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Rural & Environment Funding
Cole Charitable Trust
Offers grants to small local charitable organisations working in Kent.
Funding is intended to support projects and activities that address at least one of the following areas:
- Social welfare for all age groups.
- Housing and homelessness.
- Health.
- Community and environmental development.
- Opportunities for young people.
- Promotion of improved quality of life.
- Personal or community empowerment.
Closing date 1 September 2013 Read more....
Rural Community Broadband Fund
Voluntary and community sector organisations can apply now for funding to help establish superfast broadband in hard to reach communities in England.
Rural communities that missed the previous two rounds of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ (Defra) £20 million Rural Community Broadband Fund have until 24 May 2013 to submit an expression of interest for round three.
You can apply if your community is in a rural location identified as being in the 10% hard to reach area which will get only standard broadband under the main Rural Broadband Programme being rolled out by your Local Authority. You will be asked to provide clear evidence supporting how you have established your project will be in a 10% area.
Acting on behalf of a community, eligible applicants can be:
- Social and community enterprises;
- Community Interest Companies;
- Community trusts;
- Charities;
- Private Businesses (non-Internet Service Providers); and
- Other formally constituted groups.
This is a rural community scheme. However, Local Authorities (including Parish and District Councils) may also apply on behalf of communities, or act as the managing authority for an application. Where this is the case, there must be a clear demonstration of community engagement and community support for the project.
The deadline for Expressions of Interest is 24 May 2013 Read more...
Grimple's Green Giving
The Green Insurance Company is offering you the chance to secure a grant of up to £1000 to support environmentally friendly green projects.
Grants will be awarded in April, July, October and January. Read more...
The Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation
The foundation is a general grant making trust, the trustees are interested in and support a diverse range of charities. Organisations must be UK registered charities or Community Amateaur Sport Clubs. Read more...
Cole Charitable Trust
The offers grants to small local charitable organisations working in Kent.
Funding is intended to support projects and activities that address at least one of the following areas:
- Social welfare for all age groups.
- Housing and homelessness.
- Health.
- Community and environmental development.
- Opportunities for young people.
- Promotion of improved quality of life.
- Personal or community empowerment.
Read more....
Closing date 15 March 2013
| Lush Charity Pot |
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Lush supports small, grassroot organisations around the world working in the following areas:-
- Environment;
- Other parenting initiatives relating to family well-being.
- Human rights.
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| Tap Water Awards |
Grant Value: £3,000 - £5,000 |
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Tap Water Awards is a grants programme that aims to help reduce the amount of plastic waste generated in the UK.
Who can apply?
- voluntary and community organisations
- schools
- parish or town councils
Projects can have a community, local or national impact.
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| Jephcott Charitable Trust |
Grants from £2,000 - £10,000 |
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Considers grants in the following areas:
- Education
- Health
- Environment
Preference will be given to charities or projects which are having difficulty getting started, or raising funds from other sources.
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| Marsh Christian Trust |
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The Trust has a wide discretion to make donations for any charitable purpose. The causes that the Trust supports lie broadly within the following areas of work:-
- Social Welfare
- Literature, Arts and Heritage
- Environmental Causes
- Conservation and Animal Welfare
- Healthcare and Medical Research
- Education and Training
- Miscellaneous
- Overseas Appeals
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| Fuserna Foundation |
Grant Value: £5,000 - £15,000 |
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The Fuserna Foundation revitalises and supports charities and charitable projects that are subject to financial constraints and have a combined lack of exposure and publicity in relation to their charitable cause. The Foundation will usually issue grants between £5,000 and £15,000. Applications can be submitted at any time.
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| H.B. Allen Charitable Trust |
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This is a general charitable trust. The Trustees have no restrictions on them as to the kinds of project or the areas they can support. The Trustees are prepared to fund core costs as well as capital projects, but they are unlikely to provide initial funding for newly established organisations
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| The John Ellerman Foundation |
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Is a generalist grant-making trust distributing over £4 million each year. The Foundation aims to support a broad cross-section of national charities doing work in the following categories:
- Health and Disability
- Social Welfare
- Arts and Heritage
- Conservation
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Heritage Lottery Funding
The Heritage Lottery Fund concentrates on projects which focus on heritage, this includes many different things from the past that they value and want to pass on to future generations. For example: memories and experiences, history of communities, cultural traditions, historic buildings and streets, archaeological sites, landscapes, wildlife and places linked to industrial, maritime or transport.
