August Funding News
Cash for Kids
The closing date for applications is midnight on 11 September 2023.
If selected, the groups will have from 16 September to 16 October 2023 to raise as much money as possible.
The aim of the Cash for Kids Sports Challenge is to encourage participation of disabled or disadvantaged children and young people to engage in sport. Applicants must compete in a fundraising challenge to potentially receive more funding for their project.
The selected applicant organisations will retain the total money raised during the fundraising period.
The top three fundraising groups will receive an additional £5,000, £2,500 and £1,500, respectively. Furthermore, there are special awards of £500 each for the best use of social media and the most creative fundraising idea.
This is open to:
Local sports groups with a formal governance document (e.g. constitution, articles of association, club rules and regulations).
Charities, community, and voluntary groups that deliver sport or physical activity in their community with a formal governance document (e.g. constitution, articles of association, club rules and regulations).
Community amateur sports clubs.
After-school sports clubs (but only to use the funding to support disadvantaged children).
Get started with your application & fundraising
Health Protection Community Grant
From the 1st of July through to the end of December 2023, community groups and organisations based in Coventry will be able to apply for a small grant to help raise awareness of key health protection messages. The Health Protection Community Grant scheme can be accessed through the Public Health team at Coventry City Council.
This purpose of this grant is to help local community and voluntary groups to raise awareness of a variety of health protection topics.
What are the health protection topics?
The health protection messages we want help to raise awareness of include:
- Vaccination for older adults
- Vaccinations for pregnant women
- Oral Health
- Measles
- Sexual Health
- Tuberculosis (TB)
For more information on the scheme and to access the application form please see our webpage health-protection(External link)
You can also request the application form and more information direct from the team at: HPTeam@coventry.gov.uk(External link)
Community Organisations Cost of Living Fund
£10,000 - £75,000
deadline: Noon 16th October 2023
Notes:
the grants can cover some retrospective costs incurred between 24 July 2023 and the date a grant is offered.
All funding must be spent by 31 March 2024.
The Community Organisations Cost of Living Fund is provided by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and administered on its behalf by the National Lottery Community Fund (NLCF).
Objectives of Fund:
The funding is intended for charities and voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations that are experiencing increased demand for critical services and increased costs in delivering them.
The main priority is to fund organisations supporting low-income households and individuals.
To be eligible, applicants must already run critical services around at least one of the following:
Food and emergency supplies
Emergency shelter
Safe spaces
Warmth
Financial and housing advice
Organisations must also be facing both:
Increased demand for these critical services, and
Increased costs of delivering these critical services.
Restrictions:
Brand new services. Funding is only for existing, adapted or expanded services.
Services being delivered outside of England.
Applications that only ask for retrospective costs, without any cost for future delivery of services.
Expanding or adapting existing services between 24 July 2023 and when the grants are offered (note: existing services in this time can be funded).
Larger building works or maintenance, or any refurbishment work that is not completed and paid for by 31 March 2024
Purchase of buildings or land
Eligible Expenditure
The funding can be used to cover both project and core costs retrospectively from July 2023 until 31 March 2024.
Funding is only for existing, adapted or expanded services and will support:
Staff salaries for the service(s) being applied for.
Volunteer costs for the service(s) being applied for.
Service delivery – including any direct costs associated with delivering, expanding or adapting the services
Very small-scale refurbishment needed to deliver the expanded or adapted service(s) being applied for.
Improvements to systems and infrastructure needed to deliver the expanded or adapted services.
Training and development for staff and volunteers delivering the services being applied for.
Organisational development and capacity building (as long as this is not the focus of the application).
A share of the applicant organisation’s overheads needed to run the services.
NOTE: the retrospective costs that can be funded are:
Existing staff costs for running the service(s).
Existing volunteer costs for running the service(s).
A share of the organisation’s overheads for the service(s)
Helpful links:
https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/funding/programmes/community-organisations-cost-of-living-fund#section-2
£20,000
Deadline: 13/09/23
The Smaller Projects Fund supports community improvement projects that make physical improvements to community facilities such as village halls, public parks and sports facilities, and to projects that restore or repair buildings of religious worship or buildings of architectural or historic interest.
Grants of between £1 and £20,000 are available.
Projects must have an overall cost of no more than £40,000.
Projects must start within three months and complete within 12 months of funds being awarded.
Contributing Third Party Payment
Before the Trust can release funding for a project, they need to receive a payment called the Contributing Third Party Payment (CTP). This payment is needed to release the funds from SUEZ UK and is necessary because, under the rules of the Landfill Communities Fund, SUEZ UK only receives 90% of the funds it releases to the Trust as a tax credit. The scheme regulator also requires a fee and each successful application incurs other minor costs. To make up the shortfall, SUEZ UK requires that 11.5% of the money provided is recovered from third parties.
SUEZ Communities Trust provides an online calculator to work out the CTP that will need to be paid.
Eligible third party contributors include the following:
Applicant's organisation (providing it is not a registered Environmental Body).
Donations from the community.
Donation from an individual.
Award from county councils, borough councils, parish councils, 'Friends of' or other supporters of a project.
