Funding
One Voice often gets sent information about grants and funding.
We will put information on this page about funding opportunites for disabled individuals and groups.
The information is written by the funding/awarding body, not by One Voice.
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Help with Fundraising
Useful information on how to fund raise .
http://www.how2fundraise.org/
For Funding opportuniities without a deadline >>
NIHR Public Health Research Programme Commissioned Research
Max. Value: Discretionary
Deadline: 23 Apr 2012
Financial assistance available to support public health research projects.
http://www.phr.nihr.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/commissioned.asp
PRS for Music Foundation - Awards to Organisations
Max. Value: Discretionary
Deadline: 23 Apr 2012
Financial assistance is available to organisations and groups in the UK working in any genre of new music.
http://www.prsformusicfoundation.com/
Asthma UK - Research Programme
Max. Value: Discretionary
Deadline: 27 Apr 2012
Funding for researchers based in UK research institutions for basic and clinical research to help create cures for asthma.
http://www.asthma.org.uk/how_we_help/research/frequently_asked_que.html
Wolverhampton - Third Sector Equality & Diversity Fund
Max. Value: £ 40,000
Deadline: 27 Apr 2012
The Fund focuses on resourcing third sector organisations in Wolverhampton with projects that contribute to priorities in Wolverhampton’s City Strategy 2011 – 2026, help to address the requirements of the Equalities Act 2010 and build the capacity of equality and diversity organisations to tender for commissioned services.
http://www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/community_living/grants/tsdf.htm
Concertina Charitable Trust
Max. Value: Discretionary
Deadline: 30 Apr 2012
Grants are available to charitable organisations in England and Wales to improve the quality of life of elderly members of society, through cultural activities and related facilities.
http://www.concertinamusic.org.uk/Grants.php
Eranda Foundation
Max. Value: Discretionary
Deadline: 30 Apr 2012
Grant for charities undertaking projects for research into medicine and education, encouraging the arts and supporting social welfare in the UK.
http://www.rdfunding.org.uk/queries/ListCharityDetails.asp?CharityID=76
Baily Thomas Charitable Fund
Max. Value: Discretionary
Deadline: 01 May 2012
Grants are available to voluntary organisations in the UK for research into learning disability or to assist with the care and relief of those affected by learning disability in the UK.
http://www.bailythomas.org.uk/
ESF Community Grants - How to Apply Workshops:
19th April 2012 9.45 a.m. – 12.00 noon at The Crossing at St Paul’s, Darwell Street, Walsall, WS1 1DA. Please be aware that you will need to find car parks nearby.
19th April 2012 1.30 – 3.30 p.m.at the Deckhouse, Waterfront West, Dudley Road, Brierley Hill, DY5 1LW
20th April 2012 9.45 a.m. – 12.00 noonat Sandwell Council of Voluntary Organisations, 1st Floor, Landchard House, Victoria Street, West Bromwich, B70 8ER
Contact: Suzanne Gardner, Commissioning Manager
Tel: 01384 471120 Email: suzanne_gardner@blackcountryconsortium.co.uk
Black Country Consortium Ltd
The Deckhouse
Waterfront West
Dudley Road
Brierley Hill
DY5 1LW
www.the-blackcountry.com/beactive
Healthy Communities Small Grants Programme
The People’s Health Trust has announced that they will be announcing the first recipients of their Health Communities small grants programme.
The Health Communities small grants programme will make awards of between £5,000 and £10,000 to local projects which help people live longer healthier lives, and address health inequalities. The People’s Health Trust are particularly keen to support grassroots activities through their small grants programme, which is currently open in 9 local society lottery areas.
Funding will be available from other local society lotteries in the coming weeks and months, and local charities and community groups are urged to check the People’s Health Trust’s website for details.
http://www.peopleshealthtrust.org.uk/index.php/apply-for-funding/local-society-lottery?dm_i=10CZ,MFYW,57OTOG,1TGA5,1
£60,000 Buy Better Together Challenge Fund
The Government, together with Co-operatives UK, the trade association of co-operative enterprises have announced a new challenge prize and guide to enable communities to realise the benefits of community buying.
Community buying involves groups of people combining their buying power to purchase goods or services together and get better deals from shops and other suppliers. This can help businesses spread their overheads and in turn lowers costs for consumers. The ‘Buy Better Together Challenge’ is aimed at raising awareness of the benefits of community buying and sharing best practice amongst communities. A total of £60,000 is available through the prize fund. Support will be awarded to schemes that best demonstrate new and different models of group buying and which deliver real deals and social benefits for communities. Any group or organisation within the public, voluntary or business sectors is eligible to enter the competition.
