Published Monday 3 February 2020 at 17:19
This insight outlines a range of funding opportunities open to the public sector, businesses, community groups etc. Regular funding opportunities are also available via the websites below:
National Lottery Grant for Heritage
Community groups can now access potential grant funding opportunities through the free Blackburn with Darwen Open4Community online search tool.
For all Blackburn with Darwen Council funding bids
Please check whether match funding is required, if it is please contact and inform your Finance colleague.
Funding opportunities greater than £100,000
Funding to Improve Health Care within Communities
The Health Foundation has announced that its Common Ambition programme will open for applications in mid-February 2020.
Funding of between £300,000 and £500,000 will be available to support up to five teams across the UK for two to three years to improve health care through collaboration between those who use health services and those who deliver them. The funding will be available to support collaborations between providers of NHS services and voluntary or community sector organisations, such as charities or social enterprises.
The Health Foundation is holding two events to offer advice on how to apply for the Common Ambition programme and to support potential applicants to connect with partner organisations.
The events will be held in Leeds on 27 February 2020 and in London on 10 March 2020.
The events are important opportunities to find out whether an idea fits with the aims of the Common Ambition programme and to improve the quality of an application. The Health Foundation recommend that potential applicants attend one of the events. However, the events are not a compulsory part of the application process.
For those unable to attend either event, the Health Foundation will hold a webinar on 12 March 2020. Find out more here
Funding to Develop a More Circular Economy for Plastic Packaging
The UK Government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Challenge seeks to dramatically reduce plastic waste by 2025. It has up to £60 million to invest in projects that aim to make the UK a leader in smart and sustainable plastic packaging.
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, has up to £37 million from the fund to invest in demonstrators and early-stage projects investigating ways to reduce, reuse or recycle plastic packaging.
There are 3 competitions that aim to support a more circular economy for plastic packaging in the UK and to fund projects helping to meet the targets of the UK Plastics Pact, which include for 100% of plastic packaging to be reusable, recyclable or compostable.
They are:
Competition information for early-stage projects
- The competition opens on 13 January 2020, and the deadline for applications is at midday on 1 April 2020.
- Businesses of any size may apply but projects must include at least 1 SME.
- Projects could range in size between £30,000 and £100,000.
Competition information for demonstrators
- The competition is open, and the deadline for applications is at midday on 19 February 2020.
- Businesses of any size may apply but projects must include at least 1 SME.
- Innovate UK expect to invest in 3 projects ranging in size between £2 million and £48 million.
Competition information for feasibility studies for demonstrators
- The competition is open, and the deadline for applications is at midday on 19 February 2020.
- Businesses of any size may apply.
- We expect projects to range in size between £25,000 and £50,000
- Successful projects could be invited to enter a competition for funding for full demonstrators
The competition will run over 3 rounds including 1 invitation-only round.
Launch of Safer Streets Fund
A new £25 million scheme to tackle burglary and theft in crime hotspots has been launched by the Policing Minister. The Safer Streets Fund will be open for bids from police and crime commissioners (PCCs) across England and Wales to fund initiatives aimed at stopping these offences happening in the first place. The fund is specifically designed for areas that need to tackle theft, robbery and burglary – known as acquisitive crimes.
Police and crime commissioners, in formulating bids, will work closely with local partners to identify those measures that are most likely to make our communities safer.
PCCs can use the fund to improve neighbourhoods by increasing street lighting, installing better locks and gating alleyways.
They can also invest the money in other types of crime prevention, such as training community wardens, and delivering local crime prevention advice to residents or Neighbourhood Watch schemes.
PCCs will be expected to make use of local police force data and to use toolkits provided by the College of Policing, in partnership with other experts, to understand where the funding can have the biggest impact and what interventions will work best in a local area.
Successful areas will receive grants of up to £550,000.
The deadline for applications is midnight on 20 March 2020. Bidders will be informed whether they have been successful by the end of May 2020.
£500 Million to Bring Back Historic Rail Lines
The Department for Transport (DfT) is inviting local MPs to work with local authorities and community groups across England and Wales to propose how they could use £500 million of funding to reinstate axed local services. As well as looking for new ideas, DfT will also use the £500 million fund to progress the development of closed lines and stations already being considered for restoration.
