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Football Time!

With Euro 2008 upon us, we feature the Football Foundation, whose mission is to improve facilities, create opportunities and build communities throughout England. They have grants available for kit, facilities and projects that use football and sport as a force for social change. Click  here for more.

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; upcoming deadlines are 24th October 2008 and 15th December 2008.

For more details

www.sitatrust.org.uk

sita.trust@sita.co.uksita.trust@sita.co.uk

01454 262 910

Community Spaces

Community Spaces is a £50m open grants programme that is managed by Groundwork UK as an Award Partner to the Big Lottery Fund. The programme helps community groups create or improve green and open spaces so that the quality of life in neighbourhoods across England is enhanced. Closing date is 9 January for applications for large grants (£50,000 - £100,000), and 30 January for flagship grants. (£100,001 - £450,000). www.community-spaces.org.uk   

Community Spaces is a £50m open grants programme that is managed by Groundwork UK as an Award Partner to the Big Lottery Fund. The programme helps community groups create or improve green and open spaces so that the quality of life in neighbourhoods across England is enhanced. Closing date is 9 January for applications for large grants (£50,000 - £100,000), and 30 January for flagship grants. (£100,001 - £450,000).

www.community-spaces.org.uk   

Sportsmatch

Over £2.5m in matched funding from Sport England is still available this financial year for projects that aim to sustain or increase participation in community sport. www.sportengland.org/sportsmatch making a difference.htm

Heart of England Community Foundation's Grassroots Grants Scheme is now open for applications! Grants available from £250 - £5000

Grassroots Grants is now open for applications, funded through the Office of the Third Sector its aim is to give grants to small voluntary and community groups to help build their capacity and strengthen the work they do.

If your group’s income is less than £20,000 then you could be eligible to apply.

For details about this fund and other opportunities provided by the foundation please either telephone 024 76 884386

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.

LEGI 'Engaging with Enterprise and Employment Fund'

Grants of up to £10K are available for voluntary and community groups to stage events or activities that encourage people to think about employment or self employment as an option.

More details about this fund are available from  www.heartofenglandcf.co.uk or by phoning 024 7688 4442. A workshop on this fund is running in June 08 - see our events calendar.

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.  Additionally, there will be a grant meeting in March to consider bids under £10,000 followed by a major grant meeting in September to consider bids up to £100,000.

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

£50 Million Community Spaces Programme Launched

The £50 million Lottery-funded grant programme, Community Spaces, has been launched. The programme aims to:

Not-for-profit community groups based in England, including church-based and faith groups, tenants and residents associations and registered charities, are eligible to apply for the following types of grants:

Projects must be within two miles of a residential area and open to the public.  The types of project likely to be supported include:

The Small and Medium grant programmes are open to applications at any time.  There will be a single application round for Large and Flagship grants which is expected to open summer 2008.

For more information please see: www.community-spaces.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.