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Abbey

Charitable Priorities.
The Trustees are committed to supporting local communities,particularly in those areas where Abbey has a significant presence, by supporting disadvantaged people through education and training.
Full details and application forms are available from the About Abbey website or
PO Box 911, Milton Keynes, MK9 1AD or
Email: communitypartnership@abbey.com

Access Funds

Grants information for the British Charitable and non-profit sector.
Access funds has a range of services to help you fundraise.These include our email service and training courses. The site also contains directories of funding programmes and guides to funding.
For more information visit the Access Funds website.

Action Earth Programme

The enviroment agency - Action Earth Programme has small grants available for community projects that improve the local enviroment. Projects must:

• Be practical and visual
• Have an immediate or lasting benefit to the enviroment
• Involve volunteers (new/existing)

Full details and application forms available from the at Action Earth website.

The Adventure Capital Fund

The Adventure Capital Fund (ACF) was launched in December 2002. It was set up to make new forms of investment in communtiy organisations. It aims to stengthen local communities by investing in organisations that work in and for those communities.
For more information visit the Adventure Capital Fund website.

Aimhigher - Partnerships for Progression (P4P)

Aimhigher - P4P builds upon the extensive regional and local partnerships which already exist between higher and further education (HE and FE). It operates nine regions covering the whole of England. A list of regional lead contacts appears on the Aim Higher website.

Alcan Prize for Sustainability

Recognises not-for-profit organisations for contributions to economic, enviromental and/or social sustainabilty, is open for this year's nominations.
For more information visit the Alcan Prize For Sustainability website.

The Allen Lane Foundation

The Foundation is a Charitable Trust which makes grants in the UK ( and, for a small programme, in the Republic of Ireland). It makes grants to voluntary not-for-profit organisations (which need to be registered as charities, provided work carried out is charitable) which are small (as its grants are small) and where the work benefits groups of people who are unpopular in UK society today. 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 £5000 per annum, for a maximum of three years
To find out more visit the Allen Lane Foundation website.

Alliance & Leicester

Corporate social responsibilty and a clear commitment to the Community form an important part of Alliance & Leicester's business activities.
For more information visit the Alliance & Leicester website.

Argos

Charitable Donation
Argos focuses on charities and groups that help young people get the best opportunities in life, for better health, education and enviroment - especially projects that offer support to local communities in both the UK and Republic of Ireland. To find out more visit the About Argos website.

Arts Council England

is the national development agency for the arts in England, distiributing public money form the Government and the National Lottery. Support is aimed at arts organisations, touring arts groups, or non-arts organisations who want to bring arts into their work.
Grants for organisations - from £200 to £100,000 available for arts organisations for projects lasting up to one year. This can include capital items, training, research commissions, residencies, arts activities, projects, events, marketing, education, audience development and improving long term stability.
Grants for individuals - from £200 up to £30,000 to grants to cover activities lasting up to 12 months. Larger grants may be awarded for major projects and residencies. The average grant to individulas in 2004/05 was £5,000.
To find out more visit the Arts Council website, or phone 0845 300 6200 for an application pack. Email enquiries@artscouncil.org.uk

Arts Focus

supports projects which enable the disabled and people living in the areas of need and poverty to participate in the performance arts and to experoence artistic excellence in the performing arts projects which encourage and give opportunities to young talented people whose circumstances might otherwise deny them. For more information visit the Trust House Charitable Foundation website or call Richard Hopgood on 0207 320 6996

The Association of Charitable Foundations

The Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF) is the UK support organisation for grant-making trusts and foundations of all types. This website has an extensive list of charitable Foundations with the links to their websites.
To find out more go to www.acf.org.uk

Awards for All

Following a review of the Awards for All England programme, changes are to be made to the small grants scheme’s existing format when it comes to an end in March 2009. Currently Awards for All England is a joint Lottery grants programme supported by Arts Council England, Big Lottery Fund, Heritage Lottery Fund and Sport England.
From 1 April 2009 each of the lottery distributors supporting the scheme will have their own small grants programmes up and running. Applications can still be made under the current arrangements until 31 March 2009.

The change will mean that each distributor can better address the needs of their applicants and the themes they support. Overall, across all the distributors, it is anticipated that new money available for small grants in 2009-10 will be comparable to money that was available to community groups through Awards for All in 2008-2009.

