- Awards for All
- Friends Provident Foundation
- £100,000 Available to For Young People to Improve their Community
- Alcohol Research UK Flagship Grant
- Young Persons Volunteering Fund
- Funding for the Social and Economic Empowerment of Women
- The Triangle Trust 1949 Fund Opens for Applications
- Support for Cultural Entrepreneurs
- Museums Galleries Scotland Main Grant Funding
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Awards for All
Awards for All Scotland is a small grants scheme which makes awards of between £500 and £10,000 to support projects that improve opportunities to take part in arts, sports and community activities and projects that promote education, health and the environment.
Awards for All can fund up to 100% of eligible project costs and is open to applications from constituted voluntary and community organisations, schools and statutory bodies. Awards for All is a rolling programme so there are no deadlines and we are currently funding almost 70% of applications received.
If you're aware of groups with projects that might fit with Awards for All please ask them to contact us on 0300 123 7110.
www.awardsforall.org.uk/scotland
Friends Provident Foundation
The Friends Provident Foundation makes grants of up to £200,000 to not-for profit organisations for projects that address financial exclusion within disadvantaged communities. The funding is distributed through the Financial Inclusion Programme 2009-2012.
The Foundation will consider applications for work that will make a strategic contribution to the overall outcome of financial inclusion in the UK. The Foundation will consider requests for capital or revenue funding, core funds or project costs. The Foundation is willing to consider applications from any type of legally independent organisation, but can only support work that is legally charitable. Actions previously supported through the Foundation include:
- Making money management advice available to young people via mobile phones and interactive digital TV
- A research project to look at the difficulties that people with a learning disability are having in gaining access to banking services.
- The next closing date for applications is the 10th February 2012
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£100,000 Available to For Young People to Improve their Community
Channel 4 Education, in partnership with high street bank Barclays have launched 'The Stake'' - a competition.
Through the competition anyone aged between 16 and 21 years of age can submit ideas about how they would spend a share of the money to support community or business ideas that will make a difference.
This could be a start up business, a new school skate ramp, one-off event - or anything in between. There are two ways that young people can take part:
They can submit an idea themselves or
Registering as a stakeholder (Stakes) they can have a say in whose idea wins.
Up to six winners will be announced in January 2012. Each winner will be given up to £20,000, along with support from top financial experts, to make their ideas a reality.
A film crew will follow their stories as the fledgling community and business entrepreneurs go through their first challenges of bringing their ideas to life. The top 20 ideas with the most stakes by 11:59pm on the 23 December 2011 will be shortlisted and judged by a panel from Channel 4 Education and Barclays.
Alcohol Research UK Flagship Grant
Alcohol Research UK has announced that its Flagship Grants programme is currently open for applications.
Under its Flagship programme, Alcohol Research UK will make one grant per year of £300,000 available to fund research into alcohol related issues. This year, Alcohol Research UK, has particular interest in:
- Examining and enhancing the use of scientific based evidence in formulating alcohol policy
- Clarifying and explaining social-economic alcohol and health inequalities
- Proposals for research which examines the role of voluntary and community groups in reducing alcohol-related harm.
There is a two stage application process. Applicants have until the 12th December 2011 to submit an initial electronic pre-application form. Applicants that are successful at this stage then have until the 2nd April 2012 to submit the final application
http://alcoholresearchuk.org/grants/flagship-grants/
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Young Persons Volunteering Fund
The Sita Trust has announced the next funding round of its new Young Person''s Volunteering Fund.
Through this new fund, the SITA Trust can provide grants of up to £10,000 for volunteering projects owned by 14-25 year olds.
The SITA Trust can support projects in any of 90 funding zones around qualifying waste processing sites operated by their donor, SITA UK.
This fund has been created to assist young people aged 14-25 to volunteer their time to create or enhance facilities that can be enjoyed by the wider community.
To be eligible applicants must be able to demonstrate that young people will be fully involved in the design and development of the project and projects must be compliant with the rules of the Landfill Communities Fund. The next closing date for applications is 10am on the 3rd January 2012.
http://www.sitatrust.org.uk/volunteering
Funding for the Social and Economic Empowerment of Women
The European Commission has announced a new call for proposals to strengthen the protection and promotion of women''s rights and women''s social and economic empowerment. Up to £30 million is available to develop and strengthen sustainable initiatives at local and national level promoting:
- Women’s equal access to and control of economic resources
- Equal access to existing and/or new services that are
- Instrumental to increasing women's social and economic
- Protection and wellbeing and their participation in economic growth
- Dissemination of relevant good practice
This call for proposals is open to not for profit making organisations and public authorities and the closing date for applications is the 26th January 2012.
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The Triangle Trust 1949 Fund Opens for Applications
The Triangle Trust 1949 Fund is currently inviting applications from charity organisations to support projects that support:
- Carers
- Community arts and education
- Disability
- Older people
- Poverty
- Integration and rehabilitation
Grants are normally in the range of £1,000 and £10,000. Successful projects will either maintain an open, inclusive society or promote integration (or reintegration) of individuals or groups into society.
Preference will be given to smaller charities; charities which serve a locality or region of the UK, rather than national charities; and causes which find it more difficult to raise funds from the general public.
Previous projects supported include St Wilfrid''s Drop in Centre in Sheffield which provides the vulnerable and isolated support and a sense of belonging as well as education to enable some clients to go on to paid employment; and the Bucks Association for the Care of Offenders (BACO) which aims to help offenders in the Bucks area to break their cycle of criminal behaviour and integrate back into society.
The next application deadline is the 15th December 2011.
http://thetriangletrust1949fund.org.uk/index.htm#Service_Provided
Support for Cultural Entrepreneurs
The Cultural Enterprise Office, Scotland's specialist business support and development ser-vice for creative businesses and practitioners, has announced that the Starter for 6 Programme is now open for applications.
Starter for 6 is an enterprise training programme that supports up and coming creative entrepreneurs across Scotland. In addition to funding, the programme offers four enterprise training sessions designed to provide participants with the business skills to turn their idea into a reality; peer mentoring by previous Starter for 6 participants who not only share the same experience but are also only a few years ahead in terms of establishing their business; telephone coaching support; the opportunity to network and share ideas with like minded entrepreneurs in training sessions and events.
Workshops build mini-communities where people openly discuss their ideas and offer support to others. In addition, participants have the opportunity to pitch their business idea for £10,000 of funding. The closing date for applications is the 31st January 2012.
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Museums Galleries Scotland Main Grant Funding
Museums GalleriesScotland(MGS) has announced that they are now inviting applications through its Main Grants Programme. MGS Main Grants are available to Accredited/Registered museums and offer between £5,000 and £30,000 for projects that achieve strategic change in an organisation or the sector. Funding priorities for2012 / 13 are:
- Projects which increase the opportunities for income generation and develop and enhance the skills of staff and volunteers, including management and leadership skills.
- Projects which assist understanding of existing audiences and reach new audiences
- Projects which develop Museum's core product of collections and services.
The closing date for applications is 12 noon on the 2nd February 2012.
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