People and Communities
There is a wide range of funding available for voluntary groups who work with people and communities. The broad categories detailed below are:
- General funding for people and communities
- Rural Areas
- Disadvantaged People and Communities
- Disabled and Sick People
- Learning and Experience
GENERAL FUNDING FOR PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES
Awards for All, England Awards for All is funded by the Big Lottery Fund and makes grants of £300 - £10,000 for people to take part in community activities. You may find Awards for All is a helpful starting point in your quest for funding, particularly for small-scale, community based projects based around increasing participation and accessibility. You can find out more at: http://www.awardsforall.org.uk/index.html or phone 08454 102030.
Grassroots Grants Grassroots Grants have grants of up to £5,000 available to community groups in Devon. If your community group helps local people, is led by volunteers, has an annual income of less than £30,000 and has been running for over 12 months then you could be eligible. To find out more go to: www.devoncf.com or phone Kathy on 01884 235887
Money for your local area ‘Making it Local’ has grants available of up to £100,000 (but most grants will be much smaller) in the Blackdown Hills and the East Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Their aim is to get people more connected with the landscapes in which they live and work.The funding is for different kinds of businesses and organisations, including private businesses and sole traders, social and community enterprises, Parish and Town Councils, voluntary groups, local community groups, charities and collaborative groups.
A wide range of projects could be eligible for funding including: local village services; renewable power for a small community; training support for small businesses.
If you would like to find out more please contact Jenny Archard, Programme Manager, on 01823 680626 or e-mail jenny.archard@devon.gov.uk or visit: www.makingitlocal.org
Make a difference in Devon Devon County Councillors have £10,000 each available to support capital projects which can make a significant difference to towns and villages in Devon. As news of this funding is spreading quickly, and funding may be allocated on a 'first come, first served' basis, interested organisations are advised to contact their County Councillor as soon as possible. To find out who your County Councillor is go to: www.devon.gov.uk/index/democracycommunities/county_councillors.htm
Red Nose Day Programme Comic Relief will soon be announcing new grants schemes for people and communities, which you will be able to apply for from 14 November 2009. For more information: http://www.comicrelief.com/apply_for_a_grant/uk or phone 02078 205555.
Support for those who want to make a difference The Besom Foundation is a Christian charity that has grants of up to £4,000 available to help people who really want to make a difference. It supports projects at grass roots level which permanently improve the quality of life of people by increasing their abilities to help themselves. The main activities are; employee clusters; positive recycling; and volunteering. For more information: www.besom.com or phone 02072 236522.
Funding for local charities Waitrose supermarkets each have £1,000 a month to distribute amongst three local community projects.. To be considered for a donation, good causes and charities should contact their local store or can be nominated by customers of Waitrose staff. All Waitrose employees at the store will choose which three benefit and customers will decide how to share out the £1,000 between the three worthy causes. For more information: www.waitrose.com
Community Spaces Groundwork UK has grants of over £10,000 available for community groups that want to make their neighbourhoods cleaner and greener. This includes improving and creating play areas, community gardens, parks, wildlife areas, ponds, courts and village greens. For more information: www.community-spaces.org.uk or phone 0845 67167
Improving quality of life The Links Foundation funds new or existing projects and can help meet costs such as salary, rent and stationery as well as capital costs. It does not, however, fund individuals or core costs. Its aim is to benefit communities by providing, or assisting in the provision of, facilities or services necessary to improve their conditions of life. For more information: www.linksfoundation.org or phone 01642 236486.
Improving quality of life The Mohammad Ibrahim Foundation has funding available to improve the quality of life for people and communities in the UK, both now and in the future. It likes to consider work which others may find hard to fund, perhaps because it breaks new ground, appears too risky, requires core funding or needs a more unusual form of financial help such as a loan. For more information: www.ibrahimfoundation.com
Small grants The Co-Operative Fund has grants available of between £100 and £2,000 to fulfil a need in the local community or provide long term benefit for a sector of the local community. Newly formed groups (less than 3 months) can only apply for up to £500. Community groups, self-help groups, voluntary groups and community charities (or local branches of national charities) can apply. For more information: http://www.co-operative.coop/membership/Community-Fund/ or phone 0845 601 0160
Community Money The Wakeham Trust has grants of between £75 and £750 available to help people improve their communities. They are very interested in funding neighbourhood projects, community arts projects, young people involved in community service and projects set up by those who are socially excluded. For more information: www.wakehamtrust.org or phone 01730 821748.