To ensure this change will be as seamless as possible, the distributors will each run their own small grants programme as follows:

• Big Lottery Fund will launch a new small grants programme on 1 April 2009 awarding grants of £300 to £10,000 to local communities in 2009-2010.
• Sport England will provide small grants for sports ranging from £300 - £10,000 from 1 April 2009.
• Arts Council England will provide small grants through their existing ‘Grants for the arts’ programme, supporting awards between £1,000 and £100,000.
• Heritage Lottery Fund small grants will be provided through the existing 'Your Heritage' (£3,000 to £50,000) and 'Young Roots (£3,000 to £25,000) schemes.

For more information please go to the Awards For All website.

B&Q Better Neighbour Grants

Every B&Q store is striving to be a 'better neighbour' by forming partnerships within its local community. Through the Better Neighbour Grant Scheme, schools, community groups and charitable organisations can apply to their local B&Q store for funding to support a local community project. The B&Q Better Neighbour Grants are available to help get a community project up and running. The scheme provides £50 to £500 (at retail cost) of B&Q materials, for exmaple, pond liners, plants, peat-free compost for projects such as pond/wildlife garden or paints labelled low or minimal VOC for redecoration projects.
For further details visit the B&Q website.

Barclays Bank

Sponsorships & Donations - focus for financial support is on five areas - education, the enviroment, the arts, people with disabilities and social inclusion. Barclays generally fund projects between £1000 and £25,000 on a local or regional basis, although they will consider larger grants for projects that will benefit significant numbers of people, or that will have a substantial positive impact. Full details available at the Barclays Sponsorship and Donations website.

Baring Foundation

The Baring Foundation has announced that it will open its funding programme concerned with the voluntary sector development in March 2006. The Baring Foundation have specific grants programmes concerned with voluntary sector development, international work and the arts (currently open to application).  Contact 020 7767 1348, email - baring.foundation@uk.ing.com or visit the Baring Foundation website.

BBC Children in Need

BBC Children in Need distributes grants to voluntary organisations, self-help groups and registered charities that work with disadvantaged children below the age of 18 living in the UK, Channel Islands or the Isle of Man. Grant applications are accepted for good quality, carefully
planned projects which make a positive difference to childrens lives. For an application form, please email pudsey@bbc.co.uk or to find out more visit the BBC Children in Need website.

Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation

Projects for a wide variety of charitable purposes including: education; arts; heritage; youth; community; conservation; housing; health; medical research. Open to registered charities, including schools. Grants range £200 to £5,000 exceptional projects may receive more. The Foundation does not issue strict guidance upon the type of project funded and applications may be made at any time. Tel 020 7408 2198 or email asstdirbsunleycharfund@ukgateway.net

Big Lottery

For more information visit the Big Lottery Fund website.

Bite Size

Only available in some regions, Bite Size is funding offered by the :Learning and Skills Council, a national organisation responsible for promoting and funding learning for those over the age of 16 in England.Full details available from you local LSC

British Council Visual Arts Department - Grants to Artists.

If you are a  visual artists resident in the UK ten the British Council may be able to help you with the costs of transporting work to an exhibition in a gallery abroad.
The scheme is competitive and is administered by the Visual Arts Department with guidance from their Visual Arts Advisory Committee and British Council Directorates overseas. This scheme is not open to artists exhibiting in the UK. Please visit the British Council Grants to Artists website.

BT Community Website Builder

Allows registered UK charities, non-profit making organisations amd volunteer led groups or organisations to build and maintain their own website free of charge, all you need is a computer, an internet connection and a web browser.

BT Communication

The well established BT Education team focuses exclusively on education throughout the UK and helping to raise education standards by improving opportunities for learning and development. To find out more visit: the BT Education website or the BT Society and Enviroment website.

The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

The categories of grant making are arts, education, social welfare and cultural relations. One example under education is Helping Schools: Helping parents. Funding is offered to provide educational opportunities for hard to reach parents with particular emphasis on parenting skills and supporting parents with childrens development. Find out more visit the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation website.

Camelot Foundation

Camelot Foundation have taken the view that sustained investment in a relatively narrow field is one of the most important ways that they can maximise the impact of our giving. At the heart of their work will be young people who have slipped out of the mainstream of society, or are in danger of doing so. Visit the Camelot Foundation website for more information.

Carnegie United Kingdom Trust

The trust has a high reputation as a think-tank and grant-giver in the United Kingdom and Ireland. In the past the Trust is probably best known for its work in building and supporting libraries. Find out more visit the Carnegie UK Trust website.

