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Heart of the Community Fund – Virgin Money Foundation

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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 so every two months, we’re giving three local charities the chance to win £1,000 – with awards of £500 and £250 for the two runners-up.

The awards will go to the charities with the most votes from Virgin Money customers and Lounge members.

We’d love to support projects:

  • Run by smaller local registered charities. That means annual running costs of less than £500,000
  • Working in the parts of Inner London 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 or support an event. The money could also pay for staff to run an activity.

If you know of any local charities you think fit the bill and deserve to feature on our voting unit, they should apply to the Virgin Money foundation online.

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Grow Wild – Funding Opportunity from Royal Botanic Gardens

Grow Wild is awarding grants of £2,000 or £4,000 to groups across the UK to deliver projects in their community focused on UK native wildflowers, plants and fungi.

Grants are being made to group and projects in the UK that are working toward a number of objectives including (but not limited to) working with young people; communities in urban areas and focussing on UK native flora.

Click Here to go to the Grow Wild funding webpage

Click Here for the main Grow Wild website

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Big Lottery Digital Fund

On 11 October Big Lottery announced details of their new £15m Digital Fund, which is to run for the next two years.

The fund is designed to help voluntary sector organisations use digital tools to support communities across the UK.

Check out more about the announcement on Funding Central and see if you are eligible for either strand of funding; ‘Digital Pioneers’ or ‘Digital Natives’;

  • ‘Digital Pioneers’ (strand one) is aimed at established charities with a minimum income of more than £500,000 that want to use digital to take a major leap forward. Grants of up to £500,000 and a tailored support package will be provided.
  • ‘Digital Natives’ (strand two) is aimed at more recently established organisations that are successfully using digital but now need help scaling this up. Grants of up to £500,000 will be made available.

The grants for both strands will last from one to four years

Click Here to go to the Big Lottery Digital Fund website

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Coach Trip Scheme

We are committed to supporting local groups that provide valuable community services and the coach trip scheme offers a one-off contribution of up to £300 towards the cost of a coach or minibus for local groups to have an outing. In order to be eligible to apply, organisations:

  • must be based in H&F and be mostly made up of people living in the borough
  • should have a local management committee (of at least 3 members) and have their own governing document
  • must be able to show they support residents from all communities
  • should have an annual income of less than £10,000

Top priority will be given to older peoples’ groups which are currently not funded by the council. Groups run by statutory organisations – such as schools, the council, or NHS Trusts – are not eligible.

Application pack documents are linked below but if you would prefer to request an application pack, or want more details, please call Sacha Mortimer on 020 8753 5009 or email: sacha.mortimer@lbhf.gov.uk.

Application form, feedback form and information sheet

Groups or organisations new to the council or those that have not received funding in the last 3 years must complete a new vendor form.

Return your completed application forms to:

Community Investment Team, Room 39, Hammersmith Town Hall, King Street, London W6 9JU

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YHFF Supplementary School Funding

This grant funding is open to supplementary schools which are based in H&F.

Applications for a maximum of £2,500 per year will be considered, with the possibility of grants being extended to cover three years’ worth of funding (a total of £7,500 maximum across three years).

Application Deadline – 18th October 2018

Panel Meeting – w/c 22nd October 2018 (start of half term)

Applicants informed – By 26th October 2018

 

Click here for more info and to apply.

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MEET THE FUNDER – BIG LOTTERY REACHING COMMUNITIES- October 16th 2018

Reaching Communities make grants of over £10,000 in England, supporting organisations with great ideas that enable communities to thrive.

The Big Lottery wants to make it easier for smaller organisations to apply, so have done away with the two-stage application form process. In its place, applicants need to contact the Lottery, to give them a brief outline of what you want to do, either through an online form, a phone call, a video, or an email.

Nicholas Timms, Big Lottery Funding Officer for Central London, will outline new guidelines and process of this important funding programme and answer your questions.

NB. Please read the funding criteria  before registering for this event to check your organisation eligibility.

REGISTER NOW

When October 16th, 2018 10:30 AM   through   12:00 PM

Location    One Westminster
37 Chapel Street
London, NW1 5DP
United Kingdom

 

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The Octavia Better Lives Community Fund (OBLCF)

The Octavia Better Lives Community Fund (OBLCF) provides grants of £2,000 – £5,000 to fund work with residents of the following boroughs:

  • Westminster
  • Kensington and Chelsea

Our aim is to award grants to a wide range of organisations and projects.  Our expectation is that we will award a mix of smaller and larger grants.