The Buy Better Together Challenge will be open for applications from January 2012. In May, shortlisted applicants will be asked to prepare a detailed business plan for the final stage, aided by a business mentor if they need it.
The overall winner of the prize will be announced in October 2012.
http://discuss.bis.gov.uk/buying/
Facilitation Fund
As part of its announcement, that the Government has awarded £116,473 million to 13 Disabled People’s User-Led Organisations (DPULO) to be a representative voice for disabled people and deliver better services, the government has also announced that it is seeking funding for applications from disability organisations through its Facilitation Fund.The Facilitation Fund is designed for DPULOs to bid for modest amounts of money to fund specific projects and to improve their sustainability. It is anticipated that the typical grant will be in the region of £10,000 or £30,000 over the duration of the whole programme (ie until March 2015).
Examples of activities / projects that can be supported include:
- Training
- strengthen the role of DPULOs in the local community
- funding DPULOs to run enterprise schemes to generate income
- radio or press promotion
- equipment essential to the running of DPULOs. This includes updating computers below the £1,000 capital threshold and other potential capital assets below £5,000 (as per DWP’s Capitalisation Policy); etc.
Applications to the Facilitation Fund can be submitted at any time.
http://odi.dwp.gov.uk/odi-projects/user-led-organisations.php/
Funding for Projects that Support Disabled Children
Local organisations and projects that support disabled children and their families have the opportunity to apply for funding through the True Colours Trust Small Grants Programme. Grants of up to £10,000 are usually available for one-off purposes, to help smaller organisations develop and deliver programmes for children, their siblings and families. The Trustees are particularly keen to award grants for- Hydrotherapy pools;
- Multi sensory rooms;
- Mini buses;
- Young carers projects;
- Sibling projects;
- and Bereavement support.
The True Colour Trust also makes grants for improving access to affordable palliative care in sub-Saharan Africa. The Trust's strategic programme is focussed on increasing access to opioids in Zambia. It has also launched a small grants programme which is administered by the African Palliative Care Association. This programme provides grants, of between £1,000 - £2,500, to organisations offering palliative services.
Applications can be submitted at any time.
http://www.truecolourstrust.org.uk/small_grants.aspx
Baily Thomas Charitable Fund
The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund is a registered charity which was established to support projects in the area of learning disability and to aid the care and relief of those affected by learning disability by making grants to voluntary organisations within the UK and the Republic of Ireland working in this field. The Trust consider under learning disability the conditions generally referred to as severe learning difficulties, together with autism. In this area, they consider projects concerning children or adults. Application for funding is normally considered for capital and revenue costs and for both specific projects and for general running/core costs. They offer grants from £250 upwards.
The next deadline for applications is the 1st March 2012 for research applications and the 1st May 2012 for general grant applications
http://www.bailythomas.org.uk/
People’s Health Trust Small Grants
People’s Health Trust which is funded through the new Health Lottery has announced that its Healthy Communities Small Grants Programme opened in October 2011.Through its Funding programmes, the Peoples Health Trusts aims to award around £50 million per year to support health-related projects in England, Scotland and Wales.
The Trust aims to do this by supporting projects that tackle the early causes of ill health. For example, projects that:
- improve the health and wellbeing of people
- increase physical activity
- improve the look and feel of local communities
- improve transport within communities
The Trust will award grants through two funding streams. The Healthy Places Healthy People Programme and the Healthy Communities Small Grants Programme.
Through the Healthy Communities Small Grants Programme the Trust will be funding projects that:
- Are requesting between £5,000 and £10,000
- Last up to 12 months; are based and operate within one of the local lottery areas
- Are run by local charities and community groups with an annual income of less than £75,000 a year.
Information on the Healthy Places Healthy People Programme will be made available in due course.
People’s Health Trust operates via 51 local society lotteries throughout England, Scotland and Wales. The small grants programme opens in different society areas at different times. Before applying check that the Trust are accepting applications from your area.
http://www.peopleshealthtrust.org.uk/
WREN Launches New Heritage Fund
WREN, the Waste Recycling Group, has announced the launch of a new Heritage Fund to support the repair, maintenance or restoration of a building or structure of architectural or historic importance including places of worship.
