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Comic Relief - Local Communities Grants

28 Apr 2016 - 10:41 by michelle.foster

This programme aims to empower local people, enabling them to create lasting change in their communities. Projects should be run by people directly affected by the issues they are dealing with and priority will be given to small, locally based groups or organisations. Grants of up to £5,000 are available.

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Tesco Bags of Help grants

28 Apr 2016 - 10:40 by michelle.foster

The Bags of Help grant funds capital projects that provide community benefit that do not charge for access. The community grant scheme will support thousands of community green space projects each year with between £8,000 and £12,000.

Tesco award grants each year in around 400 Tesco regions to make sure the funding is spread evenly across England, Wales and Scotland. In total the Bags of Help programme supports thousands of projects each year.

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Neighbourhood Learning in Deprived Communities 2016-2017

28 Apr 2016 - 10:37 by michelle.foster

The main purpose of the Neighbourhood Learning in Deprived Communities (NLDC) fund is to reach disadvantaged communities and individuals, to enable them to participate in learning and to progress towards further learning and/or sustainable employment.

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Universal Credit Personal Budgeting Support Grant

28 Apr 2016 - 10:32 by michelle.foster

Manchester City Council are seeking applications for funding from Voluntary and Community Sector services / organisations who are able to provide Personal Budgeting Support for those who require advice and support for managing Universal Credit. The aim of the support is to help residents adapting to a single household payment, being paid monthly in arrears and to manage the housing element being paid directly to them rather than to the landlord.

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Trusthouse Charitable Foundation launches new funding criteria

28 Apr 2016 - 10:29 by michelle.foster

Trusthouse Charitable Foundation, founded in 1997, is a medium sized grantmaker distributing around £2.2 million a year to projects around the UK.

The grants target small, local projects working to address community issues in areas of extreme Urban Deprivation or remote, socio-economically deprived Rural Areas. Organisations need to have a demonstrable track record of success.

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Navigating Change – an analysis of financial trends for small and medium sized charities

28 Apr 2016 - 10:28 by michelle.foster

The past several years have been ones of financial upheaval, encompassing both the global financial crisis in 2007 and 2008 and cuts to public service spending under the Coalition government from 2010. Ongoing reductions in public spending have affected the voluntary sector as a whole; the most recent UK Civil Society Almanac showed that it lost £1.9bn from government between 2009/10 and 2012/13.

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Small Charity Week 2016 Big Advice Day - Tailored pro-bono advice for your small charity

28 Apr 2016 - 10:23 by michelle.foster

Big Advice Day, on 14 June, is offering your small charity the chance to access expert, pro bono advice on any topic.

Support is available from a range of professionals on any and every charity topic, you simply need to let them know what support you require and you’ll be matched with the right advisor.

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