January 2025 Newsletter

Cash For Kids - Children's Mental Health Grants

Cash for Kids are the official charity of Bauer Media. Bauer Media is an international media company who run market leading radio stations and magazines.

Cash for Kids is a grant-giving charity that supports children from birth up to 18 years old across the UK. The Children's Mental Health grant is part of the General Grant programme.

The Cash for Kids General Grant programme addresses the following priorities:

• Poverty.
• Mental health and wellbeing.
• Sport and physical wellbeing.
• Disability or life-limiting illness.
• Education and essential skills.
• Diversity and inclusion.

• Grants are usually between £1,000 and £3,000. However, larger requests may be funded.
• Grants should be spent within six months.

Who Can Apply

Applications are accepted from registered charities, schools, and formally constituted voluntary and community organisations based across the UK. Individuals may also apply.

Charities should have an annual income below £1 million.

Groups should check the locations page(External link) to ensure they are eligible.

Restrictions

The following are not eligible for funding:

• Diagnosis or suitability assessments.
• Charities with an annual turnover more than £1 million.
• Annual reporting submitted late to Charity Commission / OSCR in the last 12 months.
• Projects that would, in the reasonable opinion of the charity’s Trustees, cause reputational harm.
• Charity Commission/OSCR flags or warnings including, but not limited to, charities at risk of removal from the register, qualified accounts, regulatory alerts, repeated late submissions.
• Cars/driving lessons.
• Cash grants to individuals or families.
• Charities/organisations less than 12 months old.
• Cosmetic or dental procedures.
• Diagnosis assessments.
• Educational bursaries or scholarships.
• Extensive building projects and repairs/renovations.
• Funding for projects that should be paid for by statutory bodies.
• Funeral Costs or headstones.
• Garden renovations/fencing (but accessibility adaptions may be funded e.g. a wheelchair access ramp).
• Holidays.
• Medical research or medical treatment abroad.
• Political activity, party political organisations, direct lobbying or projects with a political element.
• Pregnancy testing, advice, information or counselling on pregnancy choices.
• Previous Cash for Kids grant recipients who have not completed all post-grant requirements.
• Projects intended to influence people’s religious choices or to promote a particular belief system.
• Salaries or core costs.
• Summer houses/outbuildings/sheds.
• Budget shortfalls or debt repayments.
• Trips or projects outside the UK / Eire.
• Therapy dogs.
• CICs.

How To Apply

Applications are accepted at any time until funds are depleted.

The following documents are required (depending upon organisation type):

Charities (turnover less than £1 million):

• Governance document such as constitution.
• Safeguarding policy.
• Paying in slip/statement for a bank account in the charity name.
• Most recent accounts.
• Breakdown of costs relating to the application.

Schools:

• Safeguarding policy attached or on website.
• Paying in slip/statement for a bank account in the schools name.
• Most recent accounts or income/expenditure documents or statement of school fund account.
• Letter from Head Teacher authorising application or Head is a point of contact on application form.

Community associations / grassroots organisations:

• Governance document e.g. constitution, articles of association or club rules and regulations.
• Safeguarding policy.
• Paying in slip/statement for a bank account in the organisation name.
• Recent accounts or income/expenditure.
• Breakdown of costs relating to the application.

Applications must be submitted online. https://cashforkids.org.uk/(External link)

Administrator
Cash for Kids
Hampdon House
Unit 3 Falcon Court
Preston Farm
Stockton on Tees
TS18 3TS
Email: getintouch@cashforkids.org.uk(External link)

Thomas Wall Trust - Grants for Registered Charities

Grants are available for UK registered charities for specific projects that improves communication skills for disadvantaged adults and supports NEET people into employment.

Objectives of Fund

The Trust views communication skills as critical capabilities for people who want to improve their employment prospects, self-confidence, resilience, and life chances.

The funding is for registered charities that are working to develop communication skills for people from disadvantaged groups who want to improve their employment prospects.

As an inclusive charity, the Trust welcomes proposals which target people experiencing multiple deprivation or other groups demonstrably facing major hurdles to employment, especially women, people with physical, mental, or learning disabilities, and refugees.

Value Notes

Grants of up to £5,000 are available.

The Trust will support annual repeat funding for up to three years – subject to satisfactory annual reviews of progress and impact.

Match Funding Restrictions

Priority will be given to match funded projects.

Who Can Apply

To be eligible, applicants must:

• Be a UK charity that has been registered with the Charity Commission for at least three years.
• Have an annual turnover of between £25,000 and £500,000.

Restrictions

The following are not eligible for funding:

• Organisations with political, lobbying or proselytizing objectives.
• Capital costs (the purchase of land, buildings, construction).
• Charities that operate outside of the UK.
• Subsidiaries, ‘off shoots’ or franchises of larger charities.
• Hospitals.

How To Apply

The Trust is currently open to new applications for the July 2025 meeting.

There is a two-stage application process.

• Stage one is to complete an online Expression of Interest form (available on the Trust's website) which requires some basic contact details and a description of what the funding is required for. The current deadline for first stage applications is 5 May 2025.
• Stage two is by invitation only and involves completing a more in-depth application form and to submit a Project Plan, budget, latest set of financial accounts and any relevant policies.