To make sure that growing towns and communities are not left behind, we are running a new £20 million round of the New Stations Fund. This will support both the development of new stations and restoration of old station sites. Two previous rounds of funding have already developed 10 new stations across the country.
Funding is not limited to communities affected by closures.
The DfT will hold events providing advice on how to bid for funding.
Funding for Projects That Contribute to the Ongoing Transformation of the Northern Ireland Conflict
Registered, excepted or exempt charities based within any of the four jurisdictions of the UK can apply for programme or project funding or for unrestricted or core support for work which will contribute to the ongoing transformation of the Northern Ireland conflict.
The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) aims to fund work delivered by organisations, individuals and charities and grants range from a few hundred pounds to £100,000+ and may be single payments or spread over up to three years.
JRCT is interested in funding work which:
- Addresses the root causes of violence and injustice, rather than alleviating symptoms
- Cannot be funded from other sources
- Is likely to make a long-term, strategic difference.
Funded projects will address the following priority areas:
- Strengthening human rights and equality
- Supporting inclusive, non-sectarian and participatory politics
- Supporting processes of demilitarisation
- Dealing with the past i.e. work that promotes a shared understanding of the root causes of past violence, or which encourages government to implement initiatives to address the legacy of violence at a societal level.
The Trust is particularly interested in receiving applications related to women’s participation in all of these areas.
In addition to applications from Northern Ireland, it is open to receiving applications from Britain and the Republic of Ireland for work related to the above areas, and for work with an all-Ireland focus. Registered, excepted or exempt charities based within any of the four jurisdictions of the UK can apply for programme or project funding or for unrestricted or core support. Further details on eligibility can be found here.
Local work will be supported only where it is likely to have a wider impact, for example if it is testing a model which can then be replicated or is addressing a local issue that has wider social or political implications.
The next deadline for applications is 12 noon on 23 March 2020.
Government announces new £1.5 Million Fund to Save the Pub
The government has announced a new £1.5 million fund to support community pubs. The funding will help an estimated 100 new groups to take ownership of and save their local pub or support their essential community services based in pubs in rural and remote areas.
The £1.15 million fund will support community pubs through two key programmes.
£650,000 will be allocated to the More Than a Pub programme, which provides small grants and specialist advice for community groups at the start of their journey to community ownership. It also supports groups later in the process who require specialist professional advice with larger grants and loans to help with business planning, conveyancing, architectural help or financial advice.
£500,000 will be allocated to Pub is The Hub to enable a range of projects providing new, pub-based community services from post offices and shops to libraries and allotments. This will increase the services available in rural and remote communities and help sustain pubs as community assets and businesses.
Case Study
The Dog Inn at Belthorn near Blackburn has been supported by the government supported More Than A Pub and Pub Is The Hub Programmes.
In the past, the village of Belthorn had over 10 pubs, a shop, tearoom, chip shop, newsagent and community centre. However, by November 2015, all those community amenities had disappeared.
At the end of 2015, the residents of Belthorn took the collective step to bring the heart of the community back into the village via The Dog Inn by co-locating all the services and amenities that had long since disappeared.
The residents of Belthorn benefitted from a Pub is The Hub grant of £4,000 to create a community café, as well as helping the community to purchase equipment to make presentations in the community meeting room where village group meetings are now held. Work is also underway on a community garden and allotments by the pub.
As a result of the funding, the Belthorn now boasts a vibrant village committee, a history society group and a craft and chat group all of which meet regularly in The Dog Inn.
Arts Impact Fund
Arts Council England has announced that loans of between £150,000 and £600,000 are available to entrepreneurial arts and cultural organisations. The aim of the loans is to increase the resilience of art and culture in England.
The loans can be used, among other things, to:
- Acquire new assets
- Improve built infrastructure
- Develop new ventures
- Scale up existing revenue streams.
The Arts Impact Fund is created and funded by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Nesta. It’s supported by the Arts Council with additional funding from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Unsecured loans are available with a repayment term of between three and five years with interest rates ranging between 3.5% and 8.5%.
