An introduction to finding and bidding for external funding
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GrantsBiffaward Small Grants Often groups only need a small amount of money to make a difference to a local facility, be it a community building, nature reserve, cultural facility or outdoor space. The Small Grants Scheme offers quicker access to lower levels of funding to make these projects happen. Over the past three years Biffaward has supported nearly 300 small grants projects. A large number of applications are received, resulting in strong competition when awarding funding. You can apply for between £250 and £5,000. Your project must not cost more than £10,000 in total. You will need to find a third party contributor(s) to provide 5% of the grant you are applying for. The main criteria are: The project's site is within 10 miles of a Biffa operation (the
Biffaward also operate other schemes for larger projects. Application Form: Available to download form the website below, if you can answer yes to all the points above. Guidance notes also available from the website. Deadline: Applications can be submitted at anytime Contact: Biffaward, Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts, The Kiln, Waterside, Mather Road, Newark, Nottinghamshire NG24 1WT Tel: 01636 670000 Email: biffaward@rswt.org More at: www.biffa-award.org/small-grants-scheme Biffaward Main Grants - Rebuilding Biodiversity Biodiversity means the variety of natural living things - different plants, animals and insects. It is important that we protect and strengthen our natural environment so that it can adapt to threats such as climate change. Biffaward looks to support site-based projects that protect and enhance biodiversity across the UK, particularly those concentrating on species and habitats that have been identified as a priority in Biodiversity Action Plans or similar documents. Grants between £5,000 and £50,000 are available. The main criteria are: The project's site is within 25 miles of a Biffa operation. The project's site is also within 10 miles of a landfill site (owned by any company). The project has specific targets in relation to a Biodiversity Action Plan and will deliver a direct improvement to biodiversity. Your organisation has the support of key agencies, and has partners involved in the project's delivery. There is a management plan in place for the key species / habitat(s) involved. Is your project based in Staffordshire? There are separate funding arrangements for Staffordshire based projects. Please contact the Staffordshire Environmental Fund Tel: 01785 811600 Email: info@staffs-environmental.co.uk to discuss your application.
The Foundation is interested in funding work which benefits people in the following groups, or generalist work which includes significant numbers from more than one such group: Asylum-seekers and refugees (but not groups working with a single nationality) Gay, lesbian, bi-sexual or transgender people Gypsies and Travellers Migrant workers Offenders and ex-offenders Older people People experiencing mental health problems People experiencing violence or abuse It will not fund beneficiaries in London. If the beneficiaries do not include a significant proportion of people from one or more of these groups it is unlikely an application will be successful. There is a 2 stage application process. Applications take between 2 and 6 months to process fully The grants are relatively modest. Single, one-off grants range from as little as £500 up to £15,000. Grants repeated for more than one year vary from about £500 per annum up to £5,000 per annum, for a maximum of three years. To make sure that grants of this size have an impact the Foundation will not fund larger organisations. The Foundation will make single grants, or grants for two or three years. It is unlikely to make a second grant immediately after one has finished and if an application is refused, they ask applicants to wait a year before applying again.
The Main Fund is responsive to requests for support across the broad range of their interests, which are: the arts, education and learning, the natural environment and enabling disadvantaged people to participate more fully in society. Funding so widely creates a lot of competition. In 2010 they received around 2900 eligible applications to the Main Fund and made 270 grants totalling £21.4m. The average grant size was £79,000. To ensure that they can respond to so many requests, the application process is in two stages. They will acknowledge receipt of your first stage application within a week of receiving it and email you within a month to say whether they would like to take it to a second stage or decline to support it. If they invite you to proceed to the second stage, they may ask you for additional information in order to clarify and expand on what you have already told them. Further details on types of projects funded and exclusions are available from the website.
