IT Grants/ Net Solutions Wales/ Ongoing

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Funding for charity’s ICT development.

 

What is available?

Net Solutions Wales can assist with IT Grants of £10,000 to £20,000 for community / charity groups ICT development.

The funds cover PC’s, laptops, smartboards, projectors (most main stream I.T) software and support.

Restriction of one application per year.

Typical projects that have been awarded include community re-generation/enrichment, community activities and those groups which involve their community in learning new skills.

They will assist in providing knowledge of the IT available and guide you in how best to maximise the Grant with IT that suits its purpose.

This does not affect any Core funding and applications are on a first come first served basis with a decision time of around one month.

 

Who can apply?

Charities and community groups.

 

How to apply

To find out more and to apply please visit: NET Solutions Wales: web design, e-commerce, web hosting: Charities and community grants

Christmas Connections/ McCarthy Stone/ Deadline Oct 11th

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Funding for Christmas activities for older people.

What is available?

Grants of up to £1,000 are available for charities and community groups bringing together people over 65 at Christmas.

Priority will be given to those organisations connecting older people between 24th December – 2nd Jan, but applications for planned events earlier in December will also be considered.

At least 30 grants will be awarded, though the actual number may be in excess of this.

Examples of activities funded include: the provision of a meal on Christmas Day, group social events, and support for day care centres/community spaces providing services over the festive period.

 

Who can apply?

Organisations with an annual income under £250,000 will be eligible to apply.

 

How to apply

You can apply from the 1st of September 2024 here: Application Form – McCarthy Stone Foundation

Find out more here: Who We Support | McCarthy Stone (mccarthystonefoundation.org)

Deadline: Deadline Oct 11th at 5pm.

Henry Smith / Holidays for disadvantage children/ Deadline 19 Nov 2024

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The Henry Smith Charity’s Holiday Grants programme supports recreational trips or holidays for groups of children aged 13 or younger who experience disadvantage or who have disabilities. There is particular interest in contributing to trips that would not take place without the Charity’s funding.

Applications are currently being accepted for holidays taken between 1 September and 31 December 2024.

Schools, youth groups, not for profit organisations and charities in the UK can apply for a one-off grant of between £500 and £2,750 to support a day trip or a longer residential of up to a week for groups of children aged 13 years or younger. The trip could be to a countryside or city location but must be outside of the children’s immediate locality. Day trips should not involve a disproportionate amount of time spent travelling. Consideration will be given to trips which are more local but these should have an emphasis on providing a new experience for the children and broadening their horizons.

Priority will be given to projects level that will benefit disadvantaged and disabled children in the most deprived areas in the UK.

Grants are made on a first come, first served basis until the available funding for that round has been fully allocated. All applications should be received at least six weeks before the date of the trip to allow for administrative processing and decision making.

The deadline for applications is 19 November 2024.

https://www.henrysmithcharity.org.uk/explore-our-grants-and-apply/holiday-grants-for-children/holiday-grants-for-children-overview/

Brunel University / Innovation / Rolling

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Brunel Innovation Voucher Scheme Supports UK Organisations in Innovation

Brunel University London is offering the Brunel Innovation Voucher Scheme to support collaborative projects aimed at developing new products, processes, or services that foster innovation and growth within organisations.

The scheme provides vouchers valued at between £1,000 and £5,000, which cover specific academic project costs at the university. Participating organisations are required to contribute an equivalent value, either in cash or in kind, such as staff time, materials, or equipment.

The scheme is open to SMEs, social enterprises, and third sector organisations based in the UK, offering them an opportunity to collaborate with academic experts to drive innovation within their operations.

Applications are open on a rolling basis.

https://www.brunel.ac.uk/business/Help-for-SMEs/Innovation-Voucher-Scheme

Alzheimer’s Research / Public engagement on dementia / 14 October 2024

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Funding for Innovative Projects that Engage the Public on Topic of Dementia

Alzheimer’s Research UK’s Inspire Fund has opened for applications. This call is offering seed funding grants of up to £5,000 per project to new applicants from across the UK.

The funding is for projects that meet both of the following core criteria:

  • Projects must engage with underserved audiences on the topic of dementia, such as minority ethnic communities, marginalised or socio-economically disadvantaged people.
  • Build knowledge and understanding about brain health (in the context of dementia risk reduction) and explore ways to encourage behaviour change.

Projects can use a range of methods to engage with their audience and applicants are encouraged to consider their audience when selecting methods of engagement, to ensure people are able to take part.