Previous loans awarded include:
South East Dance – £350,000: The Brighton based dance agency will use the loan to bridge fundraising and allow work to start on its new hub The Dance Space. The new building will provide a rental income from its studio and office space, reducing the need for public funding and supporting its work with local artists and community development programme.
Autograph Media – £150,000: to set up a new commercial image licensing business specialising in race and cultural diversity. Autograph Media is the trading subsidiary of the visual arts charity, Autograph ABP, based in Shoreditch.
Live Theatre – £600,000: to launch a new commercial hospitality venture, making use of its capital assets to subsidise the work of the theatre in Newcastle.
Applications are accepted at any time.
Funding opportunities between £25,000 and £100,000
Funding to Use Digital Technology for Vocational Training
The UFI Charitable Trust (Ufi), which aims to help improve vocational skills in the UK’s workforce, has announced that its VocTech Seed fund has re-opened for applications.
VocTech Seed offers grants of up to £50,000 for projects lasting up to 12 months. UFI will be looking for innovative ideas that use digital technology for vocational learning. As the name suggests, VocTech Seed is intended to support innovative and creative projects at a relatively early stage of development. It aims to enable new ideas to reach a point where they can demonstrate their potential to customers or funders and reach the market.
Ufi is also particularly keen to support projects, which will have long-term impact on employers, communities of learners or sectors, which cannot easily access current provision because of industry or market conditions, past learning history or other factors.
As part of the launch, the UFI Charitable Trust will be hosting a number of workshops and webinars for potential applicants.
There is a two-stage application process. The closing date for stage-1 applications is 13 February 2020. Applicants successful at this stage will have from 19 March to 9 April to submit their stage-2 applications.
Aviva Community Fund Re-Launched
Aviva has teamed up with the fundraising platform Crowdfunder to offer funding of up to £50,000 to small charities and community interest groups in the UK with innovative ideas that benefit their community. Every three months from January 2020 onwards, £250,000 will be split equally among Aviva’s UK employees to donate to the projects that matter to them most.
Aviva want to support projects that boost the resilience of communities in the face of uncertainty and will be supporting projects in two key areas:
- Community resilience: Tackling inequality and improving environments to build more connected, more resilient communities.
- Financial capability and inclusion: Giving people the tools to become more financially independent.
Once applications have been submitted, applicants will need to create a fundraising page on Crowdfunder that Aviva employees can browse and donate funds to. Applicants can also showcase their projects to raise additional public donations.
The closing date to apply to the Aviva Community Fund is 11 February 2020.
New Connecting Classrooms through Global Learning Programme Launched
The British Council in partnership with the Department for International Development is inviting state funded schools to apply to the Connecting Classrooms through Global Learning Programme to enable UK schools to work with partner schools overseas; focusing on global themes. The programme provides grants to clusters of schools or one-to-one school partnership.
Fee-paying schools can opt to join a cluster group with state-funded schools and still benefit from many elements of the programme. However, any fee-paying schools that want to organise a visit overseas would need to self-fund their trip.
Clusters of Schools can apply for grants of up to £35,000 to support a wide range of global learning activities, including training for teachers and supply cover, reciprocal visits to international partner’s schools, and hosting community events.
One-to-one school partnerships can apply for grants of up to £3,000 to cover the cost of one teacher to travel to a partner school. The grant is used to cover the cost of one teacher travelling to the UK from overseas and one teacher travelling from the UK to the other country.
To apply for funding, schools must have a partner school outside the UK from the British Council’s list of participating countries.
Cluster applications will also be favoured over one-to-one partnership applications in the first instance.
The next closing date for applications is 9 March 2020.
Funding opportunities under £25,000
Funding for Projects that Combat Abuse and Violation of Human Rights
UK-registered charities that work towards combating abuse and violations of human rights can apply for grants of usually between £10,000 and £20,000 through the A B Charitable Trust. The A B Charitable Trust (ABCT) was set up in 1990 and supports unpopular causes that champion human dignity and to focus on small and medium-sized charities working close to the ground.
