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Help The Homeless (UK)
Help the Homeless, a national Charity which aims to help homeless people throughout the United Kingdom to resume a normal life, is currently accepting applications from small and medium sized charities and voluntary organisations. Grants of up to £3,000 are available towards capital costs to support projects that assist disadvantaged individuals in their return to mainstream society, through residential or training facilities. Grants to larger charities may be considered if the project is suitable innovative and only possible for a larger organisation to develop it. Previous projects supported include a grant of £2,845 to Lamp Community towards the cost of computers for reintegration work at their drop-in centres and a grant of £2000 to Spires, a South London Homeless charity towards the cost of providing their daily services to clients, including food and clothing. There are four application deadlines a year. The next application deadline is the 30th September 2010. http://www.help-the-homeless.org.uk/Grants.htm
Grants for the Arts - Individuals and Organisations
Grants are available to individuals and organisations for up to five years for arts-related activi-ties that take place mainly in England. For grants to organisations there is a ceiling of £100,000.; for grants to individuals there is a ceiling of £30,000.; for all grants, the minimum application is £1,000; For national activities the maximum grant is £200,000 Organisational grants are available to arts organisations; local authorities and other public organisat ions; partnerships; regional and national organisations; organisations whose normal activity is not arts-related, including voluntary and community groups and groups of organisa-tions (one will need to take the lead and have the main responsibility for managing the appli-cation and any grant). Grants to individuals are available to; artists;’ performers; writers; pro-moters; presenters; curators; producers; groups of individual; and other individuals working in the arts. Applications can be submitted at any time and there is no application deadline http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/funding/gfta2006.php
Funding to Develop Cancer Self Help Groups (UK)
Through the Helping You Help Others programme, Macmillan, the national charity supporting people living with cancer, is inviting new cancer self help and support groups across the UK to apply for grants of up to £500 to help with their initial development and promotion of service such as promotional costs; printing (leaflets, stationary, newsletters etc.); postage; venue hire; refreshments costs; and speaker fees; etc. Start-up grants for new groups are assessed on a monthly basis from January through to December. The final closing date for Start-up grant applications this year is 1 December 2010. For more information and to request an application pack, please email: resources@macmillan.org.uk or phone 020 7840 4936. Macmillan are also inviting existing groups to apply for grants of up to £3,000 for their continuing development, for activities such as; away days; speaker's fees and associated costs such as travel; and the purchase of group resources such as computers, laptops and display materials for use at information days. The closing date for applications for grants to existing groups is the 29th October 2010. http://www.macmillan.org.uk/HowWeCanHelp/CancerSupportGroups/HowWeSupportYourGroup.aspx
Funding for Community Shops The Village Retail Services Association in partnership with Esmee Fairbairn Foundation and Co-operative and Community Finance have funding available to support start up funding to new Community owned shops in rural areas of England or saving an existing shop by transfer to community ownership. The funding which will be available over the next three years will provide up to £40,000 per shop. This will be made up of a mix of grant and loan funding, as well as advice from the Village Retail Services Association. Eligible applicants will include community based organisations located in rural communities of not less than 300 residents. The community is required to raise match funding through community contributions, which could take the form of share capital, donations raised through community fundraising events and grants obtained from other sources to the same or greater value than the grant requested from the Village CORE Programme. At least some of the funds raised should have been provided by the community itself and not solely through external grants. Applications can be submitted at anytime. http://www.plunkett.co.uk/whatwedo/core/Core.cfm
The Pilgrim Trust (UK) The Pilgrim Trust has announced that the priorities for their Social Welfare programme have changed. Through this programme the trust aims to break cycles of dependency and to help develop a sense of social inclusion in disadvantaged or marginalised groups within the UK. The fund aims to support projects that support people who misuse drugs and alcohol; in pris-ons and projects that provide alternatives to custody. Grants of up to £5,000 will be rewarded through their small grants scheme, and grants over £5,000 through their main grant fund. The Pilgrims Fund also provides funding for projects that seek to conserve historical buildings, monuments and collection, and also projects that promote awareness either by making collec-tions more available or supporting academic research, through their Preservation & Scholar-ship programme. There are no deadlines, applications can be submitted any time.