View online at http://enf.org.uk/blog/ This issue of Funding Extra includes information provided by Grants Online http://www.grantsonline.org.uk SYFAB Funding News http://syfab.org.uk/fundingnews/ Funding Scotland http://www.fundingscotland.com/ Back Issues: at www.enf.org.uk and www.enf.org.uk/blog CONTENTS: GCVS First Funding Stop Launch Event – Additional Date Friday 3rd Feb GCVS Online Fundraising Workshop – 23rd Feb 2012 Local Sport Relief Grants Steven Gerrard Foundation Opens for Applications Free Training and Grants for New Breakfast Clubs Help the Hospices - One-off Capital Grant Programme Call for proposals – Drug Prevention and Information Programme ‘Creme of Nature’ Community Action Award 2012 Digital Research and Development Fund for Arts and Culture YouTube Digital Innovation Award Funding To Support Poetry and Literature ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ GCVS FIRST FUNDING STOP LAUNCH EVENT – ADDITIONAL DATE FRIDAY 3RD FEB Due to the popularity of the launch event (fully booked!) on Thursday 2nd Feb we are hosting this additional event. This event is FREE. Join us on the morning of 3rd February, when our capacity- building expert Isobel Traynor will take you through a demonstration of First Funding Stop - our new online funding portal for community and voluntary organisations. http://tinyurl.com/6na285m ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ GCVS ONLINE FUNDRAISING WORKSHOP – 23 FEB 2012 Using online tools to fundraise can be a little bit daunting but it needn’t be. Our half-day workshop will give you practical advice and handy tips on how you can make your website pay its way. We’ll also look at the wide range of third party online fundraising tools and how you can make them work for you. Significantly, we’ll show you how to utilise traditional and social media to create buzz around your fundraising campaigns. You’ll come away from the workshop with everything you need to get started fundraising online. http://tinyurl.com/88ghezr ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ LOCAL SPORT RELIEF GRANTS A large number of Community Foundations have announced that funding is available to local groups with an income of less than £100,000 per year and working for the benefit of disadvantaged and excluded communities. The funding which is being made available through the Sport Relief programme provides grants of between £500 and £1,000 to supports activities which build a sense of community, increase people''s skills and increase their sense of achievement. Sport Relief is a programme supported by Comic Relief which is working with the Community Foundation Network across the UK to distribute the funding. The types of projects they will fund include: 1 Parent and toddler groups; dad and lads groups 2 Equipment and material for youth groups 3 Community festivals 4 Cross generational work 5 Befriending for older isolated people 6 Lunch clubs 7 Running costs for self help groups. Potential applicants will need to contact their local Community Foundation. The closing date for applications is the 9th March 2012 for many of the Community Foundations. However, applicants should contact their local community Foundation as the application closing date can vary. To access your local Community Foundation website please click on the link below. http://www.communityfoundations.org.uk/community_foundations/map/ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ STEVEN GERRARD FOUNDATION OPENS FOR APPLICATIONS Registered charities within the UK, that run projects working with disadvantaged children can apply for grants of up to £10,000 per year for up to 3 years through the Steven Gerrard Foundation. The primary goal of the Steven Gerrard Foundation (SGF) is to support: 1 Disadvantaged children including their education and health 2 Children with disabilities 3 Street children 4 Children going through family breakdown. The SGF places emphasis on supporting projects which involve children in identifying their own issues and solutions, designing and monitoring projects. The closing date for applications is 5pm on the 9th March 2012. http://www.stevengerrardfoundation.org/grants.htm ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ FREE TRAINING AND GRANTS FOR NEW BREAKFAST CLUBS School staff'' parents and group leaders that wish to set up a new breakfast club in a school or community facility can obtain free training to equip staff with the skills they need to start up and run a successful breakfast club. Following the training leaders will be able to apply for a Best Start Breakfast Club grant of £650 to get their new breakfast club up and running. The funding is provided the education charity "ContinYou" in partnership with Kellogg''s. Kellogg''s are also currently promoting their Give a Child a Breakfast campaign, which aims to raise £300,000 for new breakfast clubs by the end of 2012. http://www.continyou.org.uk/school/breakfast_club_plus/funding/ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ HELP THE HOSPICES - ONE-OFF CAPITAL GRANT PROGRAMME Following a bequest in a will, Help the Hospices has announced a new one-off grant programme to support the establishment of new hospice building(s) and start-up costs, such as the equipping of new hospices. The fund is open to both adult and children’s hospices that are full members of Help the Hospices. The total amount available for the grant programme is £579,000. There is no maximum level of grant that you can apply for, up to the amount available. The closing date for applications is the 18th March 2012. http://tinyurl.com/7daqjzf ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ CALL FOR