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Active Communities is a funding programme for community groups and not-for-profit organisations, with an income of less than £350,000 a year or an average of £350,000 over two years.
The Tesco Charity Trust Community Awards Scheme provides one-off donations of between £500 and £2,500 to organisations which have a turnover of under £5 million. The funding goes towards providing practical benefits, such as equipment and resources for projects that directly benefit health, environmental sustainability or opportunities for young people in the local communities around Tesco stores in the UK.
The Aviva Community Fund offers support and funding to the causes close to your heart. Put forward a project for a local cause, and you could win it funding of up to £25,000. The Aviva Community Fund wants you to submit a project for your community organisation and tell them what difference these much-needed funds could make. Secure enough votes from friends, family and supporters in your community and you could be entered into the Finals, where a judging panel will award the funds.
As the General Election draws nearer, I've been mulling over what's happened to the voluntary and community sector during the last five years. Below is a piece originally written back in summer 2011. This was, for me, the moment where I pulled together a lot of ideas and impressions and started to move towards the work which eventually became our Civil Economy for Manchester work with CLES.
If you're a voluntary or community group, you can apply for a grant of between £500 and £18,500 to improve services for 14-25 year olds with autism.
Manchester City Council would like to see applications that maximise the impact of the grant by combining it with your own resources or using it to get external funding.
Manchester City Council are also keen to see services that will help young people in the transition into adulthood.
Manchester City Council has now launched the Age-Friendly Manchester Challenge, to make Manchester a better place to grow older and to improve the lives of older people.
The Challenge is for people, groups or organisations to pledge to do things - big or small - that make the city more age-friendly and better for older people.
To find out more, or to make a pledge, visit: www.manchester.gov.uk/afmc
Nesta and the Open Data Institute are running an open data challenge on the theme of jobs. They are inviting teams to develop products and services which answer the question: How can we use open data to help people get better jobs or create new jobs?
The Jobs Open Data Challenge invites startups, established businesses, social enterprises, community groups and individuals to build products and services using open data which help people get better jobs or create new jobs.
National Citizen Service (NCS) is a government- backed programme that helps young people build skills for work, life and the transition to adulthood. It is an intense programme for 16 and 17 year olds and comprises of physical and team challenges and community based social action projects.
NCS are looking for organisations or charities that would be interested in hosting 13 young people (and trained mentor) to work on a project in September that would benefit your group.
Public Health England are developing practical resources to help enable patients with tuberculosis (TB) to access appropriate housing so they are more likely to successfully complete treatment, and to enhance the role housing can play in the diagnosis and prevention of TB in at risk groups.
• Do you have experience of working with people with, or at higher risk of TB
• Do you have experience of working with health professionals on raising awareness about TB or other communicable diseases?
• If not, would you like to know more about this issue?
The Triangle Trust 1949 Fund Development Grants for organisations working with carers provide funds towards your organisation’s core costs to support the development of a solid foundation for the long-term. The Trust would like to see applicants use these grants to develop sustainable income sources, so that when the grant comes to end your organisation’s income will not be reduced.
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