Grants for smaller charities The Foyle Foundation has grants of between £1,000 and £10,000 available to support smaller charities. In particular they will fund those working at grass roots and local community level, and the grant must make a significant difference to their work. For more information: http://www.foylefoundation.org.uk/small-grants-scheme/ or phone 02074 309119.
Charitable Trust The Peter De Haan Charitable Trust has funding available for social welfare, the environment and the arts. They have grants streams focusing on young people and innovative and cohesive projects. For more information: www.pdhct.org.uk
Building better futures The Nationwide Foundation has grants of up to £5,000 available to registered charities with a yearly income of less than £500,000. This funding is to help support housing and/ or financial aims. For more information: www.nationwidefoundation.org.uk or phone 01793 655113
Help Wilkinsons Hardware Stores Helping Hands Scheme have vouchers and financial support available to local groups, charities and organisations within the stores catchment area for community initiatives. They are particularly interested in supporting education, family, sports and arts projects. For more information phone: 01909 505 505
General funding The Lady Neville Charity has grants of between £500 and £1,000 available to registered charities and not-for profit organisations within the UK. They must work in the areas of disability, local heritage, local community or performing and visual arts. They will fund non-recurring expenditure such as equipment, and event or particular element of capital building works. For more information phone 020 7213 0562 or e-mail charitiesadmin@skinners.org.uk
Britannia Customers Britannia’s Community Fund has small one-off grants available for individuals and groups to projects that support numeracy and/ or financial literacy. Eligible applicants are voluntary organisations, schools, charities, and individual members who have been members of Britannia for over two years, wishing to carry out voluntary work within the UK. For more information: http://www.britannia.co.uk/_site/corporate/in-the-community/foundation.html or phone 01538 391734
Community Fund The Co-operative Community Fund has grants of between £100 and £2,000 available to community groups, voluntary groups, self-help groups, community charities or local branches of national charities. Funding is for anything from equipment to event costs, rent, heat or light. For more information phone 01618 275879
All sorts of causes The Garfield Weston Foundation has grants available of between £3,000 and £1million. They support a wide variety of good causes including: education, the arts, welfare, youth, community, environment, mental health, health, religion (especially church restoration) and others. For more information: www.garfieldweston.org or phone 02073 996565
Internet and laptops BT’s Community Connections scheme is now open. Community groups and projects offering community benefit can apply for a laptop and a contribution towards a years Internet connection fees. The scheme is for groups that have little or no IT equipment and can show how it will benefit the community. For more information: www.btcommunityconnections.com or phone 08452 576792
RURAL AREAS
Please also see all other categories which will mostly fund rural areas as well, but the following are specifically relevant:
Basic services in rural areas The Community and Social Enterprise Fund has funding available to support projects from not for profit organisations including parish councils. Grants must be used to directly support the delivery of basic services in rural areas. These can be things like childcare, retail services or renewable energy projects. It is expected the majority of funding for each project will be provided by other sources. For more information: www.sw-ruralgateway.info/getting/social-enterprise-1.shtm or phone 07733 264756
Rural Funds The NFU Mutual Charitable Trust has funding of up to £235,000 available to community and voluntary groups. In particular work in the areas of agriculture, rural development and insurance in the UK will be considered. For more information write to NFU Mutual Charitable Trust, Tiddington Road, Stratford Upon Avon, Warwickshire, CV37 7BJ.