PROPOSALS – DRUG PREVENTION AND INFORMATION PROGRAMME The European Commission has announced a new call for proposals for “Action Grants” under its Drug Prevention and Information Programme. Under this programme a total of €4,953,200 is available for transnational projects that prevent and reduce drug use, dependence and drug-related harm to health and society. To be eligible for funding, projects require a minimum partnership of 2 eligible organisations from 2 different EU Member States and cannot have an initial duration exceeding 24 months. EU funding cannot constitute more than of 80% of overall eligible project cost and requested amount under this call cannot be less than €75,000. The closing date for applications is 12 noon on the 17th April 2012. http://ec.europa.eu/justice/newsroom/grants/dpip_ag_2011_2012_en.htm ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ‘CREME OF NATURE’ COMMUNITY ACTION AWARD 2012 Now into its fifth year, the Award is focused on those voluntary, faith and community groups, who make a difference to their community. Applications are welcome from individuals to small groups. The 2012 Award will be £10,000. The first runner up will receive a cash award of £5,000. The second, third and fourth runner ups will receive £500 worth of Creme of Nature products. The money can be used for a wide range of projects and activities. The closing date for applications is the 31st March 2012. Each finalist must promote their cause and the one that gets the most online votes from the 1st May to the 18th May 2012 wins. Votes can come from anywhere in the UK. http://www.communityactionaward.com/award.html ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ DIGITAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FUND FOR ARTS AND CULTURE Creative Scotland, the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) have announced the launch of a new £500,000 Digital R&D Fund for Scottish Arts and Culture. The aim of the fund is to help projects harness digital technologies to connect with wider audiences and explore new ways of working. Arts and cultural organisations of all sizes from across Scotland are being asked to work with those with digital expertise to help them understand the potential offered by new technologies and together develop innovative project proposals for submission to the new research fund. It is hoped that the research and development projects, supported by the Digital R&D Fund for Arts and Culture, will not only support Scottish cultural organisations to innovate to increase their audiences and revenues, but will also ultimately have the potential to produce new data and research insights that can be shared with, and benefit, other organisations in the arts and culture sector. Applications are invited from all sizes of arts and cultural organisation based in Scotland. To be eligible organisations must be either predominately publically funded and/or registered charities and want to work with digital technologies. Applicants will be asked to take part in one of a series of workshops to be held in Perth on 6th March, Glasgow on 14th March and Edinburgh on 16th March to help them collaborate with potential technology partners. The closing date for applications is the 20th April 2012. http://www.nesta.org.uk/digital_rnd_scotland ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ YOUTUBE DIGITAL INNOVATION AWARD First Light works with young people from all over the UK to develop filmmaking skills has teamed up with YouTube to give young people aged 18-25 the opportunity to win £1,000 towards future filmmaking projects. First Light are asking for submissions of short films, 3 minutes or under, that could be described as ‘digitally innovative’. Films submitted will be judged by YouTube and the 3 shortlisted filmmakers will be invited to attend the First Light Awards where the winner will be announced. The closing date for receiving both copies of the film and completed application form is by 1pm on Friday 24th February 2012. http://tinyurl.com/6ubz9bn ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ FUNDING TO SUPPORT POETRY AND LITERATURE The Clore Duffield Foundation has announced that the second funding round under its new £1 million programme to fund poetry and literature initiatives for children and young people across the UK is now open for applications. Through the programme, schools, FE colleges, community groups, libraries and other arts/cultural organisations can apply for grants of between £1,000 and £10,000 to support participatory learning projects and programmes focused on literature, poetry and creative writing for under 19s. Projects that received funding under round 1 of the programme include: Wisbech and Fenland Museum which received a grant of £6,000 to work with local arts organisation, Atelier East, to run a Young Poet Laureate contest to enliven, empower and engage young writers in the Fenland area. The programme is due to run until 2015 with two funding rounds a year. The next deadline for applications is the 17th April 2012. http://www.cloreduffield.org.uk/page_sub.php?id=331&parent=35 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The EQUALITY UPDATES e-newsletter is produced on behalf of the Equality Networks Forum (ENF) The ENF: Glasgow Black and Ethnic Minority Voluntary Sector Network; Glasgow City Council; Glasgow Disability Alliance; Glasgow Women’s Voluntary Sector Network; West of Scotland Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Forum This message may contain information that has been sent to the ENF Communications and Resource Worker by third parties. 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