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Guardian Charity Awards 2010
Deadline: 16th July 2010

Five smaller charities have the chance to win £6,000 and consultancy support in the Guardian Charity Awards 2010.  The awards are open to UK social welfare charities that have an income of between £5,000 and £1.5 million.

Man Group plc Charitable Trust

The Man Group plc operates a Charitable Trust that has established a small grants programme (up to £50,000) and a large grants programme (up to £250,000) for charities. The Trust mainly focuses its grants funding in London in the following areas:

1. Disadvantaged youth – projects that tackle exclusion by helping disadvantaged youth through the reduction of poverty of aspiration. The key areas the trust will fund include arts and culture, sport, education and promoting inclusion.
2. Literacy and numeracy – innovative projects that improve literacy and numeracy in young adults and adults.
3. Vulnerable populations – improve the lives of the most disadvantaged individuals focusing on the elderly, homeless people, those grappling with addiction, domestic violence and health issues. There are specific outcomes with each group that the Trust wishes to achieve and full details are on their website.
4. Disaster relief – world-wide

Big Lottery Community Wildlife Fund
Deadlines: 21 July, 22 September and 24 November 2010

This new programme will fund projects that bring local people together to discover, enjoy or protect the wildlife in their local area.
The programme will fund between £300 and £10,000 for projects that:

• improve rural or urban environments for people to enjoy, for example by:
o protecting wildlife habitats
o creating a nature trail, woodland walk or wildlife garden for people to enjoy
o improving natural community spaces, such as rivers, ponds and woodlands.

• get people more active and healthier, for example by:
o exploring parks, rivers and the countryside to look for rare or endangered species
o encouraging people to take up gardening or go on nature walks
o providing opportunities for children to learn about nature through play.

Further information can be found on the Big Lottery Fund website.

Your Heritage Fund
Deadline: Ongoing

The Your Heritage programme, from the Heritage Lottery Fund offers grants between £3000 and £50,000 for projects that relate to the local, regional or national heritage of the UK. Your project must help people to learn about their own and other people’s heritage, as well as conserve the UK’s diverse heritage for present and future generations to experience and enjoy and/or help more people, and a wider range of people, to take an active part in and make decisions about heritage. Further details are on the Heritage Lottery Fund website.

C Charitable Trust
Deadline: Ongoing

The trust aims to support third sector organisations undertaking projects for a wide range of charitable purposes including disability; buildings or works of heritage value; animal welfare; the environment.

It normally takes 12 weeks from application to applicants being informed of the trustees' decision. There are no application deadlines as trustees make grant decisions on a monthly basis.

Further information is on the C Charitable Trust.

Porticus UK
Deadline: Ongoing with decisions made periodically throughout the year

Grants are offered between £10,000 and £25,000 to support marginalised people, focusing on the following priority areas:

• Strengthening family relationships
• Enriching education
• Transformation through faith
• Ethics in practice

Although the trust bases its values on the Catholic faith, it welcomes applications from all registered charities, whether or not they have a faith basis. The trust also accepts applications for activities that are not project specific e.g. developing policy advocacy and research. For more information the Porticus UK website.

Kerrygold Community Awards
Deadline: 31 July 2010

Kerrygold has launched the Kerrygold Community Awards, which are designed to encourage, support and reward people all over the UK that come together to achieve a common goal that brings benefits to a whole community.
People or organisations with a good idea for a community project and who require funding may enter the Community Awards. However, national registered charities are excluded from entering and projects must be staffed by members of that community.

Further information can be found on the Kerry Gold Community Awards website.

Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation
Deadlines: 10 September, 10 December

The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation considers applications for grants for charitable organisations under the following categories:

* Jewish Life and Learning
* Performing Arts (excluding music)
* Music
* Education and Social Exclusion
* Third World Development
* Medical Research Travel Grants

Further information can be found on the Harold Wyam Wingate Foundation website.

Cotton Trust Grant
Deadlines: End of January and July annually.

Open to organisations that have been registered charities for at least 12 months.  Grants are offred from £250 to £5,000 for projects that support disadvantaged or disabled people.  Grants can be used for running costs.  For more information, contact the Cotton Trust:

Mrs J B Congdon
The Cotton Trust
PO Box 6895
Earl Shilton
Leicester
LE9 8ZE
Telephone:01455 440 917

O2 Think Big
Think Big is a new funding scheme from mobile phone firm O2, developed in conjunction with youth charities National Youth Agency and UK Youth. It gives 13 to 25 year olds the chance to apply for a £300 grant to fund projects aimed at addressing local issues identified by the young people themselves. After the initial grant, they will then have the chance to apply for £2,500 to further boost their project. Training, support  and mobile phone credit will also be given to successful applicants. Full details can be found at www.o2thinkbig.co.uk

Tudor Trust
Deadline: On-going
The Tudor Trust makes grants in the following priority areas, but is also willing to consider other areas: youth, older people, community, relationships, housing, mental health, substance misuse, learning, financial security and criminal justice.

