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Crewe and Nantwich Voluntary Action .
Ashton House, 1a Gatefield Street, Crewe, CW1 2JP
Advancing Local Voluntary Action.Tel / Fax: 01270 211545 Registered Charity No. 506632
Published by Crewe & Nantwich Voluntary Action,Ashton House, 1A Gatefield Street, Crewe, Cheshire, CW1 2JP
Registered Charity No. 506632 Tel/Fax 01270 211545
E-mail: wendy.crewecvs@btconnect.com
Website: www.crewecvs.co.uk
The information provided below is a summary of some of the funding sources available to Voluntary and Community Groups.
Tracey Langston, Funding Advisor at CNVA, is available to meet with groups and carry out Funding Searches. The service is free of charge and will be tailored to meet your requirements. If you would like an appointment to identify potential funding for your project, please contact Tracey on 01270 211545 or email t_langston@btconnect.com.
Don’t have internet access?
Please remember if you don’t have internet access you can contact me (details above) and I will arrange to meet you. Application forms and guidelines can also be printed off and forwarded to you, although an appointment to discuss your requirements is recommended.
Funding Surgeries
Funding appointments can be arranged through out the week, or you can just drop in to see if I’m free. In the next few months I will be arranging regular sessions where people can drop in to talk about their funding requirements. The dates for the summer are as follows, if you would like to book an appointment for one of these days please call me on 01270 211545 or email t_langston@btconnect.com, alternatively please feel free to drop in to the sessions.
| Crewe Library | Friday 25th July 5pm - 7pm Wednesday 24th September 10am - 12am |
| Nantwich Library | Wednesday 9th July 2008 10.30am - 1pm Wednesday 17th September 2008 10.30am - 1pm |
Training
Grant Applications that Succeed
A 2-hour session for staff and volunteers from voluntary and community organisations, who want to become more confident in completing a small grants application form.
| 4th July 2008 | 16th September 2008 |
| 16th September 2008 | 10am – 12pm |
The Tender Fund is a new Futurebuilders programme offering interest-free three year loans of between £3,000 and £50,000 to third sector organisations who need relatively small sums of money to help them tender successfully for specific public service delivery contracts.
The fund was set up in response to feedback from third sector providers and public sector commissioners, who confirmed that there is a real need for resources to help the third sector compete for public sector contracts on an equal footing with providers from other sectors.
There is no application form for this fund. If you want to enquire about a Tender Fund investment you can call the enquiry line on 0191 261 5200 or send an email to info@futurebuilders-england.org.uk.
Futurebuilders will assess your application mainly by phone, although they may arrange to meet you if necessary.
In all cases, they will ask you to:
During the phone conversation they will ask you to:
Organisations considering applying to Futurebuilders can benefit from valuable tips and advice at one of the popular pre-application surgeries.
These free events include an information session, time to ask questions and the opportunity to discuss individual proposals with a member of the team. We have found that organisations that attend a surgery before applying perform considerably better at the application stage than organisations who don't.
There are only a limited number of places at each surgery and they are allocated on a first come, first serve basis. Please ensure that you book a place.
For more information about these events, please contact Marianne Patterson or Sharon O'Brien, tel 0191 269 2870 or email info@futurebuilders-england.org.uk
The Carbon Trust has launched a free guide to reducing carbon emissions and cutting energy use in association with the Charity Commission.
The guide has been published to help the 190,000 registered charities in the UK, take action to save up to 20 per cent on their fuel bills through low cost or no cost energy-saving measures.
Energy is one of the largest controllable overheads for charities, with air conditioning and office equipment bills being particularly high. This new guide shows organisations how to increase their energy efficiency and is tailored to suit the diversity of the sector, taking into account the range of unique properties from which charitable organisations operate - including museums, hospices and commercial offices.
By putting in place the simple energy-saving measures outlined in the guide, charitable organisations can begin cutting carbon emissions straight away, while generating financial savings and reducing operational costs.
