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50 for Free: Free stays in historic buildings for charities and non-profits

50 for Free is back for its sixth year in a row. Once again, the Landmark Trust are offering 50 free, self-catering breaks in their amazing historic buildings to charities and non-profit organisations for their nominees in March 2019, absolutely free. That’s 50 short breaks in some of their most treasured Landmarks across England, Scotland and Wales going directly to those who most need a break. The Landmark Trust

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Charity Tech Survey

Institute for Voluntary Action Research are giving away eight £50 gift cards and a free 30-minute digital consultation for participants of a survey exploring how the use of technology could help smaller voluntary organisations to address challenges they face in the delivery of their services. IVAR and CAST

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Big Lottery Fund – Digital Fund

The Digital Fund is a new UK wide £15 million funding programme to support charities and community organisations. It is about helping the charity and voluntary sector to use digital tools and approaches to support people and communities to thrive. Big Lottery Fund

The Digital Fund is currently offering two strands of funding. To find the right kind of support for your organisation, choose one of the following options:

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Grow Wild Community Projects 2019

Grow Wild, the outreach project of Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, has two grant funds open for application: community projects and for youth-led projects.

They are interested in projects inspired by UK native wildflowers, plants and fungi, that help people connect to each other and nature.

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HMRC grant funding 2019-2020

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will allocate a guaranteed £1.6 million over the next year (April 2019 to 2020) to the voluntary and community sector (VCS) to support their customers who need extra help understanding and complying with their tax obligations and claiming their entitlements, including those who are currently digitally excluded. From 2020 HMRC will develop a longer term strategy, working with the VCS to provide the best support for customers who need extra help.

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Big Alcohol Conversation – financial support available

Would your organisation like to help Greater Manchester talk about alcohol?
Financial support is available to voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations who can help engage with local people on the topic of alcohol.

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One Manchester Catalyst Fund

One Manchester are always looking at ways to support new and growing businesses in their area and have allocated £50,000 to do just that.

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Comic Relief – Power Up: resourcing women’s and girls’ movements for change

The aim of this programme is to support a diverse range of women’s rights organisations to fight against systems which perpetuate the injustices they encounter in their daily lives. Comic Relief

Comic Relief wants to find and support women and girl’s movements to seed, sustain and strengthen change in the UK, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe, India, Nepal and Bangladesh.

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RADEQUAL VCS Call Out

Manchester City Council is looking for partners in the voluntary and community sector to support the next stages of development for the RADEQUAL grant programme. So if you are part of the RADEQUAL community network and have a tried and tested project that meets the RADEQUAL campaign objectives of tackling prejudice, hate and extremism, they would like to hear from you.