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National Lottery Funding can help you to make a difference in your community

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National Lottery Funding can help you to make a difference in your community.

National Lottery Awards for All offers funding from £300 to £10,000 to support what matters to people and communities.

 

We will fund organisations with great project ideas that:

  • Shape the places and spaces that matter to communities
  • Bring more people together and build strong relationships in and across communities
  • Enable more people to fulfil their potential by working to address issues at the earliest possible stage

 

 

Larger grants are made through a variety of programmes that cover every nation within the United Kingdom.

This kind of flexible, longer-term funding is aimed at organisations whose ambitions are shaped by the people they serve.

 

 

Click here to find out more.

 

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Small Grants Scheme: In the Making

 

 

Small grants scheme, in the making, is a new funding programme for community projects that share our aim of embedding art, culture and heritage at the heart of the major development and regeneration planned for Old Oak and Park Royal.

 

We are offering micro-grants to support community arts, culture and heritage projects taking place in Old Oak and Park Royal, led by those living and working in the area.

 

We hope it will uncover, connect and showcase the culture, creativity and heritage of London’s largest and most vibrant industrial area.

 

The programme is part of the Great Place scheme, funded by the National Lottery, Arts Council England and the Heritage Lottery Fund and managed by OPDC.

 

 

Application guidance

 

To be successful in your application, your project must address one of more of the following priorities:

  • encouraging new people, young and older in Old Oak and Park Royal to take part in arts and heritage activities
  • raising ambition for arts and heritage groups and individual artists based in the area for delivering community activities
  • developing skills and volunteering opportunities for local people to become active members of Old Oak and Park Royal community
  • building the links between the local community and local businesses in Old Oak and Park Royal

 

 

Using the online application system

 

You can apply for funding online using the Open Project System. If your organisation is not yet registered on the system you will need to register.

The step-by-step system user guide will take you through the process.

To talk to someone about your application before you apply or if you require the application materials in a different format, please get in touch:

  • via email
  • via phone: 020 7983 5732

Click here to see full post on the website.

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Walking and Cycling Grants

 

 

 

 

 

Applications are now open for Walking and Cycling Grants London.

Walking and Cycling Grants London is a grants programme funded by Transport for London and administered by Groundwork London.

 

The programme is aimed at groups that are traditionally under-represented in walking and cycling (e.g through income, health, ability, isolation skills and access to information or equipment).

 

 

Walking and Cycling Grants London is a programme which supports London’s diverse communities to walk and cycle more often and more safely.

 

The programme aims to:

  • Increase walking and cycling in London (including new, lapsed or occasional cyclists)
  • Increase confidence in walking and cycling
  • Increase walking and cycling frequency
  • Make bike ownership more accessible
  • Introduce exercise to people who are particularly inactive via walking and cycling
  • Reduce social isolation and get people involved in their local community

 

 

Walking and cycling makes people healthier and happier and is an affordable, green and fun way to get around and explore the city and to get some exercise.

Just ask anyone you know who frequently walks or cycles!

London is fast becoming a cycling city and Cycling Grants London wants to make sure all Londoners benefit from the joys of cycling, regardless of their background or situation.

Often people don’t cycle because they lack the opportunity, information, skills, confidence or motivation to do so; or because they do not have access to a bicycle or the means to maintain it.

 

Cycling Grants London supports community organisations that work with those who need encouragement and support to get them cycling.

 

If you have an idea to inspire and support people in your community to cycle more often and cycle more safely, Cycling Grants London may be able to support you!
 

Type of grants available

Organisations that have not received a grant from Walking and Cycling Grants London or the Cycling Grants London before, OR that have but are looking to deliver a new project,* can apply for the following funding:

 

£10,000 for Three Year Projects

  • Year 1 – up to £5,000
  • Year 2 – up to £3,000
  • Year 3 – up to £2,000

Click here to see more details.

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Heart of the Community Fund!

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Heart of the Community Fund!

 

Here at the Virgin Money Foundation, we’re on a mission to support community regeneration by backing people who can make big changes happen locally.

 

We love helping local communities thrive – and we’d love to see applications from community organisations working in Inner London.

 

Every three months, we’re giving three local community organisations the chance to win £2,000 – with awards of £1,000 and £500 for the runners-up.

 

There is a voting unit in the Virgin Money Lounge, Piccadilly and the awards will go to the community organisations with the most votes from Virgin Money customers and Lounge members.

 

Just our bag

We’d love to support projects:

  • Run by smaller local community organisations. That means annual running costs of less than £500,000.
  • Working in the parts of the City that need money the most.
  • With strong local roots.
  • Benefiting the wider community.

 

Funds can be used to:

– buy materials and equipment,

– make improvements to a community building or sports facility,

– clean up an area of wasteland,

– support an event.

 

The money could also pay for staff to run an activity.

 

 

Apply to the Virgin Money foundation online by visiting virginmoneyfoundation.org.uk and selecting the Heart of the Community Fund.

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The Complete Fundraising Handbook – Pre-order the new edition!

