Funding News
This section holds funding news which has been received from funders and gone out in our publications. For information from our funding team please see Funding Information section.
A Quick A - Z of Funding Sources
The Quick A-Z of Funding Sources gives an updated account of the grants available in the Sunderland area. This information is entered into a brief accessible spreadsheet form, which contains four columns. The first gives the name of the organisation that awards the grant. The second gives the details of the appropriate website. The third column gives details of what the grant funds and the closing date is given in the fourth column.
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Big Lottery
The local grants aspect of the Young People's Fund 2 programme will officially launch on Monday 19 May 2008. See the web link below for more details
http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/qa_ypf2_national_grants.htm?regioncode=-uk&progStatus=open#71
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A to Z of Funders News
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BBC Children in Need
BBC Children in Need is a grant giver and a registered charity.
Big Lottery Programme Update 2008
Big Lottery Fund Advice Plus Round Two (New!!)
Big Lottery Fund Advice Plus Round Two will be launched in November 2007, with a budget of £20 million across the nine England regions.
Big Lottery Fund: Young People's Fund 2: National Grants - Programme Launched
£38 million will be allocated through the National Grants strand of the Young People's Fund 2 programme, which opened to applications on 5th Decmber 2007.
Big Lottery Fund independent research
The Big Lottery Fund value the views of people and organisations that are affected by our policies, practices and decisions. That is why they commissioned an independent research organisation to contact over 6,000 stakeholders like you, across England, to seek views on how we’re doing so far and gauge confidence them us as a funder.
To take a look at the results and how they are acting on them, please click on the following link: http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/er_res_2007_stakeholder_survey_findings.pdf
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Camelot Foundation - Transforming Lives Programme
The Camelot Foundation launches four rounds of grant-making every year. Each round addresses a specific theme. The theme for this round is as follows: Tackling Prejudice: Working to reduce victimization and hate crime within and towards selected priority groups
Coalfields Regeneration Trust
The Coalfields Regeneration Trust currently has funding available to support Voluntary and Community Groups in your area. Funding is available until 31st March 2008, but early applications will be most successful.
They are particularly interested in applications from organisations in Eppleton, Murton East, Murton West, Hetton, South Hetton and Haswell. To find out more please call Kerry McQuade or Anna White on 0191 428 5550, e-mail northeast@coalfields-regen.org.uk
Comic Relief (new!!)
The next deadline for Comic Relief grants over £5,000 is February 29 2008. For grants under £5000 there is no deadline.
For more information, visit: http://www.comicrelief.com/apply-for-a-grant/uk/
Community Kitty
UK Villages Community Kitty provides grants of between £50 and £500 to a range of community-based projects. In the past, the fund has awarded grants for projects ranging from a knitting circle, to a playgroup needing toys, sports equipment for cubs, and support for several village halls and playing field committees, as well as a number of Heritage projects. The next application deadline is 10 April 2008. For more information, visit
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Department of Health - Section 64 Grants
The Department of Health has announced that the 2008-09 bidding round of its Section 64 Grants scheme is likely to open for applications in May or June.
Under the scheme the Secretary of State for Health makes grants to voluntary organisations in England whose activities support the Department of Health's policy priorities.
To apply, organisations must be fully constituted and carry out activities or services similar to those provided by the NHS or Local Authority Social Services. In January the Care Services Minister announced that there will be £17.2m available under this bidding round, with an average grant size expected to be £44,000. In addition, the DoH Opportunities for Volunteering scheme will provide a fund of £6.7m for projects that involve and encourage volunteers in health and social care.
Organisations who are interested in bidding when the new round opens for applications should register their details now on the website:
Website: www.dh.gov.uk/en (select Policy and Guidance, choose S from the A-Z search box and scroll down to Section 64 grants)
Department for International Development – Development Awareness Fund (UK)
The new round of the Department for International Development’s (DFID) Development Awareness Fund is now open for preliminary applications. The Fund is open to any UK-based organisation or network that is committed to raising awareness and understanding of development issues.
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European Social Fund Programme 2007 -2013
The European Social Funf (ESF) is due to get underway shortly. The programme is worth £155 million in ESF grant to the region or £310 million when combined with domestic sources of match funding.
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Funding for Adult and Family Learning Courses In Sunderland
Are you interested in running community-based adult or family learning courses for your service users? Sunderland Adult and Community Learning fund offer learning opportunities through their Lifelong Learning Community Development Fund.
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Grassroots Grants
The Community Foundation has announced that it has been chosen to manage the Grassroots Grants scheme on behalf of the Office of the Third Sector.
Grants of between £250 and £5,000 will be available. Groups can apply more than once until they have received £5,000 in total.