The Certificate in Grantmanship Level 3

Fundraising Training for Community Leaders and Volunteers. This online fundraising programme is aimed at volunteer fundraising working in a community setting. It introduces you to the key fundraising principles, showing you how to become a more creative and successful fundraiser. A full colour brochure for the course is available to download from the Fundraising Skills Grants Training website.

The Charity Bank

The Charity Bank is a fully authorised bank that is also a registered charity. They offer affordable loans for charity purposes such as social enterprises, short term bridging loans, working capital loans and more. Loans are generally for periods from 6 months to 10 years, with loans for the purchase of property for periods up to 25 years.

Call the Charity Bank to get advice or discuss your needs on 01732 774050 or visit the Charity Bank website.

The Charities Information Bureau

The website has a wide range of useful links to a host of funding providers, and information and advice on applying for funding for the Community and Voluntary sector. Full details visit the Charities Information Bureau website.

Clore Duffield Foundation: Small Grants Programme

Small Grants Programme totalling £1 million over 5 years, to fund performing arts eduacation initiatives for children ( over 18). The Programme will fund project costs ranging from £1,000 to £10,000. Requests are considered twice a year, with closing dates in early April and September. Please visit www.cloreduffield.org.uk

The Clothworkers Foundation

The foundation aims through its funding to improve the quality of life, particularly for people and communities that face disadvantage. They are open to appeals from around the UK in all areas of charitable giving. For more information visit the Clothworkers Foundation website.

Comic Relief

Comic Relief operates 3 grants funds for work within the UK. Each of these has different criteria and different application processes and deadlines.
Find out more visit the Comic Relief website.

Commonwealth Foundation

Alongside its civil society work, the Commonwealth Foundation also has a mandate to support arts and culture in the Commonwealth. The Foundation recognises the value of cultural and artistic expression to national life, and the central place of culture in development. It currently supports cultural exchange through a range of programmes. Visit the Commonwealth Foundation Grants website for more information.

Connecting Communities Plus Grant Fund

If your organisation is geared towards good community relations  and race equality there is funding that could help you fulfil your goals. To find out more visit the Connecting Communities Plus Grant Fund website.

Co-Operative Bank

The Co-Operative Banks community funding programme is designed to support charities, voluntary and community organisations.
For full details and application forms visit the Co-Operative Bank website.

Creative Learning

Aim is to make the UK a world leader in creative learning, a place where people of all ages be inspired and engaged by science, technology and the arts. To this end, we support innovative learning projects, not just by providing funding, but also through encouraging  active evaluation and dissemination. The average award is around £80,000 but we can fund projects costing from £1000 to £200,000 or more. If you have an exciting learning idea which appears to fit the funding priorities for 2006/07 please visit the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) website.

Culture online

Culture Online is an innovative initiative to increase access to, and participation in arts and culture. It brings together cultural organisations with cutting-edge technical providers to create projects that will delight adults and children of all ages and backgrounds. Find out more visit the Culture Online website.

Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund

The overall theme for our UK grants  programme remains The Transition to Adulthood and Independence. Applications are invited for work with young people between the ages of 12 and 25 within three broad categories; those at risk of developing or who experience mental ill health, young refugees and asylum seekers and young people who are part of a prisoners family. Their grants range between £15,000 and £80,000 a year. They will fund for a maximum of three years. Please visit www.theworkcontinues.org for more information.

Directory of Charitable Trusts

This website has a directory of Websites and are available to help Voluntary Organisations, particular new, small, and emerging groups to locate and ascertain Charitable Trusts - they are listed in alphabetical order. For more information please visit the A-Z Directory of Grant Making Trusts website.

Direct Support

Direct Support is a free advice and mentoring service. Direct Support is now funded by Ufi. Thjey focus mainly on community and voluntary UK online centres, but can assist any type of centre or partnership in need of guidance. Regular updates and commentaries on funding are provided within the Direct Support on line service. They also help with developing plans for funding, sustainability and business planning. This site helps you have ways of knowing whats up and coming, and what all the inevitable acronyms mean with some useful pointers and links.
Find out more visit the Direct Support website or to direct to funding page visit the Direct Support Funding page.

DSC

Helps voluntary and community organisations to thrive through advice on

• how to raise the money they need
• how to manage their resources to maximum effect
• how to influence the right people
• what their rights and responsibilities are
• how to plan and develop for the future

The Directory of Social Change (DSC) have launched three websites, and to access funding information  there is a subscription fee. These are the Trust Funding website, the Company Giving website and the Grants for Individuals website.