Local businesses.
Grants and other awards.
To be eligible for this fund your group must:
Be run on a not-for-profit basis. This could include community groups, parish councils, charities, community interest companies, sports clubs, community associations, local authorities and voluntary organisations.
Own or hold a lease for the project site with at least five years remaining.
Be based at a project site which must be owned or leased by the applying organisation.
Check your project location and figure out your CTP
£5,000
Deadline: 14/09/23
The aim of the Peter Sell Annual Award is to engage and involve young people in the Scout and Guide associations.
Eligible organisations must be part of the Scouts or Guides associations.
Proposals that encourage people who have no previous engagement with scouting or guiding are encouraged.
Applications should demonstrate that the award will have a legacy beyond the initial expenditure of the grant.
West Midlands Railway
£10,000
Deadline: 14/09/23
This annual scheme aims to inspire local people to get involved with the railway and help to enrich their local communities.
The funding is intended for not-for-profit projects taking place across the West Midlands Railways network, at stations, or near lines or route, with the aim to bring local communities together and strengthen community spirit.
The Autumn 2023 round seeks projects that are aligned to at least one theme featured in the Community Rail Strategy which includes:
Youth Engagement
Health and Wellbeing
Passenger Safety and tackling anti-social behaviour
Rail Recovery
Encouraging Modal Shift
£500,000
Deadline: 15/09/23
The funding is intended to ensure continued access to specialist social welfare legal advice to some of the most marginalised communities in England and aims to transform lives, address systemic issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities in need by funding organisations working at the frontline.
Marginalised communities is defined for the purposes of this grant programme as ‘communities of place, people or interest most in need, experiencing exclusion and at risk of facing barriers to accessing advice services’.
There will be two funding rounds:
Round one is focused on funding specialist legal advice organisations.
Round two will prioritise funding to groups led by and for marginalised communities. These can be organisations delivering advice services, and/or those working closely with advice organisations to improve access for marginalised communities. Further information will be made available in Autumn 2023.
Your group size and eligibility:
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Annual income above £250,000
grants of up to £100,000 per annum - maximum grant of £500,000 over five years.
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Annual income between £150,000 - £250,000
grants of up to £75,000 per annum – maximum grant of £375,000 over five years.
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Annual income below £150,000
grants of up to £50,000 per annum – maximum grant of £250,000 over five years.
A Q&A Zoom session will be held on 14 August (12pm) to answer about the programme and the application process. Registration is required.
Book the Q&A session and start an application
Tier 1
£2,000 - £8,000
Deadline:
20 July 2023 to 15 September 2023.
19 February 2024 to 29 March 2024.
Tier 2
£250 - £1,999
Deadline:
15 September 2023 for consideration in the week commencing 9 October 2023.
22 December 2023 for consideration in the week commencing 1 February 2024.
29 March 2024 for consideration in the week commencing 29 April 2024.
For Tier One Grants, groups must be a constituted, not-for-profit organisation with:
A written constitution.
A bank account with at least two signatories (registered at different addresses).
Proposed projects should primarily involve Coventry residents (CV1 – CV6) as participants.
Funding is for projects and activities that meet one or more of the following grant priorities:
A wider range of people from different backgrounds will be involved in heritage activities.
Links in some way to the themes of St. Mary’s Guildhall, either through the building, its collections, or the stories told.
People will be able to develop new skills.
People will be able to learn about the past, hopefully leading to more engagement with places like St. Mary’s Guildhall in the future.
Any proects involving the creation and/or display of artwork in outdoor public spaces may require approval of the artwork proposal by the Coventry Public Art Gateway (PAG).
Applications for Tier Two grants can be submitted year-round from 20 July 2023 until 2024, with award decisions made each quarter. The deadlines for consideration at each quarterly panel are as above.
There is a two-stage application process:
Groups must first contact Niamh Carton (Community Engagement Manager) by email to arrange an expression of interest discussion.
Groups can then submit a full application form.
Help the Homeless
£5000
deadline: 15/09/2023
Objectives of Fund
Help the Homeless provides funding for registered charities with the aim of helping homeless people return to the community and enabling them to rebuild their lives.
Funding is targeted at projects to find practical ways to help disadvantaged individuals return to the community through training or residential facility provision, rather than merely providing short term shelter.
The reasons for being homeless vary enormously, but may include ill-health, those who are discharged offenders, addictions, family breakdown or other adverse circumstances. Homelessness is not just about the people that the public sees and thinks about – principally “rough sleepers” living on the streets – but a whole range of people who lack a stable home.
Restrictions
The following are not eligible for funding:
Core and running costs (ie salaries, rent, etc)
Computers.
IT equipment.
Eligible Expenditure:
The funding is for capital projects.
Projects must assist individuals in their return to mainstream society, rather than simply offering shelter or other forms of sustenance.
Applicants requiring funding for building work and refurbishment are advised to contact CRASH, the construction industry's charity for homeless people for advice.
Helpful links:
Help the Homeless
http://www.help-the-homeless.org.uk/(External link)
Help the Homeless - Grants
http://www.help-the-homeless.org.uk/applying-for-funding/
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