Grassroots grants available now from the Suffolk
Foundation
If you are a community or voluntary group existing in Suffolk
for the benefit of local people, then you could get a grant of up
to £5000.
To qualify you must be a group that was set up prior to the 31st
December 2006 and have an annual income of under £20,000 per year
or the equivalent of under £60,000 taken as an average over the
last three years.
You do not need to be a registered charity, but you do need to
be working towards alleviating disadvantage.
The programme is aimed at addressing the diverse needs of
community organisations and therefore funding is available for a
wide range of activities:-
Examples are:
- Purchase of equipment;
- Costs of putting on a local event or workshop;
- Staff costs to enable the employment of individuals;
- Contribution to rent, related to service delivery;
- Costs of attending a conference or event;
- Training for volunteers;
- Additional activities to expand an existing funded
project;
- Activities that support community activity;
- Activities that meet an identified need in the county;
- Funding to support an organisation to achieve a quality or
other standard relevant to your activities.
These are only examples of what you can apply for.
Please visit
www.suffolkfoundation.org.uk
for more Grassroots funding information, the application form and
guidelines.
If you wish to discuss your idea you can telephone Sue Wright on
01473 734123 from Tuesday 19th August onwards,
when the fund will be fully operational.
If you would like a paper copy of the application form and
guidelines then please telephone the above number and you will
receive a copy either by email if you wish or in the post. The
application process is designed to be simple and
straightforward. For applications that are submitted which are
complete you can expect a decision within two weeks.
Please share this information with other community groups you
feel may benefit.
ACRE Launches £500,000 Grant Fund for Communities Affected by
Quarrying
National rural community development charity Action with
Communities in Rural England (ACRE), and members of the Rural
Community Action Network (RCAN) have announced the launch of this
year’s COMMA fund to support projects in communities affected by
quarrying.
Suffolk communities can apply through Suffolk ACRE for grants of
between £3,000 and £20,000 to support community projects and
amenities. ACRE and RCAN are delivering the grants on behalf
of DEFRA, funded by the aggregates levy on quarries.
The fund is open to parish councils, registered charities and
community organisations with a formal constitution. Almost any
community activity can be supported. The following five
conditions apply for a project to be eligible:
- The community where the project is based is/has been affected
by aggregates extraction or transportation of aggregates;
- The proposed project is within 10 kilometres of an aggregates
extraction site, either current or disused;
- The proposed project must benefit the whole community or a
section of the community, not an individual;
- The applicant must be a community organisation, a charity or a
parish council;
- All project works funded by COMMA grants this year must be
capable of completion by the end of June 2009.
Applications must be made via Suffolk ACRE – contact Barry
Henson or Elizabeth Storer on 01473 242500 for further
details.
Completed applications must be received on or before 7
November 2008.
Groundwork's Community Spaces: Launch of Large & Flagship
Grant Schemes
Groundwork's Community Spaces programme has now launched its
large and flagship grant schemes.
Grants of between £50,000 and £450,000 are available to community
groups wanting to improve green and open spaces in their
neighbourhoods. Possible large or flagship projects may
include:
- canal side improvements;
- cycle path routes;
- nature reserves;
- woodlands; or
- city farms.
This list is not exhaustive and groups with innovative,
practical and sustainable ideas that will benefit areas in need of
physical improvement are encouraged to apply.
The large and flagship grants will be distributed on a competitive
basis, with only four large (£50,000 to £100,000) and one flagship
(£100,001 to £450,000) grant allocated in each region of
England.
There will only be one round of bidding, and applicants will be
given up to six months to build up their stage 1
applications. Applicants successful at stage 1 will be
allocated a facilitator to support the development of their
project.
The deadline for large grant applications (£50,000 to
£100,000) is 9 January 2009.
The deadline for flagship applications (£100,001 to £450,000) is 30
January 2009.
The Community Spaces programme is funded with £50 million from the
Big Lottery Fund’s Changing Spaces programme, and has been open for
small and medium applications since March 2008. So far, over
200 applications have been received.
Heritage Lottery Fund -
update
Heritage Lottery Fund introduced new (and online) application
material(s) on 7 April 2008.
Grants start at £3,000 for local people and future generations to
take part in, learn and enjoy their heritage. We have spent more
than £250 million across the East of England helping groups of all
sizes - voluntary groups, Local Authorities, community
organisations etc. - to celebrate what 'heritage' means to them.
From museums, parks and historic places, to the natural environment
and local cultural traditions, we invest in every part of our
diverse heritage.
We are keen to hear from groups which are considering applying
to Heritage Lottery Fund for the first time. We also welcome
applications for projects which encourage young people to explore
and engage with heritage.
Recent awards
Sawston Cinema Archive Project, Cambridge; - £24,900 - this project
will enable young people to trace the history of cinema in Sawston.
