Charitable organisations and educational establishments working to support the education of children and young people from disadvantaged or low-income backgrounds in inner London, are invited to apply for funding from the Portal Trust. The funding will support young people below the age of 25 to access educational opportunities and help them realise their full potential. Projects should aim to widen access and participation in further and higher education; deliver initiatives that help them engage with, and stay in, education; reduce re-offending; influence and improve education policy and practice; and/or improve the learning experience for children at the Trust’s partner schools. There is no minimum or maximum grant amount that can be applied for. Applicants should submit an online Initial Enquiry form in the first instance. Funding to Support the Education of Disadvantaged Young People (London)
On 22 August 2022 The London Community Foundation began fundraising for our Together for London cost-of-living appeal, which you can read more about on our website. Since then, we have been receiving generous donations from new and existing donors.
We will shortly begin distributing these funds to charities and organisations across London in the form of small grants to help you support your beneficiaries with increased costs due to the cost-of-living crisis.
In times of crisis and struggle, it’s important that we are as transparent as possible. That’s why we want to tell you about our intentions to launch the fund and how it will work. We hope this is one way we can help you plan ahead during this crisis period.
Key details for application
We will be launching the Together for London Fund on Thursday 27 October.
We know funds need to get out quickly, so we will be keeping the first round of the fund open for applications until 12 noon on Thursday 17 November (three-week application window).
We expect (at this stage) to be launching with £1 million and expect to be making grants of up to £10,000 each. This means we expect to make around 100 grants.
Keeping you updated
We will keep communicating with you to ensure, should things change, we can provide you with updates as soon as possible. We will also be hosting question and answer sessions where you can speak directly to our Grants and Impact team – so please look out for these dates.
For full details on the fund so far, please see our website below. Click here
Grants of up to £5,000 are available to Christian churches and registered Christian charities offering activities and services to welcome and support refugees arriving in England from Ukraine and Afghanistan. This could include services and activities such as supplying accommodation, clothing, food, mobile phones, and baby care items; befriending support; English language classes; baby and toddler groups; welcome parties; drop-in sessions; and expenses for volunteers or facilities. The funding is made available by the Church Urban Fund in partnership with the Benefact Trust, through the Refugee Support Small Grants Programme. Applications can be submitted at any time until the 9th December 2022, but may close earlier if all funding is allocated before this date. Funding for Churches Supporting Refugees Arriving from Ukraine & Afghanistan (England)
A small number of grants are available for organisations, community groups, local events, and activities that help to build public and political support for the Warm This Winter campaign. They are especially interested in supporting groups working in the areas of fuel poverty, housing, disability rights, climate justice, or on alternative solutions. Learn more here.
The Education Endowment Foundation is looking to fund and evaluate projects taking place in educational settings in England that will raise the attainment and wider outcomes of 3 to 18-year-olds from disadvantaged backgrounds. Colleges, schools, special schools, early years settings, charities, local authorities, academy chains, universities, social enterprises and businesses can apply for funding to deliver programmes that aim to improve attainment in the following priority areas: cognitive science; early language; mathematics in early years and key stage 1; personal, social and emotional development in the early years; and evidenced and scaled programmes. There is no minimum or maximum award amounts, but previous grants have ranged from £90,000 to £1.5 million. The deadline for applications is 11am on the 30th November 2022. Funding to Raise the Academic Attainment of Disadvantaged Children & Young People (England)
The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy has announced that Phase 3b of the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme is expected to open to applications from public sector organisations in England in October 2022. Up to £635 million in funding will be allocated to single and multi-year projects for the installation of low carbon heating in public sector buildings when existing fossil-fuelled systems reach the end of their working lives. Applications will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis until a ‘sector soft cap’ has been reached. These caps have been introduced to allocate the funding fairly across education, health, and other sectors (emergency services, theatres, prisons etc). The opening date will be confirmed in due course. Phase 3b of the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme to Open for Applications (England)
Please find a pdf copy of the presentation slides here.
Also mentioned during the presentation were the following useful links:
- Kensington & Chelsea, Hammersmith & Fulham, and Westminster NLHF Webinar Sign Up form
- What we fund | The National Lottery Heritage Fund
- Contact details for Patricia Lichst patricia.lichst@heritagefund.org.uk and Jasmine Bullock Jasmine.Bullock@heritagefund.org.uk
For further support with funding, including advice and feedback on applications, please contact your local CVS:
- KCSC- support@kcsc.org.uk
· SOBUS – info@sobus.org.uk
· One Westminster – info@onewestminster.org.uk
If you have not already done so may I ask you to take a few moments to complete the session feedback form, this is extremely helpful in planning future sessions.
