Biffaward – Small Grants Scheme
Financial assistance is available to support community-led organisations who aim to improve the quality of life in their community. Biffaward look to award grants to projects that provide or improve community spaces, cultural facilities and places for outdoor recreation.
For further information, please visit:

http://www.biffaward.org/about/coverview

Comic Relief UK Grants Programme
The Comic Relief Grants Programme is focused on bringing about positive and lasting change in the lives of poor and disadvantaged people. They welcome fund applications from charities, social enterprises and community groups which address people’s immediate needs as well as tackling the root causes of poverty and injustice.
For further information, please visit:
www.comicrelief.com/apply-for-a-grant/programmes

Community Covenant Grant Scheme
Financial assistance is available for local projects strengthening the relationships between members of the armed forces and the communities in which they live.
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The aim of the project is to encourage social cohesion, improve self-confidence and employability in young people; and, to encourage physical and mental activity, decrease isolation and encourage participation in older people.

If your organisation is based in the London Boroughs of: City of London, Hackney, Newham, or Tower Hamlets, you can find more details of the programme and how you can apply here.

Apply for a Plan your 2012 grant now!
Working with the Department for Education LOCOG are inviting members of the Get Set network to apply for grants of up to £8,800 to lead activities which encourage other schools to make the most of the London 2012 Games over the next academic year.

For more information click here

Modernisation Fund
The Fund helps organisations plan for difficult times ahead, identify issues and opportunities and take action to ensure you are best able to prosper in the coming years. In many cases this means working in collaboration with other organisations or merging together. Interest-free loans of between £30,000 and £500,000 are available to help organisations be more resilient to the impact of the economic downturn.
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The Britannia Foundation
The Foundation offers grants and donations between £1,000 and £25,000 to registered charities and schools working within education, particularly numeracy and/or financial literacy. The Foundation believe that community involvement provides a significant way of putting their values into practice and of contributing to the communities in which we live and work.

For more information visit: Link

The J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust
The Trust’s main aim is to fund well managed projects (working within its current areas of interest) which help to relieve poverty, support disadvantaged people, and effect long-term change where help is not readily available from the public or private purse. The Trust also provides funding for the arts, and towards the conservation of the natural and built environment.

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East Foundation
This Fund is aimed at organisations and people living in East Thames Group accommodation in East London and Essex. Grants are available for projects and activities that bring people together, particularly people from different backgrounds, ages or cultures, or that help local people to gain access to services or facilities. Grants are also available to individuals for developmental or life enhancing opportunities that would not otherwise be available.
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Links Foundation
The Links Foundation awards grants to a diverse range of community groups in Britain to help provide facilities and services to improve conditions of life. The Foundation’s main areas of priority are: advancing people’s education; reducing significant disadvantage; assisting those in conditions of poverty, need or distress; and providing recreational or other leisure time occupation.
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Austin and Hope Pilkington TrustThe Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust awards grants to UK registered charities for projects undertaken in the UK. The aim of the Trust is to award grants to charitable organisations in the UK through various project areas: children and youth, music and the arts, medical and community
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2nd Round – Small Grants Programme (Community Chest)
Genesis Community is now launching the second round of the Small Grants Programme. The deadline for the completed application forms is 16th December 2011.

If you need any help around completing the application form or any queries regarding the criteria please contact Genesis Community on 0208 900 4781

Children Today
Children Today was founded in 1994 to help disabled children and young people up to the age of 25 enjoy a better quality of life by providing them with the specialised equipment they need.
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The Dickie Bird Foundation
The Foundation offer grants to children under 18 yrs on receipt of their application, to participate in the sport of their choice, to the best of their ability, irrespective of their background, social circumstances, culture or ethnicity and to ensure that , in doing so, they improve their chances both inside and outside sport.
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The Andy Fanshawe Memorial Trust
The Trust gives grants that allow disadvantaged young people to take up opportunities to experience the great outdoors. The Trust usually supports programmes run by schools or youth groups, mostly within the UK.
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The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust
The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust awards grants to UK registered charities for projects undertaken in the UK.
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The Bernard Sunley Foundation
The Bernard Sunley Foundation provides grant funding in support of charitable projects that aim to improve the quality of life for the young, deprived, disadvantaged, disabled and elderly in the UK.
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Foyle FoundationTheir Small Grants Scheme is designed to support smaller charities in the UK, especially those working at grass roots and local community level, in any field, across a wide range of activities. Please note they are not able to support individuals.
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Groundwork
Groundwork currently manages a number of grant funded green space programmes, each with the aim of encouraging communities to play an active role in the creation and maintenance of their local green space.
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Queen Elizabeth II Fields Fund2012 marks Her Majesty The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee to ensure that it is celebrated in fitting style, The Queen Elizabeth II Fields Challenge is a fantastic new campaign to protect 2,012 outdoor recreational spaces in communities all across the country as a permanent living legacy of this great event. SITA Trust has joined forces with HRH The Duke of Cambridge and the Fields in Trust to support this challenge.

