Support and Funding for Community Projects
Please use the links below to find more information on the projects
| Name of scheme: |
BT Community Connections |
| Details: | BT Community Connections offers organisations the opportunity to apply for a multi-media internet-ready PC and a contribution towards a year's broadband internet access through BT Total Broadband |
| Who can apply: | Community and voluntary groups throughout the UK |
| Eligible projects: | Community and voluntary groups who would like the opportunity to extend their work through the use of the internet but don't have the required means. |
| Maximum grant available: | Computers and internet access for your organisation |
| Contact: | www.btcommunityconnections.com |
| Name of scheme: |
Communitybuilders Programme |
| Details: | Communitybuilders offers loans, grants and business support to multi-purpose, inclusive, community-led organisations (sometimes known as Community Anchors). |
| Who can apply: |
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| Contact: | www.communitybuildersfund.org.uk/home |
| Name of scheme: |
Comic Relief - Sport for Change |
| Details: |
This programme aims to fund projects that are using sport as a tool for social change. We therefore cannot fund:
The maximum grant size in this programme is £100,000 in total. |
| Who can apply: |
We welcome applications from community groups and organisations using sport as part of a broader programme of work to bring about change at an individual and /or community level. We will fund across all age ranges and within a broad range of communities. We are happy to receive applications from consortia of agencies as long as there is a lead community-based organisation. Applicants will also need to:
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| Contact: | www.comicrelief.com/apply_for_a_grant/uk/sport |
| Name of scheme: |
Goaldiggers Charitable Trust |
| Details: | Support for projects which provide or improve surface play areas for children and young people - eg. kickabout areas and five-a-side football pitches |
| Who can apply: | Voluntary organisations |
| Maximum grant available: | Up to £10,000 |
| Contact: |
Goaldiggers Charitable Trust Tel: 020 7584 6445 |
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Local Network Fund |
| Details: | The Local Network Fund for Children and Young People supports small voluntary and community groups to improve outcomes and opportunities for children and young people aged 0-19. |
| Who can apply: |
Your group’s activity must focus on children and young people – the fund does not support activities that only benefit adults. However, it can fund activities that help parents and families improve children’s lives. Most of the children and young people benefiting from your activity must be disadvantaged or facing poverty. You need to be a small locally managed, voluntary community or self help group. You must have people volunteering to help with your activity who aren’t part of your management committee You must have written procedures for keeping children safe. |
| Maximum grant available: | £250 - £7,000 |
| Contact: | www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/localnetworkfund/ |
| Additional info: | Local Network Fund will cease to award grants in March ’08. |
| Name of scheme: |
Lloyds TSB Foundation |
| Details: |
The Lloyds TSB Foundation supports and works in partnership with registered charities which help disadvantaged people play a fuller role in communities throughout England and Wales. The Foundation supports small and medium local, regional and national charities working at the heart of communities to tackle disadvantage and help empower people on the margins of society. The Community programme focuses on funding core work that helps disadvantaged people to play a fuller role in the community. The Community Programme is particularly interested in work that achieves this through:
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| Contact: | www.lloydstsbfoundations.org.uk/Pages/Welcome.aspx |
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Reaching Communities: England (Big Lottery Fund) |
| Details: | Reaching Communities is an exciting new programme across England that provides funding to help improve local communities and the lives of most people in need. |
| Who can apply: |
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| Eligible projects: | Projects that improve the communities and the lives of people most in need. It is important that local people and project beneficiaries are involved in the project and that it is community driven. |
| Maximum grant available: | £10,000 (minimum) - £500,000 (maximum) |
| Contact: | www.biglotteryfund.org.uk?prog_reaching_communities.htm?regioncode=-wm&progStatus=open&status=theProg&title+Reaching%20Communities |
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Tesco Charity Trust (Community Award Scheme) |
| Details: | The Tesco Charity Trust operates a community award scheme which benefits local community projects whose core work supports the welfare of children, elderly people and people with disabilities which are based in areas where Tesco has stores. |
| Who can apply: | Community groups and charities which have a Tesco store in their area. |
| Eligible projects: | Charities and community projects that provide practical benefits to children's welfare, children's education, the welfare of elderly people and people with disabilities. |
| Maximum grant available: | £2,000 to £5,000 |
| Contact: | www.tescocorporate.com/cr.htm |
| Name of scheme: |
The Wakeham Trust |
| Details: |
Small community and voluntary groups in the UK that want to improve their communities can apply for funding through the Wakeham Trust. They support:
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| Who can apply: | The Wakeham Trust favour small projects, often start ups. |
| Eligible projects: | To be eligible, applicants must be a registered charity, or have access to a charity that can accept funds on their behalf. |
| Maximum grant available: | The Trust gives grants of between £75 and £750, so that a project can get up and running. |
| Contact: | www.wakehamtrust.org/ |
| Name of scheme: |
Sport Unlimited |
| Details: | Sport Unlimited is a National programme, managed locally by Sport Nottinghamshire. It is designed to encourage semi-sporty children to participate in extra-curricular activities and subsequently join local clubs. |
| Who can apply: |
Any organisation that can deliver high quality sport to local children and encourage them to join sporting activity away from their school. This can include:
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| Eligible projects: | Projects must deliver ten weeks of activity to children outside of normal school hours. This activity must encourage them to join local sports clubs. |
| Contact: | www.sportnottinghamshire.co.uk/Sport_Unlimited.php |