Grants
Funding to Transform Employment for Disabled People: Grants for Social Entrepreneurs (UK)
Transforming Employment for Disabled People is a new partnership between UnLtd and Scope. The collaboration is being launched against a background of steadily falling unemployment, but not everyone who wants to work can gain appropriate, meaningful employment.
There are two levels of support available:
Do It awards for those starting up as social entrepreneurs who are ready to establish a venture to tackle an issue that they are passionate about fixing. Grants of up to £5,000 are available to help to build the social venture together with one-to-one guidance from an UnLtd award manager, specialist advice from relevant experts and access to the UnLtd mentor scheme.
Grow It awards for those looking to expand their impact. Grants of up to £15,000 can cover personal expenses to allow applicants to work full time on their venture, access to workshops and masterclasses, 2 months mentoring and tailored support from an award manager and connections to investors, corporate partners and other successful entrepreneurs
To be eligible for funding the proposed work must:
• Have a real social impact
• Be focused on improving employment or employability outcomes for disabled people
• Fulfil a clear need and demand
• Have clear outputs and goals
• Provide a learning experience or opportunity
• Beneficiaries must be UK based
Expressions of interest are now invited via the UnLtd Application Portal and must be received before August 1st 2018.
Funding to Enable Disadvantaged Young People Reach their Potential (UK)
Registered charities (including Schools that are registered as charities for young people with disabilities) that work with disadvantaged children under the age of 25 can apply for funding of up to £10,000 through the Ironmongers Company's grants programme. In particular, the company wants to support projects that provide opportunities for disadvantaged children and young people to fulfil their potential and educational activities that develop learning, motivation and skills.
Projects could, for example, support special educational needs; address behavioural problems or promote citizenship; and parenting or life skills. Preference will be given to projects piloting new approaches where the outcomes will be disseminated to a wider audience. Although the grants are available within the UK preference is given to projects in inner London.
The next deadline for applications is the 31st July 2018.
http://www.ironmongers.org/charity_organisations.htm
Funding to Support Disadvantaged Young People and Offenders (UK
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The Weavers' Company, a textile-related, charitable and sociable organisation, has announced that the next closing date for its grants programme is the 31st July 2018.
Small registered charities can apply for grants of up to £15,000 for projects working with:
• Young offenders;
• Prisoners and ex-prisoners
• Young disadvantaged people at risk of criminal involvement.
To be eligible for funding, local organisations such as those working in a village, estate or small town should normally have an income of less than £100,000. Those working across the UK or in larger areas should normally have an income of not more than £250,000. Grants are usually given for one year.
Applicants must show that they have investigated other sources of funding and made plans for the future, which should include replacement funding if appropriate.
The closing date for applications is the 31st July 2018.
http://www.weavers.org.uk/content/grant-application-guidelines
Funding to Support Victims of Domestic Abuse (England)
The 2018/20 Fund for Domestic Abuse builds on the £20 million allocated in 2016 to 2018 which has helped provide more than 2,200 new bed spaces in refuges and other specialist accommodation, supporting more than 19,000 survivors with a safe space to rebuild their lives.
The 2018/20 Fund will support proposals for the provision of core support for refuges and other accommodation-based services, helping local areas ensure that no woman is turned away from the support she needs.
Specifically welcomed are bids which demonstrate that there is a need for the type of support proposed locally and that the solution proposed is designed to meet the needs of victims e.g. bids could be for specialist refuge places or for specific groups (i.e. for victims with mental health problems, substance abuse problems, or particular needs of different ethnic communities).
All bids must help deliver the local strategy for domestic abuse provision and provide evidence of local need and gaps in provision in specialist refuge bed-spaces.
The Ministry of Housing, Community and Local Government would expect to provide around £100,000 maximum per individual partnership bid but will consider bids of more than £100,000 which proactively work across a number of local authority boundaries.
Applicants are required to submit bids no later than 5pm Friday 17th August.
See more here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/19-million-fund-to-support-victims-of-domestic-abuse
Funding for School Projects to Benefit Disadvantaged Young People (London)
The John Lyon's Charity has announced that the next meeting of its Trustees to consider applications to its Schools in Partnership Fund is November 2018. Through the programme, grants of between £25,000 and £50,000 are available to groups of state schools (in partnership with local voluntary organisations where appropriate) for projects aimed at supporting their most challenged pupils, strengthening links with home life and coordinating the support of other available professionals.
The funding is available to schools in Barnet, Brent, Camden, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Kensington & Chelsea and the Cities of London and Westminster.
The Schools in Partnership Fund has a two-stage application procedure. The Trustee meets in March, June and November. Proposals should be received by the Grants Team at least four months before.
http://jlc.london/schools/what-we-fund-in-schools/schools-in-partnership-fund/
Grants of up to £10,000 for Projects that Help Disadvantaged and Neglected Children (UK)
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Not for profit, organisations such as schools; registered charities; voluntary organisations; churches; and community interest groups; etc. can apply for grants of up to £10,000 per year for up to 3 years for projects that help children and young people overcome the effects of:
• Illness, distress, abuse or neglect
• Disability
• Behavioural or psychological difficulties
• Poverty and deprivation.
