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The Gatsby Charitable Foundation

What can it fund? The Trustees make grants for charitable activity which they hope may make life better for people, especially those who are disadvantaged. One area is disadvantaged Children The Trustees have three main interests:

• language and communication development
• exclusion from school or family life
• mental health

Find out more visit the The Gatsby Charitable Foundation website.

The Goldsmiths' Company

The thrust of the Goldsmiths' Company's grant-making falls into three main areas:

General Charitable Support The largest area of grant-making is towards general charitable needs, ranging from the disadvantaged in society and general welfare, to the churches, heritage and the arts.

Support of the Goldsmiths' Craft Support for trade training is given to higher and further educational establishments and to students and apprentices, to promote excellence in design and craftsmanship.

Education The Goldsmiths' Company Charity sponsors a number of educational initiatives directed mainly towards primary and secondary education.

For more information visit the Goldsmiths Company Charities website.

The Garfield Weston Foundation

The Garfield Weston Foundation is a UK based, general grant-giving charity. Garfield Weston Foundation has helped a wide range of organisations with grants of varying sizes. Recent rounds of funding have helped projects in the following categories: Arts, Community, Education, Welfare, Medical, Social, Religion, Youth and Environment. There is no deadline for applications, which are normally processed within three months of receipt. Find out more, visit the Garfield Weston Foundation website.

Government Funding Website

What can it fund? This site is your online portal to grants for the voluntary and community sector from the following funders: Department for Education and Skills, Department of Health, Home Office, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Government Offices for the Regions. The following search options are available: Search for specific schemes: Find grant specific to your organisation's location and areas of interest. Browse Funders: Find grants available from a specific funder. Browse schemes: Information on all available grants. Full details are available from the Government Funding website.

Grants 4 Funding Portals

How can they help? Grants 4 aims to work in partnership with Local Authorities to provide access to funding information, via local funding portals, that is relevant to local organisations such as:

• Local Community and Voluntary Groups
• Local Support Agencies such as Council's for Voluntary Services. Rural Community Councils, Citizens Advice Bureaus, etc
• Social Enterprises
• Local Businesses, in particular Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
• Local Partnerships and Initiatives such as Local Strategic Partnerships, New Deal for Communities and Single Regeneration Budget based partnerships,etc

Each Grants 4 local funding portal is based on the widely used Grants Online database. The information on the funding portal is structured in such a way that only grants information relevant to a local area is displayed. This means that only grants for which local organisations can apply for will be highlighted through the funding portal. For more information visit the Grants 4 Funding Portal.

GrantsNet

How can they help? GrantsNet gives information about grant schemes available to businesses and charities in the UK. Here you will find comprehensive information about grant support schemes for UK businesses and charities. GrantsNet aims to reduce the efforts and costs, of identifying and applying for a grant.

Free Grant Alert Service The Grant Alert service keeps you up to date with all the latest grants. This service is free to everyone. Tell them which type of grant schemes you are interested in and the Grant Alert service will keep you informed. Find out more visit GrantsNet website.

Heritage Directory of Funding Sources

The free, national web-based Directory provides a comprehensive guide to sources for anyone undertaking heritage projects in areas such as: historic landscapes, parks and gardens; industrial, transport and maritime heritage; archives and spoken history; archaeology; heritage skills and conservation; and heritage interpretation and education. It also covers historic churches and other buildings, although the built heritage is covered more fully in the sister website Funds for Historic Buildings. The Directory details organisations in both the public and private sectors, from the National Lottery to charitable trusts, that offer grants, loans, scholarships and bursaries, education and various forms of “in kind” assistance.

The Directory includes details of virtually all substantive funding sources which directly support the heritage sector, as well as many which provide funding for the heritage within a broader remit.

Please make voluntary heritage groups in your area aware of this facility. You are encouraged to include a link from your funding page straight to the Directory. Visit Heritage Directory of Funding Sources website for more information.

Heritage Lottery Fund

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) was set up by Parliament in 1994 to give grants to a wide range of projects involving the local, regional and national heritage of the United Kingdom. We distribute a share of the money raised by the National Lottery for Good Causes.

This year, we will allocate around £255 million to projects in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Since 1994, the HLF has awarded over £3.97 billion to more than 26,000 projects across the UK.

We are officially known as a ‘non-departmental public body’. This means that, although we are not a government department, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport issues financial directions to us and we report to Parliament through the department. Our decisions about individual applications and policies are entirely independent.

HLF is administered by the Trustees of the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) which allocates around £10 million per annum to our national heritage, acting as a fund of ‘last resort’.

