Funding for Groups Working With the Elderly
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.
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.
Potential Funding for Community Green Spaces
Community Action Against Crime Innovation Fund
The Home Office has announced this new grant fund to encourage creative new approaches to tackling crime.
Worth £5 million in 2011/12, with a further £5 million set aside for 2012/13, the innovation fund will be used to encourage greater community activism, and to enable communities to develop innovative approaches to tackling the local crime issues that matter to them.
They are particularly keen for the fund to be made available to grass roots community activists who are not traditional recipients of government grants.
They also want the fund to encourage effective partnerships to get everybody working together to tackle crime. The fund will be used to encourage voluntary and community groups to work with their community safety partnership to tackle local crime problems, including through co-design and co-delivery of initiatives to cut crime.
They will also look to support projects that successfully get local businesses involved, whether through match-funding, or direct participation in the project itself. See more at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/crime/partnerships/innovation-fund/
Worth £5 million in 2011/12, with a further £5 million set aside for 2012/13, the innovation fund will be used to encourage greater community activism, and to enable communities to develop innovative approaches to tackling the local crime issues that matter to them.
They are particularly keen for the fund to be made available to grass roots community activists who are not traditional recipients of government grants.
They also want the fund to encourage effective partnerships to get everybody working together to tackle crime. The fund will be used to encourage voluntary and community groups to work with their community safety partnership to tackle local crime problems, including through co-design and co-delivery of initiatives to cut crime.
They will also look to support projects that successfully get local businesses involved, whether through match-funding, or direct participation in the project itself. See more at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/crime/partnerships/innovation-fund/
£1000 Grants for Amateur Sports Clubs
The Telegraph and RBS have joined forces to give grants to amateur sports clubs. See more and apply at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/amateur/8283288/Amateur-sports-club-grant-entry-form.html
Comic Relief Funding
The Comic Relief small grants programme for 2011-13 is open. A pot of £55,239 is available until 2013 in Dorset. 50% of the money available will be awarded to sports projects to socially excluded or disadvanteged individuals. For further information go to www.dorsetcommunityfoundation.org
Improving Sports Facilities - Inspired Facilities
Grants of up to £50k are available from Sport England, and 70% of the cash is earmarked for parish 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!
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!
Community Grants from East Dorset District Council and Ferndown Town Council
Community grants are available from both local authorities. Contact the relavent authority to find out about the application process and timescales for awards. If you live in Ferndown Central ward and want support in applying for a community grant, please contact me.
BT Community Connections
If you know of a community group which helps, or wants to help, people access the internet and improve their ICT skills, they could be eligible to receive 12 months' free broadband from BT. Silver surfers, after school and youth clubs, even 'IT for the Terrified' groups have benefitted from an award in the past and are now encouraging even
more people to get online.
Applying for an award is easy. Simply go to www.bt.com/communityconnections to access the online application form and read the full rules and guidance notes. BT Community Connections supports a diverse range of community and charitable groups across the UK and is part of BT's Get IT Together campaign: www.bt.com/getittogether. Please don't hesitate to contact us on 0845 257 6792 or at [email protected].
more people to get online.
Applying for an award is easy. Simply go to www.bt.com/communityconnections to access the online application form and read the full rules and guidance notes. BT Community Connections supports a diverse range of community and charitable groups across the UK and is part of BT's Get IT Together campaign: www.bt.com/getittogether. Please don't hesitate to contact us on 0845 257 6792 or at [email protected].