This page gives a round-up of recent funding advice from the Youth Officer.
Funding
The Young People’s Fund is a newly established element of the National Lottery. A whole range of information, over £40m is available to fund voluntary and community organisations and a lot of this is going to grants for youth groups and there are also separate grants for individuals or small groups of young people. Check out what is available. If your church is happy to receive lottery funding, then there is a whole range of different headings under which applications can be made to the Young People’s Fund.
Money –if you are in the Peterborough area, have you checked out Peterborough Youth Bank as a possibility of funding. There’s a whole range of criteria, information and other things available to help guide you through the process of possibly accessing some funding. So why not google Peterborough Youth Bank and see what’s happening there.
Youth Evangelism Fund
Thee Youth Evangelism Fund that was launched in April 2008. The purpose of the Fund is to “share the Good News of Jesus in ways that make sense to young people”. The Peterborough Diocese has £24,000 to spend in grants ranging from £200 - £2000. The money is allocated to the diocese from the National Youth Evangelism Fund and applications are open to those aged 11-20 years. With the support of their church they can apply for a grant to help pay for evangelistic activities designed to reach people of their own age. Applications should be with the diocese by the end of the Summer Term (18 July 2008), prior to being submitted to the national grants committee in September. For more information contact Paul on 01604 887044 or email: youth@peterborough-diocese.org.uk
Grassroots Grants
The Cabinet Office has announced a new, multi-million pound funding programme to boost local community organisations with much-needed access to small grants and long-term financing, which will be delivered by the Community Development Foundation. Grassroots grants will launch in the new year with £130 million available from 2008-2011 to strengthen the community sector. Applications will be invited by April with further details of the process
and the programme to be confirmed next month.
See http://www.cdf.org.uk/pooled/articles/BF_NEWSART/view.asp?Q=BF_
NEWSART_297231
Community Cash Awards
BIG Young People’s Fund
The Big Lottery Fund has launched its Young People's Fund 2 National Grants programme. National grants of between £200,000 and £5 million (with an average grant size of £1 million) are available for projects that work with young people across England. There is up to £38 million to spend in total and BIG aims to make around 20 grants. Briefing sessions are to be held in January 2008. http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/prog_ypf2_national_grants.htm?regioncode=-uk&status=theProg
Capacity Builders
Have a range of funds available from central government. Why not check out wheather your project appeals to them on www.capacitybuilders.org.uk.
Welland Community Grant Pot is funding for new projects in the community which includes East Northants, Rutland and the Harborough Districts. Details from Janet Clark, Welland Community Grants Officer, tel: 01529 302466. Email: janet.clark@cclincs.com
BT Community Connections
BT Community Connections is an award scheme that enables community and voluntary groups throughout the UK to get online and apply for a multi-media internet-ready PC and a contribution towards a year's broadband internet access through BT Total Broadband. The scheme targets community groups that could benefit from internet access but don't necessarily have the resources. See www.btcommunityconnections.com/. Closing date for the next round of awards is February 2007. Details also at: /www.fundersindex.co.uk/BTCommunityConnection.asp
Northamptonshire and Cambridgeshire County Council Grants
Local voluntary groups can apply to both Councils through area committees. Contact the Diocesan Resource Centre for details of the local link people. Grants of up to £2000 are readily available to support certain areas of work. So please don’t miss out. Check out your local council website.
Sir Andrew Martin Trust for Young People
A trust fund for Rutland that may be able to fund things that individual young people are doing. Contact Emma Johnson on 0116 2340033 or the Trust Administrator, David Smith, on 0116 2221896.
Grants for Young People to Improve their Community
www.4frontawards.org may be a place to look to see if funding is available to anyone you know aged 11 to 25 living in the UK with ideas about improving their community, Wellbeing and Health, Arts and Music or Standing up for My Rights.
Northamptonshire Money 4 Youth
If you are in Northamptonshire, then youth funding is now done by a programme called Money 4 Youth – turn your ideas into reality with Government cash. In addition, they will be looking for members of a young people’s youth forum who will be making a decision about how some of these monies are spent.
www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/money4youth or call on 01604 236236.
