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Grants for those making the connections
The Links Foundation works in England, Scotland and Wales and was formed by ‘Working Links’, an organisation that delivers services to tackle social exclusion and poverty by helping disadvantaged individuals and communities. It provides grants to disadvantaged communities. Since its launch in 2003 it has distributed over £3 million in grants to over 40 projects.
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A helping hand for food projects
Community Food and Health Scotland (CFHS) has announced that their small grant scheme will be open for applications from the 29th April 2010 and will close on the 9th July 2010. Grants from £500 to £4,000 are available to groups and agencies who would like to tackle one or more of the barriers to healthy eating, such as affordability or availability, and the negative impact of culture and lack of food skills.
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Children in Need Grants
BBC Children in Need are inviting not-for-profit organisations (including registered charities, voluntary organisations, schools, local authorities, churches, social enterprises, community interest groups, universities etc) working with disadvantaged children and young people 18 years and under, living in the UK, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands, to apply for grants of up to £10,000 through their small grants scheme.
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Capacity grants for renewables
The Nature Save Trust has announced that they are now providing start up 'seed corn' grants for community renewable energy projects. The Trust recognises that many lenders and investors may be reluctant to put money into a project at an early stage as it may or may not get past the planning stage.
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Awards for All Scotland
Awards for All Scotland gives grants of between £500 and £10,000 for people to take part in art, sport and community activities, and projects that promote education, the environment and health in the local community.
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The Melting Pot Assisted Places
The Melting Pot announces winners of the Assisted Places scheme.
The Melting Pot is a not-for-profit social
enterprise that aims to inspire and support people to realise their ideas for a
better world. It provides shared
workspace for people working for social, economic or environmental well-being,
and publicly available meeting and events space.
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New Business cash in the Highlands
A new grant scheme has been introduced in the Highlands to help new businesses with their start up costs. It is hoped that at least 120 businesses will benefit from a grant - which can be used, for example, to buy equipment or market the new business. The scheme has been developed by The Highland Council, Highland Leader Programme, and Highland Opportunity, to help boost the local economy in the wake of the recession by encouraging the start up of new businesses.
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Cash for wave and tidal
The Technology Strategy Board has announced a £12 million investment to help develop the wave and tidal technologies of the future, and is inviting innovative businesses to apply through two new collaborative R&D competitions. The first call will open on the 8th March and close on the 29th April, with a total investment of £9 million.
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Cash for churches
The National Churches Trust which was launched in 2007 as the only national, non-profit organisation dedicated to supporting and promoting places of worship used by Christian denominations throughout the UK provides grants of around £2 million per year for the restoration and modernisation of places of worship.
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Cash for greener farming
The Carbon Trust has announced financial help is now available for farmers to invest in energy-saving equipment. British farmers are now eligible to apply for unsecured, interest-free loans for between £3,000 and £20,000 to help them upgrade to more energy-efficient equipment. The new funding has been provided to help the farming sector to meet the carbon reduction aims laid out the Government’s Low Carbon Transition Plan. Read More About Cash For Greener Farming...
Age is no barrier
NESTA the national innovation agency, has announced the launch of its new Age Unlimited Scotland programme . The programme will support ideas from people aged over 50 for a community or social enterprise that could help people in their later years (70s, 80s and above) in Scotland to be less socially isolated and as a result lead to healthier and happier lives.
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Grants for better parks
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has announced that the next closing date for applications to the Parks for People programme is the 1st March 2010. Launched originally as a joint initiative with the Big Lottery Fund full responsibility for the programme has now passed to the Heritage Lottery Fund.
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Research cash for low carbon cars
The Technology Strategy Board has announced that it is making is launching a competition with up to £19m available to invest in innovative, industry-led collaborative research, development and demonstration in the field of low and ultra low carbon vehicles. The Technology Board expect to support three to six projects.
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Scottish Biomass Heating Scheme
Time is running out - the third and final deadline for the Scottish Biomass Heat Scheme is coming up soon on 12 February 2010. The scheme is Scotland-wide, funded by Scottish Government, Forestry Commission Scotland and the European Regional Development Fund.
