for funding for community projects that prevent hate crime.
Hate crimes are crimes that are motivated by hostility on the grounds of race (including colour, nationality, ethnicity and national origin), religion, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity.
Providing funding for projects that prevent hate crime is one of the actions included in the UK government’s hate crime action plan.
The aim of the fund is to work with affected communities to fund the development of innovative projects that:
The Home Office is seeking to fund projects at 2 levels of either £25,000 or £50,000. We have made £300,000 available to spend by 31 March 2017, with project delivery expected in June 2017.
We expect to fund 6 to 8 projects, but reserve the right to vary the number of projects we fund.
We are looking for motivated and creative community groups or consortia to develop innovative programmes that help to prevent hate crime and issues associated with it. Your programme development must involve stakeholders who are affected by, or are past or potential perpetrators of hate crime.
Please read the additional guidance for applicants (PDF, 352KB, 21 pages) before submitting a bid.
The following people can apply:
A consortium project would have to be led by a charity or an organisation with a charitable purpose and can include charities, private companies and/or public sector bodies.
If a consortium is proposed, the group must nominate a lead partner. The Home Office would grant the funding to this partner.
It would be the responsibility of the lead organisation to make arrangements to distribute the funding and accountability amongst consortium partners.
Deadline: 14th October 2016 8pm
sobus
20 Dawes Road, London, SW6 7EN
Telephone 020 7952 1230
Email info@sobus.org.uk
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Sobus is a new Community Development Agency for Hammersmith & Fulham. It has been created through the merger of the Community and Voluntary Sector Association Hammersmith & Fulham (CaVSA) and the Fulham Community Partnership Trust (FCPT). Building on the strengths of both organisations, sobus aims to provide a wider range of support services for local charities, community groups, social enterprises and start up businesses.