Applications are particularly welcomed from charities working to support:
- migrants, refugees and asylum seekers
- criminal justice and penal reform
- human rights, particularly access to justice
The Trust generally makes one-off grants to charities registered and working in the UK with annual incomes of between £150,000 and £1.5m that do not have substantial investments or surpluses. Grants range in size, with most grants awarded being in the range £10,000 to £20,000. ABCT does not normally fund charities with large national or international links.
The next closing date for applications is 26 January 2020.
Grants for Human and Legal Rights Organisations
Grants of between £5,000 and £15,000 are available to voluntary sector organisations whose work is related to the law and the legal profession. Projects supported will be working to promote human rights, provide access to justice or to provide legal education. Priority is particularly given to projects that promote the needs of excluded, under-represented or disadvantaged groups and minorities.
The Law Society Charity offers grants to voluntary sector organisations whose work is related to the law and the legal profession for projects that:
- Promote human rights
- Provide access to justice
- Provide legal education.
Priority is particularly given to projects that promote the needs of excluded, under-represented or disadvantaged groups and minorities.
Please note that the Law Society is unable to give grants to locally based bodies such as law centres, Citizens’ Advice Bureaux.
Grants are usually awarded on a one-off basis and can occasionally be spread over 2-3 years.
Organisations supported in the past include Youth Net, which received funding towards the development of information to young people via alternative communication tools, and the Legal Action Group (LAG), which received funding towards the development of LAG’s monthly magazine Legal Action.
The closing date for the 31 March meeting will be published when The Law Society Charity has received a number of applications that can be properly assessed. Applications received after a closing date has been published will be assessed at the next following meeting date.
Grant Programme to Fund Biochemical Outreach Projects Opens for Applications
The Biochemical Society has announced that its Outreach Grants programme has re-opened for applications. Grants of up to £1,000 are available to increase participation in the molecular biosciences at school level and the community through engagement activities. Within school projects the Society is looking to support projects with emphasis on molecular bioscience for upper secondary school age audiences and above. For primary school age audiences, the focus can be on biology or on all sciences.
The type of events funded could include:
- Activities for a science club
- Workshops for students or teachers
- Lectures from research scientists (including PhD students and post-doc).
Projects more likely to receive funding will involve collaborations between, several schools/universities or a mix of organizations; establish links/relationships between schools and universities or industry; promote molecular bioscience career opportunities; or be submitted by an applicant with previous experience in outreach activities (although first time applicants are also welcomed).
Past projects include “Detective Sciences” – an event that formed part of the Science week activities at Abercanaid Community School, Merthyr Tydfil. The focus of the event was centred on promoting scientific investigation, scientific thinking and enhancing English language skills.
The closing date for applications is 16 April 2020.
Kellogg’s Breakfast Club Grants Programme Re-opens for Applications
The Kellogg’s Breakfast Club Grants Programme has re-opened for applications. The programme offers grants of up to £1,000 to schools in the UK to set up Breakfast clubs for those children in most need.
To qualify for the programme:
- The breakfast club must be based in a school in England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland;
- A limited number of grants are available so priority will be given to schools that have either:
35% and above of children eligible for pupil premium funding and / or eligible for free school meals.
Or
Schools that are based in an area, which is classified as falling in the 10% of most, deprived areas according to the Index of Multiple Deprivation. Schools can find out if this applies to their school by following the instructions, which you can find here.
- Additionally, if your school has received breakfast club funding from Gregg’s or Magic Breakfast within the current academic year, your club will not be considered a priority for support.
- Only one grant per school in each academic year is available.
For any queries please contact Forever Manchester on 0044 161 214 0940 or e-mail
Funding for Schools Science Projects
The Royal Society has announced that its Partnership grant scheme will re-open for applications on the 31st January 2020.
Through the scheme grants of up to £3,000 are available for STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) projects run at a primary or secondary school or college in partnership with a professional scientist or engineer.
The aim of the fund is to make the teaching of science more interesting within primary and secondary schools.
The Partnership Grant scheme forms partnerships to allow teachers to increase their scientific knowledge and to give scientists and engineers the chance to develop their communication skills and engage with enquiring young minds. Any UK primary or secondary school teacher or practicing scientist/engineer can apply as long as the students involved in the project are between 5 and 18.