An application form that can be downloaded from the Community Foundation website (www.communityfoundation.org.uk) at the end of July, one in Word format and a form that can be sent to groups. Or for more information call the Foundation on 0191 222 0945 and ask to speak to a Grassroots Grants officer.
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Here to HELP Awards – Round 5 (England, Scotland and Wales)
Round 5 of the here to HELP Awards is now open for applications. The Awards have been created by Save the Children and British Gas and provide grants for projects by young people that aim to make their communities healthier, more engaging and safer places to be.
Help the Aged – SeniorMobility (UK)
Help the Aged’s SeniorMobility scheme provides grants for community groups and projects working with older people to buy vehicles, scooters and mobility equipment.
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Jonies Trust
The Joanies Trust welcomes applications from registered charities working with young people aged 11 to 25.
Kellogg's Active Living Fund
The Kellogg’s Active Living Fund gives small grants to fund projects and activities that directly lead to people taking part in sustained physical activity.
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Local Network Fund for Children and Young People
The Local Network Fund for Children and Young People in Northumberland awards grants of up to £7,000 for children and young people living in Tyne & Wear.
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Northern Rock
Northern Rock Foundation announces grants totalling £1 MILLION, and plans to increase expenditure in 2008. 15 organisations across North East England and Cumbria will receive grants totalling £1,027,486 in the Foundation’s first grants round of 2008. The Foundation’s Trustees have also decided to increase their grants budget by at least £4m this year to a minimum of £11m, pending further consideration of their priorities. A full announcement about how the increased funds are to be allocated will be made in May.
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Tesco Charity Trust – Community Awards scheme (UK)
The Tesco Charity Trust’s Community Awards scheme is targeted towards local communities where Tesco has stores. Community Awards benefit local organisations whose core work supports: Children’s welfare and education (including special needs schools), Children and adults with disabilities and Elderly people
Third Sector Capacity Fund - One North East
The Third Sector Capacity Fund has been set up by One NorthEast. The Fund will support strategic projects to strengthen the capacity of Third Sector organisations at a regional level, which will ultimately promote economic inclusion across the whole of the North East of England.
The British Trust for Conservation Volunteers
The British Trust for Conservation Volunteers (BTCV) Chestnut Fund offers start up and support grants to UK community conservation groups.
The Cranfield Trust
The Cranfield Trust offers free consultancy projects to charities involved in addressing issues of poverty, disability or social exclusion.
The Woodward Charitable Trust
The Woodward Charitable Trust is one of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts. The Trusts share a common administration, but are otherwise independent of each other. In 2004/2005 grants totalling £381,966 were paid to 98 charitable organisations.
The Webb Memorial Trust
The Webb Memorial Trust is a registered charity established in 1947 as a memorial to the socialist pioneer Beatrice Webb. Today it distributes annually grants totalling £70,000.
The Pilgrim Trust
Preservation and Social Welfare. The Pilgrim Trust was set up in 1930 with a capital endowment of just over two million pounds. On average, the Trustees commit in the region of £1.5 million each year in grants.
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Volunteering England – Opportunities for Volunteering Programme (England)
Volunteering England (VE) has announced that it is now accepting preliminary applications for the 2008-2011 funding round of the Opportunities for Volunteering programme.
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Wakeham Trust
Wakeham Trust provide grants to help people rebuild their communities and are particularly interested in neighbourhood projects, community arts projects, projects involving community service by young people, or projects set up by those who are socially excluded. Wakeham Trust will help those projects that are too new and experimental to get support through established fund raising channels, or which (if established) are under threat due to changes in national or local policy. Find out more at: http://www.wakehamtrust.org/
Working Neighbourhoods Fund
The Government has announced the areas in England that will receive a share of the new Working Neighbourhoods Fund. Sixty-six local and twenty-one transitional authorities will receive allocations over the next three years totaling over £450 million in 2008/09, and £500 million in 2009/10 and 2010/11. Sunderland has been allocated £8,589,944 for 2008/09, £10,455,641 for 2009/10 and £10, 904, 466 for 2010/11. The total Working Neighbourhoods fund allocated to Sunderland is £29,950,051.
The Fund is a new, dedicated fund for local councils and communities to develop more concentrated, concerted, community-led approaches to getting people in the most deprived areas of England back to work. It replaces the existing Neighbourhood Renewal Fund and incorporates the Department for Work and Pension's Deprived Areas Fund to create a single local fund.
At least £50 million of the £1.5 billion Fund will be available as a reward fund which will go to areas that have made good progress over the first two years on tackling worklessness and improving enterprise levels.