Available to pre-order (published September 2019)

Never out of print since it was published in 1992, the book has more than earned its place on your fundraising department’s bookshelf. It is the most complete reference guide to fundraising available, with detailed information about the theory and practice of effective fundraising.

You’ll find it easy to navigate and packed with case studies. Completely new to this edition are chapters on Digital fundraising and social media, as well as wholly refreshed chapters on Events and fundraising volunteers and Community fundraising. The National Lottery and Government funding chapters have been substantially revised and all chapters have new and updated content to take account of the rapidly changing fundraising world.

 

Who should buy this book?

Professional fundraisers, whether beginners or more experienced will benefit from the information inside this core resource. It is also a key text for chief executives, trustees and managers.

 

What does it cover?

This is a one-stop shop that encompasses all of the main fundraising sources and techniques. You’ll find yourself dipping into it almost every day.

  • Authoritative chapters from the world’s best fundraising and charity minds.
  • Case studies throughout of fundraising campaigns that have, and haven’t, worked.
  • The common mistakes new fundraisers make, and how to avoid them.
  • Fully updated to reflect today’s tighter regulatory environment and rapid changes in technology.

 

“This book provides a solid grounding in how to raise money for good causes in today’s fast-changing world.”

Harpreet Kondel, Fundraising consultant

“As a small charity, very reliant on grants and donations, The Complete Fundraising Handbook has been a fantastic reference point. When reappraising our fundraising strategy it has encouraged us to look at new ways to fundraise smarter and also to look at different sources for income generation.”

Hannah Worsley, Project Manager, Norwich Foodbank

 

Click here to buy it now!

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Grants Available for Organisations Working with Young People and the Elderly

Charitable organisations providing services for young people between the ages of 13 to 25 and the elderly are can now to apply for the 16th October 2019 meeting of the Field Family Trust.

 

Applications will close on 6 weeks prior to the meeting or when sufficient applications for the meeting have been received.

 

The Trustees are happy to consider applications for a wide variety of purposes, such as outreach, engagement, equipment, furnishings, running costs, helplines.

 

How to apply?

The Trustees require all applicants to submit their application online.

 

The next meeting of the Trustees will take place on the 16th October 2019.

 

The online application is now OPEN.

 

If you had already started an online application for the April 2019 meeting the information will have been saved and you will now be able to access the unfinished form and submit it for for the October 2019 meeting.

If you have any queries please e-mail the Trust Administrator.

 

Click here for more information.

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Crowd Funding

 

 

A definitive, crowd-sourced guide for anyone seeking to raise or invest money in the crowd.

 

 

 

 

 

In the last few years the crowd funding phenomenon has exploded.

Entrepreneurs, business-owners, social enterprises, charities, film-makers and artists of all kinds now routinely raise large and small sums of money on crowd funding sites.

Done properly, crowd funding, can be an efficient and reliable way of getting projects off the ground that might otherwise never see the light of day.

But the failure rate for crowd funding campaigns is high. It can be confusing, hard work and, if things go wrong very expensive.

 

This thorough and authoritative book is the first to look at the rapidly changing world of crowd funding from all sides.

As befits the subject, much of the advice has been crowd-sourced, bringing tips and comments from experts in all aspects of crowd funding, as well as dozens of case studies of specific campaigns, both successful and unsuccessful.

 

 

Click here for more information.

 

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The Community Shares Booster Programme

 

 

The Community Shares Booster Programme is a funding scheme to support community share offers.

It will invest equity up to £100,000 to match community shares in societies that can demonstrate higher than average levels of community impact, innovation and engagement.

The programme will also provide development grants of up to £10,000 to help societies get investment ready and meet standards of good practice.

Match funding will be in the form of equity held on equal terms with other community shareholders.

 

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, with grant and investment decisions made within eight weeks of application.

 

 

 

Click here to see more details.

 

 

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Apply for the Co-op Local Community Fund

 

The Co-op Local Community Fund supports projects that make a difference to local communities near to our stores and funeral homes.

We are still accepting applications from causes in some communities.

 

Use this form to apply to be one of our causes from 27 October 2019.

 

Your project must either:

  • help a local community come together to save, build, fix or improve indoor or outdoor local spaces
  • support the mental or physical health of a community through wellbeing activities
  • help people reach their full potential by developing their skills

 

Click here to see more detail.

Applications close on 7 July.

 

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Supporting homeless charities throughout the UK

Help The Homeless makes grants to charitable organisations with the aim of helping homeless people return to the community and enabling them to resume a normal life.

 

Grants from Help the Homeless are available to small and medium-sized charitable organisations.

We do not make grants to individuals. We fund capital costs of projects with grants of up to £5,000.

 

Have a look at the Success Stories section for examples.

 

If you think your organisation may be eligible for funding, please visit the Applying for Funding page.

 

Deadlines for applications

 

The quarterly deadlines for applications for funding each year are: 15th March / 15th June/ 15th September/ 15th December.

You will be informed of the trustees’ decision within six weeks of each deadline.

 

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