February Newsletter 2025

Coventry Smokefree - Community Grants

Application Deadline: 9 March 2025

Value notes: Most grants awarded will be up to £5,000. In exceptional circumstances grants of up to £8,000 may be considered

Grants are available to Community and Voluntary groups to:

• raise awareness of the free Stop Smoking services available in Coventry and
• provide signposting information through your community activities to increase the numbers of people accessing the free Stop Smoking services.

How can community groups get involved in the Smokefree Community Grants programme?

We want community organisations to raise the profile of Stop Smoking Services with people in your community.

Through your application, you will have the opportunity to demonstrate how you would use the grant in a way you feel is most appropriate and will have the greatest engagement with your community members.

As an example, you could use the grant to raise awareness of the free Stop Smoking Service through:

• Appointing ‘Community Stop Smoking Champions’ to promote and signpost people to the services for support.
• Promoting the free service to people attending existing community groups.
• Including an information stall about Stop Smoking Support at your community events.
• Promoting how people can reach Stop Smoking Support through community newsletters, and your social media sites or other channels.
• You could display banners, posters or leaflets at your community space to raise awareness of the Stop Smoking Services.
• You could promote stop smoking support to people attending other services in your community setting e.g. adult education sessions, Social Supermarket or Foodbanks.
• You could raise awareness of Stop Smoking Support available through your community network meetings.
• Using the grant to deliver culturally specific, and / or language-specific appropriate materials.

The grant is only open to Community and Voluntary not for profit organisations based in Coventry. Please see the eligibility questions on the application form.

Grant awards will be made to successful candidates in March 2025 and must be spent by 30th June 2026.

Please note we cannot award retrospective grants, and you are expected to start using the grant within three months of award.

If your application is successful, as part of the grant agreement, you will receive an information and resource pack to help you gain knowledge about the Stop Smoking services available in Coventry to help your group successfully implement your plan.

For further information and to apply, please see the grant guidance notes(External link) and application form(External link)

Completed applications should be submitted by email to smokefree@coventry.gov.uk(External link) by 9 March 2025

The Woodroffe Benton Foundation.

Objectives of Fund

The Foundation aims to support charitable projects in the UK that provide care for the sick and elderly, conserve and improve the environment, promote education, and help those in need as a result of disaster or as a consequence of social and economic circumstances.

Value Notes

One-off grants of between £500 and £2,500 are available.

Match Funding Restrictions

Match funding is not a stipulated requirement of this scheme.

Who Can Apply

The Trustees prefer to support smaller charities.

To be eligible, applicants must:

• Be a UK registered charity based in the UK with an annual income of less than £750,000.
• Have at least one full set of Accounts following charity registration.

Educational institutions are also eligible to apply for a grant whether or not they are a registered charity.

Restrictions

Funding is not normally available for the following:

• Organisations that operate primarily outside the UK or for the benefit of non-UK residents.
• Places of worship seeking funds for restoration or upgrade of facilities.
• Museums, historical or heritage organisations.
• Palliative care.
• Organisations that are not registered with the Charity Commission.
• Organisations that have been operating for less than 24 months and therefore do not have at least one full set of Accounts.
• Animal welfare organisations whose primary purpose is not conservation of the environment.
• Bodies affiliated to or a local branch of a national organisation, unless they have a separate charitable number and receive no financial support from the national charity.
• Individuals.
• Educational organisations based outside the Derbyshire region - although the trustees may choose to consider these.
• Students requesting a grant for tertiary education or a gap year.

It is unlikely that organisations with an annual income in excess of £750,000 will be provided with a grant under the small grants programme.

Eligible Expenditure

Funding is available, primarily, for the core operating costs of smaller organisations, as the Trustees prefer to contribute to these rather than to a specific project where the funding will be legally 'restricted' or to capital expenditure. However, applications in these latter categories are not excluded.

The focus of the March 2025 application round will be on projects that allow young people, aged 18-25, to engage with the natural environment in order to increase employability skills and/or to increase physical health or wellbeing, with particular preference given to those who are precluded from engaging with the natural environment due to disability, disadvantage or location.

Location

United Kingdom

How To Apply

Applications are now closed. The next round is open from 1 to 31 March 2025.

The focus of the March 2025 Small Grant funding round will be on projects that allow young people, aged 18-25, to engage with the natural environment in order to increase employability skills and/or to increase physical health or wellbeing.

Applications should be submitted via the online application form on the Foundation's website.

Applications submitted in the March 2025 Small Grant funding round will be considered at our Trustees’ meeting on 23 April 2025. Successful applicants will be notified within two weeks of the meeting.

Contact the Woodroffe Benton Foundation for further information.

