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Funding
- Reaching Communities (England)
- The Big Lottery Fund (BIG) has announced that it is accepting applications to their Reaching Communities Programme. Reaching Communities provides grants of 10,000 - 500,000 for projects that help peop...
- Funding for Children's Palliative Care (England)
- The Government has announced that it is making 30 million available to help support improvements to childrens palliative care in England. The funding is available to NHS organisations as well as...
- King’s Fund / GlaxoSmithKline IMPACT Awards
- Deadline: 24 September 2010
The IMPACT Awards have been running since 1997 and are designed to recognise and reward charities that are doing excellent work to improve people’s health. The aw...
- Awards For Bridging Cultures
- deadline: Monday 13 September 2010
Funded by the Baring Foundation, the Awards for Bridging Cultures (ABCs) give cash prizes for projects that successfully build trust and respect between people fr...
- The James Caan Foundation
- The James Caan Foundation (JCF) was set up by Dragon’s Den investor James Caan in 2006, and supports UK charities as well as education initiatives in Pakistan. The objectives of the foundation a...
- Comic Relief's UK Grant Programme
- Deadline: 17th September 2010
Comic Relief's UK Grant Programme aims to bring about positive and lasting change in the lives of poor and disadvantaged people in the UK by investing in work that...
- BSLBT's Zoom Short Film Scheme
- deadline: 17 September 2010
The British Sign Language Broadcasting Trust, through ts Zoom Short Film Scheme, is inviting applications from British Deaf directors and Deaf writer/directors. The sche...
- Man Group plc Charitable Trust
- The Man Group Charitable Trust supports a range of charitable activities that support disadvantaged groups. UK charities can apply for one of two grants programmes:
? Small Grants for up to £...
- Funding for arts organisations producing and presenting arts made by older people
- The Baring Foundation has announced that its Arts Programme 2011 will open for applications at the end of September 2010 and will continue with the same theme as last year, which is to support arts or...
- Welcome Trust Society Awards (UK)
- The Welcome Trust has announced that its Society Awards are now open for applications. Society Awards provide grants of over 30,000 for ambitious and creative projects that engage people of all ages a...
- The Wates Foundation
- The Wates Foundation aims to promote work that builds social values and responsibility and provides access to opportunities that address disadvantage. Awards are either one-off payments or a ser...
- Youth Music
- Open Programme and other schemes: grants for music with children and young people
Deadlines: 10 May, 10 Sept, 10 Dec 2010 and ongoingAreas of support: early years; children and young people in chal...
- NAN Go and see bursaries
- deadline: 1 March, 1 June, 1 September, 1 December 2010
NAN Go and see bursaries of up to £500 are artist-led, peer-reviewed bursaries supporting travel between artists' groups and networ...
- Clothworkers’ Foundation
- The Clothworkers’ Foundation welcomes applications for the following two grants programmes:
Main Grants Programme: open to UK registered charities with an annual turnover of under £10m....
- Student Cash Point
- Student Cash Point is the most comprehensive source of information on grants, loans, bursaries, scholarships and awards available to undergraduate and postgraduate students in the UK.
Millions of p...
- Young Roots
- Young Roots is a grant programme designed to engage young people aged 13-25 with their heritage.
Young Roots projects stem directly from the interest and ideas of young people, who are supported by...
- The BRIT Trust
- The BRIT Trust supports activities that encourage young people in the exploration and pursuit of educational, cultural or therapeutic benefits emanating from music.
The BRIT Trust does not consider...
- The Links Foundation
- The Links Foundation was launched in 2003 as a charitable trust and have provided vital funds to a diverse range of community groups to help provide facilities and services to improve the conditions o...
- B&Q waste donation scheme
- B&Q operates a waste donation scheme through all stores, donating waste materials, for example slightly damaged tins of paint, off-cuts of timber, and end of range materials, to community groups, ...
- Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust
- The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust awards grants to charitable organisations in the United Kingdom and overseas. The trustees welcome applications for projects within the following areas for the nex...
- The Skinners’ Company Lady Neville Charity
- deadline: mid-March and mid-September
The Skinners’ Company Lady Neville Charity was formally set up in 1978 following a bequest from Ralph Neville JP. Its aim is to provide grants that will ...
- UnLtd Sport Relief Awards (sport, art and recreational activities)
- First deadline for 'Do It' awards is 18 January 2010
UnLtd Sport Relief Awards are a UK-wide funding programme for 11 to 21 year olds who are prepared to go the extra mile and use their pas...
- The Fair Share Trust
- The Fair Share Trust, part of the Fair Share Initiative, was created to target areas throughout the UK that have previously received less than their 'fair share' of National Lottery funding. <...
- Unlimited - New fund for disabled artists
- Deadlines: 4 January and 1 October 2010; 18 April 2011
Unlimited is a new arts commissioning fund being run as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. The aim of the fund is to commission new wo...
- Fund for Older People (Quartet)
- Grants of up to £2500 are available from the foundation’s new Fund for Older People for small local organisations working to improve the lives and health of older people in the area. Appli...
- Frognal Trust Grants
- The Frognal Trust Grant is provided and administered by the Frognal Trust for third sector organisations in the UK. The grant is intended to support small registered charities that work in the followi...
- Children in Need announce new grants programme
- Children in Need is offering small grants of up to £10,000 a year for three years for third sector organisations working with children and young people.
It is the first time the organisation ...
- Tudor Trust Grants Programme
- The Tudor Trust, one of the largest independent grant making trusts in the UK, has announced new funding guidelines for the period 2009-11. Under the new guidelines, the Trust will continue to make gr...
- Holding a fundraising event – is there anything you need to know?
- The Directory of Social Change have published an online article entitled ?We want to hold a fundraising event – is there anything we need to know?’
Topics covered include:• What so...
- Wolfson Foundation
- The Wolfson Foundation was set up in 1955 and makes grants to registered charities in the UK. The foundation supports projects across the fields of science and technology, education and the arts, and ...
- The Sylvia Waddilove Foundation
- The Sylvia Waddilove Foundation provides grants to charities for:
? Educational projects; ? Music composition and performances; ? Herbal medicine; ? Medical research; ? Disability; ? Farming relate...
- MacRobert Trust
- The MacRobert Trust’s minor categories are:
? Agriculture and Horticulture? Arts and Music? Medical Care? Tarland and DeesideThe Trustees look for clear, realistic and attainable aims. Grants...
- Monument Trust
- Trustees of the Monument Trust make grants in the following areas:
? Arts and Heritage (arts, architectural and environmental projects of national or regional importance, including galleries, museu...
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