Applications will be accepted from people with a range of backgrounds and expertise, such as dementia researchers, community groups, artists, creative organisations, and people responsible for cultural spaces such as museums and libraries. There is particular interest in proposals led by community groups and organisations. Applicants are encouraged to forge links with collaborators or groups to grow the scale of ideas and the impact of projects.

The grants will not support projects providing dementia care or other frontline services (including arts therapy).

An online information webinar will be held on 17 September 2024 (12-1pm) for potential applicants to find out more about the scheme and ask questions. Applicants can sign up to attend on the ARUK website.

The deadline for applications for seed funding grants is 14 October 2024 (5pm).

https://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/grants/inspire-fund/

Neat Streets / Tackling Litter / Deadline 13th September (Round 2)

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£10,000 to introduce a Hubbub campaign in your area.

To help support local authorities tackle litter and recycling, we have grant funding available to support to help you replicate a Hubbub campaign in your area to support litter reduction, and may also boost recycling.

The campaign should be either: targeted at drivers and roadside litter, towards young adults and aimed at urban environments, visitors to forests and other areas of natural beauty, tourists to the beach or tackling recycling on-the-go in towns and cities

Grants of £10,000 which can be used to support the purchase of new bins and signage, events and the development of a campaign.

There are  five grants to give out over the next 12 months, and aim to allocate 1 – 2 grants, every 3 months to allow applicants time to prepare their bid. The first grant will be open until September 13th 2024.

To maximise the campaign scale and impact,  applicants need to co-invest £5000 into a campaign, to create a project budget of £15,000.

This funding is made possible with support from McDonald’s.

https://neatstreets.org.uk/neat-streets-grant-fund

Tree Council / community tree planting/ 1st Dec

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The Tree Council is offering grants of between £250 and £2,500 for schools, constituted community groups and charities, community interest companies, Tree Warden networks, and other organisations across the UK to deliver tree-planting projects during the 2024/25 Winter planting season (between the end of November 2024 and early February 2025).

Through the Branching Out Fund, groups can purchase:

  • Bare root, UK-sourced and grown, native trees of an appropriate size (priority will be given to younger trees that will establish better).
  • UK-sourced and grown, bare-root whips (saplings) and cell-grown (root trainer) stock for hedging projects (between 40-120cm height).
  • Hedgerow trees.
  • Orchards, such as fruit trees on semi-vigorous, vigorous, and very vigorous rootstocks.
  • Cardboard/bioplastic tree/hedge guards.
  • Non-plastic ties.
  • Stakes (coppiced material such as chestnut or hazel is preferred, although machined softwood will also be considered).
  • Mulch.
  • Non-peat-based soil improvers if needed.

The following may also be considered:

  • Non-native tree varieties if appropriate to the setting.
  • Non-native varieties and species that are chosen with climate change adaptation and resilience in mind.
  • Fruit trees on dwarfing rootstock if the setting is appropriate.
  • Trees in containers/raised beds if the reason is adequately explained and supported by a robust and comprehensive irrigation and aftercare plan.
  • More robust and costly guards if the setting justifies it.
  • Other project resources to support tree establishment such as irrigation equipment like watering cans/irrigation aids, and PPE.

Priority will be given to applicants that have strong community engagement embedded from the beginning of the planting project.

The deadline for applications is 1 December 2024 (midnight).

https://treecouncil.org.uk/grants-and-guidance/our-grants/

United with Ukraine, Cambridge City Funding Update

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Cambridge City Council will be briefly pausing the United with Ukraine grant application process in the autumn for 6 weeks.

 

Tier 1 and Tier 2 applications will be paused between Wednesday 11th September to Wednesday 23rd October. This is due to staff resource being temporarily concentrated on Community grants over £5,000, Sustainable City Grants, and Homeless Prevention Grants.

 

Groups will not be able to apply for funding during this time. The City Council apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and ask groups to please submit any applications to us by Tuesday 10th September. Tier 1 and Tier 2 applications will reopen for submissions on Thursday 24th October.

 

Please note Tier 3 applications won’t be affected by this closure. You can still submit Tier 3 applications between 11th September and 23rd October.

 

You can find out more information about the United with Ukraine grant on webpage –  United with Ukraine community grant – Cambridge City Council.

