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Grants are available for between £10,000 and £25,000 per year for two or three years, with the opportunity for continuation funding for a further period of up to six years in total.

Round 3 is open to applications with a deadline of 27 May 2016 (5pm).

www.lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk/our-programmes/invest

The Postcode Community Trust's Community Grants scheme has opened to applications from registered charities and community groups in England, Scotland and Wales for projects that advance community development.

The Postcode Community Trust provides short-term, designated funding to good causes in Great Britain that promote community development and demonstrate positive change through access and engagement.

The Trust seeks to help groups participate more fully in activities within their community, especially for those who may feel isolated through disability or age. The Trust wants to help them overcome these barriers in creative and sustainable ways. Projects should help people gain better access to community facilities, community activities and strengthen communities in ways that are different, sustainable and reach a wide number of people.

Funding is available for activities that:

• Work in innovative ways to relieve older people's isolation.
• Support people looking after others.
• Enhance volunteering opportunities.
• Promote community arts projects.
• Promote team/group sports and activities that benefit communities.
• Provide/enhance places for sport and recreation.
• Promote interaction of different generations.
• Promote a community's social history.

Grassroots organisations, local charities and non-profit community businesses that are seeking to effect positive change within their local area in England, Scotland and Wales are eligible to apply.

Grants range from £500 to £20,000 for those in Scotland and England and up to £10,000 for those in Wales.

The deadline for applications to Round 2 is 31 May 2016.

www.postcodecommunitytrust.org.uk/applying-for-a-grant

Grants of up to £500 for projects costing at most £5,000 for projects or activities that address at least one of the following themes:

• Help to reduce anti-social behaviour and other causes of crime within your community​
• Support vulnerable young people who are either at risk of committing crime or becoming the victims of crime
• Promote personal and/or community safety
• Help to improve your local community either through an activity that bring everybody in the community together or through improving the community physically (renovating a building or creating a new community space).

No fixed closing dates

www.foundationderbyshire.org/funds/the-police-and-crime-commissioner-for-derbyshire-fund-pccd

Grants of up to £2,000 are available for work that helps prevent homelessness – tackling the root causes & stopping vulnerable individuals spiralling into a situation where they may become homeless. This could include supporting individuals with mental health problems, addictions, debt problems, dealing with domestic abuse and a range of other issues.

The fund also recognises the need for reactionary work – providing support for people who are currently homeless whether this be the basic provision of shelter and food or more long-term support to re-gain tenancies, education etc.

No fixed closing dates.

www.foundationderbyshire.org/funds/jefford-weller-fund

For details of all grants programmes currently available from Foundation Derbyshire see www.foundationderbyshire.org

Grants of up to £1,000 for equipment or small scale building work to assist groups that are working to

• Promote the advancement of health and well being
• Prevent or relieve poverty
• Support the most vulnerable in our communities such as children and young people, the elderly and isolated or individuals with mental health problems or disabilities
• Enhance the quality of life for people living in our local communities

There are no fixed closing dates

www.foundationderbyshire.org/funds/freemasons-of-derbyshire-grassroots-fund

This role involves:

• Being the main point of contact for all volunteers within the network
• Identify which postions need to be filled within the network's sports
• Maintaining a list of contacts in the local area to contact for support when needed

The role is for a year initially and will take on overage an hour a week of the volunteer's time.

For full details of the role and how to apply, visit www.derbyshiresport.co.uk/workforce/opportunities/506

Alternatively, contact Rachael Dyer: rachael.dyer@derbyshire.gov.uk or 07807 089845

Firefighters and Community Safety Officers conducting the new Safe and Well Visits will:

• Identify and make occupants aware of any potential fire risks in the home
• Ensure the occupant knows what to do in order to reduce or prevent these risks
• Help occupants put together an escape plan in case a fire breaks out in the future
• Ensure the occupant has working smoke alarms, and fit FREE alarms where necessary
• Discuss the general health and wellbeing of occupants, with specific emphasis on the risk of falls in the home
• Signpost the occupant, where necessary, to the relevant support services   

Booking a Safe and Well Visit:

Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service is committed to reducing fire deaths and injuries by ensuring that homes are fitted with working smoke alarms and that occupants have a planned and practiced escape plan in place.  To assist with this, the Service provides FREE Safe and Well Visits to people who it believes are at greater risk of fire, primarily the more vulnerable groups in the community.

To book a Safe and Well Visit, or make a referral for someone who you consider to be at risk of fire, please contact High Peak and Derbyshire Dales - 01298 22620

www.derbys-fire.gov.uk/keeping-safe

The concert is an annual charity concert, this year in aid of The High Peak Friends of Cancer Research UK.

It will be held at St John the Baptist Church, Buxton, SK17 6XG. Tickets £8 under 12s free, available at the door, from Hall's Mica, Chapel-en-le-Frith, or phone.01298 815965.

They offer grants of up to £10,000 to stimulate new investment in playing fields, including funding for drainage, levelling, returfing, ATPs, MUGAs and pavilions.  Click here for further information.

www.derbyshiresport.co.uk/news/2016/04/the-playing-fields-legacy-fund

For other funding news updates for both capital and revenue grants, see the Derbyshire Sport Funding News pages - www.derbyshiresport.co.uk/funding-news

They are planning to distribute approximately £30,000 per annum, with a preference for funding either one larger project, or a number of medium sized ones, rather than a lot of small schemes.

Projects must be located in Derbyshire within 10 miles of a licensed landfill site. DET staff can check this for you if you provide them with the postcode for the site of your project.

The type of projects that would be eligible include the provision, maintenance and repair of: children's play areas, skate parks, MUGAs, sports fields and other recreational areas, footpaths / bridleways, community centres / village halls.

The deadline for applications is 22 August 2016.

www.derbyshiresport.co.uk/news/2016/04/new-derbsyhire-capital-funding-pot