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Latest funding news:

 

Heart of England Community Foundation

*** Newsflash ***

Heart of England Community Foundation manages a range of grants programmes for the voluntary and community sector.

The Heart of England Fund offers grants of up to £2000 for a range of projects that demonstrate clear long term community benefit.

Coventry Community Games offer grants of up to £1500 to stage your very own Olympic type event in readiness for 2012!

Comic Relief offers grants of up to £5000; projects must meeting one of the following criteria:

1.       Increase local services    

2.       Build the skills of local people;

3.       Increase community cohesion;

4.       Respond to local economic needs.

ESF Community Grants offers grants up to £12,000 to tackle long term employment amongst those people hardest to reach.

There are a number of smaller grant pots which we endeavour to match projects against their specific criteria.

We also have a number of smaller grant pots which we endeavour to match projects against their specific criteria.

For further details please call the Grants Team on 024 7688 4435, who will be happy to help.

Funding available for local sports groups

CSW Sport, based at the University of Warwick can help provide information on funding schemes which are available to local sports groups across the area.  For more information visit: 

http://www.cswsport.org.uk/Funding-Search

  

 

  

SITA Small Grants Scheme

Support projects that make physical improvements to community facilities, sports projects and historic buildings within a 10-mile radius of Packington Landfill site (this includes most of Coventry). Applications up to £10,000:

For more details

www.sitatrust.org.uk

 

 

PSA Peugeot Citroen Endowment Fund for small community projects

PSA Peugeot Citroen have created an endowment fund which will provide grants for small community projects, with particular emphasis on projects that target road safety, the environment, urban mobility and social exclusion.

Local charities and voluntary and community groups can apply for the grants. Priority will be given to groups with an annual income of less than £20,000 if the fund is over subscribed. Grants can be made for a wide range of purposes. Examples include training programmes, volunteering opportunities, making areas cleaner, safer, greener, trips and general community activity. An application form may be downloaded from the Foundation’s web site:  www.heartofenglandcf.co.uk (located under forms and reports) or alternatively telephone 024 7688 4386.

 

 

New Trust provides funding for small local charities

Soroptimist International of Rugby Charitable Trust, which was founded in 2007, is poised to commence grantmaking in Warwickshire and Northamptonshire. The SI of Rugby Charitable Trust grant-making will focus primarily upon small local charities in Warwickshire and Northamptonshire and, to a lesser extent, small national charities which fall into the following categories:

Minor grants (maximum £1,000) may be considered throughout the year. 

For information on how to apply for a grant from this trust please visit the website: www.siofrugbycharitabletrust.org.uk

 

 

Children's Fund 2008 - 2011

The Children and Young People's Strategic Partnership are inviting project proposals from organisations, to address the priorities identified in the Coventry Children and Young People's Plan 2006-2010. Click here for contact details and workshops.

 

 

FoneAid

FoneAid is a fundraising opportunity for groups of any size. Anybody can take part in FoneAid and donate the money that they earn to any cause that they want to.

FoneAid gives £3 for every mobile phone you collect, whatever its age and condition. They also supply all the free materials to launch and run a campaign, and collect the phones free of charge.

For more information click  here or call 01625 667 867. You can also call this number to register.

 

 

The Allen Lane Foundation

The Foundation funds work which reduces isolation, stigma and discrimination, and encourages or enables unpopular groups to share in the life of the whole community.

The funding is to benefit asylum-seekers and refugees; gay, lesbian, bi-sexual or trans-gender; offenders and ex-offenders; older people; black and minority ethnic communities and migrant workers; people experiencing mental health problems and people experiencing violence or abuse.

Grants are relatively small (£500 up to £15,000) and suitable for start-up, core or project costs (eg volunteer expenses) or strengthening the organisation (eg trustee or staff training). Grants can be repeated for more than one year for a maximum of three years. The Foundation will not fund larger organisations.

No closing dates. For more info phone 01904 613223 or click  here.