 

If you have any questions, or would like support finding alternative funds, please get in touch with the grants team on grants@cambridge.gov.uk or email Agnieszka on agnieszka.korfel@cambridge.gov.uk

Ideas and Pioneers Fund / Paul Hamlyn Foundation / 16 Sept 2024

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Ideas and Pioneers Fund

Support for individuals, groups and small organisations who want to explore a new idea for social change.

 

What is available?

We believe that the best ideas for how society needs to change often come from people who have been let down or harmed by current systems. We want our funding to help realise these ideas, and give you the time, space and financial backing to experiment with new and different ways of creating social change.

We provide grants of up to £20,000, and a programme of support, to help you develop your skills and explore an idea for social change that has the potential to transform the way things are currently done. The fund specifically focuses on early-stage ideas when it’s harder to get funding and support to develop these ideas further.

We want to fund ideas that are:

  • Challenging injustice. We want to support ideas that show a clear vision to help build a better society by shifting power and challenging and transforming the root causes of systemic oppression. This includes but is not limited to racism, ableism, classism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia, and/​or transphobia. We recognise that what happens at the small scale reflects what happens at the large scale, so we are equally interested in ideas working at a local level to those working at a national level.
  • Early stage. Our focus is on supporting the earliest stages of exploration and to help you learn from what does and doesn’t work.
  • Original. We want to support people imagining new ways to make social change, which could mean trying things that haven’t been done before or experimenting with an approach that is new to the context in which you’re hoping to work.
  • Long-term. You can see the long-term potential of your idea and you’re motivated to share your learning with others to make change beyond the lifetime of the funding.

Who can apply?

We want to fund people aged 18–30* to explore their ideas for social change. This fund is for you if you have:

  • A connection to the idea you want to explore. We will prioritise funding people with direct lived experience, meaning you have personally experienced the issue you want to explore. We also welcome applicants with indirect experience (you have seen how this issue affects people around you, perhaps in your family or community) and learned experience (you have taken steps to learn more about this issue, whether formally through qualifications or your job, or informally through exploring it yourself).
  • The drive and potential to make social change. We’re not looking for a track record of experience or success and will assess your application on the strength of your idea.
  • Not received grant funding before. We want our support to reach people who would benefit from it the most, including those who haven’t accessed funding or support to explore your idea.

*We prioritise funding to people aged 18–30, but we do consider applications from those aged 30 and over. We cannot accept applications from those under 18.

 

How to apply

We want the application process to be as accessible as possible. If this application process is inaccessible to you at any stage, please get in touch with us at accessibility@phf.org.uk. We can provide pre-application access support and a bursary of up to £750 to help you apply.

We use an online application form.

There are three different written application forms — depending on if you’re applying as an individual, small group, or organisation.

A sample application form can be downloaded as a word document for you to review in advance.

To find out more and apply please visit: Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Ideas and Pioneers Fund 

Young People’s Programme / The Allan Lane Foundation/ Apply anytime

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The Allan Lane Foundation

Funding to Support Disadvantaged Young People (UK – excl Greater London)

 

What is available?

The Allan Lane Foundation is offering grants of between £5,000 and £25,000 to charities and not-for-profit organisations working with young people aged 12-21 who are socially excluded or marginalised, and who may have experienced significant issues within their lives.

The grants can be used to support a range of activities, including core costs, project work, and capital expenditure.

The Foundation is particularly interested in supporting organisations that focus their work on:

• Young people within the criminal justice system or those at risk of offending

• Looked after children or care leavers

• Those with significant mental health concerns or complex needs

• Young people who have been traumatised by challenging family backgrounds, neglect, violence or abuse

• Those that have fallen through the gaps in care and/or education

• Those already affected by, or vulnerable to, exploitation

• Whose experiences could seriously impact their transition into adulthood

 

Who can apply?

To maximise the impact of its grants, the Foundation will only fund smaller organisations. Organisations that work across a local area, such as a village, estate, or town, must have an annual income of less than £100,000 to be eligible. Organisations that work across the entire UK must have an annual income of less than £250,000 to be eligible.

 

A small number of grants have already been awarded to work with young people, including funding for a crisis drop-in for young people who have been sexually abused in Dundee; a young parents project in Bolton; funding for a youth worker to support teenagers with autism in Northern Ireland; a drama and arts project aimed at young people with a history of offending in Jaywick, Essex.

 

How to apply

Applications can be submitted at any time.

The next meeting an application could be considered at is in October 2024.

To find out more and apply please visit: Young People’s Programme – The Allen Lane Foundation

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