The Trust aims to support smaller community, voluntary and charitable organisations for up to three years.

Full details are given on the Tudor Trust website.

Access to Volunteering Fund Pilot
Deadline: 6 September 2010

Grants for public and third sector organisations working to overcome barriers to disabled people volunteering in Greater London.
Awards of between £250 and £5,000 are available, with an average grant value of around £2,000.
In particular, the pilot scheme is keen to fund, projects that:

• lead to employment opportunities for disabled volunteers.
• seek to use new technology.
• offer value for money and quality of service
• result in improved health and social inclusion for disabled volunteers
• intend to use the funding for regular volunteering, including Trustee and governance roles.
• Projects that find innovative ways to support disabled volunteering.

Further information can be found on the Access to Volunteering website.

Anton Jurgens Charitable Trust Grant
Deadline: On-going

Grants of up to £5,000 available to registered charities or voluntary organisations conducting community based projects
The scheme aims to fund new and existing projects to improve the local community, including the refurbishment of community centres.

Contact the Anton Jurgens Charitable Trust for further information.
Mrs. Maria Jurgens
Anton Jurgens Charitable Trust
Saffery Champness
72-75 Red Lion Street
London
WC1R 4GB
Telephone:0207 841 4100

Aurelius Charitable Trust Grant
Deadlines: May and November for Trustees Meetings in January and July

The scheme is intended to support organisations undertaking projects to disseminate education, particularly in the humanities and the conservation of culture.

Contact the Aurelius Charitable Trust for further information:
P. E. Haynes
The Aurelius Charitable Trust
Briarsmead
Old Road
Buckland
Betchworth
Surrey
RH3 7DU
Telephone:01737 842186

Chapman Charitable Trust Grant
Deadline: On-going

The grant is intended to support charitable organisations that work in the following areas:

• Health.
• Social services
• Heritage.
• Culture
• Recreation.
• Environment.
• Education.
• Research.

For further information contact:
Enquiries
Chapman Charitable Trust
Messrs Crouch Chapman
62 Wilson Street
London
EC2A 2BU
Telephone:020 7782 0007

BBC Children in Need
Deadlines for 2010: 15 October

Their grants programmes are open to organisations working with disadvantaged children and young people who are 18 years old and under. 

Your organisation and project must be based in the UK and you need to be a registered charity or other not-for-profit organisation.

The application processes have been redesigned to make applying as straightforward as possible.

Within their general grants programme, you can apply for:

• Small Grants of £10,000 or less per year for up to three years
• Main Grants over £10,000 per year for up to three years.

Further information can be found on their website.

The Skinners’ Company Lady Neville Charity
Deadline: mid-March and mid-November each year

The Lady Neville Charity will accept applications from registered charities or not-for-profit organisations based in the United Kingdom, who employ less than the equivalent of four full-time paid staff and are working in the following priority areas:

• Disability – activities which provide opportunities to people of any age with physical or mental disabilities
• Local Heritage – projects which help local groups to conserve and restore their landmarks, landscape, traditions and culture
• Local Community – projects which are involved in improving the facilities or quality of life for people in a deprived neighbourhood
• Performing and Visual Arts

Grants range between £500 and £1000 and should be for non-recurring expenditure and that make a clear contribution to the project.

Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust
Deadlines: 1 June or 1 November in the relevant year

The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust awards grants to charitable organisations in the United Kingdom and overseas. The trustees welcome applications for projects within the following areas for the next three years. These categories are then repeated in a three-year rotation:

• 2010: Children, youth, the elderly and medical. For this year only medical research projects dealing with the ageing population will be considered. The other priorities (children, youth and the elderly) as well as other non-research based medical work are still welcome;
• 2011: Music and the arts, overseas;
• 2012: Community - applications only from charities working with homelessness, addiction, asylum and refugees, sexual and domestic abuse, prisoners and ex-offenders.

Grants are usually between £1,000 and £10,000, with the majority being £5,000 or less. Exceptionally, grants of up to £20,000 are made, but these are usually for medical research projects.

For more information, visit the Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust website.