For more information go to www.hlf.org.uk

Henry Moore Foundation

Foundation accepts applications from Art galleroes, museums, organisations and institutions concerned wth art and art history, including UK universities. Support is concentrated on sculpture. Areas covered include student bursaries, fellowship for artists and grants to art institutions, galleries and museums. Typical projects include exhibitions, publications, commissions, conferences, workshops and lecture series.

Grants from £500 upward depending on type of project. A very small number of grants of up to £50,000 are awarded each year Applications considered at quarterley meetings of the Grants Committee. For more information visit the Henry Moore Foundation website.

The Henry Smith Charity

Makes grants totaling over ?20 million per annum for a wide range of purposes across the UK, funded from investments. Here are a few examples of programme areas: Young People Projects that provide support to young people at risk particularly those living in areas of considerable deprivation. Community Service Projects that provide support for communities in areas of considerable deprivation including ethnic minority groups. This could include projects providing employment for the disadvantaged, shelter and necessities of life such as furniture for the homeless, or work with offenders. Family Services Projects which provide support to families at risk.

Applications can be submitted at any time during the year. A letter acknowledging the application will be sent within two weeks of receipt. Trustees meet quarterly at the beginning of March, June, September and December to consider applications. Applications must be received at least 8 weeks prior to a meeting in order to be considered at the next meeting. Find out more, visit the Henry Smith Charity website.

Idlewild Trust

For registered charities (not individuals) concerned with the encouragement od excellence in the performing and fine arts and the preservation for the benefit of the public of buildings and items of historical interest or national importance. The Trust's interest is national and it is unlikely to support a project of local, parochial interest only. Average grant between £750 and £3,500.
Applications may be made at any time, but the Trustees meet twice yearly to consider applications, usually in March and November. Closing dates are about 2 months before each meeting. For more details visit the Idlewild Trust website.

Joseph Rowntree

What can it fund? The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is one of the largest independent social policy research and development charities in the UK. It supports a wide programme of research and development projects in housing, poverty and disadvantage, drugs and alcohol, immigration and inclusion, parenting, and social care and social policy. Full details and application forms are available from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation website.

Jerwood Charity

What can it fund? The Jerwood Charity has certain primary fields of interest, although these are constantly being reviewed and developed. All applicants should carefully read the exclusions before preparing an application.

The Arts The Charity is a major sponsor of all areas of the performing and visual arts. We are particularly interested in projects which involve rewards for excellence and the encouragement and recognition of outstanding talent and high standards, or which enable an organisation to become viable and self financing.

Education The Charity aims to support projects which are educational in the widest sense. Currently, preference is given to initiatives benefiting young people who have completed school and university or other similar further education and are continuing their vocational and educational development.

Other Fields The Jerwood Charity retains a small allocation for projects and award schemes within the fields of science, engineering, environment and conservation.

Jerwood Prizes/Awards The Jerwood Charity will continue to fund and monitor established awards such as the Jerwood Painting Prize, Jerwood Applied Arts Awards with the Crafts Council, the Jerwood Choreography Awards with the Arts Council of England and Dance Umbrella, the Season of New Playwrights at the Royal Court Theatre and the Jerwood Art Commissions. The Charity makes revenue donations on a 'one off' basis. There is a strong element of challenge funding, whereby the Charity will make a grant provided the recipient or other interested party, such as central Government or Local Authority can match the remaining shortfall. Find out more from the Jerwood Charity website.

J. Paul Getty Jr. Charitable Trust

What can it fund?The Trust aims to fund projects to alleviate poverty and misery in general, and unpopular causes in particular, within the U.K. The emphasis is on self-help and enabling people to reach their potential. The Trustees favour small community and local projects which make good use of volunteers. There are 4 main beneficial areas: Social Welfare, Therapeutic Use of the Arts, Conservation and the Environment. Most of the funding is given to Social Welfare, as you will see if you look at the Annual Report. Grants are usually in the £5 - £15,000 range, for both capital and revenue. Those for salaries or running costs can be repeated on an annual basis for a maximum of 3 years.

Applications are processed all the time, and three months is the least it usually takes to award a grant. Some small grants of up to £2,000 are also made in between the quarterly trustee meetings. Priority is likely to be given to projects in the less prosperous parts of the country, particularly outside London and the South East, and to those which cover more than one beneficial area. Full details are available from The J Paul Getty Jr Charitable Trust website.

Jodi Awards

Give recognition to museum, gallery, library, archive or heritage websites in England and Wales that demonstrate commitment to making cultural and learning resources accessible to disabled people. For the first time, the 2007 awards are extended to include any project that uses technology to provide access to collections and learning for disabled people e.g websites, interactive objects, PDA's, audio-guides, virtual reality shows etc. For more information visit The Museums, Libraries and Archives (MLA) website.

