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Royal Victoria Hall Foundation

Royal Victoria Hall Foundation

Professional Theatre Companies in London can apply for grants of £250 – £2000 through the Royal Victoria Hall Foundation.

Each year, the Foundation awards between twenty and thirty grants to smaller scale professional theatre projects based in London. There are two rounds of funding, with deadlines in February and August. The Foundation has two major aims: to help professional productions in need of financial support and to introduce high-quality live performance to groups who are not traditional or regular theatregoers.

The next closing date for applications is 5.30pm on the 30th August 2019.

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Grants of up to £5,000 Available for Projects that Help the Homeless (UK)

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Homeless charities can now apply for grants of up to £5,000 for projects that aim to help thomeless people resume a normal life.

The grants are available for capital costs and examples of previously supported organisations include;

  • the Booth Centre, an advice and activity centre for homeless people in Manchester, where people undertake education and training courses as well as receiving advice and food, which received a grant of £1,500 to transform the centre with new lighting, a new water heater and new decoration;
  • a grant of £3,000 to the Amber Foundation to enable the Foundation to buy new bedroom furniture for their residential centre in Devon, where every year over 60 unemployed, homeless young people are able to rebuild their lives and gain the motivation, confidence, self-esteem and skills for independent living.

Applications are accepted from Homeless charities with an annual turnover of less than £1 million. The closing date for applications is the 15th June 2019.

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Join Team Carers Network 2019 and help us raise vital funds for unpaid carers!

Have you, a family member or friend resolved to get the running shoes back on in 2019?

If so, why not join CN’s team at this year’s Royal Parks Half Marathon and help us raise vital funds for local unpaid carers!

This stunning central London Half Marathon takes in some of the capital’s world-famous landmarks on closed roads, and four of London’s eight Royal Parks – Hyde Park, The Green Park, St James’s Park and Kensington Gardens.

This will be our 4th year taking part in the event and we have a number of free places available on the team this year.

Race day will be Sunday 13 October, so there’s ample time to get race fit and fundraise!

Please click here to find out more.

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Localgiving to give fundraisers the chance to become Local Heroes this April

Each year we are blown away by the creative ideas that fundraisers come up with to support the local causes they love.

Localgiving will be running its fourth annual Local Hero campaign this April.

This national competition gives fundraisers from across the UK the chance to compete to be crowned Local Hero Champion 2019 and win a top prize of £1,000 for a local charity or community group they love.

Local Hero 2019 will launch on 1st April 2019 and run until 30th of April 2019.

Localgiving is the UK’s leading membership and support network for local charities and community groups. It aims to empower grassroots organisations to fundraise online, connect with supporters and take control of their financial future. In addition, it provides advocacy for the local voluntary sector and works to secure third-party funding for its members. It provides free training opportunities, fundraising resources and regular incentivised giving campaigns to help groups raise funds online.

Click here to see full post on website.

 

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Funds Online – the all-new funding website

Why subscribe to Funds Online?

  • Over 8,000 funders giving £8 billion, all on one website. Funds Online will have data from our current four funding websites – Trustfunding.org.uk, Governmentfunding.org.uk, Companygiving.org.uk and Grantsforindividuals.org.uk – all on one website. If you subscribe to more than one of our current websites, you’ll have access to all your subscriptions in one place!
  • New user dashboard that will help you keep track of applications.
  • Improved search function; a quicker and more intuitive experience, helping you to connect with your funding like never before.
  • Find your funding on the go; access your funding on a range of mobile devices.

Same great team behind the data – we have a team of researchers updating the data to help you save time in your search.

Go to Funds Online now to find out more.

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Bright Ideas Fund now open!

The Bright Ideas Fund supports new community business ideas through the start-up and planning stages with tailored business support, to the implementation stage with grants of up to £15,000.

The Bright Ideas Fund is funded by Power to Change, the independent trust supporting community businesses in England, and delivered by Locality, the national network for community organisations, in partnership with Co-operatives UK, the Plunkett Foundation and Groundwork UK.

The Bright Ideas Fund application is now open and will close on Tuesday 9 April 2019.

How to apply for funding?

Click here for more informations.

 

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Homeless Link currently has two funding opportunities

Homeless Link Social Investment Fund – Dedicated support and flexible loan/grant packages from £25,000 to £150,000 to help you help more homeless people.

Contact jaishree.mistry@homelesslink.org.uk

Enterprise Grants – to help homelessness sector organisations make a transition to new enterprise models or to grow existing ones:

  • Feasibility Grants from £5,000 – £10,000
  • Development Grants up to £50,000

Contact sophie.price@homelesslink.org.uk

 

Homeless Link Social Investment Fund offers flexible, blended finance to help you support homeless people.

www.homelesslink.org.uk/social-investment

 

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New Funding Website – Powered by DSC

Click the image to go to the website

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What is Funds Online?

It’s a database with over 8,000 funders with the potential to give away billions of pounds overall to organisations and individuals. By subscribing, either as an organisation or an individual, fundraising suddenly becomes that much easier with access to funding from grant-making charities, companies, and statutory sources (including central and local government and the EU) all at the click of a button.

 

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Applications Open for the Community Business Trade Up Programme

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Applications are now invited for the Community Business Trade Up Programme, an initiative that helps the leaders of community businesses in England by offering a learning programme and matched trading grant of up to £10,000.

The aim is to help 80 social businesses to grow their income from trading and to improve their impact and sustainability in 2019. Run by the School for Social Entrepreneurs, in partnership with Power to Change.

The learning programme runs from June 2019 to March 2020. The deadline to apply for this round is 1pm on 14th February 2019.

Click Here for the programme website

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Cutting food waste: game-changing fund opens

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Fund opens to substantially reduce food waste from food businesses.

Food redistribution organisations are being invited to apply for the first part of a £15million pilot scheme to reduce food waste. In this initial round, £5 million will be awarded to charities and not for profit groups with a two-year track record of collecting surplus food from food businesses and delivering it to those who have a need.

The aim is to help to overcome the financial barriers to redistribution that some organisations experience. Grants likely to range from £40,000 to £75,000 will cover distribution and administration costs. Offered by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

The closing date for applications is the 20th February 2019.

Click Here for more info and links to apply

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