November Funding News
Inclusive Communities
Up to £300,000
Deadline: varies
The Inclusive Communities Fund is set to ignite communities across the West Midlands to imagine, propose, and bring to life solutions that directly address the challenges in their neighbourhoods and local areas. This Fund is inspired by the momentum generated by the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, which provided support to community-based organisations across the West Midlands, enabling access to exciting opportunities and fresh funding streams.
The Fund aims to strengthen the achievements, prompted by the Games, offering community organisations access to new funding to make a difference for the people they work with. The Fund will serve as a catalyst to address inequalities, forging deeper connections between individuals and organisations to continue the legacy of the Games.
This Fund shares the four original core mission principles of the Commonwealth Games:
Bringing people together
Improving health and wellbeing
Helping the region to grow
Putting the region on the map
Grants will be available for works, activities and services that will contribute to the four core missions, and which fall within one or more of the following three themes:
Physical activity and sport
Mental health and well-being
Arts, culture and creativity
All grant thresholds open on 6th November 2023.
Small Works and Refurbishment Grants close on 4th January 2024 (up to £100,000).
Small Grants (up to £15,000) and Medium Grants (£15,000 to £75,000) will have varying closing dates in throughout 2023 – 2024.
Large Grants (£75,000 to £300,000) will close on 4th January 2024.
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£2500 - £8000
Deadline:14 December 2023.
Voluntary and community groups which work with specific groups of Coventry people and can use their community links to talk to people who do not have a strong voice.
Different methods of gathering and recording experiences and views based on what works for those to be reached.
Projects should focus on our target groups in the Coventry population, one of more of the following:
- Children/young people
- Men who experience a health or access inequality
- Ethnic minority communities that experience a health or access inequality.
Inequalities are unfair and avoidable differences in health across the population, and between different groups within society. Health inequalities can result from things like:
- Poverty/income
- Learning disability or physical disability
- Education
- Gender
- Ethnicity
Healthwatch will support the successful applicants by:
Providing support at the start of your piece of work to make sure your method works well
Supporting the analysis of the information you collect as we are experienced in using qualitative information, identifying themes, and making recommendations for change.
Turning the findings into a Healthwatch report; briefing; or Healthwatch branded video so that we can use our powers for influence, making recommendations and getting a response
Using our connections and work for change based on what you find.
Successful applicants will be notified: early January 2024.
Set up meetings and a support session will take place in January 2024
Pieces of work will need to be completed by 15 April 2024.
Updates on Awards for All and Reaching Communities
New guidelines for the National Lottery Community Fund’s Awards for All programme mean groups can apply for up to £40,000 over two years for community-led projects.
National Lottery Community Fund (NCLF) has revised their Awards for All Programme guidelines to reflect and deliver upon the promise and ambitions of its new UK-wide strategy, ‘It starts with community’, to build more resilient, inclusive, and sustainable communities.
From 15 November 2023, for community-led projects that are not primarily arts or sport-focused, groups are now able to:
Apply for up to £20,000 per year.
Get project funding for up to two years (for a maximum of £40,000 within a two-year period).
For arts and sports projects, the maximum grant amount remains £10,000 to support projects lasting up to 12 months.
Groups can now only hold one National Lottery Awards for All grant at a time, and groups that have applied for up to £10,000 before 15 November 2023 will not be able to apply for more funding until their project is complete.
Reaching Communities is undergoing a strategy overview so the focuses are slightly different now. They are concentrating on the following:
We’ll support communities to connect by:
creating accessible, welcoming places, both physical and virtual, for people to meet
initiating engaging and inclusive activities that support connections within and between groups of people
enabling people from all backgrounds to shape the future of their communities
cultivating an increased sense of belonging.
We’ll support environmentally sustainable communities that:
reduce carbon emissions and negative environmental impact
create positive environmental impacts
establish equality of access to the natural environment
improve the quality of natural spaces.
We’ll enable children and young people to thrive by:
creating opportunities for children and young people from all backgrounds to enjoy community experiences
helping children and young people shape the decisions that affect them and their communities
providing children and young people access to safe spaces to play, participate, socialise and get support.
