Newsletter produced by Policy, Insight and Change Team, Doncaster Council (Reposted)
Hello and welcome to the December edition of the Programmes Funding Newsletter
For further information on anything in this newsletter or to receive further advice and guidance for your specific project or application, please contact the team by email -programmeenquiries@doncaster.gov.uk
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Policy, Insight & Change Team
The Phoenix Way : Children and Youth Round Now Accepting Applications
The Phoenix Way (TPW) is offering grants of between £30,000 and £50,000 for Black and racial minority-led charities and other not-for-profit organisations to work with black and racially minoritised children and young to prevent or reduce violence in their communities and lives.
A total of £2 million is available and funding can be used to support a new project, an existing project, or the expansion of an existing project, and can be used for staff costs, running costs, activity costs, equipment, and other resources that are needed to support project delivery.
The deadline for applications is midnight on 3rd December, 2023.
The Phoenix Way : Children and Youth Round Details
Grants to Support the Sustainability of Historic and Decorative Arts Collections
AIM's Connected Arts Scholars Brighter Day scheme offers grants to ensure the future viability of museums at risk of closure, losing vital skills and knowledge, or unable to provide effective collections care.
The scheme has a special focus on small museums and others that have found it difficult to access support. The fund will support education, training, curation, and exhibition projects that address collections care and sustainability of historic and decorative arts collections.
Eligible applicants must be an AIM member and have historic and decorative arts collections that meet the charitable purposes of the Arts Scholars Charitable Trust.
Grants of between £1,500 to £8,000 are available.
Applications must be submitted by 5pm on 8th December, 2023.
AIM's Connected Art Scholars Day Scheme Details
The Fore's Unique Funding Programme Opens for Spring 2024 Registrations on 6th December
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.
The next funding round will open for registration at 12pm on 6th December 2023 and close at 12pm on 13th December, 2023.
The Fore Funding Programme Details
Windrush Day Grant Scheme Opens for 2024 Funding Applications
The Windrush Day Grant Scheme 2024 will focus on bringing communities together across different ages and ethnic backgrounds to commemorate, celebrate and educate their local area about the contribution of the Windrush Generation and their descendants.
22nd June each year marks National Windrush Day and projects must include a lead event or activity on this date.
There is a total funding pot of £500,000 to fund activities with grants of between £5,000 and £50,000:
- Tier 1: smaller projects between £5,000 and £25,000.
- Tier 2: larger projects between £25,000 and £50,000..
The deadline for funding applications is 11.59pm on 17th December, 2023.Windrush Day Grant Scheme Details
Funding to Support Youth-Led Social Action
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.
Through the Young Gamechangers Fund, a total of £600,000 is available.
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.
The deadline for applications is 12pm on 19th December, 2023.
Young Gamechangers Fund Details
Department for Transport and IUK Announce Decarbonisation Demonstrators Competition
A £2 million competition, the Transport Decarbonisation Demonstrators programme, has been announced to encourage businesses and local authorities to collaborate on emission-cutting transport schemes, fostering economic growth.
Projects must involve a minimum of two collaborative grant claiming partners. To lead a project, the applicant organisation must be a UK registered business of any size. To be an eligible collaboration, the lead must collaborate with a minimum of at least one grant claiming Local Authority as part of their project team.
The competition will provide grants of between £100,000 and £500,000.
The competition will close to applications at 11am on 8th January, 2024.
Transport Decarbonisation Demonstrators Competition Details
Veterans Career Development Fund
The Veterans Career Development Fund 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.
The funding can be used to pay for most costs needed for the project or activity.
The deadline for applications is 5pm on 8th January, 2024.
Veterans Career Development Fund Details
Funding to Create and Improve Green Spaces near Starbucks Stores
Hubbub is offering grants of between £3,000 and £6,000 for registered companies and not-for-profit groups 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.
The deadline for applications is 3pm on 11th January, 2024.
Funding to Create and Improve Green Spaces Details
Three Guineas Trust Offer Grants for Legal Advice for Disabled People
The Three Guineas Trust has launched a new annual grants programme to increase capacity for legal advice and advocacy for disabled people who are on benefits and debt, housing and homelessness, community care, personal liberty and equal access to goods and services.
A total of £1.5 million is available for this grant round. The maximum annual grant will be £50,000 a year. Grants can run for one to three years.
Local networks of organisations can apply provided the lead organisation meets one of the quality standards.
The deadline for applications is 12th January, 2024.
Three Guineas Trust Details
Latest Round of Youth Music NextGen Fund Invites Applications
The NextGen Fund provided by Youth Music is intended help early-stage musicians and wider music adjacent creatives to invest in their own projects and make their ideas happen.