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Community Chest Programme
The Community Chest can provide grants of up to £1,000 and free training to groups with an annual income under £25,000. Groups can apply for funding for a wide range of activities or operational costs.
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Final Deadline Approaching For Tourism Fund
Time’s almost up for tourism businesses in Scotland to apply for support from a scheme offering match funding and consultancy. The final application round of Scottish Enterprise’s Tourism Innovation Fund closes on 28 January 2010.
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Skills for the future-Funding
The Heritage Lottery Fund has announced that the new Skills for the Future programme is now open to applications. This is a new £5million grant programme that will deliver up to 1,000 paid training opportunities for people across the UK seeking a career in heritage.
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BBC Children in Need Small Grants Scheme
BBC Children in Need are inviting not-for-profit organisations working with disadvantaged children and young people 18 years and under to apply for grants of up to £10,000 through their small grants scheme.
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Truth about Youth Programme
The Co-operative Foundation, which is an independent charitable trust set up in 2000 and solely funded by The Co-operative Group – United Region has announced that it is seeking to support one charity in the Glasgow and surrounding area through its Truth about Youth programme.
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E.ON Sustainable Energy Fund
E.On , the power and gas generating and distributing company, has announced that the next application deadline for its Sustainable Energy Fund is 2 April 2010. The E.ON Sustainable Energy Fund offers grants of up to £20,000 to community groups and not for profit organisations who wish to consider and implement sustainable energy projects in their buildings.
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Climate Challenge Fund Round 6 Awards
The Scottish Government has announced the projects awarded funding from round 6 of the Climate Challenge Fund. A total of over £3.6 million was offered to 41 projects across Scotland, all with the aim of reducing our communities' carbon footprints.
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Creme of Nature Awards UK
Now into its third year, the Award is focused on those in African
Caribbean voluntary, faith and community groups in the UK, whose primary
objective is to support and encourage women. The closing date for funding applications is the 28th February 2010.
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INCREASE III ReUse Programme
Wrap Scotland has announced the launch of INCREASE III (ReUse), a new £800,000 grants scheme. This programme is part of the Scottish Government's Zero Waste Strategy, aimed at not-for-profit community sector organisations to improve the re-use infrastructure and capability across Scotland.
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Where the green grants went 4
The Environmental Funders Network have published their fourth review of where and how green grants are being spent by UK grant-making bodies. It looks at trends in the distribution of green grants over the last five years, and highlights a number of patterns as well as issues.
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Getting plugged in
The UK Government is inviting cities and businesses to join together to bid for £30 million which will help fund the installation of charging points on streets, car parks and in commercial, retail and leisure facilities. This initiative – called Plugged-In Places – will support the development of between three and six electric car cities and regions across the UK which will act as trailblazers for electric car technology.
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Community awards for buildings feasibility
The Scottish Community Projects Fund can award grants up to a maximum of £2,000, or half the cost inc VAT (whichever is the lower), for a local Community Group to employ an architect or any other building professional, to prepare a feasibility study for building or environmental improvement projects or employment or other initiatives which have social benefit.
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National Campaign Warns of Winter Misery for Millions
A charity campaign launched today has warned of the misery faced by millions of people across the UK as they are forced to choose between heating their homes or saving money as Britain’s recession continues to bite.
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People's Postcode Trust
A new community grants programme was launched earlier this year, the People's Postcode Trust. Distributing funding raised through the People's Postcode Lottery, community groups in Scotland can apply for between £750 and £10,000.
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Health work and wellbeing challenge fund
The UK government has announced a new £4 million grant scheme, The Health Work and Wellbeing Challenge Fund. The funding is available over two years to support small and medium sized businesses carry out new initiatives to boost staff health and welfare.
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Petition to save the Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland
SCVO have opened a petition on the Number 10 website calling on the Prime Minister to save the Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland in its current form. The Foundation distributes around £9 million each year to Scotland's communities, and the loss of this funding, as well as the proactive support their staff provide, would be significant.