John Coates Charitable Trust

Main Themes: Health, Community, Environment, ts. Groups must be registered charities. No individuals may apply. Grants are up to £15,000.
For more information contact:

John Coates Charitable Trust,
Crockmore House,
Fawley, Henley on Thames,
Oxon, RG9 6HY
Telephone: 01491 573367

Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales

What can it fund? Lloyds TSB Foundation is a grant-making trust and they make grants to charities. Their mission is to support and work in partnership with charitable organisations which help people, especially those who are disadvantaged or disabled, to play a fuller role in communities throughout England and Wales. Particular interest in supporting charities working in the three fields described below.

• Family support - work which aims to give people skills in parenting, caring and relationships, and to give them the support they need to be good parents and carers and therefore to improve the quality of family life.
• Challenging disadvantage and discrimination - work which raises awareness and understanding of discrimination and disadvantage, encourages people to play a part in the decisions which affect their lives or promotes a wide involvement in the community.
• Helping to make the voluntary sector more effective - work which improves management skills or encourages charities to work together and share good practice and therefore to enhance the sector's capacity to provide effective services

Full details and application forms are available from the Lloyds TSB Foundations website.

JPMorgan Chase

In 2006, JPMorgan Chase will give more than $100 million through grants and sponsorships to thousands of not-for-profit organizations around the world. The firm also supports the individual interests of its global employee population through the Matching Gift program and offers opportunities to give back to the communities we serve through a range of volunteerism activities initiated by colleagues supporting our local, regional or national markets across the world. Youth education - help young people succeed in life and in work and what we fund:

• We support programs that promote early childhood literacy and school readiness.
• We promote partnerships that build capacity within public schools, with particular emphasis on programs that support the middle-school years and engage students in the arts and/or technology.
• We support financial literacy programs for young people.
• We support programs that help non-traditional and underserved students prepare for and gain access to college.

Trustees meet quarterley in April, July, October and January

For more information please visit the JPMorgan Chase website.

Local Network Fund for Children and Young People

Would a small grant hel;p you make a difference to the lives of children or young people who are in poverty or at a disadvantage?
The Local Network Fund is a programme of the Children and Young Peoples Unit; a cross government initiative set up to co-ordinate government policy and services for children and young people. The government believes that communities have the power to make a real difference to the lives of disadvantaged children. The objective of the Local Network Fund for children and young people is to give communities the chance to make that difference.

Who can apply - If you are a small local group, perhaps of young people or parents, and you need between £250 and £7000 to organise or run an activity with disadvantaged children or young people, the Local Network Fund may be able to help.
You must satisfy all the following criteria:

• You must be based in England
• You need to be locally managed small voluntary, community or self-help group.
• Most of the children and young people benefiting from your activity must be facing disadvantage or poverty.
• Your activity must focus on children and young people
• You must have people volunteering to help with your activity that are not part of your management committee

Cannot be funded:

• Individuals
• Statutory organisations
• National organisations
• Activities that help only one child or family
• Activities that are intended solely to benefit the users of statutory services (such as primary schools).
• Projects for personal profit - applications must have a charitable purpose
• Activities where the primary purpose is to promote religious beliefs, or where people are excluded on religious grounds
• Political groups or activities promoting political beliefs
• Grant making bodies applying for funding to redistribute to individuals or groups
• Organisations that already hold a grant from Local Network Fund - froups are only able to hold one grant at a time

Please telephone 0845 113 0161 (RNID Typetalk 180001 0845 113 0161) for an application form

Learning and Skills Council (LSC)

The LSC funds over 16's learning, including family learning. The LSC website provides information on its funding streams and has a menu to help you select the area of funding you are interested in. Find out more visit the Learning and Skills Council website or contact your local LSC.

The Local Network Fund for Children and Young People

is a DfES programme which supports small voluntary and community groups to improve outcomes and opportunities for vulnerable children and young people aged 0-19. Applications are invited under the themes:

• Aspirations and experience Projects that help children and young people achieve goals that they would otherwise be unable to achieve.
• Economic disadvantage Projects that help families improve their living standards and cope with difficulties that come from being on low income.
• Isolation and access Projects that support and provide opportunities for children and young people who may feel isolated, alone and/or have difficulty accessing services that are available to other children and young people.
• Children's voices Projects that give children and young people the chance to express their opinions and contribute to improving policy and service on issues that concern them.

The DfES works in partnership with community foundations, rural community councils, councils for voluntary service and grant making trusts to provide an experienced fund administrator in each area. Decisions on allocating funding are made by assessment panels comprising people with knowledge of issues faced by children in the communities served by the funds.