We look forward to seeing you at future Meet the Funder events.
Kind regards,
The KCSC Team.
Grants of up to £50,000 are available to help organisations across the UK to become more energy efficient.
Charities working with disability, mental health or older people; hospices and palliative care organisations; historic buildings and landscapes; libraries and archives; and museums, galleries and performing arts organisations previously awarded capital grant funding by the Wolfson Foundation can apply for funding for refurbishment, maintenance works and equipment that will improve the environmental and financial sustainability of their buildings.
The funding is being made available through the Wolfson Foundation Sustainability Fund.
This could include installing solar panels, heat pumps, green roofs, energy-efficient glazing, boilers or LED lighting.
Match funding is required for projects costing more than £50,000.
The Foundation will be holding a lunchtime webinar on Thursday 13 October 2022 at 12.30pm, where their team will introduce the fund and answer questions about the application and assessment process.
The closing date for applications is 25th October 2022.
Useful Links:
https://www.wolfson.org.uk/funding/funding-for-places/sustainability-fund/
Grants of up to £10,000 per year for 2 years (up to £20,000 in total) are available for projects working to tackle violence affecting young people.
For the third year, Peabody Community Foundation is offering The Young People’s Fund to support grassroots community groups who are putting youth voice at the centre of their work to tackle violence affecting young people.
Organisations working with young people aged 11-25 in the boroughs of Westminster, Southwark, Waltham Forest, Lambeth and Hackney can apply for funding.
Applications close at 12pm (midday) on Friday 18th November 2022. For more details, see our website below
Bid Writing – Mon 03 October 2022 – Mon 17 October 2022 – Mon 31 October 2022 Mon 14 November 2022 – Mon 28 November 2022 – Mon 12 December 2022
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 concise 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? Are you answering the questions funders will ask themselves about your application? Are you submitting applications correctly?
Trust Fundraising – Tue 18 October 2022 – Tue 15 November 2022 – Tue 13 December 2022
Are you applying to the right trusts? Are you applying to enough trusts? Are you asking for the right amount of money? 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 delegating enough work? 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?
Introduction to Fundraising – Wed 02 November 2022
The workshop is for people who wish to move into fundraising, have just started in fundraising or have responsibilities for fundraisers. We examine each of the different areas of fundraising – public donors, major donors, legacies, trusts and corporates. We explain how the different areas fit together and support each other to create a balanced fundraising effort. We look at how much investment each area of fundraising requires, what returns to expect and how long it is likely to take to achieve those returns. We examine what the rest of your organisation could be doing to help make your fundraising more successful.
Legacy Fundraising – Wed 16 November 2022
Why do people make legacy gifts? What are the ethical issues? What are the regulations? What are the tax issues? What are the statistics? What are the trends? How can we integrate legacy fundraising into our other fundraising? What are the sources for research? How should we set a budget? How should we evaluate our results? How should we forecast likely income? Should we use consultants? How should we build a case for support? What media and marketing channels should we use? What about in memory giving? How should we setup our admin systems? What are the common problems & pitfalls?
Major Donor Fundraising – Wed 05 October 2022 – Wed 30 November 2022
Major Donor Characteristics, Motivations and Requirements. Researching and Screening Major Donors.
Encouraging, Involving and Retaining Major Donors. Building Relationships with Major Donors. Major Donor Events and Activities. Setting Up Major Donor Clubs. Asking For Major Gifts. Looking After and Reporting Back to Major Donors. Delivering on Major Donor Expectations. Showing Your Appreciation to Major Donors.
Fundraising Budgets and Committees.
Corporate Fundraising – Wed 19 October 2022 – Wed 14 December 2022
Who are these companies? Why do they get involved? What do they like? What can you get from them? What can you offer them? What are the differences between donations, sponsorship, advertising and cause related marketing? Are companies just like trusts? How do you find these companies? How do you research them?
How do you contact them? How do you pitch to them? How do you negotiate with them? When should you say no? How do you draft contracts? How do you manage the relationships? What could go wrong? What are the tax issues? What are the other considerations?
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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.