A partnership needs to be established before starting the application and the initial application must be started by the school partner as the primary applicant. The second partner should be an individual currently working in a STEM related profession, such as a researcher or analyst.
Specific enquiries can be made by emailing the Education Outreach team directly oneducation@royalsociety.org or by calling 020 7451 2531.
Projects previously funded
- What’s the Weather Like? – A Partnership Grants project between Mead Community Primary School and Black and Veatch that has enabled pupils to begin predicting their local weather.
- Shooting stars on camera: Colour composition and contrasts: A project between William Perkin C of E High School and the Open University. Students have been determining the origin and elemental structure of meteors under the guidance of academic professional, Professor Monica Grady.
Funding for Outdoor Learning
The Ernest Cook Trust has launched its new Outdoor Essentials Grants programme. Through the programme, UK State funded Primary and Secondary Schools can apply for grants of up to £500 to enable them to get their pupils learning outdoors.
Priority will be given to schools that:
- Are committed to enabling outdoor learning and see environmental engagement as an important part of education.
- Demonstrate that outdoor learning will have a wider benefit to families and to their local community.
- Include disadvantaged pupils.
- Are located in areas of high deprivation and/or have pupils who are living in deprived areas.
For this funding round, the grants can only be used for the purchase of Wellies and Waterproofs.
A total of £200,000 is available the Trust will be awarding 400 grants. There is no specified deadline for applications for ECT Outdoor Essentials grants.
Applications can be submitted at any time whilst the online application process is open. The Ernest Cook Trust will make award decisions when a threshold number of applications have been received. Find out more here
Grants to Help New, Innovative Visual Arts Projects
The Trust offers grants to artists and for new, innovative visual arts projects. It aims to make it possible for artists and those presenting their work to undertake and complete projects when confronted by lack of funds.
The Trust supports projects that develop and improve the knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the fine arts. Priority is given to artists and small organisations and galleries making or producing new work or exhibitions.
The Trust normally awards grants of up to £2,000, but larger grants of up to £5,000 may be considered.
The Elephant Trust has announced that the next deadline for applications is 23 March 2020.
Grants of up to £1,500 Available for the Professional Development of Musicians
Emerging and professional musicians of all genres and disciplines can apply for grants of £500 -£1,500 to help them access opportunities that will allow them to focus on developing their artistic and professional development at a crucial point in their career.
The funding, which is being made available through the Help Musicians UK Transmission Fund, is designed to help emerging and professional musicians of all genres and disciplines to build their careers by supporting the costs of formal and time limited training and mentoring opportunities. Eligible artists may for example be a solo instrumentalist, composer, vocalist, singer songwriter or a multidisciplinary artist. Bands or ensembles with six members or less can also be supported.
All artists supported must have an active career and be able to demonstrate the following:
- Exceptional ability within their discipline
- High quality musical output
- Regularly working (performances, commissions, releases) at a professional level (getting paid for your work)
- Achievement or the potential to achieve a national or international impact
- An impressive track record
- An entrepreneurial spirit and dedication toward their career
Group applicants must have 50% of their members meeting the criteria shown above and have been established and playing together regularly for at least 1 year.
Grants of £500 – £1500 are available and can support opportunities such as short courses, workshops, training and time limited periods of coaching with an expert in the artists chosen field both in the UK or internationally. Travel, accommodation and access costs can also be funded.
Eligible applicants will be:
- Aged over 18
- Based primarily in the UK and be eligible to work here
- Have been resident in the UK for at least 3 consecutive years
- In financial need and without significant backing
The next closing date is 2 March 2020.
Grant Programme for Arts Award Centres
The Arts Award Access Fund is offering grants of between £100-£1,500 to Arts Award centres working on Arts Award projects with young people for whom access and inclusion is an issue. Applications are welcomed from all registered Arts Award centres based in the UK, but priority will be given to centres that are working with young people for whom access and inclusion is an issue.