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The Melting Pot assisted places programme
The Melting Pot has announced an assisted places programme to enable 10 people to access six months free membership of the Edinburgh-based social initiative, with all the supports this brings for budding social entrepreneurs.
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Supermarket cash for communities
Supermarket chain, Waitrose will award funding of over £2 million over the
next year to nearly 7,000 charities and local good causes. The funding
is being made through a new initiative called Community Matters .
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Extra £20million for clean technology
The clean energy technologies of the future will have access to an
extra £20 million in government-backed venture capital support, this is
the latest allocation out of the £405 million pot investment in low
carbon technologies announced in the Budget.
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Rescue cash for third sector at risk
The Scottish Government has launched the £1.7million Third Sector Resilience fund to help troubled community groups, social enterprises, charities and the like.
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BT Community Connections
Do you know a community or charitable organisation that is looking for IT equipment and wants to get online? If so, they can apply for a BT Community Connections award today.
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Interreg IVB North Sea Region Programme
The Interreg IVB North Sea Region Programme (2007 - 13) has announced that the fifth call for proposals is now open for applications, with a closing date of 7 October 2009.
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Climate Challenge Fund Round 5 announcement
On 2 September 2009 the Scottish Government announced that Round 5 of the Climate Challenge Fund (CCF) was supporting thirty seven projects across Scotland with £3.5 million to tackle climate change in their communities.
Collectively, the projects will reduce carbon emissions by over 250,000
tonnes - the equivalent of taking over 83,000 cars off the UK roads.
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New funding for play
Announced on 11 August 2009, Go Play is a new grant programme to support play activities in Scotland. A total of £4million is being made available by the Scottish Government over the next two years, which will be distributed by Inspiring Scotland.
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Women's Fund for Scotland
The Scottish Community Foundation is currently accepting applications under Women’s Fund for Scotland.
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Charitable giving on the downturn
Many might have suspected it and confirmation recently that charitable giving by individuals in Scotland is on the decrease.
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Investing in the leaders of tomorrow
The Youth of Today has unveiled a £1million youth sector investment fund to support innovative leadership opportunities for young people. Read More About Investing In The Leaders Of Tomorrow...
Biodiversity grants
WREN's UK-wide Biodiversity Action Fund is a £10m programme spread over 5 years to provide funding to enhance biodiversity by supporting the expansion, recovery and conservation of habitats that achieve Species Action Plan/Habitat Action Plan targets through specific improvements.
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Tree-mendous
The Tree Council , the lead tree campaigning charity working to promote the importance of trees within the changing environment has announced that its Trees for Communities and Trees for Schools grant making programmes are now open for applications.
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Empowered sustainable communities
Forward Scotland has been awarded funding of over £400,000 by the Big Lottery Fund in Scotland to deliver Sus it Out Plus ™ a community empowerment programme for sustainability.
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Achieving Community Empowerment is ACE
The Scottish Community Development Centre is looking to work with 50 community groups between 2009 and 2014 through it's lottery backed Achieving Community Empowerment (ACE) programme.
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Our Community, Our Future
Scottish Community Foundation is looking to work with a small number of new community groups as part of its Our Community, Our Future programme funded by the Big Lottery Fund .
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CashBack for Communities
YouthLink Scotland has announced the 3rd round of the CashBack for Community Fund is now open for applications, with a deadline to apply of 31 October 2009.
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Village SOS
Not content just to be on ITV, the Big Lottery Fund has teamed up with the BBC to launch an initiative to find 6 villages throughout the UK who want to develop a new business venture.
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The Secret Millionaire: an open invitation
Inspired and supported by the Channel 4 TV show, the Big Lottery Fund is promoting its own version of the highly successful secret millionaire concept.
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E.On Sustainable Energy Fund
E.On, the power and gas generating and distributing company, has announced the launch of a new Sustainable Energy Fund. The E.On Sustainable Energy Fund offers grants of up to £20,000 to community groups and not for profit organisations who wish to consider and implement sustainable energy projects in their buildings.
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