Capacity Building

The Royal Brewery Fund will support activity that encourage health, wellbeing, self-esteem and self-confidence especially through education, training and/or physical activity, encourage community pride, strengthen networks or bring different parts of the community together.

The Fund will be used solely to support registered charities and constituted community projects working in the following fields:
• Arts, music and culture
• Environment
• Social inclusion
• Social, economic regeneration
• Local community
• Education

Express Solicitors aim to support the activities of local community or voluntary groups and projects that contribute positively to the quality of life, wellbeing and happiness of communities.

The Express Solicitors Fund is specifically for community groups in the Northenden and Wythenshawe areas of Manchester.

The maximum award is £500

To apply contact the Forever Manchester Awards Team on 0161 214 0940 to discuss your project and to request the application form.

Deadline: Saturday 30 August 2014
 

Do you have a great idea for a community enterprise? Why not capture it on film and enter the Power to Change competition to win £1,000.

Send a short film (2-3 minutes – no longer) about an enterprise you’d like to start in your community. Maybe there’s an empty shop you could imagine transformed into a technology hub or a pub closing down which, with some top music nights, could be the centre of the community.

The Yorkshire Building Society is inviting UK registered charities to apply for one of the 10 donations of £10,000 that are available through the £150,000 fund.

The Lasting Legacy Fund was created with the aim of leaving a lasting impact in the communities that the Yorkshire Building Society serves across the UK.

Macmillan provides grants for groups and individuals who support people affected by cancer or campaign to improve cancer care.

What sort of things can I apply for a Supporting You to Help Others grant for?
• Start up costs for a Self-help and Support group
• Development applications e.g. for groups to expand and extend their reach for both Self Help and Support and User Involvement
• Combined applications for those that include Self Help and Support and User Involvement

The BBC Children in Need Main Grants programme is open to charities and not-for-profit organisations applying for grants over £10,000 per year for up to three years.

BBC Children in Need give grants for...
Children and young people of 18 years and under experiencing disadvantage through:
1. Illness, distress, abuse or neglect
2. Any kind of disability
3. Behavioural or psychological difficulties
4. Living in poverty or situations of deprivation

Nesta have set up the Policy and Research Bright Ideas Research Fund to provide small grants to develop interesting research projects and policy proposals in fields that relate to innovation.

Nesta hope that the fund will lead to interesting insights in its own right, and perhaps in due course to some larger research projects.

Nesta plan to fund a small number of projects over the course of the financial year 2014-15. You can apply for the fund any time during the year and applications will be reviewed batches.

Street League have secured some funding to run an FA Level 1 football coaching course for 16-25 year olds who are actively seeking employment, training or education opportunities.

If you know of anyone who is interested in gaining this qualification please get in touch with lisa.millington@streetleague.co.uk or tel: 0161 300 3385

They have a maximum of 24 spaces to fill.

The course will run from Monday 15 September – Thursday 18 September from the Ardwick power league 09:00-17:00.

The Peter Cruddas Foundation gives priority to programmes calculated to help disadvantaged and disengaged young people in England and Wales towards pathways into education, training and employment through charitable organisations.

To qualify for funding you must be a charity registered with the charity commission in England and Wales benefitting people living in England and Wales.

The GC Gibson Charitable Trust invite submissions from small charities for innovative UK based education and activity programmes for disadvantaged young people. The Trust have scope to award about 10 grants of £2000. The application window will close sometime in September when they are full.

Application is only online

The Trust prefer smaller charities where the impact of their money will not get lost and will influence the lives of many.