This can include young people that:
- are disabled
- have special educational needs, learning difficulties, or other specific individual requirements
- live in areas of rural isolation and/or socio-economic deprivation
- are in the youth justice system
- are looked after by foster carers or in residential children’s homes
- are young carers or young parents
- are in a specific minority group (e.g. LGBTQ+, BME and/or PoC, homeless, traveller, asylum seeker, refugee, particular faith group)
- are not in full-time education, employment or training/excluded from school/are in alternative education
- are hospital outpatients/inpatients or suffering long term health problems (including mental health problems)
- other access/inclusion issue (you will be required to tell us more in your application)
Grants can be used for a range of activities including: Discover, Explore or Bronze logs: Bronze, Silver or Gold guidance booklets: Fees for workshops with a professional or specialist: General art materials, printing costs, etc.: Tickets for events and travel to and from a venue: Contributions towards the costs of Gold leadership projects: Hire of specialist equipment or specialist venue: Adviser/project management/staff time: Discover certificates: Moderation costs for Explore, Bronze, Silver and Gold: Specific access requirements e.g. BSL/other translators; assistive technology specifically related to the Arts Award project (where renting is not cost-effective).
The programme is open for applications until 5pm on 28 February 2020.
Funding for Women’s and Disability Football Teams
The Football Foundation has announced that its “Grow the Game” grant scheme will re-open for applications on the 26th February 2020.
Through this funding round, grants of up to £1,500 are available from organisations wishing to set up women and girls football teams and disability teams.
Applications are welcome from not for profit organisations that are planning to set up two new football teams over the next two years. To be eligible for funding organisations must have a signed constitution (with a dissolution clause), child protection policy, equal opportunities policy, bank statement and income/expenditure records. The type of activities that can be funded include (but are not limited to):
- Facility hire
- Referees fees
- CRB checks
- Affiliation fees
- League entry
- Promotion and publicity
- FA coaching courses
- Additional courses
- Football kit/equipment through a bespoke voucher
Organisations are able to receive a grant of £1,500 per new team created over two or three years with financial support being reduced in the second or third year of the project.
The funding will be allocated on a first come first serve basis.
For any enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact gtg@footballfoundation.org.uk
Support for the Homeless Charities and Hospices
CRASH, the construction and property industries’ charity assists homelessness charities and hospices in England and Wales with their construction projects. CRASH offers help in a practical way as well as providing cash grants.
CRASH does this by supporting improvements to hospices, hostels, day centres, night shelters, training centres and move-on accommodation, for frontline homelessness agencies who work directly with homeless people.
CRASH unites the industry and channels the expertise and products of its Patron Companies to:
- transform hostels, day centres, night shelters and move on accommodation for homeless people across the UK.
- create caring environments where adults and children who need end of life care in a hospice, can spend precious time together with their families.
- reduce the cost and increase the quality of your construction project.
To be eligible for support organisations must be registered charities, have legal hold on the building in question, either freehold or lease for at least 5 years, and the building is currently delivering, or will be used to deliver services to single homeless men and women over the age of 18; or used to deliver in-patient and or day services to people in need of end of life care.
Please phone CRASH in advance of making your application to discuss your project and the ways in which CRASH may be able to help.
For further information, click on the link below.
YHA Family Support Programme Opens for Applications
The Youth Hostel Association is offering a free two-night stay with meals in Youth Hostels in England and Wales to families struggling with financial hardship, disability, long-term illness, bereavement, homelessness or other challenging circumstances.
One break per year at a YHA Youth Hostel (a list of participating hostels is on the website) is available to families with up to two adults and children aged 2 – 18 years where the annual household income is below £25,000.
Priority will be given to applications involving children and young people who are experiencing exceptionally challenging lives, or who are facing a crisis or emergency situation and as a result of these situations are experiencing financial hardship on a daily basis.
All the Youth Hostels available within the programme are located within city, rural and coastal areas that are easily accessible by public transport. Families will be provided with a private room and meals throughout their stay.
To apply for a YHA Breaks family holiday simply fill out an application. Or, get in touch with the YHA Breaks team by emailing breaks@yha.org.uk or calling 01629 592 723.