Funding for rural areas The Trusthouse Charitable Foundation has grants of up to £30,000 available with an average grant of £5,000 awarded. There are two over-arching themes to their grants of rural issues (settlements of less than 10,000 people) and urban deprivation but these cover many topics. For the smaller grants both capital and revenue costs are funded. For more information: www.trusthousecharitablefoundation.org.uk/home.html or phone 02072 644990.
Computers for rural people: The Arthur Rank Centre has set up their ‘Computers for Rural people’ scheme to provide computers at a very low cost. They provide a computer pre-loaded with Microsoft and delivered to your door with a 3 month warranty for as little as £109. For community projects where more than one computer is needed the prices are even lower. For more information: http://www.arthurrankcentre.org.uk/projects/computers_for_rural_people/index.html or phone 02476 853066
Community shops The Plunkett Foundation supports the start up of community owned shops in rural areas in England. For more information: http://www.plunkett.co.uk/whatwedo/rcs/ruralcommunityshops.cfm or phone 01993 814377.
Small grants The South West Foundation Small Grants Fund has grants of up to £1,000 available to support small community organsations operating in rural areas, market and coastal towns (not urban areas). The funding must be used for activities that enable people from diverse backgrounds to become engaged in their neighbourhoods and communities and/or to bring about real change to the lives of people in the community. For more information phone 01275 333666
Community Transport The Community Transport Association and the Plunkett Foundation have funding available to help Rural Community Transport. The fund will offer grant and loan packages to community transport organisations in England to enable them to build income and reduce their reliance on grant funding. The funding will be supported by a range of training, development and networking support. For further information: www.ctauk.org or phone 08451 306195.
Third sector funding The Hardship Fund offers grants of between £50,000 and £250,000 to third sector organisations that are suffering financial hardship, impacting on their ability to deliver front-line services in health and social care, housing support, education or training and information and advice. Organisations must have a turnover of £200,000 a year or more. For more information phone 0113 2461561
PEOPLE IN NEED AND DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES
Charities Impetus provides funding to support small to medium sized charities that work with and want to improve the lives of disadvantaged people. They provide funding, capacity building and hands-on management advice to charities that are at a critical stage in their development. For more information: www.impetus.org.uk
Community Funding The Lloyds TSB Foundation has grants available for small to medium-sized registered charities that help disadvantaged people engage in their community. Core costs are supported, including running costs and salaries, and grants are available for up to three years. Grant levels are determined by the size of the charity and the priority of the work. For more information: www.lloydstsbfoundations.org.uk or phone 0870 4111223
Consumer advice The Money Saving Expert Charity Fund has grants of up to £5,000 available to charities, community groups and individuals who help to educate and inform people about consumer or debt issues. For more information: http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/site/mse-charity-fund
The Volant Charitable Trust The Volant Charitable Trust has funding available to support charities and projects, whether national or community-based, at home or abroad, that alleviate social deprivation, with a particular emphasis on women’s and children’s issues. All charities should be registered with the relevant national charity commission or equivalent body. For more information: www.volanttrust.com
Tackling Poverty and Misery The John Paul Getty JR charitable trust has grants from £500 to £50,000 available to help projects that tackle poverty and misery in the UK, and unpopular causes in particular. For more information: www.jpgettytrust.org.uk
People in need The Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation has grants from £1,000 to £250,000 available to support charities who aim to improve people’s quality of life, particularly of people in need. The funding can be used for capital projects, endowments, scholarship funds and research. For more information e-mail: office@sunleyfoundation.com or phone 02074082198
Funding to Promote Financial Inclusion The Friends Provident Foundation makes grants of up to £200,000 to not-for profit organisations for projects that address financial exclusion within disadvantaged communities. Actions previously supported through the Foundation include making money management advice available to young people via mobile phones and interactive digital TV. For more information: http://www.friendsprovidentfoundation.org/
Help with Homelessness Help the Homeless has grants of up to £3,000 available for registered charities to support homeless people in making their return to the community. Grants are made to assist in the purchase of equipment and other capital funds (for things you can see) and not usually for running costs e.g. salaries. There are four submission deadlines a year. For more information: www.help-the-homeless.org.uk
Funding The Hilden Charitable Fund has grants of up to £5,000 available to small local UK charities that work with the homeless, minority groups and penal affairs. Project costs and core running costs are eligible. For more information: http://www.hildencharitablefund.org.uk/
Alcohol Related Issues The Drinkaware Trust has both small and large scale funding available for organisations that are working to tackle alcohol misuse and raise awareness, particularly with younger and middle aged groups. Some funding could even be used to help develop ideas for projects. Registered charities, other voluntary organisations, stautory organisations and partnerships may apply. For more information: www.drinkawaretrust.org.uk or phone 02073 077450
Help in Devon The Lord Clinton Charitable Trust may be able to offer grants to assist you. You should apply by sending a letter explaining your current circumstances including why you need funds and giving your contact details to Lord Clinton Charitable Trust, Devon Clinton Estates, Rolle Estate Office, Bicton Arena, East Budleigh EX9 7BL. All applications will be assessed on an individual basis.
