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Welcome to the June issue of Funding News.
  
Thanks to everyone who came along to the Funding and Enterprise Fair at Derby Silk Mill Museum on 17 May. The event was a great success and one organisation - Creative Carers - connected with someone who then donated money to their organisation to make visits to their carers retreat even more enjoyable for people! The power of networking - you never know what might happen. 
  
As well as the Funding Bulletin check out the Funding Alerts page on the Community Action website which is regularly updated with opportunities that we receive too late to put in the monthly bulletin. You can also see how we have helped organisations with their funding applications in the Local Success section on our website.
  
As always we hope you find some useful information and welcome your feedback - good or bad!
Funding Opportunities
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Smart Energy Grants
Smart Energy is launching a new fund that will provide grants to not-for-profit organisations that can help engage people and communities across Britain with information about how to get and use smart meters.
 
The Smart Energy GB in Communities Fund is seeking applications from not-for-profit organisations that can reach those who may face barriers to getting a smart meter, including:
  • District heating customers  -  communal heat sharing
  • People lacking proficiency in English (or Welsh in Wales)
  • People lacking basic digital skills
  • People with a learning disability
  • People with low literacy
  • People with memory impairment
  • People with no personal internet access
  • Off-gas grid customers
  • Prepay customers
  • Private tenant
  • People with severe or profound deafness
  • Social housing tenants

For more information visit the Smart Energy website.
Music
PRS For Music Foundation - deadline 13 June
The Foundation offers grants of up to £10,000 to support high quality new music projects including:    
  • touring and recording
  • promotion and marketing
  • commissions of new music by UK-based creators
  • exciting community projects involving high-quality music creators
  • music creator residencies live programmes featuring new UK music 
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Help the Homeless - deadline 15 June
Help The Homeless gives grants of up to £5,000 for capital costs to small and medium-sized registered charities with a turnover of under £1m per annum.
  
All applications must relate to projects that help people in their return to mainstream society, rather than simply offer shelter or other forms of sustenance.
  
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Public Health England HIV Prevention Innovation Fund - deadline 16 June
Public Health England is encouraging voluntary organisations to apply to the £600,000 HIV Prevention Innovation Fund to support innovative HIV projects across England from either voluntary or statutory bodies.
  
Proposals are particularly welcomed that tackle:
  • diagnosis for both HIV and other sexually transmitted infections
  • stigma associated with HIV
  • other risky behaviours that can increase risk of contracting HIV such as drug and alcohol misuse
  • the integration of HIV prevention into wider sexual and reproductive health

 

For more information visit the Fund's website.

Volant Trust - deadline 24 June
The Trust was set up by author JK Rowling. It supports projects, national or community-based, that alleviate social deprivation, with a particular emphasis on women's and children's issues. It distributes around £2 million a year - mainly substantial grants for national work.

For more information visit the Volant Trust website.
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Aged Veterans Fund - deadline for expressions of interest 1 July 
A fund of £25million over five years is available to charitable organisations working in partnership (the lead must be a registered charity) for projects that support non-core health, wellbeing and social care needs of UK veterans over the age of 65 years who live permanently in the UK.
Department of Energy and Climate Change - deadline 10 July  
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is inviting applications for grant funding under the Big Energy Saving Network programme 2016/17 from eligible third sector organisations and community groups. This year's £1.7m programme is jointly funded by DECC and National Energy Action (NEA). Deadline is 10 July.
 
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Allen Lane Foundation
The Foundation f unds groups working with asylum-seekers and refugees (but not groups working with a single nationality), gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender people, gypsies and travellers, migrant workers, offenders and ex-offenders, older people, people experiencing mental health problems and people experiencing violence or abuse.
 
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Church Urban Fund
The Fund provides grants of up to £5,000 to enable churches and faith-based organisations, working in very deprived communities, to engage in social action through supporting them to initiate or develop community work. This will then enable groups to either undertake larger pieces of work or significantly improve the existing provision.
 
Four Acre Trust
The Four Acre Trust supports charities that help children and young people make the most of their lives - the Trust prefers to fund projects that prevent problems occurring rather than trying to cure them.  
  