Organisations can download or order the free publication (CTV036) online at Website: www.carbontrust.co.uk/Publications/publicationdetail.htm?productid=CTV036&metaNoCache=1
The Children in Need team in the North have announced a series of funding workshops to be delivered in various locations across the North of England during September and October 2008. The workshops will be delivered by Children in Need staff and will focus on the following areas: Project Planning, Defining disadvantage, Involving Young People, Defining Outcomes, Creative Monitoring
The workshops are designed to increase the success rate of groups applying to BBC Children in Need for funding. If you would like to attend please complete the following booking form and return it to David Carnaffan, BBC Children in Need, Broadcasting Centre, Barrack Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE99 2NE
All events are 10:00 – 13:00
Newcastle – Thursday September 11, 2008
BBC broadcasting Centre, Barrack Road, Newcastle, NE2 4NS
Teesside – Friday September 12, 2008
BBC Tees, Broadcasting House, Newport Road, Middlesbrough, TS1 5DG
Cumbria – Friday September 19, 2008
Radio Cumbria, Anetwell Street, Carlisle, Cumbria, CA3 8BB
Leeds – Tuesday September 23, 2008
Broadcasting Centre, 2 St Peters Square, Quarry Hill, Leeds, LS9 8AH
Sheffield – Wednesday September 24, 2008
Voluntary Action Sheffield, The Circle, 33 Rockingham Lane, Sheffield, S1 4FW
York – Thursday September 25, 2008
Radio York, 20 Bootham Row, York, YO30 7BR (TBC)
Humberside – Friday September 26, 2008
Queens Court, Queens Gardens, Hull, HU1 3RH
Merseyside – Monday October 6, 2008
Radio Merseyside, 31 College Lane, Liverpool, L69 1ZJ (TBC)
Lancashire – Tuesday October 7, 2008
Preston CVS, Princes Building, 50/52 Lancaster Road, Preston, PR1 1DD
Manchester – Wednesday October 8, 2008
New Broadcasting House, Oxford Road, Manchester, M60 7HB
The Department of Health is changing its main grants scheme for the voluntary sector. The new system, known as the Third Sector Investment Programme, has opened for applications and will begin making awards next year. It replaces Section 64 grants for charities that deliver services on behalf of the DoH.
The announcement comes after a consultation with more than 700 third sector organisations on how the DoH could improve its funding of the health and social care charity sector. Two years ago, charities threatened legal action against the DoH for delaying Section 64 grants. The new programme has two strands: a strategic partner programme and an innovation, excellence and service development fund. For the former, the Department of Health will recruit up to 10 strategic partners from the voluntary sector and pay them to ensure better communication between charities and the Department of Health. The innovation, excellence and service development fund will pay for national projects that contribute to the Department of Health objectives of improving health and wellbeing.
The Department of Health has not yet revealed details of how much funding charities can apply for or the total value of each fund, but it said "funding support for the third sector from the department will remain the same". This year, the Department of Health awarded £24m in Section 64 grants to charities that deliver services on its behalf. (article reproduced - By John Plummer, Third Sector Online, 17 July 2008)
For more information please visit:
www.dh.gov.uk/en/Managingyourorganisation/Financeandplanning/Section64grants/index.htm
Grants for Community Organisations Working with Children and Young People Seeking Asylum
The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund has opened a new grants round aimed at supporting community led, not-for-profit organisations providing direct services or advocacy for young refugees and people seeking asylum in the UK.
Recognising that children and young people seeking sanctuary in the UK are vulnerable and face particular difficulties accessing mainstream services, community organisations working with this group are being invited to apply for a grant in order to build an infrastructure of support.
Grants are available of between £3,000 and £50,000, although in exceptional cases the Fund may consider applications for larger projects. The funding period for this programme runs from February 2009 until December 2012. Projects can last for all or part of this time.
The following are examples of activities the programme is looking to fund:
Deadline for application 12 September 2008.
For more information please visit the website: http://www.theworkcontinues.org or telephone (0)20 7902 5500
Looking for a new way to raise funds? Look no further - eBay for Charity will help you raise funds and awareness with 21 million eBay users in the UK, and 255 million worldwide.
Anyone can give to your charity when they sell on eBay. eBay sellers can give anywhere between 10 and 100% of their eBay sales to your charity.