The young people will be working with Sawston Village History
Society to make a film, recording older people's memories of the
original cinema. Information collected and recorded will be put on
a dedicated website.
Sudbury Common Lands, Suffolk, £47,000; - this grant will help
the Sudbury Common Lands Charity to purchase 12 acres of riverside
land and secure it's future as a county wildlife site. The scheme
will also interpret this historic natural heritage and train
volunteers to act as rangers.
Restoration of Tring Market Office, Hertfordshire; £245,000; -
funding will support the restoration of this historic building,
providing a new use for it displaying artefacts from the Tring
& District Local History Society, explaining the heritage of
the area to local people, visitors and volunteers.
Our grant programmes
Below is a very brief overview of our main grant programmes.
Young Roots - £3,000 to £25,000 to help young people aged 13 to
25 get involved with their heritage. Applications take 10 weeks to
assess.
Your Heritage - £3,000 to £50,000 for community-focused heritage
projects. Applications take 10 weeks to assess.
The new application material for both Your Heritage and Young
Roots is currently only available online and we can accept
applications now however we won't start assessing online
applications until September 2008. We can still accept applications
on the older (hard copy only) versions of the Young Roots and Your
Heritage forms until the end of June 2008.
Heritage Grants - for heritage projects of £50,000 and upwards.
Grants of up to £1million are decided upon by our Regional
Committee. Grants of more than £1million are decided upon by our
national Board of Trustees. There is mandatory two-round assessment
process for this grant; each round takes three months to assess;
there is also a development phase in-between each round.
For more information about these grants, including match-funding
requirements and further guidance on completing the forms
(including the old forms), interested organisations should contact
the Development Team at the East of England office.
Further detail can also be found on our website,
www.hlf.org.uk.
Pre-application
Our pre-application form is available online - the form is simple
and straightforward and gives potential applicants the opportunity
to tell us more about their project idea before they start work on
the application form itself. We respond to pre-application
enquiries within 10 working days with advice and guidance that may
help to develop an application to us.
We are also happy to receive pre-application forms sent to us
through the post!
We also hold regular surgery days in our Cambridge office for
those groups who have completed a pre-application and are now
working on an application; groups can book some one-to-one time
with a member of the development team to discuss their project idea
in more depth.
Email bulletin
We intend to start a producing an email bulletin keeping partners
(such as yourselves) and potential applicants up-to-date with
Heritage Lottery Fund developments. This will most likely begin
coming out over the summer and would initially be emailed out on a
quarterly basis. We're assuming you would all be happy to
receive such an email update; if you do not wish to receive it, let
us know.
Further info
If you would like to know anything more specific then please
contact one of the team (contacts below); we are happy to
provide content for your newsletters, bulletins etc. - if you would
like one of the Heritage Lottery Fund development staff to attend
and/or speak at a funding event, let us know.
Contacts
Stuart Hobley
Development Manager
Heritage Lottery Fund, East of England
t 01223 224881
Naomi Webb
Development Officer
t 01223 224880
Jonathan Latchford
Development Officer
t 01223 224883
HLF
website - East of England
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation Launches Three New Funding Strands
Worth £19 Million
The Esmee Fairbairn Foundation has announced three new funding
strands, based on food, voluntary sector work in Northern Ireland
and finance, worth up to £19 million. This funding is in
addition to the strands announced in January 2008: Biodiversity,
Museum and Heritage Collections and New Approaches to Learning.
The Food strand has a budget of £3 million over three years and
will fund work promoting the importance of balanced diets and
helping all UK citizens have access to, and the ability to prepare,
nutritious food. The Foundation is interested in work that
influences policy and practice across a range of food-related areas
and expects to support a mix of practical projects that have wide
significance, and some research and policy based work. This
strand is currently open to applications. Applicants
successful at the first stage will be invited to submit
second-stage applications, with final decisions about second stage
applications being made in July and November 2008.
The Northern Ireland strand will invest £1 million on a 12-month
pilot programme to create a stronger voluntary sector in Northern
Ireland. The project is a partnership with UK relief
organisation The Henry Smith Charity. The pilot will focus on
the programme’s design with approximately five organisations
selected from an invited field. If successful, a longer
programme will be launched.
The Finance Fund will offer loans, guarantees and equity or
quasi-equity finance to projects or organisations that can
demonstrate the need for investment. Up to £15 million will be
available for this strand. At this stage, the programme will
not be open to unsolicited applications.
Click here for links to the relevant website/scheme guidelines and
GRANTfinder report
Sport England Re-launches the Sportsmatch Scheme
Sport England has announced that Sportsmatch has been
re-launched with updated criteria and a new online application
facility.