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Cash for Kids
Cash for Kids responds to the needs of children in our communities so they can live life to the full and realise their individual potential. Based across 21 areas in the UK the fund supports children aged 0-18 who are disabled, disadvantaged or suffering from abuse or neglect. In 2015 Cash for Kids raised £17.9 million.
 
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Jephcott Charitable Trust
The Jephcott Charitable Trust provides funds for specific projects - funding priorities are:
 
Population control
Education
Health
Environment
 
Grants are made in the range of £2,000 to £10,000. 
 
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Maurice Wohl Charitable Foundation
The aims of the Maurice Wohl Charitable Foundation are broad, although particular emphasis is placed on causes that support the following areas:
 
Care, welfare and support of children (including education)
Promotion of health, welfare and the advancement of medical services
Relief of poverty, indigence and distress
Care, welfare and support of elderly,  infirm and disabled people
Support of the arts.  
 
Persimmon Homes
Persimmon Homes run a scheme to help local community groups, good causes and charities. A total of £60,000  is donated every month in amounts up to £1,000. Organisations applying must have already raised some funds themselves and need to explain why they should receive a donation. 
 
General Information
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Comic Relief - launch of refreshed grants strategy
Comic Relief's new strategy will ensure it is able to maximise its impact in the UK and around the world helping to achieve a vision of a just world free from poverty, where everyone is safe, healthy, educated and empowered.
 
All funding will be focused on the following four programme areas:
Building stronger communities to tackle deprivation and poverty
Investing in children and young people to be ready for the future
Empowering women and girls to be free to lead the lives they choose
Improving the health and wellbeing of vulnerable and disadvantaged people
 
Information
Morrisons looking for charity partner - deadline 16 June
Morrisons is looking for a charity partner for its 'Raise a Smile' project - the partnership will run for three years and be worth about £6 million to the successful applicant.
 
To be eligible, organisations must be registered as a charity and operate and deliver services in England, Wales or Scotland.
 
Six charities will be shortlisted and invited to deliver a pitch in front a panel of Morrisons staff. A smaller group of charities will then be put to a staff vote.
 
Facebook developing 'donate' button
Facebook is looking to roll-out its 'donate' button feature to all charity pages at some point this year. John Carr, Partner Manager at Facebook Europe admitted that there are still some bugs in the system and that Facebook is looking to essentially cut itself out of the process as the middle man and allow the money generated through the donate button to go straight to the charity. 
 
Information
Biffa Awards - change of criteria
As less waste is going into landfill sites and the percentage of tax that can be distributed through the Landfill Communities Fund is decreasing, Biffa has tightened its eligibility criteria.
 
All Community Buildings and Recreation projects must be within five miles of a Biffa operation and 10 miles of any landfill sites or 10 miles of an active Biffa Landfill site.
All Rebuilding Biodiversity projects must be within 15 miles of a Biffa operation.
 
There will be just one grants scheme of between £10k and £75k with the total project cost not exceeding £200k.
 
Dates for your diary
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Introduction to Fundraising Workshop
Wednesday 15 June 10am to 1pm
Community Action
4 Charnwood Street
 
Would you like to start fundraising but not quite sure how to start? Would you like to plan for your fundraising activities but don't know where to begin? If so, this workshop is for you!
 
By the end of the session you will be able to:
  • Recognise the importance of fundraising
  • Identify different ways of fundraising
  • Write a first draft fundraising strategy 
Cost:
  • Free for voluntary/community organisations in Derby city
  • £25 for voluntary/community organisations outside Derby city
  • £50 for statutory partners, individuals or businesses  
Children in Need
Children in Need - Funding Advice Surgeries 9 June
  
Dawn Watts - Regional Officer for Children In Need - will be at Community Action on Thursday 9 June from 9.30am to 3.30pm to offer 45 minute advice slots to voluntary organisations that would like to talk through their project or activity.
 
Eligibility Check:
 
Only fund 0-18 year olds
Capital grants are capped at £20k
Only fund charities or not-for-profit voluntary groups (not local authorities or Health Trusts)
Unlikely to fund during school time activities
 
 
If you would like to book a slot email Liz Gumbley or call 01332 227738.
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