Let’s Talk Good Finance
19th January, 2:30-5pm. Middlesbrough. Free
Big Society Capital are working with Social Enterprise Acumen and VONNE to bring their Let’s Talk Good Finance events to the North East. This event is the third in a series of events aiming to bring together charities, social enterprises and organisations with social investors and intermediary bodies to network, share information and discuss latest issues relating to social finance.
Before this meeting Big Society Capital will be holding a social investment surgery on the morning. Meetings will be by appointment only.
Communities Fund
Up to £70,000. Local authority / community group collaborations. Deadline 16th January 2017
The Department for Communities and Local Government has announced a £2.5m fund to help small grassroots community groups.
The fund is available to local authorities working with community groups including neighbourhood organisations, parishes and local voluntary groups, and is intended to help alleviate communities’ specific local pressures.
Bids should be for new projects or to extend an existing project into another area but not to prop up an existing approach.
Co-operative Bank Donation Fund
£500 – £1,000. 31st March 2017
Organisations that have a Community Directplus account with the Co-operative Bank can apply for funding from the Customer Donation Fund.
The money can be used to support special projects and fundraising activities.
Female Offenders Grant Fund
Up to approx. £70,000. Deadline 30th January 2017
The Ministry of Justice has launched a new fund to support local areas develop a multi-agency approach to improve the support available for female offenders and other women with complex needs who may be at risk of offending.
The funding is available to any organisation that can provide the necessary leadership to develop a Whole System Approach. Applicants are invited to bid for funding over two or more years. Bids will also be considered for one-year funding in 2016 to 2017, to support preparatory work in areas that are at the early stages of development. Projects must start by 1st March 2017 and deliver a sustainable, embedded multi-agency service to provide effective support to female offenders throughout their offender journey, and to women at risk of offending, including serious offending.
Northern Powergrid – Community Energy Seed Fund
£1,000 – £10,000. VCSE. Deadline 6th February 2017.
Northern Powergrid is offering local groups the chance to secure funding to kick-start their own community energy project and will consider any application under the broad definition of Community Energy; groups interested in reducing and managing their energy use or tackling community and social issues, like fuel poverty and energy sustainability in rural communities, are invited to apply.
The fund, run in partnership with Community Foundation Tyne and Wear and Northumberland, is now in its third year. It is intended to help large community energy projects get off the ground, and can cover full project costs for smaller ones.
Rosa – Woman to Woman fund
£5,000 – £25,000. VCSE. Deadline 16th January 2017.
Grants are available for groups with an income of under £100,000 per year, to support a wide range of charitable work that benefits women – from building confidence and leadership skills, tackling harassment and violence, to training in financial literacy and increasing engagement in decision-making – and more.
Rosa especially wants to support groups that work with disadvantaged communities or in disadvantaged areas. Grants can pay for core work, as well as mobilising volunteers, leadership development, communications and advocacy.
Sport England – Volunteering Funds
In January Sport England will be launching two new funds within its new volunteering strategy which will support projects for groups where significant untapped potential has been identified.
The Opportunity Fund aims to create volunteering opportunities for people facing disadvantage such as those in communities where there is high unemployment and crime, lower education and poorer health. At least 50% of the available funding will go to projects that are run by partners that are new to Sport England.
The Potentials Fund will support projects that target young people between the ages of 10 and 20 years old who are interested in doing something for their community but who haven’t regularly volunteered in the past. Sport and physical activity should be involved but it doesn’t have to be the sole focus.
Further information will be available in January 2017 with the funds opening for applications in February 2017.
Tampon Tax Fund
Deadline 27th January 2017.
The Fund distributes the VAT collected on women’s sanitary products to charitable organisations within the UK. A total of £15 million is available for projects that address violence against women or work with disadvantaged women and girls.
Priority will be given to projects that provide services that are not currently widely available.