Frognal Trust Grant

The Frognal Trust Grant is provided and administered by the Frognal Trust for third sector organisations in the UK. The grant is intended to support small registered charities that work in the following areas:

• Culture and heritage
• Conservation projects
• Community services
• Parks
• Hospices and nursing homes
• Ophthalmological research

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. For further information contact:

Enquiries
Frognal Trust
Charities Aid Foundation
King's Hill
West Malling
Kent
ME19 4TA
01732 520 083

 

Anchor Foundation
Deadline: 31st January and 31st July each year

The Anchor Foundation provides grants of between £500 and £10,000 per year to Christian Charities that encourage social inclusion through ministries of healing and the arts. Funding can be awarded for up to three years. The Foundation will consider applications for either capital or revenue funding.

Full details on The Anchor Foundation website.
 

Community Development Foundation - Faiths in Action
Deadline: Applications considered as received until the fund limit is reached

Administered by the Community Development Foundation (CDF) on behalf of Communities and Local Government (CLG), Faiths in Action aims to bring communities together, promoting positive relationships between people of different religions and beliefs. Faith, inter faith, voluntary and community organisations and groups in England can apply for a grant of up to £6000.

Full details available on the Community Development Foundation website.

Monument Trust

Part of The Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts, the Monument Trust accepts applications relating to:

• Arts and Heritage (arts, architectural and environmental projects of national or regional importance, including galleries, museums, and historic houses and gardens. Proposals are particularly welcome for cultural projects which will make a major contribution to improving economically depressed areas).
• Health and Community Care, substantial HIV/AIDS projects in the UK and Africa, social exclusion, the sexual health of young people, and hospices
• Criminal justice including prisoners’ resettlement, advice and mentoring, and alternatives to custody

Further details on how to apply are available on The Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts website.

Comic Relief / Thames Community Foundation

Thames Community Foundation is distributing funds raised through Red Nose Day and Sport Relief. Grants of up to £10,000 are available to small, locally based Voluntary and Communities Organisations working in deprived or disadvantaged areas, using a range of activities, including sport, to increase community cohesion, help socially excluded or respond to local economic needs.

Full details can be found on the Thames Community Foundation website.

Closing dates are:
30th July 2010
31st January 2011

Hardship Fund

Administered by the Community Development Foundation (CDF), the Hardship Fund offers grants between 50,000 and £250,000 to organisations delivering frontline services to the most vulnerable and disadvantaged in society. The fund is available to organisations suffering financial hardship that is impacting on their ability to deliver services in health and social care, housing support, education and training, and advice, information and guidance.

Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis in the order they are received until the fund limit has been reached.

Full details can be found on the Community Development Foundation website or by emailing hardshipfund@cdf.org.uk

Safer Kingston Partnership - Prevent Grants

The Safer Kingston Partnership has launched a special grants programme that aims to meet the government's strategy to prevent radicalisation and violent extremism. Applications are invited from voluntary and community organisations for projects which will achieve one or more of the following:

• Challenge the ideology of violent extremism and support mainstream voices
• Support individuals who are being targeted and recruited to the cause of violent extremism
• Increase the resilience of communities to resist violent extremism

 Much of the Prevent activity takes place in and with Muslim communities because the greatest threat at present is from terrorists who claim to act in the name of Islam.  However, the principles of Prevent apply equally to other communities who may be the focus of attention from violent extremist groups.

Grants can be for up to £10,000, although it is expected that most awards will be in the range of £500 to £1,000.

Funding can be requested for any relevant project costs including staff costs, equipment, premises hire, publicity, volunteers' expenses, etc.

This is a rolling programme and grant applications will be considered by the Prevent Executive Group at its monthly meetings up until 30th September 2010.

For further details and an application form please contact Gillian Pennington on 020 8547 6072 or Barnaby Hopson on 020 8547 6068 at RBK's Voluntary Sector Unit.

Grassroots Grants

Grassroots Grants, between £250 and £5,000 are available for organisations that meet the following criteria:

• A not-for-profit voluntary or community group in England
• Led by volunteers
• Active in local community 12 months or more
• Average income (over three years) of less than £30,000 per year
• Works for the benefit of your local community

For further information, please contact the Grassroots Grants helpline on 01223 400 331 or email grassroots@cdf.org.uk . Alternatively visit their website.

Trusthouse Charitable Foundation

Trusthouse Charitable Foundation offers new grant funding with charities working with prisoners and ex-offenders. For further information contact jl@trusthousecharitablefoundation.org.uk .