The closing date for applications is the 2nd September 2018.
Social Entrepreneurs Challenged to Transform Ageing (UK)
Funded by Big Lottery and run in partnership with the Design Council, the South West Academic Health Science Network and the Centre for Ageing Better, UnLtd's Transform Ageing Challenge aims to revolutionise the approach to health, wellbeing and social care for people in later life.
Starting in the South-West of England. The aim is to foster innovations that will reduce demand for services through preventative approaches, tackle causes rather than symptoms and help people to be better prepared for the challenges of later life.
There are six innovation briefs for ambitious social entrepreneurs to apply their creative expertise to:
• Steps to a positive future – people in later life have positive experiences of ageing;
• Mobility and Transport – improving mobility to enhance independence and wellbeing;
• Life Transitions – supporting people to prepare for life changes;
• Caring about carers;
• Right information, right time – making information accessible, relevant and meaningful;
• Making Connections – opportunities for people in later life to connect with other people, communities and activities.
Entrepreneurs aged 16 and over, living in the UK who are not part of an established organisation are eligible to apply.
The programme will run in the south-west of England (Devon, Torbay, Cornwall and Somerset).
Three different types of award are available:
• Do It (early stage award) - Grant awards of up to £5,000, average award size is approximately £2,000.
• Grow it (early stage award) -Grant awards of up to £15,000.
• Scale it (venture award)- Grant awards of up to £25,000, with additional funding available to leverage in further external investment.
See more here https://unltd.org.uk/transform-ageing/
BBC Children in Need Main Grant Programme (UK)
The next closing date for applications to the BBC Children in Need Main Grants programme is the 13th September 2018. Grants of over £10,000 per project per year for up to three years are available to not for profit organisations and schools that work with young people who are:
- Experiencing disadvantage through illness, distress, abuse or neglect;
- Any kind of disability; behavioural or psychological difficulties;
- And / or living in poverty or situations of deprivation.
There is no upper limit for Main Grants but BBC Children in Need make very few grants over £120,000 (or £40,000 per year) and most grants are for much less. To be eligible, projects must make differences in children’s lives that help prevent or overcome the effects of the disadvantages they face.
Projects achieve these differences by either working directly with children or seeking to improve their social and physical environments.
For more see here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3XW7FvN20PD3xr2c1T62Xly/main-grants
Funding for Arts Projects that Work with Children and Young People (UK)
Not for profit organisations in the arts and cultural sector can apply for grants of up to £50,000 for projects that work with children and young people up to the age of 18 using the arts and creative media. Preference will be given to innovative projects which have a deep commitment to listening to children and allow the perceptions and feelings of children themselves to be better understood.
Organisations can apply for both one-off short-term projects and for projects lasting up to three years.
The funding is being made available through the Ragdoll Foundation.
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Funding to Tackle Isolation and Health in Sparsely Populated Areas (England, Scotland and Wales)
The Princes Countryside Fund’s Rural Four - Catalyst, Collaborate, Create and Champion - project is a dedicated programme of support for community projects in England, Scotland and Wales that is funded by Players of People’s Postcode Lottery.
Charities, Community Benefit Societies, Community Interest Companies, Companies limited by guarantee, not for profit organisations, Social enterprises and Unincorporated associations with proven success of the community working together and a governance structure in place are eligible to apply.
The Rural Four project aims to:
- Reinvigorate community networks by assisting with rebuilding community assets
- Improve the health and well-being of 200 socially isolated people through providing access to improved community assets and a network of support
- Create a lasting legacy of support and community spirit in the areas supported.
Grants will be awarded to projects with a particular focus on tackling isolation and improving the health and wellbeing of people living in sparsely populated areas.
Funding of up to £25,000 for up to 10 projects per year is available and applications are welcome at any time.
See more here: http://www.princescountrysidefund.org.uk/grant-giving-programme/rural-four
Funding: Former Mining Communities; East&West Midlands, North East&North West, Yorkshire and Kent
The Coalfields Community Investment Programme, which provides grants to community and voluntary groups to tackle key challenges that still affect the top 30% most deprived coalfield communities in England has re-opened for applications.
Grants totaling £125,000 will be available in this funding round for projects that address the following themes:
- Skills - growing the skills of people in order to increase their opportunities;
- Employment - developing pathways to increase the number of people in work;
- Health - supporting projects that increase participation in activities/services that improve health and wellbeing.
The maximum grant per project will be £10,000. Applicants are advised to consult the eligible wards list on the website before making an application.
To apply, organisations need to complete an eligibility survey to determine whether the applicant organisation/group meets the criteria to apply for funding from the Coalfields Regeneration Trust (CRT).
The closing date for submitting the eligibility survey will be the 7th September 2018.
The deadline for submitting applications is the 14th September 2018.
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