The Tudor Trust is interested in encouraging people to use their own skills and abilities as a resource for change; to find new ways of tackling deep-rooted problems or to cope with and move on from difficult situations. They recognise that this may take time so, if appropriate, they can commit funding over a sustained period. As an independent grant maker, an important part of their role is to support work which is untried, which has uncertain outcomes and which may be difficult to fund. However, they are not preoccupied with innovation and understand that there is a place for well-founded, practical work which seeks to bring normality and wellbeing into difficult places and situations. They are most interested in helping smaller, under-resourced organisations which offer direct services and which involve the people they work with in their planning. The groups they fund don't have to be registered charities; they can also make grants to other groups as long as they can show them how they would use their grant for charitable purposes. There is no maximum or minimum grant amount. Grants can take the form of core funding (including salaries and running costs), development funding, project grants or capital grants for buildings or equipment. As they want to fund work which engages with the reality and complexity of people and their problems, they look to support organisations working across sectors and boundaries (whether actual or perceived). They want to offer high levels of support and engagement when this will be helpful and appropriate. Their two-stage application process gives them more time to focus on working creatively with applicants who reach the second stage. Tudor's focus is on smaller groups, led by people of vision, which are committed to growth, progression and development. Some of the other characteristics they are looking for when they make grants include: Organisations which are embedded in and have developed out of their community - whether the local area or a 'community of interest' Organisations providing direct services to marginalised people A focus on building stronger communities by overcoming isolation and fragmentation and encouraging inclusion, connection and integration High levels of user involvement, and an emphasis on self-help where this is appropriate Work which addresses complex and multi-stranded, often difficult, problems in unusual or imaginative ways Organisations which are thoughtful in their use of resources and which foster community resilience in the face of environmental, economic or social change Organisations and people who know what difference they want to make and have the energy and vision to make it happen They can only consider making a capital grant for new premises or for building improvements if the organisations using the building display some of these key characteristics. Good buildings which contribute positively to their environment are important, but they are most interested in what goes on inside the building and the difference building improvements would make to your work. They are more likely to fund groups with an annual turnover of less than £1 million. They aim to make around 350 grants a year but receive thousands of applications. This is why they have a two-stage application process. They know that putting together a full funding application places heavy demands on your time and resources, so we ask all applicants to complete a brief first-stage proposal instead. They estimate that only around one in ten applicants will go through to this second stage.
Provide grants to enable churches and faith-based organisations, working in very deprived communities, to engage in social action through supporting them to initiate or develop community work. This will then enable groups to either undertake larger pieces of work or significantly improve the existing provision. This aims to provide grants of up to £5,000 to enable churches and faith-based organisations to engage in social action by supporting them to initiate or develop community work. This work will enable groups to undertake larger pieces of work or significantly improve the existing provision. The project must be directly tackling the effects of profound poverty and should be working in the 10% most deprived areas in England. Mustard Seed Grants can pay for specific activities but not for on-going revenue expenditure, existing salary costs, deficit funding, or retrospective spending. It is expected that work supported under the Mustard Seed Programme will grow into more substantive or developed activities. Guidance on website Grant requests up to £5,000 will be considered. This is a rolling programme where there are no deadline dates. Mustard Seed Grants can pay for specific activities but not for on-going revenue expenditure, existing salary costs, deficit funding, or retrospective spending. The grant requested should typically represent at least a third of the total funding required. For capital requests, this total should be the total of the work undertaken, regardless of how it is presented as a grant proposal (e.g. a kitchen refurbishment totalling £10,000 to enable a specific project to start may be considered, however a kitchen refurbishment of £10,000 as part of an overall building project of £100,000 will not be considered). Application Form: If your project meets the criteria for a Mustard Seed grant, please contact your local Link Officer (details found on http://www.cuf.org.uk/about/contact/regional-contacts). If appropriate, they will provide you with an application form. If you would prefer, you can submit the information in an alternative format (e.g. a letter). If you choose to apply without making use of the standard form, please ensure that all questions asked in the form are fully answered. All applications must be submitted to the respective Link Officer in the first instance (NOT to Church Urban Fund Head Office). There is a Link Officer based in every Anglican Diocese in England. Deadline: Applications can be submitted at any time. Contact: Church Urban Fund, Church House, Great Smith Street, London SW1P 3AZ Tel: 020 7898 1647 Email: resources@cuf.org.uk More at: http://www.cuf.org.uk/funding.aspx Peter Cruddas Foundation The Peter Cruddas Foundation aim to benefit disadvantaged and disengaged young people in our society here in the UK by ensuring their funding reaches those most in need. They achieve their aims and objectives through making grants for charitable work. They wish to build relationships with their supported organisations and foster collaboration wherever they can. Those they cannot help financially through their criteria they hope to help in other ways, through consultancy, business planning and networking. Charity meets the unmet need and their funding is always driven towards meeting that need in their area of interest. The Foundation gives priority to programmes designed to help disadvantaged young people to pursue their education (including vocational) and more generally develop their potential whether through sport or recreation, voluntary programmes or otherwise. Preference will be given to the support of projects undertaken by charitable organisations for the benefit of such people, but consideration will also be given in appropriate circumstances to applications for individual support. Current funding streams Pathways/support for young disadvantaged or disaffected people into education, training or employment Crime diversion schemes Work experience/skills projects for young people Mentoring of young people in London General youth work in London The Peter Cruddas Foundation can only donate to UK registered charities.
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