Alternatively if your organisation has goods to sell why not Trade on eBay by running an online charity shop, in a marketplace with millions of visitors.
Hold a special online auction - Fundraising events on eBay are unrivalled for generating awareness and funding.
Get started now! Register with MissionFish: it’s quick, simple and free. Once you’ve registered, any eBay seller can donate to your charity.
You can do all this from Websites:
http://pages.ebay.co.uk/ebayforcharity/
The Foundation makes grants to a wide range of charities and organisations that meet one of the three chosen areas of focus:
Applications are rigorously assessed to ensure that the best projects reaching the most disadvantaged young people are prioritised. The Foundation aims to support a range of causes helping young people, across the UK and Ireland.
Please note that the Disaster Relief and International Fund is a discretionary fund for which there is no open application process.
The next application deadlines in 2008 is 28 October 2008 for the Grants Committee meeting on 29 November 2008.
If you would like more information about the fund please visit www.hilton-foundation.org.uk/home, email info@hilton-foundation.org.uk or telephone 020 7605 7733.
Hilton Raffle Prizes and Auction Prizes
Since 2005, in response to huge ongoing demand from charities and good causes, Hilton Hotels agreed to donate a limited number of accommodation vouchers for use by charities for raffle or auction prizes at their fundraising events.
The Foundation manages this process and to enter the monthly draw to receive a voucher, requests should be made by email to info@hilton-foundation.org.uk
Whether successful or unsuccessful, to maintain a fair response the foundation require that organisations leave a gap of three months between each request. Please note that once awarded, vouchers cannot be transferred, extended or exchanged.
Grants from £2,000 up to £300,000 are available for not-for-profit groups and organisations in England delivering projects such as growing, processing, marketing and distributing local food; composting and raising awareness of the benefits of such activities.
Local Food employs a two stage application process for all grants.
The first stage is a simple open application process for projects to outline their proposals and to ensure eligibility. Visit the ‘Is your project eligible?’ page for further details on eligibility. http://www.localfoodgrants.org/index.php/grants
All eligible projects will be invited to submit a Full Application. If you are not invited to submit a full application you will be informed of the reasons.
Applications can be submitted by email or post. The Full Application form is available online, and forms can be completed directly onto Local Food's intranet and sent in automatically without having to download or have a copy posted. Alternatively to request a hard copy of the first stage application form, please call the Changing Spaces Advice Line Tel: 0845 3 671 671.
For the Small and Main grants there are no deadlines, it is a rolling programme, although all funded projects must be completed by March 2014.
Initial enquiries regarding funding should be directed to the Changing Spaces Advice Line Tel: 0845 3 671 671 Email: localfood@rswt.org Website: http://www.localfoodgrants.org/index.php/grants
Natural England – Access to Nature
Access to Nature 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 - perhaps because they lack the confidence to get out and enjoy natural places or have few opportunities to do so.
By 2014 Access to Nature want 1.7 million people - in urban, rural and coastal communities across England - to have benefited from this grant programme by having improved opportunities to experience and enjoy the natural environment and providing more opportunities to gain new skills .
Funded by the Big Lottery Fund’s Changing Spaces programme and Natural England, Access to Nature is run by Natural England on behalf of a consortium of major environmental organisations.
Grants will be awarded between £50,000 and £500,000 to support projects that deliver one or more of the scheme’s main outcomes.
Outcome 1: a greater diversity and number of people having improved opportunities to experience the natural environment
Outcome 2: more people having opportunities for learning about the natural environment and gaining new skills
Outcome 3: more people able to enjoy the natural environment through investment in access to natural places and networks between sites Outcome
4: richer, more sustainably managed, natural places meeting the needs of communities
In addition the scheme will make a small number of larger grants of over £500,000 for projects which have a national significance or impact.
Stage 1 is an Expression of Interest form, stage 2 is a more detailed application form. The next 1st stage application deadline is 17 October 2008. For more information Email: accesstonature@naturalengland.org.uk or visit http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/accesstonature phone 0845 3 671 671.
