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Community Plus provides grants of up to £5,000. The scheme is open to local UK charities or local projects of national charities with funding available to cover salaries, equipment or materials. Click on the Spotlight section to find answers to regularly asked questions about our Community Plus scheme.

There are no deadlines for any of the grants programmes. Email to grants@santander.co.uk 

The Foundation provides funding to charities and charitable incorporated organisations through two programmes:

Invest - a flexible, long-term core funding programme for charities delivering clear, targeted outcomes for disadvantaged people. These grants are up to £25,000 per year for two or three years, with the opportunity for continuation funding for a further period - up to six years in total.

Enable - a smaller and shorter grants programme for charities that have identified clear development needs. This funding aims to help the organisations deliver their mission more effectively. These grants are up to a total £15,000 over two years.

Applicants must be working with people who are 17 years or older and experiencing at least one of the following: 

• Have been abused or are at risk of abuse.
• Are victims of sexual exploitation.
• Are ex-offenders or those at risk of offending.
• Are long term unemployed.
• Are leaving care.
• Are homeless.
• Have learning disabilities.
• Have mental health and wellbeing issues.
• Have addictions.
• Are isolated and vulnerable.
• Have severe financial difficulty as a compounding disadvantage.

The only exceptions are young people who are under 17 years of age and young parents or looked after children and disabled young people moving into independent living.

To be eligible, organisations must:

• Be registered with the Charity Commission.
• Operate mainly in England and Wales.
• Have at least one year of published accounts covering a 12 month operating period.
• Have a one year track record of direct service delivery.
• Have an income in the last set of published accounts of between £25,000 and £1 million.
• Have free reserves of less than 12 months’ expenditure in the last set of published accounts.
• Have an active board of at least three Trustees.

More information can be found on the Lloyds Foundation website - 
www.lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk/our-programmes

Grants of £10,000 to £250,000 are available to fund improvements to facilities and work that helps more people get involved with the buildings as well as urgent structural repairs.

For more information visit the HLF website www.hlf.org.uk

So if your project, charity or group could benefit from £300 then visit the Galaxy Hot Chocolate website at galaxyhotchocolate.com after 2 November 2015 to enter.

Organisations in the UK and Ireland that are working to address and test solutions to the digital exclusion of vulnerable young people aged 12-25 can apply for funding. 

Funding has been made available by the Carnegie UK Trust as part of their #NotWithoutMe project following their research which revealed that without access to digital technology or basic digital skills, people and communities are suffering increasing levels of disadvantage, especially those who may be at points of transition in their lives, such as being unemployed, homeless or in-care. The Carnegie UK Trust will allocate £10,000 to each successful applicant and provide advice to help develop a framework for evaluating project activities and help groups to identify external support. 

The deadline for applications is 6 November 2015. To find out more visit the Carnegie UK Trust at www.carnegieuktrust.org.uk/news---events/latest/help-for-innovators-improving-digital-skills-with-

Tesco will award six grants per year in each of the 428 Tesco regions to make sure the funding is spread evenly across England, Wales and Scotland. In total the community grant scheme will support around 2,500 projects each year.

Because they are expecting there to be a major demand for grants, Groundwork will assess all of the applications received and then provide a shortlist of the applications received for a Tesco regional panel to agree three successful projects to forward to a vote in Tesco stores.

Tesco customers will vote over two weekends in their store for their favourite shortlisted local project.  Grants will then be awarded as follows:

• 1st place in Tesco customer vote:  £12,000 grant
• 2nd place in Tesco customer vote: £10,000 grant
• 3rd place in Tesco customer vote:  £8,000 grant

It will fund capital projects that provide community benefit and have free and open access to all members of the community for a minimum of six days a week, during daylight hours.

The grants programme will be open to organisations such as: voluntary/community organisations, registered charities, health bodies, Parish/Town councils, social enterprises, Community Interest Companies, community councils, local authorities and housing organisations.  Other not-for-profit organisations might also be eligible.

Projects that would typically receive funding include: 

• Parks, pocket parks and urban green spaces
• Green corridors – river and canals, cycle ways
• Formal and informal play areas
• Open access sports facilities within public parks and recreation grounds – eg football pitches, tennis courts and cricket pitches
• Informal outdoor recreation facilities; eg gym equipment, trim trails and woodland walks
• Nature reserves, community woodland, ponds and village greens
• Churchyards
• Seafront improvements
• Community allotments, community gardens, orchards and city farms

There’s no match funding requirement to access this grant, but the grant should be the majority of the funding required for your project, which could be a stand-alone project or a discrete, self-contained part of a larger project or part of a phased project and will need to be delivered within six months of receipt of the grant.  Landowner’s permission is essential and you might also need planning permission.

Applying for a grant

To apply for a grant please start by taking the eligibility quiz: www.surveymonkey.com/r/BKR5W9H

Funding round 1 runs from: 19 October to 27 November

FAQ: www.groundwork.org.uk/Sites/tescocommunityscheme/faqs/Category/large-grant-faqs-tes

Website: www.groundwork.org.uk/Sites/tescocommunityscheme/Pages/large-grants-tes

Tuesday 17 Nov: Free funding workshop and surgery – an opportunity to find out about the small grants programmes offered by Foundation Derbyshire and to discuss your project idea with a funder.  Book your place for this session directly with Foundation Derbyshire by calling Lindsay Sowter on 01773 525860

www.foundationderbyshire.org

Thursday 5 Nov: Fundraising for Beginners – a half-day workshop offering insight, ideas and tips to help make your grant fundraising more successful

Tuesday 17 Nov: Foundation Derbyshire’s annual funding workshop and surgery – an opportunity to find out about the small grants programmes offered by the Foundation and to discuss your project idea with a funder.  Book your place for this session directly with Foundation Derbyshire by calling Lindsay Sowter on 01773 525860

Thursday 19 Nov: Making the Most of Gift Aid – many groups don’t realise they are eligible to claim Gift Aid and most are amazed at what can be classed as a gift or donation and therefore earn them extra funds. Come and find out more!

Wednesday 25 Nov: Funding Search surgery – an opportunity for a 1-1 session with High Peak CVS’s funding advisor Esther Jones to discuss your project and search the Trustfunding database of 4500 funders to identify potential funders for your project or activity

All sessions except the Foundation Derbyshire workshop carry a small charge.

Bakewell and Eyam Community Transport believe the loss of this vital service will harm the elderly, disadvantaged, vulnerable and disabled people in our communities across Derbyshire.   This has caused significant distress to local people that use the services.  

To voice the opinion of local people they aim to present a petition with 7,500 signatures to Derbyshire County Council by 20 November.  Although the time-scale is incredibly tight they hope that our petition will force a debate at County Hall in December.  

Sign our on line petition at www.derbyshire.gov.uk/council/have_your_say/Petitions/details/default.asp?PetitionID=251  

Please ensure that you confirm the email once your on-line petition has been submitted.

The report will be used to decide what happens next for VCSE support, coordination, partnership development and policy influence at a regional or sub-regional level and also to highlight our future challenges, e.g. the impact of devolution, commissioning over more than one local authority area or how to effectively influence Government and other national bodies.

The survey is being carried out independently by Ideas to Impact and aimed at any organisation that has had contact with One East Midlands.  The findings will inform recommendations that can be used in the future with Government, public services and within the VCSE. Survey responses will be confidential to Ideas to Impact and will be reported anonymously.

www.surveymonkey.com/r/HL2VFV7