Under the new scheme, grants of between £15,001and £50,000 are available for Grade 1 (Grade A in Scotland) and Grade 2 *star listed buildings or structures including places of worship situated within 10 miles of an active and licensed Waste Recycling Group landfill site.
This funding programme will be directly managed and administered by WREN. WREN is working in partnership with English Heritage, Historic Scotland, Cadw (Wales) and the National Churches Trust who have all helped in the development of this programme. Wren will not consider nor accept applications submitted directly by applicants.
All Heritage Fund applications must be recommended and supported by one of the 4 key partner organisations above.
http://www.wren.org.uk/schemes/heritage-fund
Health volunteering fund
Department of Health will award up to £5.1m for health and social care volunteering projects
Paul Burstow
Paul Burstow, the care services minister, announces that local Home Starts, Age UKs and mental health organisations will be among the recipients of grants worth up to £50,000
The Department of Health today announced it is awarding up to £5.1m to voluntary organisations for volunteering projects in health and social care.
It will give grants worth up to £50,000 to 51 local voluntary organisations, including local Home-Start charities, Age UKs and various mental health organisations. The successful applicants, who were named today, will share a total of £2.5m.
Paul Burstow, the care services minister, also announced national volunteering organisations will be able to apply for a share of up to £2.6m next week. They can apply for a maximum of £200,000 a year for up to three years.
The department’s health and social care volunteering fund is supplying the funding.
Successful bidders had to meet one of four themes: improving health and social care; delivering better health outcomes; improving public health; and a patient-led NHS.
The funding announcement coincides with the launch of the DoH’s new ‘volunteering vision’.
Burstow told Third Sector the vision aimed to "more closely align" funding for voluntary organisations with the DoH’s strategic priorities.
Go to their website here>> for more information
Reaching Communities (England)
The Big Lottery Fund (BIG) has announced that it is accepting applications to their Reaching Communities Programme. Reaching Communities provides grants of 10,000 - £500,000 for projects that help people and communities who are most in need, and can really make a difference. BIG wants to fund projects that respond to needs identified by communities and those that fund projects that help those most in need including those people or groups who are hard to reach.
Organisations that can apply for funding include; registered charities; voluntary or community groups; statutory bodies, (including schools); charitable or not-for-profit companies. The budget for Reaching Communities will be at least £100 million each year until 2013.
The type of projects supported in the past have included a learning bus to reach hard to reach learners in Nottingham and a project that teaches young people in Hackney, Islington and the City of London to play a range of musical instruments.
Applications can be made at any time.
http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/prog_reaching_communities?tab=1&
Fund for Civil Society Organisations
The Commonwealth Foundation has announced the launch of a Special Grants Fund for Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and Commonwealth Associations (CAs) to undertake strategic and innovative projects that will promote the Commonwealth theme for 2011, ‘Women as Agents of Change’. Applications from registered CSOs and CAs across the Commonwealth are being invited to undertake projects lasting between three to six months which meet at least two of the following criteria:
- Foster collaboration and learning between women’s organisations in more than one Commonwealth country
- Involve collaboration with national women’s machineries (NWMs) and governments in promoting women and girls’ social, economic and political empowerment;
- Showcase the achievements of women in addressing social, economic and political change at national or regional levels
- Projects which will have an impact on women at a regional level
- Bring together women from different geographical, social and ethnic background to promote national and regional priorities.
Priority will be given to applications which address one or more of the following areas:
- Capacity enhancement for Women’s organisations in policy development and implementation
- Implementation of the Commonwealth Gender Plan of Action (PoA)
- Women’s leadership and participation in democratic governance
- Social protection and girls’ development
- Opportunities for rural women and girls
- Women’s social, economic and human rights.
Available grants are of up to £2,000. To request a copy of the application form, email Shabinah s.ossman@commonwealth.int .
http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/NewsArticle.aspx?articleID=162
The True Colours Trust's Small Grants Programme (UK)
The True Colours Trust through their small grants programme, inviting applications for grants of up to £10,000 from small organisations in the UK, to help them develop and deliver programmes for disabled children, their sibling and families. The fund are particularly keen to support; Hydrotherapy pools; Multi sensory rooms; Mini buses; Young carers projects; Sibling projects; Bereavement support.
There are no application deadlines. Applications can be submitted at any time.
http://www.truecolourstrust.org.uk/small_grants.aspx
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