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The Equity Foundation currently offers three funding streams:
Equity Together Fund - Awards of up to £2,500. Exclusively for Equity customers and their families who want funding for projects they'd like to set up or are already involved with.
Tell vInspired your great idea for a project to solve a problem in your area and they’ll give you cash to make it happen. If you're aged 14-25 and have an idea that will solve a problem in your community vInspired want to help.
Submit a simple application and vInspired could offer you up to £500 to turn your ideas into reality, and help you get your project off the ground. The great thing about Cashpoint is that you run your project the way you want to.
If you’re 14-25, vInspired cashpoint could give you a grant of up to £500 to design and run your own social action project
Has your community or voluntary group been working to involve patients and the public in improving health care services?
Have you got some good practice to share?
NHS England is seeking to make grant awards to showcase good practice around patient and citizen participation in healthcare. NHS England know that there is really excellent patient and public involvement work happening all around the country and want to do more to share and learn from what is happening locally.
In partnership with Express Solicitors, Forever Manchester are offering awards to community groups working in Northenden and Wythenshawe. Funds of £500 are available for groups with an income of less than £100,000.
For further information and to apply, contact Forever Manchester on 0161 214 094, or email: [email protected]
Deadline: 30 September 2015
A few weeks back I met with a group of voluntary & community sector leaders working with children young people and families and our local Director of Children's Services. We were talking about how to build the relationship between the sectors so we hit on the idea of writing a blog to challenge a few myths and misconceptions which tend to distort the relationship.
The Power to Change Initial Grants Programme (IGP) is designed to help existing community businesses that are in a position to significantly improve their long-term sustainability within six months of receiving a grant. This means that they are looking for applications from existing organisations, which already have business plans in place and are ready to start work quickly on their proposals.
By the end of this year, they aim to have provided £9 million of funding and support to up to 70 community businesses.
The OneFamily Foundation is here to help fund community projects that really matter to their customers. Community Awards of £5,000 and £25,000 are available for projects put forward by customers to improve their community. The OneFamily Foundation are helping customers across the country make a difference in their local area.
OneFamily customers can now nominate projects for a Community Award of up to £5,000 or up to £25,000.
The Ideas and Pioneers Fund supports people who have an idea with unusual promise to improve the life chances and opportunities of individuals and communities in the UK. The Paul Hamlyn Foundation are looking for ideas which relate closely to their own charitable mission – they aim to help people overcome disadvantage and lack of opportunity, so that they can realise their potential and enjoy fulfilling and creative lives.
The Skills and Opportunities Fund is one of the many ways Natwest are contributing to the communities they live and work in. This year Natwest are committing £2.5m to fund projects in charities, social enterprises, community groups, state-funded schools and colleges across the UK and Ireland.
Manchester City Council wants to consult with equality focussed voluntary sector groups in Manchester about the future of its Equality Funding Programme.
For further information, contact Liz Goodger at: [email protected]
This consultation is open until Monday 14 September 2015, 12noon
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