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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School Holiday Activity Fund

John Lyon’s Charity gives grants to benefit children and young people up to the age of 25 who live in nine boroughs in North and West London: Barnet, Brent, Camden, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Kensington & Chelsea and the Cities of London and Westminster.

The Charity’s mission is to promote the life-chances of children and young people through education.

 

The School Holiday Activity Fund is designed to enable organisations to deliver fun and accessible activities for children and young people during the school holidays.  This includes all half-term breaks, Easter, Christmas and the summer holiday.

The Fund will pay for the running costs of holiday programmes that provide young people with activities in supportive and accessible environments.

Please note that the maximum grant allowance is £4,000.

 

Applications to the School Holiday Activity Fund (SHAF) can be made by registered charities or mainstream state schools that are based in the Beneficial Area.

 

Organisations that are currently in receipt of a grant from John Lyon’s Charity for core services are also eligible to apply to this Fund as long as funds from the Charity are not already being used for holiday activities.

 

You can apply to the School Holiday Activity Fund for a variety of activities.

 

Examples could include (but are not limited to):

  • holiday drop-in activities
  • arts activities
  • sports projects
  • family activities
  • trips out of London
  • camping trips.

 

Grants could be used for:

  • equipment (not IT equipment)
  • sessional staffing costs
  • transport
  • venue hire
  • other direct project costs.

 

To apply, complete an online application form using our Grants Portal now. If it is your first online application to the Charity, you will need to create a new login. The online application process will provide all the information you need.

 

Organisations can apply to the School Holiday Activity Fund once a year for a maximum of three consecutive years. Then a break of at least one year must be taken.

Applications to the School Holiday Activity Fund can be submitted at any time, but must be submitted by the following deadlines:

 

Summer holiday –  1 June

October half-term – 21 September

Christmas holiday – 16 November

February half-term – 18 January

Easter – 1 March

May half-term – 25 April

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United in Hammersmith & Fulham offering small grants

 

United in Hammersmith & Fulham is our new place-based giving scheme, currently offering small grants for those who’d like to organise a Summer Get Together with and for their neighbours.

This is inspired by the national Great Get Together inspired by Jo Cox.

 

Those who want to use these events to reduce social isolation and loneliness in Hammersmith & Fulham – by developing new relationships across diverse faiths, ethnicities, ages and backgrounds – are particularly encouraged to apply.

 

If you’d like to know more about United or sign up for their newsletter, please visit https://unitedhf.org/.

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Funding to Support Youth Organisations

Paul Hamlyn Foundation was established by Paul Hamlyn in 1987. Upon his death in 2001, he left most of his estate to the Foundation, creating one of the largest independent grant-making foundations in the UK.

The Youth Fund supports organisations whose main purpose is about helping young people (aged 14-25) in the most precarious positions, where making the transition to adult independence is most challenging.

The Fund supports organisations which work with young people experiencing disadvantage in a way that recognises and builds on their strengths and potential – we refer to this as an asset-based approach.

Such approaches can include ‘strengths-based’, ‘advantaged thinking’, or ‘asset-based community development’ practices.

Organisations may be planning to grow their impact by:

  • Replicating a programme or service
  • Widening the reach of an idea or innovation
  • Spreading a technology or skill
  • Advancing policy or enhancing its implementation
  • Influencing attitudes

 

The Fund will provide core funding to organisations within the youth sector and outside.

This is a direct response to what we heard in our strategy consultation – that, in order to achieve greatest positive impact in the lives of young people, organisations need to achieve a balance of stability, continuity and flexibility.

 

PLEASE NOTE: APPLICATIONS ARE ACCEPTED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

Click here to see more details.

 

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