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21st March 2011

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Small Sparks

Grants that can be used to kick start, inject life or enhance community based services or activity which

 can show a clear positive, difference to adults within their local community. It is a local fund offered

 by Help Direct and funded by Lancashire County Council. Grants of £50 to £500 are available and

 applications must be submitted by November 2010. For more information contact Rossendale

Enterprise Anchor Ltd (REAL) 8 St James Centre, Bacup Ol13 9AA Tel. 01706 871730 or info@realtd.co.uk

Grants

Sport

Swimathon Foundation - Grants available Do you know a community group that is keen to make a splash in the swimming pool? Then why not suggest they apply for a

 Swimathon Foundation grant?
The Foundation is offering grants of between £300 and £2,500 to swimming pools, community organisations and charities who can demonstrate how funding will allow

them to help more people participate in and enjoy swimming and to make swimming more accessible.
Whether you’re a scout leader that would like to take your troop for a day at an open

air pool, a healthy living group wanting to try our Aquaerobics for the first time or a scuba diving club desperate for new equipment, a grant could be the helping hand you need!
For more information and to apply online please visit the website: www.swimathon.org/foundation. The first round of applications closes on 21 March 2011 so make

sure you pass on the word to anyone who may beinterested.
If you have any questions about the grants programme or the Swimathon Foundation

 please don’t hesitate to contact info@swimathonfoundation.org or 0845 459 9016.
 

Greenspaces

The GrantScape Community Greenspace Challenge is a £500,000 grant programme

designed to support local communities in creating enjoyable new outdoor greenspaces, including by transforming existing unloved areas. It is specifically designed to benefit the environment both for people and for wildlife, supporting people's health, well-being and access to nature. Grants are available for amounts between £20,000 and £75,000. Visit:Greenspaces

Future football

The Grow the Game grant scheme is provided and administered by the Football Foundation to stimulate and sustain increased participation in football at a grass-roots level. The deadline for northern regions and the Midlands is 8 February 2011 and the deadline for southern and eastern regions is 28 February 2011. Visit: Football Foundation

Homeless grants

LandAid's Annual Grants Programme is inviting applications for projects which help disadvantaged or homeless people, especially the young. LandAid will be awarding grants of between £5,000 and £25,000 per project which provide accommodation or assist in meeting accommodation needs, refurbish or renew facilities, or deliver training, life skills or other educational programmes. Visit: LandAid

Young carers grants

The True Colours Trust provides a small grants programme to small, UK-based organisations to carry out projects that provide help for disabled children and their families. Up to £10,000 is available for projects that support programmes for children, their siblings and families, including for young carers. Visit: True Colours Trust

Funding for a break

Breaks 4 Kids funding is available to under-privileged young people travelling as part of an organised group. The group could be a school class, youth club, church group, or a group organised by a body such as the Youth Offending Group or Connexions. Breaks 4 Kids can award up to 50% of the cost of accommodation and food. Visit: Breaks 4 Kids

Youth development

The Agnes Trust Fund assists with the education and training of disadvantaged people or with youth development projects. The next application deadline is 9 February. Visit: www.agneshunter.org.uk

The Ford Britain Trust

This grant making trust awards grants in support of the communities in which Ford's employees work and live. Grants of up to £3,000 are available to projects focusing on: education, environment, children, the disabled, youth activities, and projects that provide clear benefits to the local communities close to Ford's UK locations. The next deadline is 1 March. Visit: The Ford Britain Trust

The Greggs Foundation

 This foundation operates a regional grants programme to support charitable organisations through the provision of small grants of up to £2,000. Funded projects must make a positive difference to people in need in local communities. Priority is given to projects which benefit people with caring responsibilities, people with disabilities and homeless people. Visit: Greggs Foundation

Outdoor Activities grants

The Dulverton Trust provides money for activities that improve education and employment opportunities for disadvantaged young people, such as those at risk of offending or exclusion. The trust particularly likes to fund challenging outdoor activities and mostly supports organisations working in areas where a grant would significantly improve outcomes for local communities. A major grant is available for national charities with an annual income below £50m, and a minor grant is available to smaller charities working at local level with an income below £400,000. read more ...

Youth Enterprise grants

The Enterprise Challenge Grant Scheme is administered by UK Youth and is supported by international accounting firm Mazars. The grant scheme aims to improve young people's entrepreneurial skills and promote their involvement in enterprising activities across the UK. Grants of up to £250 are on offer. Visit: UK Youth

Youth volunteering grants

The Office for Civil Society has opened a programme of grants and partnership contracts, totalling almost half a million pounds, for civil society organisations to support the government's Big Society vision as part of the European Year of Volunteering (EYV) in England this year. The EYV in 2011 challenges the three-quarters of the EU population who do not already volunteer to start doing so and requires member states to develop a national work programme encouraging and maintaining volunteering. read more ...

Garfield Weston Foundation

This foundation provides funding for projects in the UK with no specific priorities for funding and a wide range of charitable activity being supported. There is no strict limit on the size of the grant given as every application is considered on its own merits. For details and to apply visit: www.garfieldweston.org

Places, People, Play programme

Sport England wants local communities across the country to be touched by the magic of London 2012 in a tangible way, and this fund will bring National Lottery funding to many local groups and facilities that haven’t previously benefited. Under the 'Places' strand Clubs, community and voluntary sector groups and councils will, when the fund opens in February, be able to apply for grants of between £25,000 and £150,000 where there is a proven local need for a facility to be modernised, extended or modified to open up new sporting opportunities. read more ...

Whole family development grants

The Kelly Family Charitable Trust is interested in funding charities whose activities involve the whole family in initiatives that seek to tackle problematical issues that face one or more of its members, and whose aims include the strengthening of family bonds by helping all elements of the family unit to grow together and support each other. Grants will typically be between £1,000 and £5,000. Visit: Kelly Family Charitable Trust

Barclays Community Sports Award

The Barclays Community Sports Award is a new award to recognise the outstanding achievements of individuals and groups that use sport to benefit communities across the UK. If you would like to nominate a person, group or not for profit organisation which has used the positive power of sport to make a real and lasting difference in their community then please complete the online form. read more ...

Whitemoss Community Fund - Skelmersdale

The Whitemoss Community Fund provides grants of between £5,000 and £20,000 to fund community and environmental projects located in the West Lancashire Borough Council area and that are within 5 miles of the Whitemoss landfill site in Skelmersdale. Visit: Whitemoss Community Fund

The Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation

This foundation provides grant funding in support of a wide range of charitable projects that aim to improve the quality of life for the young, deprived, disadvantaged, disabled and elderly in the UK. Grants are normally in the range £500 to £10,000, but may exceptionally be greater. Visit:

• Football Foundation Grow the Game - Open to Applications
  Funding for new projects that use football to increase participation by both players and volunteers in England.
  Deadline: 8 February 2011

Crime reduction

Ben Kinsella Fund
The Prince's Trust is launching the new Ben Kinsella Fund in England and Wales for young people to run positive anti-knife crime activities in their local area. Brooke Kinsella, campaigner and actress, whose brother Ben was murdered in 2008, is working with The Prince's Trust to select the successful projects.

 Fifty grants of up to £3,000 will be available in England and Wales.

Disabled & Disadvantaged Children

• True Colours Trust
  True Colours Trust has a small grants fund of up to £10,000 for organisations working with disabled children.