Funding Advice, Northamptonshire and East Northamptonshire
Details of how to apply for money from the Youth Opportunity Fund/Youth Capital Fund, which seems to have recently been named "Money 4 Youth", are now available on the County Council website at www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/child/young/youth/yof.htm. In particular, Paul Wilcox (Children and Young Peoples' Services Co-ordinator at East Northamptonshire Council) can advise on giving away the £97,000 that has been allocated to East Northamptonshire. He is at 01832 742 222 and pwilcox@east-northamptonshire.gov.uk. A Northants County Council small grants scheme (up to £5,000) is also due to be launched soon, with application forms and guidance imminent, in advance of a deadline of 23 October. Paul Wilcox at the district council should be able to advise on this too.
Faith Communities Capacity Building Fund - further funding available!
Organisations are invited to apply for small grants (up to £5,000) or large grants (bewteen £5,000 and £30,000) which are available between April 2007 and March 2008. The fund will support faith and inter faith organisations to strengthen their capacity in order to play a fuller part in civil society/community cohesion. It will also support inter faith activities which bring together people from different faith groups to talk, network and learn from one another.
Closing date: 1 November 2006. Further details from the Community Development Foundation at www.cdf.org.uk, or call 01223 400341, or email fundingadmin@cdf.org.uk.
Young Roots - Heritage Lottery Fund
Gives young people the opportunity to look at the roots of their own communities. There is much money available in our area.
Contact:
Nigel Blanchford, Young Roots Co-ordinator on 01223 224 884 or nigelb@hlf.org.uk
Young Roots Newsletter
Heritage Lottery Fund Young Roots leaflet
www.hlf.org.uk/youngroots
Advice from Northampton Council for Voluntary Service
Trying to raise funds? Then our good friend, Trevor McHugh, of the Council for Voluntary Youth Service in Northampton is also operating now as a freelance, helping and enabling all sorts of organisations to raise funds from a variety of sources. Particularly useful is his CVS Funding Alert service. Our friends at the Roman Catholic Diocese say the CVS Funding Alert is by far the most useful, comprehensive and regular of the several similar services that I access on behalf of an organisation that covers the three counties, three unitary authorities and three regions. I know that they have been very successful in raising funds from a number of sources. Spurgeons Childcare describe them as an absolutely incredible service, so please do use them if you are looking for funding.
To request a copy of the Funding Alert email, contact Jean Mooyman jean@cvsnorthamptonshire.org.uk
www.cvsnorthamptonshire.org.uk
Funderfinder
Paul runs a Funderfinder service from his desk at Bouverie Court. If you ring and organise a mutually convenient appointment, it takes about twenty minutes to put your information through the software and Paul will send you a printout of trusts and charities who may be willing to offer you funding towards your work. Rather than spend endless hours at reference libraries, this software cuts out a great deal of the hard work finding out who might, and then you are simply left with the ‘delights’ of sending off applications and actually doing the hard work. Contact us.
Voluntary Sector Grants
For those in Northamptonshire, there are small voluntary sector grants available in each area. Grants can be up to £2000 per organisation under a variety of headings and criteria. If you would like to look at the details of the East Northants Council Grants, then contact Paul. Otherwise, if you would like to be in touch with your local area, then Paul will have contact details. Contact Us
Outreach into the Community?
Does your parish have a project involving greater outreach into the community? The Church and Community Fund under the trusteeship of the Archbishop’s Council gives over £500,000 in grants each year within the criteria of four categories. It seeks to take the Church out into the community, bring the community into the Church and strengthen relationships between the two. Up to £15,000 for Anglican projects and ecumenical projects, where the Anglican Church is a key participant. To engage with social issues, equipped to evangelise, welcome and encourage children and young people and to develop the ministry to all. Contact CCF, Church House, Great Smith Street, London, SW1P 3NZ, or email ccf@c-of-e.org.uk or check out their website at www.churchandcommunityfund.org.uk.
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