Once an area has been designated a Queen Elizabeth II Field an application can be made to SITA Trust’s £1 million fund for improvements to the recreation area. For more information on how to get your field designated visit www.qe2fields.com or call 020 7427 2110.
There are two strands to the fund, aimed at groups with different needs:

The QEII Fields Volunteer Support Fund
Do you have an idea for improving your QEII Field, some volunteers and just need a bit of financial help or guidance to get started?
SITA Trust can award up to a maximum of £5,000 for projects where it can be demonstrated that volunteers will be extensively involved in the delivery of a project to physically improve a QEII Field. This could include site clearance, planting, fencing to make the field more healthy and sustainable or even materials to allow volunteers to make improvements to existing community buildings such as refurbishing or creating better access.

The QEII Major Works Fund Can provide up to £25,000 for projects that have a volunteering element (see criteria above) but also require specialist contractors to perform certain work.
If you think your QEII Field could benefit for this fund them please read the Major Works Application Guide before submitting an application to SITA Trust.

http://www.sitatrust.org.uk/qe2-fields

Education Endowment Fund (EEF)The Education Endowment Fund is seeking applications for projects that address educational disadvantage. It is particularly looking for projects which can be developed, scaled up and replicated and which will have a measurable impact on attainment. In the first two years funding will be focused on children eligible for free school meals attending primary and secondary schools targeted for EEF funding.

The following organisations are eligible to apply:
o Registered charities.
o Not-for-profit organisations.
o Individual schools.
o Clusters of schools.
o Teacher groups.
o Universities.
o Colleges.
o Academy chains.
o Mutuals.
o Co-operatives.
Any combination of the above can apply for funding. The smallest grant is likely to be around £50,000 per year. Projects should reach 100 pupils and preferably a number of schools.

Applications may be submitted at any time but there are three review points per year when they will be assessed. The next three review points are: 3 October 2011, 2 December 2011 and 30 March 2012.

To apply, organisations should complete the online application form.
http://educationendowmentfoundation.com/

The Places People PlayInspired Facilities is part of The Places People Play programme is to deliver a London 2012 legacy of increased mass participation in sport, and is investing £50 million of National Lottery funding in up to 1000 community sports projects between 2011 and 2014.

The scheme is designed to support voluntary and public sector groups to refurbish and improve existing facilities, or develop an existing building for sports use in the community.

Eligible improvements must fall under the following headings:
o Building modernisation.
o Outdoor sports lighting.
o Outdoor sports surfaces and AdiZones.
o Modular buildings.
o Sports equipment.
Community organisations and parish and town councils are eligible for grants ranging from £20,000 to £50,000, and 70% of the overall funding will be allocated to this category.

There will are five funding rounds, the first three being:
1 August to 28 September 2011.
1 February 2012 to 2 April 2012.
23 July 2012 to 17 September 2012.
Rounds four and five will take place in 2013 and 2014 and will be announced after the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

http://www.sportengland.org/

Land Aid – Training, Education & Support Fund and Capital Projects Fund
• Training, Education and Support Fund
Value: £5,000 – £25,000 – Deadline: 5.00pm, 31 August 2011
For: Training, education or support programmes targeted at disadvantaged young people, this can include NEETS, homeless or those from a low income background. Projects should engage young people and lead to recognised qualifications (see UCAS) for list of accepted qualifications or employment. They do not fund programmes that solely deliver ESOL qualifications.

Capital Projects FundValue: £5,000 – £25,000 – Deadline: 5.00pm, 31 August 2011
For: Refurbishment, conversion, extension or new build of facilities for young and disadvantaged people. We especially look for projects that have an education or learning element. This can include hostel/foyers, community or youth centres and accommodation.

But not for… Salaries and other general revenue costs (except where they are specific to the project) or projects where the work has already taken place. We do not make grants to individuals.

http://www.landaid.org/grants/

Launch of Team London’s Small Grants Programme
Team London’s Small Grants programme opens for applications on 15th July, with a closing date of 15th August.
Worth £0.5 million, the programme targets small charities and voluntary and community organisations which use volunteering in order to create high social impact in their communities.
Grants of up to £10,000 per organisation are available to fund activities that support one or more of the following three objectives:
o Increasing youth opportunity,
o Contributing to cutting crime,
o Improving quality of life
Applicants will need to be able to:
o demonstrate they have the capacity to use volunteering to support small community projects
o deliver activities that will continue beyond the life of the grants programme and
o spend the Team London grant by April 2012.
Organisations that would like to Express an Interest in applying for a grant can register this http://www.london.gov.uk/teamlondon/what-is-team-london/small-grants. Further information about the programme, the project selection criteria and details on how to apply will be published on the Small Grants page on July 15th 2011. All organisations that express an interest in applying will be notified directly.

Organisations that would like to express an interest in applying for a grant can register this on the Team London website.

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