Sport England have just announced the return of Sportsmatch with a new web-based facility enabling applicants to apply online. Designed to encourage new or additional sponsorship investment from businesses, trusts and private individuals, Sportsmatch, funded by Sport England, will continue to offer pound-for-pound matched funding to sporting stakeholders for projects that encourage sports participation at grass roots level.
If, for example, a local business gave £1,000 in sponsorship to its local football club to organize coaching in local schools, Sportsmatch would be able to match that with £1,000 of government money, and thereby double the amount of money available to the club.
The scheme’s awards criteria have been amended to provide greater flexibility
for applicants. From May 2008, partnership funding from trusts and private individuals becomes eligible for match funding. The minimum award is £1,000 and the maximum is £50,000. For schools, the minimum award is £500 (the maximum is still £50,000). This is to encourage schools who find it difficult to sell
themselves to a commercial sponsor to get matched funding. 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.
Applicants can now apply online with telephone support available from Sport England on 08458 508 508.
All projects applying in 2008/09 will need to ensure that they are able to deliver their project in its entirety by 31 March 2009. This will ensure that the benefits of the scheme are received at the earliest opportunity. The Panel meets approximately every eight weeks and decisions are made on the day.
For general enquiries regarding Sportsmatch, please telephone 0845 8508508, or email: info@sportsmatch.co.uk or visit www.sportsmatch.co.uk
The V Match Fund brings together private sector partners and charities to create innovative volunteering opportunities. The benefits are clear: by harnessing the creativity and energy of young people, they can bring communities together and find solutions to society’s biggest problems. They can change lives, protect the environment, create safer neighbourhoods, improve the nation’s health and give 16-25 year olds skills, confidence and experience.
The V Match Fund matches up to 100% of any new investment in youth volunteering – that’s double the money, and double the impact of the investment. Private companies, large and small, charitable trusts, foundations and individuals are seizing the opportunity to build volunteering initiatives with the promise of the match funding.
V wants to create opportunities so inspiring that volunteering becomes a valued part of the lives of most 16–25 year olds. They want to reach out to some of England’s most disadvantaged and disengaged young people. They want to create real change in communities, tackling the big issues that the nation’s youth tell them they’re concerned about.
For more information contact V at 5th Floor, Dean Bradley House, 52 Horseferry Road, London SW1P 2AF, Telephone 020 7960 7000 or visit the website:
www.wearev.com
WREN has launched its new small grant scheme. The scheme has been designed for projects with a total cost of under £50,000 and grants can be awarded between £2,000 and £15,000. Typical projects might include village halls or community centres, skate parks and play areas, footpaths or towpaths, cycleways or museums.
To find out more about how the WREN small grants scheme could benefit your project either contact WREN Tel: 01953 717165 or visit the WREN small grant scheme section on their Website: http://www.wren.org.uk/how-to-apply/small-grants You can download Application Forms and Guidance notes.
WREN distributes £15 million annually to eligible projects under the Landfill Communities Fund. Waste Recycling Group (WRG) set up WREN to ensure its landfill tax credits are used cost effectively and benefit the maximum number of people, especially those who live near landfill sites. For more information on WRG visit www.wrg.co.uk
Youth Music works alongside the formal and community-based sectors to support music-making and training. The funding complements music in the national curriculum by supporting activities held mainly outside of school hours and delivered by non-profit making organisations.
Youth Music also aims to support wider aspects of music-making through funding training for music leaders, as well as working strategically to bring together partnership organisations from across the music, education and social sectors.
Funding is available for not-for-profit organisations, for a period of 6 to 24 months. There are three open programmes that applicants can apply to:
Vocalise! supports music-making where the voice is the main instrument. Vocalise! was created to encourage opportunities for children and young people to sing, particularly those who would otherwise lack the chance to take part. Through Vocalise! the funder wants to support proposals where the voice is the principal means of making music. This can be through a range of vocal styles, not only traditional choral singing, for example beatboxing, rapping, any popular music styles with or without microphones, scat singing, musical theatre, opera, gospel, chant and all other vocal traditions from around the world. Funding between £5,000 and £20,000 for 6-18 months.
Each funding programme has an application form and individual criteria, however the following points are relevant to all three funding programmes:
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