January Funding News

National Lottery Awards For All - Celebration Funding

Up to £10,000

Whilst you may be familiar with the National Lottery Awards for All funding, you may not know they are also seeking to help communities celebrate the national events that are important to them. This includes the Coronation of His Majesty The King, The Eurovision Song Contest and the 75^th anniversary of Windrush.

If you have an idea of an event or ongoing project that celebrates any of the above, get in contact with the Community Resilience Team or take a look at their website.

Lloyds Bank Foundation Specialist Programme:

Up to £75,000

03/03/2023

Offering Long-term funding over three years (including core costs and development support) for medium-sized charities working with those with complex social issues. This can include:

• Addiction and dependency on alcohol, drugs and/or gambling

• Asylum seekers and refugees

• Domestic and sexual abuse

• Homeless and vulnerably housed

• Offending, prison or community service

• Sexual exploitation

• Trafficking and modern slavery

• Care leavers

To be eligible, applicants must have:

• A registered charity number (this can be a CIO).

• An annual income of between £25,000 and £500,000 in the last set of accounts published on the Charity Commission website.

• Their own bank account.

• A track record of working with people aged 17 or older, who are facing complex issues as listed by the Foundation. The only exception is charities working with young parents.

• Been delivering services for more than a year in England and/or Wales.

• Free reserves of less than 12 months.

• A Board of at least three unrelated, unpaid (except for out-of-pocket expenses) Trustees.

• A safeguarding policy in place.

• Public Liability insurance.

Take a look at the application!

Community Recovery and Support Grant

The purpose of the Community Recovery and Support Grant is to help local community and voluntary groups that are supporting people and communities respond to the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic.

It aims to support organisations’ recovery whilst being flexible to the needs of each group and help support groups to become more resilient and sustainable. Read more about the criteria and how to apply by clicking here or contact a member of the team at communityresilience@coventry.gov.uk

Prince of Wales Charitable fund

Up to £15,000

Deadline: 20/2/2023

The scheme provides small grants to support independent UK registered non-for-profit organisations for grassroots, community-based projects that fall within its core funding themes:

• Heritage and conservation - conservation and restoration projects at places of worship. PWCF is interested in funding non-capital projects that improve the fabric of buildings for the benefit of local communities.

• Education - education and training projects outside of The Prince's Trust scope and age range, including support for people with special educational needs.

• Health and wellbeing - community projects and initiatives which support health and wellbeing of people with disabilities or life limiting illnesses in disadvantaged communities. Applications for respite care, young carers and complementary therapies would be considered.

• Social inclusion - community and art projects that aim to relieve poverty, loneliness and other social issues or support the welfare of the elderly, veterans and interfaith cohesion.

• Environment - community environmental projects (including the circular economy), economic sustainability initiatives and conservation of the natural environment.

• Countryside - projects to support and sustain rural communities and to improve the prospects of viability for farm and rural businesses. NB Most of these projects are administered by The Prince's Countryside Fund (PCF), a subsidiary of PWCF.

Priority will be given to applications from organisations working across the countryside and environment funding themes in the UK.

Single-year grants of up to £5,000 and multi-year grants of up to £15,000 are available. The average single award is £2,000.

Think you fit the funding themes? Apply!

The Gillian Stevenson Charitable Trust

Up to £5,000

28/02/2023

The Trust offers responsive funding to charitable organisations working with young people and families in the UK who are in need due to ill health, disability, financial hardship or some other disadvantage.

There is particular interest in supporting organisations which provide access to activities, experiences, services or facilities that their beneficiaries would otherwise find difficult or impossible to take advantage of.

Find out how to apply...

Top Tips - Keep it simple!

• Make your application as easy to read as possible - the people who are assessing your application may not have a lot of time or much knowledge of the work you do so being clear is key.
• Avoid complicated wording or acronyms if funders understand what you are asking for and how you meet their criteria, they are much more likely to say yes to funding your activity.

Don't Forget

Don’t forget if you are just starting out our get started guides have a range of information including setting up a group writing a constitution and finding and applying for funding

More information about the team and what we can offer can be found on our web pages.

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