We’ll enable people to live healthier lives by:
helping reduce health inequalities
increasing opportunities for community participation to shape better health services
taking a preventative approach to health.
There is much more focus on measurable impact too!
Reopening
Up to £30,000
Deadline: 6 December 2023 - noon 13 December 2023.
The Fore is the only open-access funder in the UK offering development funding and strategic support to early-stage charities and social enterprises who have exceptional leadership, innovative idea and cost-effective solutions.
The Fore offers a ‘wraparound’ package of unrestricted, multi-year grant-funding (up to £30,000) training, skilled volunteers, peer-to-peer networks and impact measurement to UK registered charities, CIOs, CICs, and social enterprises with an annual revenue of less than £500,000 in the previous completed financial year.
The 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’.
There are three funding rounds each year (Spring, Summer, Autumn)
£20,000
The deadline for applications is 19 December 2023 (noon).
Co-op Foundation, in partnership with Co-op and the #iwill Fund, is offering grants of up to £20,000 for groups to support young activists, campaigners, disrupters, co-operates, and social entrepreneurs to lead social action to improve their communities and build upon Co-op’s vision of ‘Co-operating for a Fairer World’.
Through the Young Gamechangers Fund, a total of £600,000 is available for groups with an income of less than £250,000 that are:
Committed to engaging in long-term projects as part of a network of young gamechangers.
Focused on creating sustainable positive social change that aims to have a lasting impact on individuals and the wider community.
Proposing or leading social action work that has a clear purpose.
Rooted in the Young Gamechangers Fund priorities.
Preference will be given to groups that have previously not had access or experienced barriers to funding, groups that are led by and for marginalised communities, and groups that prioritise youth activism and shared power.
Funding can be used for specific project costs, or core and ongoing cores such as salaries, overheads, or other activities that support the group’s work.
There is a two-stage application process. Groups must submit an online eligibility test before being invited to complete a full application.
Check your eligibility, take a look through the FAQs and start your application
£70,000 over two years
Deadline: 8 January 2024 (17:00).
Funding for not-for-profit projects that deliver qualifications and training to enable veterans and their families to enter stable long-term employment.
The funding will support experienced not-for-profit organisations which can create and promote opportunities for UK veterans and their families looking to enter employment, and those already in employment who have the aspiration to progress in their careers, to acquire, or work towards acquiring, supplementary qualifications, technical training and skills.
Grants of up to £70,000 over two years are available to the following:
UK universities.
UK charities registered for at least three years at the time of their application and able to provide published accounts for all three years if requested.
Community Interest Companies (CICs) registered in the UK for at least three years at the time of their application and able to provide published accounts for all three years if requested.
Applications are particularly welcome for projects which seek to engage with groups beyond the mainstream veteran population such as:
Women Veterans
Veterans from Ethnic Minority backgrounds.
LGBT Veterans.
Veterans with health or support needs.
Early Service leavers
Veterans aged 50+ looking to re-enter the workforce.
Consideration will also be given for opportunities where possible for veterans’ families including partners, spouses, children (aged 16-24) and the bereaved.
Check out all the guidance for the fund on their website
Nature Hubs (with Starbucks)
£3,000 - £6,000
Deadline: 11 January 2024 (15:00).
Hubbub is offering grants of between £3,000 and £6,000 for registered companies and not-for-profit groups across Great Britain to create or enhance green spaces within a 5-kilometre radius of a Starbucks store, whilst aligning with one or more of the following themes:
Increasing access.
Bringing People Together.
Upskilling the Community.
Building Climate Resilience
Funding can be used for specific and discrete initiatives that create new green spaces, or enhance existing ones, that are publicly accessible and free to access. Eligible costs include:
Materials relating to the nature hub activity.
Utilities relating to the delivery of the project activity.
Display materials, signage, and information.
Services from external suppliers such as building labour costs, garden design etc.
Staffing costs to cover the time spent planning and delivering any activity.
Volunteer expenses such as public transportation costs, materials, and refreshments for volunteering days.
Training, such as safeguarding.
Proposed projects should show that they will create a lasting, positive legacy and identify how the benefits of the project will continue beyond the funding.
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