Sportsmatch has been designed to improve the quality and
quantity of the sponsorship which grassroots sport receives in
England. Through the scheme, Sportsmatch can match eligible
commercial business sponsorship, or funding from trusts/private
donors (up to a maximum of three), for a sporting project that aims
to increase participation and/or improve performance at grassroots
level. Projects may be a revenue scheme or, in limited cases,
a capital project. Sponsorship may be in cash or in-kind.
The minimum award available is £1,000 (£500 for schools) and the
maximum is £50,000. The minimum partnership funding of £1,000
(or £500) must come from one eligible source - a number of
businesses/trusts/individuals cannot club together to make up the
minimum sponsorship.
An organisation seeking sponsorship should be a properly
constituted organising body involved in sport. This includes
governing bodies, sports clubs, charities, local authorities,
schools/colleges and voluntary youth organisations.
Applications can now be made on the Sportsmatch website with
help available over a dedicated telephone line. There are no
closing dates but all supported projects must be completed by 31
March 2009.
Click here for links to the relevant website/scheme guidelines and
GRANTfinder report
Big Lottery Fund: myplace Programme Launched
The Big Lottery Fund’s myplace programme officially opened to
applications today. Funding will be delivered to ambitious
projects driven by the participation of young people in England,
particularly in the most disadvantaged areas.
The programme contributes to the Government’s pledge of
providing exciting, safe places, where young people can engage in a
wide range of activities such as sport, dance and music. It
will also enable them to access appropriate advice and support
services.
Individual grants of between £1 million and £5 million will be
awarded to cross-sector, local partnerships between public bodies
and third and/or private sector organisations to undertake new
projects.
Two application processes can be taken up: Fast Track and
Standard.
The deadline for receipt of Fast Track applications is
29 July 2008.
The deadline for receipt of Standard applications is 30
September 2008.
Click here for links to the relevant website/scheme guidelines and
GRANTfinder report
Access to Nature: Now Open to Applications
Access to Nature is a new £25 million grant scheme which aims to
encourage more people to enjoy the outdoors, particularly those who
face social exclusion or those that currently have little or no
contact with the natural environment. It is now open to
applications.
Funding will focus on three main themes:
- Community awareness and active participation.
- Education, learning and volunteering.
- Welcoming, well-managed and wildlife-rich places.
The scheme is open to a wide range of applicants, including
community groups, charities and trusts, schools, colleges, local
authorities, town and parish councils, health organisations, social
enterprises, mutual societies and faith groups.
There are three levels of grant available, as follows:
Regional projects
Grants of between £50,000 and £500,000 for projects which aim to
deliver benefits at a local, regional or multi-regional
level. Projects may focus on a few local sites and communities
within a region, or could involve an awareness-raising campaign
covering a number of communities over many regions.
Applications can be made at any time from April 2008 to
June 2010.
National projects
Grants of less than
£500,000 for projects which aim to address national-scale
issues. These projects must:
- cover the whole of England in a thematic sense ie propose
solutions to national scale issues; and/or
- cover the whole of England geographically; and must
- demonstrate greater added value than a scaled-up regional or
multi-regional project.
Applications can be made at any time from April 2008 to
June 2010.
Flagship projects
Within Access to Nature
there is potential for organisations to apply for grant awards of
over £500,000. A maximum of five Flagship awards will be
made. These projects must have a national impact and
significance.
Flagship awards will support projects that have an England-wide
focus and make a significant and lasting impact on community
awareness and participation. These larger awards aim to
enhance the capacity of the voluntary sector so that it is in a
stronger position to meet the needs of communities and to encourage
more active involvement in the natural environment.
For grant applications seeking a Flagship award, the project
must fulfil the following criteria:
- cover the whole of England in a thematic sense ie provide
solutions to national scale issues, and/or cover the whole of
England geographically;
- be able to demonstrate greater added value than a regional or
multi-regional project; and
- enhance the capacity of the voluntary sector.
The main decision-making meeting for Flagship projects will be
the Independent Grants Panel meeting to be held on 25-26 February
2009; however, there is the opportunity for the 15-16 October 2008
meeting of the Independent Grants Panel to make awards.
The final deadlines for Flagship applications are as
follows:
Stage 1 applications for the October 2008 Panel Meeting:
11 July 2008.
Stage 1 applications for the February 2009 Panel Meeting: 17
October 2008.
Click here for links to the relevant website/scheme guidelines and
GRANTfinder report
£200m EU pot for joint working with continental partners
Suffolk will shortly be
able to access two new maritime cross border funding
programmes, worth £100m each, to support a range of quality of
life, environmental and economic activities. For further
information about the programmes, please visit the
Maritime Cross Border web page.
The following link is for medium or long term programmes:
Medium/Long term news