Applying for a grant: Local community groups who want to apply for a Local Network Fund grant can contact the National Call Centre on 0845 113 0161 (RNID type talk number 18001 0845 113 0161) for an application pack. Calls are charged at the local rate.

The Mercers' Charitable Foundation

The Charity's principal object is to make grants and donations for the benefit of a wide range of charitable purposes including welfare, education, the arts, heritage and religion. The Company has several categories of grant making. The principle areas of support are: General Welfare, including care for the elderly and Education. There are also programmes to support the Christian faith and Heritage and a small Arts budget. For each of the four main categories of grant making, there are specific guidelines dealing with the priorities and exclusions.
The four categories are:
General Welfare - see current focus on work with offenders
Education - The Company seeks to improve the availability and quality of educational opportunities for children and young adults especially in London and the West Midlands with emphasis on the State maintained sector. The Company is especially interested in schemes which:

• promote the effective management of schools and colleges where the grant will encourage the enhancement of educational opportunity and curricular provision
• provide help for children and young adults with special educational needs including thedevelopment of gifted and talented young people
• provide ways of increasing parental and community support for learning
• use art, drama, dance, music and sport to enrich and extend educational opportunity
• offer advice and support to schools as to ways in which to deal with social problems, behaviour,substance abuse, bullying, bereavement etc
•  support secondary schools in improving literacy levels amongst pupils

Advancement of the Christian Religion
Heritage and the Arts
For more information and closing date deadlines please visit The Mercers’ Company website.

Microsoft Giving Programme

The Microsoft Giving Programme provides support in kind to hundreds of charity and community groups in the UK. Charities and non-profit organisations can apply every three years. Unfortunately they are unable to provide multiple donations to any single charity, or to local community groups affiliated with national organisations. They support a wide range of projects and are particularly interested in projects that improve access to technology for disadvantaged communities.

The Microsoft Community Learning Awards will distribute 30 awards of £2,500 to community groups and charities across the UK. This is your opportunity to tell us how you are already providing IT training and how a grant from Microsoft could enhance the contribution you are making in your community.

Find out more by visiting the Microsoft UK Communities website.

The Nationwide Foundation

The Foundation makes donations to charitable and not-for-profit organisations from funds made up of contributions from Nationwide Building Society, Society employees, members and customers. There are two grants programmes:

• Small Grants Programme - this offers one-off grants of up to £1,500 to charities with an income of under ?250,000, for work which supports people affected by Domestic Violence.
• Investor Programme - Supporting Families - an innovative funding programme encompassing 3 key aims. We are currently focusing on the first of these aims which is concerned with the support of those affected by, and the prevention of Domestic Violence

Full details and application forms are available from The Nationwide Foundation website.

Neighbourhood Renewal Unit

The Neighbourhood Renewal Fund (NRF) aims to enable England's 88 most deprived authorities, in collaboration with their Local Strategic Partnership (LSP), to improve services, narrowing the gap between deprived area and the rest of the country. NRF is a targeted grant that can be spent in any way that will tackle deprivation in the most deprived neighbourhoods. The grant is intended as time-limited funding to facilitate the more effective, long-term targeting of mainstream resources.

Local Strategic Partnerships and Community Empowerment Networks are now taking forward Local Neighbourhood Renewal Strategies at neighbourhood level. To assist this, the NRU's three Community Participation programmes (Community Chests, Community Learning Chests and Community Empowerment Fund) have been merged into the Single Community Programme. To find out more information visit Single Community Programme website.

The Nestle Trust

The Nestle Trust donates over £2 million in financial and product donations to 3,000 charities and good causes. The Nestl? Trust is the umbrella by which Nestl? UK manages and attributes all its community and charitable activities. The key area for support for the Nestl? Trust is young people, specifically teenagers aged 11-18.

We consider support for this group in various fields but particularly: Out of school childcare and education; Arts and culture; Sport; Nutrition, health and wellbeing. At a local level, requests are also considered from the wider community, including community development, environment and medical activities. To find out more visit The Nestle Trust website.

The National Trust

While the National Trust does not have funds to offer, it is keen to work with local groups for mutual advantage giving educational opportunities, for instance, to arts, youth or environmental groups. Projects or events may in turn attract funding from elsewhere.

To find out what is happening in your area contact your local National Trust Learning and Interpretation Officer or alternatively contact:

The Head of Learning,
The National Trust,
Heelis, Kemble Drive, Swindon SN2 2NA
Telephone: 01793 817575
Email: learning@nationaltrust.org.uk or visit The National Trust website.