DSG International Community Investment

As a leading European electical and a UK household name, DSG international is committed to give something back to the communities in which our customers and employees live. Support is given in various ways to both local and national charities. Only groups or charities meeting our criteria and situated near one of our stores/sites will have a chance of a successful application.
For more information visit the DSG international Foundation website.

EMI Music Sound Foundation

The EMI Music Sound Foundation is dedicated to the improvement of music education with a focus on youth. Preference is given to full-time students under the age of 25.
Support is given to:

• Non-specialist schools to fund music education
• Music students in full time education to fund instrument purchase
• Music teachers to fund courses and training

For more information visit the EMI Music Sound Foundation website.

Esmee Fairbairn Foundation

Esmee Fairbairn fund charitable and not for profit organisations only. It is one of the largest independant grant making foundations in the UK. The grants are in four programme areas: Arts & Heritage, Education, Enviroment and Social Development.
Full details and application forms available at  http://www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk

Faith Communities Capacity Building Fund

A fund has been launched as part of the Government's Improving Opportunity and Strengthening Society strategy. The fund will support the Government's aim to help faith communities promote understanding and dialogue. For more information visit The Community Development Foundation website.

First Light

Pilot Awards - open to any constituted youth focused organisation. For one film between 1 and 5 minutes long. Maximum grant is £5,000. Partnership funding: A minimum of 30% of the total project cost with at least 15% in cash. Timnescale is 4 months.
First Light Studio Awards - open to organisations having a track record of filmmaking with young people and proven outreach ability, or strong partners with all relevant skills. To make 2 to 6 films of 5 to 10 minutes long. Maximum grant is £6,000 per film with a maximum grant of £36,000 for the whole proposal.. Partnership Funding: A minimum of 50% of the total proposal costs with at least 25% in cash. Timescale is 8 months.
Funding packs are available online or you call 0870 7703245 for an application.
Find out more visit the First Light Movies Funding website.

Football Foundation

The football foundation website has information on a number of funding streams these include:- Capital Projects Scheme Funding is available to refurbish or construct changing rooms, grass or artificial pitches and clubhouses for community benefit across the country.
Projects Scheme funds applications to school football specific projects. Grants of up to £1million are available to 20,000 primary and secondary schools across England, this funding is only available when linked to capital applications.
Goalpost Safety Scheme provides funding for the replacement of unsafe goalposts that have been responsible for causing the death and injury of dozens of children.
Community and Education Scheme - funds a maximum of £250,000 over five years, to increase participation and volunteering in sport and to encourage the adoption of healthy lifestyles by creating opportunities for all.
Community and Education Small Grants Scheme provides funding of up to £9,000 for projects with a cost of £10,000 or less. Funding is available  for the introduction of new activity, which aims to increase participation and provide training for volunteers to support grassroots football.
Junior Kit Scheme funds applications up to £400 in the form of a voucher. Schools may only receive one grant every three years. Clubs may apply for two vouchers every three years, as long as one application is for a girls' team and the other is for a boys' team.
Full details and application forms available at the Football Foundation website or call free on 0800 0277766.

The Foundation for Sports and Arts

Support for a wide range of activities which have a clear beneficial impact across the community. With particular support to encourage active participation by young people. The Foundation supports the arts covers the widest spectrum of activity. Please visit The Foundation for Sport and the Arts website.

Foyle Foundation

The Trustees will support charities registered in the United Kingdom, the dominant purpose of which is to benefit Learning, the Arts and Health.
Full guidelines and application form can be downloaded from their website. Email: information@foylefoundation.org.uk or visit The Foyle Foundation website.

Funding Neighbourhood Learning

NIACE has produced a guide Funding Neighbourhood Learning to assist small voluntary and community groups. By Lyne Bryan and Cheryl Turner. Whether learning is a core objective or an embedded part of a wider project, this practical guide will help to demystify the process.
Full details are available from the Funding Neighbourhood Learning website or by calling 0116 2044 216.

FunderFinder

Funderfinder is not a funding body, but develops and distibutes software to help individuals and not-for-profit organisations in the UK to identify charitable trusts that might give them funds. Two versions PIN people in need and GIN groups in need.
Full details of the software are available from the FunderFinder's website.

Futurebuilders

Futurebuilders' aims to include reducing the grant dependency of the voluntary  and community sector. Futurebuilders aims to improve public service delivery through long-term investment in the volunatry and community sector in England. If you are interested in applying to Futurebuilders, you must be prepared to take on a loan and enter into a service delivery contract with a public agency (for example a Local Authiority or Primary Care Trust).
Full details  and application forms available from the Futurebuilders Funding website.