Wide ranging funding The Tudor Trust has grants available to help organisations to achieve lasting change in their communities. They aim to support work which addresses the social, emotional and financial needs of people on the margins of society. For more information: www.tudortrust.org.uk
Money for charities The Nationwide Foundation has grants of up to £5,000 available to registered charities with a yearly income of less than £500,000. This funding is to help support housing and/ or financial aims. For more information: www.nationwidefoundation.org.uk or phone 01793 655113.
Disadvanted people The Santander Foundation has grants of up to £10,000 to support community and voluntary groups that work with disadvantaged people, focusing on the priorities of education, training and financial capability. For more information: www.santanderfoundation.org.uk
DISABLED AND SICK PEOPLE
Grants for work with people with learning disabilities The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund has grants from £250 for voluntary organisations that are actively engaged in the care of people with learning disabilities. To be eligible for an award, applicants must demonstrate that they belong to a voluntary organisation that is a registered charity or is associated with a registered charity. For more information: www.bailythomas.org.uk
Community money The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust has grants of between £1,000 and £10,000 available to organisations involved in children, youth, elderly or medical aims. The closing dates are 1 June and 1 November 2010. For more information: www.austin-hope-pilkington.org.uk
Devonian Trust The Devonian Trust has grants for children and adults with physical disabilities living in Devon. Organisations helping those with physical disabilities may also apply. For more information write to: Devonian Trust, 59 Wonford Road, Exeter EX2 4UF
Tesco Charity The Tesco Charity Trust has grants of between £1,000 and £4,000 available. These grants are for practical benefits such as equipment and resources for projects that directly benefit children, the elderly and adults and children with disabilities living in communities near Tesco stores in the UK. Projects previously funded include playground equipment, sensory gardens, holiday play schemes, luncheon clubs and day trips. For more information phone 08456 123575
Health and social care The Barchester Healthcare Foundation has grants of up to £10,000 available to organisations and individuals who are dedicated to imrpoving the non-statutory provision of health and social care services available to elderly or disabled adults. For more information: www.bhcfoundation.org.uk
Technology Abilitynet adjusts and adapts the technology of voluntary organisations that provide ICT services to individuals or communities with disabilities. For more information: www.abilitynet.org.uk or phone 0800 269545
LEARNING AND EXPERIENCE
Funding to learn finance The Money Saving Expert Charity (MSE) has grants of up to £5,000 available to support projects that will help educate people about money/ debt and consumer issues. Funding is available to groups/ charities looking to develop projects. Individuals can apply for grants of up to £500. For more information: www.msecharity.com
Lifelong Learning The Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) is a European funding programme which supports education and training across Europe. The LLP provides funding for all stages of lifelong learning; for activities at school, at college, at university, in the workplace and in the community. The LLP is made up of several different programmes offering a variety of opportunities. For more information: http://www.lifelonglearningprogramme.org.uk/
FURTHER ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE
If you need further assistance or advice, please contact: Jamie Buckley, Engagement and Funding Officer, East Devon District Council. Telephone number 01395 517569 email jbuckley@eastdevon.gov.uk