The eighth round of the programme is accepting applications from 18-25 year old creatives to support the development of a creative project or idea. Applicants may include singers, rappers, songwriters, producers, DJs, A&Rs, managers and agents, right through to roles that have yet to be defined.
Grants of up to £2,500 are available, to support costs linked to training, career development, travel, audience development, marketing, equipment, software and business development.
The deadline for applications is 5pm on 19th January, 2024.
Youth Music NextGen Fund Details
Wave 2.2 of Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund Opens for Applications
The Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) aims to support the installation of energy performance measures in social homes.
The SHDF Wave 2.2 'top up' competition will allocate up to £80 million of grant funding from April 2024, building on the allocations made under the previous Wave 2.1.
Local authorities, combined authorities and registered providers of social housing (including housing associations and ALMOs that are registered providers) can apply directly, either as single bidders or as the lead of a consortium.
The deadline for applications for Wave 2.2 11.59pm on 19th January, 2024.
Wave 2.2 of Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund Details
National Archives' Resilience Grants
The Resilience Grants Programme has been designed to support archive services, organisations with archives, and archives networks to be adaptable, resilient and sustainable, creating lasting solutions that enable them to respond to change, and contribute to communities and the economy.
All eligible archives organisations with archives (including heritage organisations) and archive networks in the UK can apply for grants of up to £20,000 for projects lasting up to one year.
The fund can cover most things associated with resilience-building activities that the organisation has identified as a priority.
The next deadline for applications is 11.59pm on 19th January, 2024.
National Archives' Resilience Grants Programme Details
Masonic Charitable Foundation Hospice Grants Open for Applications
The Masonic Charitable Foundation and Hospice UK are working together to deliver a programme of local funding.
Grants of up to £40,000 are available to adult hospices who are Hospice UK members for projects that support testing approaches to improve transitional care for young people with the aim of addressing gaps in the access to and provision of short break/respite care as well as enabling equity.
These activities would normally incur costs over a variety of items, which could include:
- Staff salary. Funding can cover full-time or part-time staffing, or a combination of both.
- Equipment.
- Travel.
- Staff training.
Total available funding in this grant round is £400,000.
The deadline for applications is 5pm on 5th February, 2024.
Masonic Charitable Foundation Hospice Grant Details
Fund to Support England's Natural Environment - Third Round Opens Soon
The Natural Environment Investment Readiness Fund has been established to fund nature projects in England which tackle climate change, create and restore habitats, or improve water quality.
The scheme aims to stimulate private investment and market-based mechanisms that improve and safeguard the natural environment by helping projects become investment ready.
Grants of between £10,000 and £100,000 are available.
Applications for the third round can be made between 11th December, 2023 and 16th February, 2024.
The Natural Environment Investment Readiness Fund Details
MSE Charity Announces Funding Theme for January 2024 Round
Money Saving Expert (MSE) Charity has announced the theme for its January 2024 grant round is 'Living with Long Term Challenges'.
This grant round will offer grants of up to £8,000 to support projects focused on improving and delivering personal financial life skills to people living with Long Term Challenges, such as:
- Dementia
- Autism
- Learning Difficulties
- Disabilities
- Caring Responsibilities
- Mental illness
- Brain injury / stroke
Small to medium-sized non-profit organisations including UK registered charities, community interest companies, social enterprises and credit unions can apply.
Please note that each grant round is limited to the first 40 accepted applications. Previous rounds have closed within a couple of weeks of opening.
Applications are expected to open on 15th January, 2024 and close on 16th February, 2024.
MSE Long Term Challenges Funding Details
Childminder Start-up Grant Now Open
The Childminder Start-up Grant aims to help eligible new childminders get money towards the cost of setting up as a childminder.
One-off grants of £600 are available to those registered with Ofsted, and £1,200 for those who register with a childminder agency.
Childminders who registered between 15th March 2023 and 31st July 2023 must apply by 31st January, 2024. Those who registered between 1st August 2023 and 31st December 2023 must apply by 29th February, 2024.
Childminder Start-up Grant Details
Community Funding for Christian Charities and Organisations
Benefact Trust is offering grants for Christian organisations to deliver a range of projects and activities that will make a positive and transformative impact in lives and communities.
Through the Community Impact Grants Programme, funding is available for projects that fall under the following programme areas:
- Growing congregations and Christian communities.
- Addressing social challenges facing communities.
- Enabling wider community use of church buildings.
- Empowering Christian Education.
Funding can be used to cover direct capital and revenue costs that are directly related to the proposed project.
Applications can be submitted at any time.
Community Impact Grants Programme Details
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