Successful applicants will be notified in writing along with the terms and conditions of the grant and asked for their payment details.

Unsuccessful applicants will be notified by email unless the Trust receives an unusually high volume of applications.

Applicants must wait for two years from the date of submission until they can reapply.

Groups that would like to contact the Trust will need to use the Trust's online(External link) message form which is on Trust's website contact page.

Documents & links

• Thomas Wall Trust(External link)

Contacts

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

1. Grants Administrator
   Thomas Wall Trust
   Skinner's Hall
   8 Dowgate Hill
   London
   EC4R 2SP

Asda Foundation Launches New Outdoor Community Spaces Fund (UK)

The Foundation is inviting local grassroots community organisations with an income of less than £250,000 to apply to their new £500,000 fund which will support improving or transforming an outdoor space by August 2025.

Grants of £500, £1,000, £1,500, £2,000, £2,500, or £3,000 are available for projects within the UK which meet at least one of the following aims:

• Transform an outdoor area, creating greener and more engaging community spaces.
• Create or enhance community growing projects.
• Enable community clean ups. (The maximum grant is £500.)

Applications are encouraged that:

• Increase access to outdoor spaces, particularly for marginalised or vulnerable groups of people.
• Bring local communities together.
• Make a lasting and demonstrable difference to an outdoor space.
• Enable groups to undertake a project that truly enhances a local space.

The funding can support a range of costs including but not limited to:

• Materials to build and transform outdoor areas (eg, planters, raised beds, benches, paint).
• Equipment to be able to deliver a community clear up.
• Machinery hire/purchase.
• Permanent fixtures and features (eg, sheds, outdoor furniture, pathways, gates and fencing).
• Gardening tools and equipment.
• Plants, shrubs, trees, bulbs, etc.

Groups should not wait to apply as the scheme may close early if demand for funding is high.

The deadline for applications is noon on 11 February 2025.

Objectives of Fund

The funding is for projects that address at least one of the following aims:

• Transform an outdoor area, creating greener and more engaging community spaces.
• Create or enhance community growing projects.
• Enable community clean ups.

Value Notes

The total fund value is £500,000.

Grants of £500, £1,000, £1,500, £2,000, £2,500, or £3,000 are available.

The maximum award for community clear-up grants is £500.

Projects should be completed by August 2025.

Match Funding Restrictions

Match funding is not required.

Who Can Apply

Applications are accepted from local grassroots, community-led organisations in the UK.

To be eligible, applicants must:

• Be not-for-profit.
• Have an annual income of less than £250,000.
• Have governing documents.
• Have a safeguarding policy.
• Have a bank account in the group’s name and be able to provide proof.

Applications are encouraged that:

• Increase access to outdoor spaces, particularly for marginalised or vulnerable groups of people. Asda Foundation is committed to enabling as many people as possible to be able to benefit from their funding.
• Bring local communities together i.e. outdoor spaces which are open and accessible for a wide range of people on a regular basis.
• Make a lasting and demonstrable difference to an outdoor space.
• Enable groups to undertake a project that truly enhances a local space: applications that focus on just one or two expensive items are unlikely to be successful.

Restrictions

The funding is not available for:

• Organisations based outside the UK or benefitting people/communities outside of the UK.
• Third party grant making organisations (grantees must directly deliver the service/activity).
• Schools and academy trusts, although PTAs (with their own bank account) are eligible to apply, providing that the funding would impact the wider community outside of the school.
• Groups who have a clear affiliation with a particular political party.
• Religious organisations whose services are only open to people of a particular faith.
• Animal charities or groups which have animal welfare as their main focus.
• Retrospective costs.
• Projects to improve indoor spaces.
• Projects for spaces with restricted or limited access to community members.
• Non-essential clothing or uniforms.
• Equipment which will be kept by individuals, rather than the organisation applying for funding.
• Core running costs, including salaries.
• Contributions to general fundraising or sponsorship.
• Projects which could negatively impact the reputation of The Asda Foundation.
• Projects which will benefit only one person.

Eligible Expenditure

A range of project costs are supported.

Examples of eligible projects include (but not limited to):

• Materials to build and transform outdoor areas (e.g. planters, raised beds, benches, paint).
• Equipment to be able to deliver a community clear up (e.g. litter pickers, bin bags, hi-vis vests).
• Machinery hire/purchase (e.g. rotavator hire).
• Permanent fixtures and features (e.g. sheds, outdoor furniture, pathways, gates and fencing).
• Gardening tools and equipment (e.g. spades, wheelbarrows, polytunnels, water butts, compost bins).
• Plants, shrubs, trees, bulbs, etc.

Location

United Kingdom

How To Apply

The closing date for applications is now noon on 27 January 2025.

The scheme may close early if demand for funding is high.

The project or activity should start no earlier than six weeks after submission of the proposal.

Application forms are available at the Asda Foundation website: applicants can check eligibility and will then be directed to the Foundation's Grant Management System to register and complete the application form. Governing documents, safeguarding policies, bank statements and financial accounts must also be submitted.

Successful applicants will be notified by email, plus the local Asda Community and Customer Champion will be notified, who may visit the group.

Contact the Asda Foundation for further information.

Documents & links

Outdoor Community Spaces Fund(External link)