Community Partnering Fund
Northern Gas Networks and Northern Powergrid have launched the latest application round of the Community Partnering Fund. Grants of between £1,000 and £10,000 are available to third sector organisations and community groups in the North of England for projects that:
- Alleviate hardship associated with fuel poverty and promoting innovative energy-related environmental impact, energy efficiency or carbon reduction
- Educate and inform communities about safety in relation to domestic gas and power including the dangers from Carbon Monoxide (CO) poisoning and how to protect against it
- Encourage interest in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) subjects and related career opportunities
- Promote use of the Priority Services Register, a free service provided by network operators and suppliers to customers in vulnerable circumstances within communities
- Champion community energy through encouraging people to come together to generate, own, manage, or reduce consumption of energy.
Potential applicants that would like to find out more about the fund can book a place at the following briefing event:
- Newcastle – Tuesday 11 February 2020 10:00 – 12:00. Click here for more information and to book your place.
The Fund is being administered by the Leeds Community Foundation. The deadline for applications is 12 noon on 10 March 2020 and decisions will be sent to applicants in early May 2020.
Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation
The Foundation supports projects, institutions and activities in the following areas:
- Jewish Life and Learning – applications are invited from academic institutions specialising in Jewish subjects and from bodies promoting Jewish culture, including museums, libraries and literary publications.
- Performing Arts (excluding music) – financial support for charities with a record of artistic excellence that require additional funding, not available from public sources or commercial sponsorship, to broaden their repertoire or develop work of potentially outstanding interest which cannot be funded from the usual sources.
- Music – support in those areas of music performance and education which do not readily attract backing from commercial sponsors or other funding bodies, or which are not eligible for public funding.
- Medical Research Travel grants – grants of up to £1,000 are available for visits to laboratories for the acquisition of new skills, and for setting up inter-institutional collaborative research
Applications are invited from smaller charitable organisations only; the Trustees will not consider approaches from large charities who are well represented on the High Street or their local branch offices.
Previous projects supported include:
- £5,000 per year for 3 years to Little Angel Theatre as support for Little Angel Studios, a new building dedicated to education, community and outreach work.
- £3,250 to The Voices Foundation for 1-Year Foundation Programme in a cluster of five schools in Essex to ensure that every child irrespective of ability, means or background has access to high quality music education through singing and the use of equipment
- £6,000 a year for three years to Anne Frank Trust UK to fund educational work in three schools.
The Wingate Foundation has announced that the next deadline to apply is 17 March 2020.
Pink Ribbon Foundation Grants
The Pink Ribbon Foundation has announced that it is currently accepting applications to its grant-making programme.
Grants of up to £5,000 are available to UK charities:
- To relieve the needs of people who are suffering from, or have been affected by, breast cancer by providing, or assisting in the provision of, information, care or emotional, practical and financial support.
- To advance public education in the understanding of breast cancer, its early detection and treatment, in particular but not exclusively by commissioning, or conducting, research into the causes, detection and treatment of breast cancer and by disseminating the results of such research.
Higher grants may be awarded if the trustees feel there is a special reason to do so.
Any charity working in the field of breast cancer can apply for a grant.
Applications from general cancer charities must demonstrate that the grants requested will be applied to benefit those affected by breast cancer. Where applications relate to general services, details must be given of how many (and what proportion) of the total number benefiting from the charity’s work are affected by breast cancer.
The closing date for applications is 29 May 2020.
PRS Music Foundation Composers’ Fund
The Performing Rights Society (PRS) for Music Foundation, the UK’s leading funder of new music across all genres, has announced that a new funding round to its Composers’ Fund is due to open for applications soon.
The Composers’ Fund recognises the need for composers to have direct access to funding at pivotal stages in their career. It invites composers to make the case for support of any activity that would enable them to make a significant step change in their career.
Grants can be for up to £10,000 and it is anticipated that the Foundations will make 10 – 15 awards a year. The fund is open to composers with a strong track record in their field who are at a point in their career where access to funding could help move forward their career. To be eligible for support, composers must be based in the UK and must be members of PRS for Music or in a position to join. To be eligible for support, composers must be based in the UK and must be members of PRS for Music or in a position to join.
Read the Guidance and FAQs before applying. The next deadline for applications is 6pm on 20 April 2020.