Documents & links

• Woodroffe Benton Foundation(External link) https://www.woodroffebenton.org.uk/(External link)

Contacts

For further information on how to obtain this fund, please contact the following:

1. Trust Secretary
   Woodroffe Benton Foundation
   PO Box 309
   Cirencester
   GL7 9HA
   Email: secretary@woodroffebenton.org.uk(External link)

Community Safety Partnership Fund

The Community Safety Partnership is excited to announce the availability of its annual grant fund. This year, we have allocated a total of £130,000 to support innovative projects that aim to reduce crime, support victims, and reduce offending and reoffending.

Who Can Apply?

We welcome applications from community organisations. If you represent a group committed to reducing serious violence, promoting safety in public places, stopping exploitation, or helping to reduce re-offending, we want to hear from you!

Previous Projects

Here are a few examples of projects that have previously benefited from our funding:

• Street Pastors: Keeping people safe and supported when visiting the City Centre on a night out during the Weekend evenings.
• Steps Together: An after-school chaperone programme which provides mentoring and support to school children.
• Domestic Abuse Champions: Offering vital support for victims of domestic violence.
• Redeployable Cameras: Supplying West Midlands Police with cameras to tackle crime hotspots.

How to Apply

Applying is simple. Just complete the application form, detailing how your project aligns with our objectives. Each bid will be assessed on its potential impact and effectiveness in achieving our goals.

For an application form and grant criteria please email the PCB@coventry.gov.uk(External link)

Applications will need to be sent to PCB@coventry.gov.uk(External link) by the 21^st March 2025.

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The Fore is the only open-access funder in the UK offering development funding and strategic support to early-stage charities and social enterprises.

Objectives of Fund

The Fore provides unrestricted grants to small charities and social enterprises based in the UK.

The funding is intended to have a transformational impact on the organisations being supported by unlocking exponential growth, sustainability, efficiency or some other major step forward.

There is particular interest in grassroots organisations working with underserved communities.

The grants are viewed by the Fore as investments in the organisations it supports.

The Fore funds work across the following charitable sectors:

• Arts and culture
• Disability
• Economic development and employability
• Environment
• Health and well being
• Housing and homelessness
• Human rights, law and justice
• Poverty and disadvantage
• Sport
• Women and girls
• Youth and education.

Value Notes

Grants of up to £30,000 which may be spread over one to three years are available.

In addition, non-financial support such as access to a network of skilled, pro-bono volunteers, online training workshops and seminars are available to successful charities for life.

Who Can Apply

Applications are accepted from the following types of organisation with an annual revenue of less than £500,000 in the previous completed financial year:

• Registered charities (including those constituted as charitable trusts, charitable unincorporated associations, charitable incorporated organisations and charitable companies limited by guarantee).
• Charitable Incorporated Organisations.
• Community Interest Companies (CICs) limited by guarantee.
• Community Benefit Societies.
• Social enterprises that are charitable companies limited by guarantee

Restrictions

The following are not eligible for funding:

• Organisations that are not registered in the UK as charities, CICs, CIOs, or CBSs.
• Companies limited by guarantee unless they are also a registered charity or a CIC.
• Organisations with an annual income of more than than £500,000 in the previous completed financial year.

Eligible Expenditure

The funding is intended to help strengthen the organisation internally and help it to take the next step forward in its growth or sustainability.

This unrestricted funding can be used for any purpose, including core costs and capital funding.

The grant could help, for example, an organisation grow, increase internal capacity, serve new beneficiary groups, become more sustainable or more efficient, etc.

Applications for core costs must show how the funding will move the organisation forward rather than enabling ‘business as usual’.

Location

UK

How To Apply

There are three funding rounds each year (Spring, Summer, Autumn):

• The Spring 2025 round has closed for registration.
• The Summer 2025 round opens for registration at 12pm (midday) on 27 March 2025 and closes at 12pm (midday) on 3 April 2025.
• The Autumn 2025 round has yet to be announced.

Once open for registration, the application process is as follows:

• The first step is to register an interest on the Applying for Funding page which takes about two to three minutes.
• Registered applicants will receive confirmation that they have been allocated a place on the funding round. Details of how to apply will be included.
• If there are more applicants registered than places available, places will be allocated at random.
• There follows a three-stage application
  • Stage 1 - confirmed applicants have around three weeks to complete their application.
  • Stage 2 – online meeting for long listed applicants who are invited via email for a meeting with one of the Fore’s Strategic Applicant Consultants.
  • Stage 3 – shortlisted applications go to the funding panels.
• Announcement of successful applicants is typically within 12 weeks of the application deadline.
• Unsuccessful applicants are offered feedback and can apply for future rounds.

The eligibility quiz, guidelines, frequently asked questions and case studies can all be found on The Fore’s website.

Contact The Fore for further information.

Documents & links

• The Fore Trust(External link) https://thefore.org/

Contacts

For further information on how to obtain this fund, please contact the following:

1. Enquiries
   The Fore
   V107,Vox Studios
   1-45 Durham Street
   London
   SE11 5JH
   Tel: 07858 339 981
   Email: info@thefore.org