There is one grant fund for distribution in the 2018/19 financial year; this will be distributed in either one round, or two rounds, dependent upon the number of eligible applications received.

The closing date for applications is: 11 November 2018.

Our criteria

Our aim is to tackle the effects of loneliness through these grants and help build social connections for those who are most in need.  The effects of loneliness are increasingly recognised as being detrimental to emotional and physical health.

Our grants will support local charities and voluntary groups that are working with communities, groups and individuals experiencing loneliness.

Grants will be given to organisations that clearly demonstrate outcomes and impact and specifically how they reach local people, how many they reach and what difference they expect the project to make.

Click Here for a link to the full details on the Octavia Foundation’s website

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Tampon Tax Community Fund Open for Applications

Lauren Palmer is Programme Manager at the London Community Foundation, a funder, ‘I just wanted to get in touch to bring your attention to a new fund which opened today and which might be of interest to your members or partners’.

It is called the Tampon Tax Community Fund and it is a national fund set up to allocate the funds generated from the VAT on sanitary products to projects that improve the lives of disadvantaged women and girls.

Grants of £5,000 – £10,000 are available to projects working in all London boroughs with the exception of Hackney, Tower Hamlets, City of London and Newham. This is because these four boroughs are covered by East End Community Foundation and so if your project is based there, please go to their website for more information.

Funding is available to support groups working predominantly with women and girls, and the main themes are:

  • Building skills and confidence
  • Improving health and well-being
  • Building social networks

The closing date is midday on Friday 26th October.

More information, including the full fund guidelines, eligibility criteria and application form, can be found on our website. Interested in making an Appliction? Please read through those thoroughly before making their application.

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Grants of Up to £5,000 Available to Repair Small Theatres

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Small Theatres in London can apply for grants of up to £5,000 to address urgent building repairs, improve operational viability, introduce environmental improvements and enhance physical accessibility. Applications can be made by small independent, commercial, subsidised and amateur theatres, and open-air venues.

To be eligible the applicant:

  • Must own or manage theatres with titles or signed leases of more than 5 years on buildings in London that are under 300-seats in Zones 1 and 2 and under 500-seats in outer London;
  • Demonstrate that they run a regular theatre programme of professional, community and/or amateur work presenting no less than 30 performances a year.
  • Have a bona fide UK charitable or not-for-profit legal structure and be able to provide certified or audited accounts for at least two years.

The closing date for applications is noon on the 15th October 2018.

Previous Theatres supported include:

  • Battersea Arts Centre, Wandsworth which received a £5,000 grant to replace their temporary wheelchair ramp leading to the café bar and first floor performance space,
  • Bush Theatre, Hammersmith and Fulham which received a grant of £5,000 to repair their pitched roofs and dormer windows to maintain the condition of the locally listed theatre’s façade.

Useful Links:

Application Form
Terms and Conditions
Click Here for more information

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Funding for Deaf and Disabled Peoples Organisations

Strengthening Voices, Realising Rights is a new initiative to bolster the capacity of Deaf & Disabled People’s organisations (DPPOs) to protect and promote equal rights for Deaf and Disabled Londoners. The programme is funded by Trust for London and City Bridge Trust.

The specific objectives of the fund are to:

  • Provide funds to increase the availability of accessible, high quality, user-led services and activities to tackle poverty, challenge discrimination, and enable community inclusion across London
  • Invest in the sector’s capacity by supporting DDPOs to become more connected, impactful, resilient and sustainable
  • Share learning within the UK funding community to contribute to disability-inclusive funding practices and strategic approaches to supporting the issues championed by DDPOs
  • Pilot the involvement of people who identify as Disabled to provide expertise stemming from lived experiences, to inform and shape decision-making

The initiative will provide funding to DDPOs in need of extra capacity to deliver free, independent information, advice, casework, and advocacy services in social welfare to support Deaf and Disabled people.

DDPO’s accredited with a quality mark can apply. Non- accredited DDPO’s can also apply and will be offered support to accreditation if required.

Organisations funded must be controlled by Deaf and/or Disabled people, with Deaf/Disabled people making up at least 75% of the people on their managing body and at least 50% of their paid staff.

Grants of up to £60,000 per year for each of three years (i.e. up to £180,000 over three years) are available.  At the current levels of funds available, between 5 and 7 organisations will be supported.

The funding programme is now open and closes on October 17th, 2018 at 5:00pm.

Useful Links:

Funding Guidelines
Application Form
Click Here for more information

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