CONTENTS:
- Festival of Museums Grants
- Funding to Enable Disadvantaged Young People
- Funding to Promote the Safer use of the Internet
- Home Hospice Care Grants
- The David and Elaine Potter Foundation
- Enhancing Communities Programme
- BBC Children in Need - Emergency Essentials Programme
- Equality Unit Funding 2012-15 - Equality Fund
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FESTIVAL OF MUSEUMS GRANTS
The next Festival of Museums will take place from 18 - 20 May 2012 and all museums and galleries in Scotland are invited to take part.
Once again, Museums Galleries Scotland is offering grants to members of between £150 and £1,500 per venue to stage an event as part of the Festival of Museums programme. Applications where non-member organisations are working in partnership with full members are also welcomed.
The Festival of Museums is an annual weekend of exciting, entertaining, and surprising events in the country's museums and galleries, with museums tailoring events to their own requirements, objectives, and audience development criteria. It also takes place during Voluntary Arts Week, so local amateur groups may wish to partner up with a museum to run an event.
Museums GalleriesScotlandsupports the Festival with a national and regional promotional campaign, while strengthening the publicity work done by the museums themselves and offering advice and funding to the museums taking part.
Submissions are being accepted until 1 February 2012; however, as grants are assessed on a first-come-first-served basis, getting an application in early is advisable. Deadline: 1 February 2012.
FUNDING TO ENABLE DISADVANTAGED YOUNG PEOPLE
Registered charities 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, 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 registered charities to apply for funding to the Ironmongers Company is the 31st January 2012.
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FUNDING TO PROMOTE THE SAFER USE OF THE INTERNET
The European Commission has announced the 2012 draft call for proposals under the Safer Internet Programme.
The official launch of the call for proposals is expected in January 2012. In order to achieve its objectives, the Safer Internet Programme has adopted two complementary approaches. It funds the Safer Internet Centres that are developed at national level to take into account national sensitivities and needs and are co-ordinated at European level.
It also funds pan-European projects, with partners in some or all EU Member States, which aim at gathering information and coordinating pan-European and international activities in the field of safer Internet. It is expected that a total of £13.4 million will be available to support activities in 2012.
Previously supported projects include:
- EU Kids Online II which aimed to strengthen the knowledge base regarding children's and parents experiences and practices of risk and safety in their use of the internet and new online technologies.
- A research project to help understand the process of online grooming, in particular the behaviours of men who target young people online.
The expected deadline for submission of proposals is the 29th March 2012.
HOME HOSPICE CARE GRANTS
Help the Hospices, the national charity for the hospice movement, has announced that the Home Hospice Care programme is now open for applications.
Under the programme, two types of grants are available to fund projects run by adult and children's hospices that strengthen support, advice or train people to provide care at home, so allowing people to stay at home for longer.
The grants available are:
- The pilot projects grant which provides grants of up to £15,000 to pilot a new initiative
- The major grants programme which provides grants of up to £40,000 for projects to either address findings from a feasibility study/scoping exercise or for new larger stand-alone projects that demonstrate a clear evidence of need.
The closing date for applications is the 22nd February 2012.
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THE DAVID AND ELAINE POTTER FOUNDATION
The David and Elaine Potter Foundation is a charitable family foundation established in 1999 to encourage a stronger, fairer civil society. It has granted more than £10 million to registered charities in the UK and abroad.
The Foundation’s funding is divided into five categories:
- Education
- Civil society
- Research
- Human rights
- Arts
The trustees are interested in lasting social change, and in forming long-term partnerships with the organisations the Foundation supports.
Grants in the past have ranged from several hundred pounds to grants of up to £2 million. The grant application process is divided into two stages.
A letter of enquiry and an application.
An applicant is invited to submit a full proposal only if their letter of enquiry has been accepted. Applications can be submitted at any time.
http://www.potterfoundation.com/
ENHANCING COMMUNITIES PROGRAMME
Under the SITA Trust's Enhancing Communities Programme Core Fund, grants of up to £60,000 are available to not for profit organisations, community groups, parish councils, local authorities and charities for projects that make physical improvements to community facilities and historic buildings / structures.
SITA will accept applications from projects which are within 3 miles of qualifying SITA UK waste processing sites. Grants of up to £20,000 are also available through their Fast Track Fund for projects with an overall cost of no more than £40,000.
The next closing date for applications is 10 am on the 20th February 2012 for the Fast Track Fund (formerly Small Grants Scheme) scheme and 10 am on the 19th March 2012 for the Core Fund (formerly Large Grant Scheme).
http://www.sitatrust.org.uk/community-funding/
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BBC CHILDREN IN NEED - EMERGENCY ESSENTIALS PROGRAMME
BBC Children in Need have announced the launch of their Emergency Essentials Programme.
The Emergency Essentials Programme provides struggling families with items that meet children's most basic needs such as a bed to sleep in or a cooker to give them a hot meal.
Emergency Essentials grants are additional to the BBC Children in Need general grants programmes, and are administered by Buttle UK, who are able to reach families living with extreme deprivation through their network of frontline partner agencies.
All applications must be made through a statutory agency or voluntary organisation that is capable of assessing the needs of the child/young person, and that can also administer a grant on our behalf. For further information on the programme and how to apply please click on the link below.
EQUALITY UNIT FUNDING 2012-15 - EQUALITY FUND
The Equality Unit is inviting applications to the Equality Fund for 2012-15.
The Equality Fund incorporates the former Race Religion & Refugee Integration Fund as well as elements of Gender Funding and Disability/BSL Funding.
Allocations formerly made for work in these areas have been transferred into the new fund; therefore the funding available for each strand has not been reduced. Applications for funding of up to £100,000 will be considered. The Equality Fund will be open for applications from any organisation for work across all equality characteristics.
Applicants to the Equality Fund must be voluntary organisations based in Scotland, and must be incorporated and registered with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator. Completed applications should be returned to the Equality Unit, 3H South, Victoria Quay, Edinburgh EH6 6QQ by 6 February 2012.
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/People/Equality/
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