Do you know, or have dealings with the elderly or vulnerable?

Dorset Community Foundation is looking to help individuals that are either elderly or vulnerable during the winter months with things such as fuel poverty, social isolation, eating properly, warm clothing etc. They are also doing emergency heating repairs through Synergy Housing.

Support is available for groups, charities, residents associations or any other group looking to organise social inclusion activities for the elderly and the vulnerable – funding is available for up to £1,000. Examples of activities include lunch clubs, transport, reading clubs and taster sessions.

All details of the funding opportunities can be found on their website www.dorsetcommunityfoundation.org under Surviving Winter and Keep Warm, Keep Well, Keep Safe Fund.

A new fund of £865,000 has been set up to support community groups across Dorset.  For more information and details about how to apply for a grant, go to www.dorsetforyou.com/voluntarysector/yd

Community Grant Programme Opens Voluntary and Community Sector Organisations in the South West Region (excluding Cornwall) are set to benefit from a grant programme of over £600,000 aimed at moving people who are furthest removed from the labour market toward employment.

South West Foundation in partnership with the Learning Curve have opened the Community Grant Programme, which is funded by the Skills Funding Agency and the European Social Fund, on Monday 17th October 2011. The main focus of the programme is to award grants up to £12,000 to enable small Third Sector Organisations that have difficulty in accessing mainstream European Social Fund Monies and Skills Funding Agency money, to put on activities and training that offer new skills and confidence building to the long term unemployed or economically inactive.

Activities funded in previous programmes have included training for disabled people, courses for women, arts activities which help to build skills and confidence, a project for learning disabled people who had the opportunity to pick up horticultural skills though working on an allotment project and active participatory music therapy for people recovering from mental health issues.

The grant programme will remain open for 6 weeks and will close at 5:00pm on Monday 28thNovember. If organisations would like to find out more about this programme or to receive an application pack please contact South West Foundation on 01275 333666 or e-mail to [email protected]

Grants of up to £50k are available from SPort England, and 70% of the cahs is earmarked for aprish and town councils.  Inspired Facilities is focused on making it easier for local community and volunteer groups to improve and refurbish sports clubs or
transform non-sporting venues into modern grassroots sport facilities.Part of Places People Play, Sport England’s programme to deliver a London 2012 legacy of increased mass participation in sport, it is investing £50 million of National Lottery funding in up to 1000 community sports projects between 2011 and 2014.  get Bidding.