Current programmes are:
- Heritage Grants (Grants above £50,000)
- Your Heritage (£3000 to £50,000)
- Young Roots (£3000 to 25,000)
- Townscape Heritage Initiative (£500,000 to £2,000,000)
- Parks for People (£250,000 to £5million)
- Landscape Partnerships (£250,000 to £2million)
- Repair Grants for Places of Worship (From £10,000 to £250,000)
For more information visit www.hlf.org.uk
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Funding of between £10,000 and £25,000 is available to support a small number of truly exceptional ideas and/or projects that contribute to meeting the identified objectives under three main strategic aims:
- Cultural Understanding
- Fulfilling Potential
- Environment
For more information and to complete an online initial enquiry form click here…
Proposals are assessed at monthly meetings and Trustees meet three times a year to consider final applications.
West Kent Leader - Grants of up to £50,000
Leader for Rural Communities - Capital Funding is available for the expansion of cultural and leisure activities including:
- Development of community buildings
- Community enterprises
- Renewable energy for community buildings
Capital grants are also available for small scale infrastructure projects that develop or enhance:
- Community buildings
- Village approaches
- Main streets
- Amenity spaces
- Work-spaces
- Village landscapes
Local community groups seeking to maintain, restore or upgrade local cultural heritage features can also apply.
Applicants must be constituted groups and individuals cannot apply
For further information and details of how to apply click here…
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation
Trusthouse gives grants for running costs or one-off capital costs to charities and not-for-profit organisations. They accept applications which address the following issues:
Rural community projects, urban deprivation, community support, drugs and alcohol rehabilitation, elderly support and respite for carers, ex-offender projects, young people - life skills and employment, physical and mental disability, palliative care, arts projects, education and heritage.
For more information and how to apply visit www.trusthousecharitablefoundation.org.uk
Computers for Rural People/Community Projects
If you live in a rural area and think a computer might be useful, but can't afford several hundreds of pounds, the Arthur Rank Centre can help you.
The Arthur Rank Centre has made an arrangement with the global charity Oasis, to supply re-furbished computers.
Please click here for further information.
The FEI Partnership Fund - Forest Education Initiative - Grants of up to £3,000
The FEI Partnership Fund is specifically to support the work of FEI cluster groups. It can provide match funding for specific activities, which enhance the overall objectives of FEI. These are to help develop, among young people, a greater understanding of trees, woodlands, forest management, forest products and wood as a sustainable resource.
For more information and details of how to apply click here...
There are three closing dates each year: 1st February, 1st June and 1st October.
Queen Elizabeth II Fields Fund
SITA Trust has joined forces with HRH Prince William and the Fields in Trust to support the Queen Elizabeth II Fields Challenge. The Queen Elizabeth II Fields Challenge is a fantastic new campaign to protect 2012 outdoor recreation spaces in communities all across the country as a permanent living legacy of the Queens Diamond Jubilee. Once an area has been designated a QEII Field an application can be made to SITA Trust’s £1 million fund for improvements to the recreation area.
For more information about SITA and the Queen Elizabeth II fields Fund click here...
To read more about the Queen Elizabeth II Fields Fund Challenge click here...
Nineveh Charitable Trust
The Nineveh Charitable Trust offers charitable funding and research grants that encourage the preservation of the countryside.
More specifically, their aims are to promote the study and appreciation of agriculture, horticulture, silviculture, land management, ecology and conservation and preservation of the countryside.
For more information visit www.ninevehtrust.org.uk
Green Grants Machine
Search for grants and loans from the Carbon Trust, Energy Saving Trust and many more to help you reduce waste, cut energy use and slash water consumption.
For more information and to register with the Green Grants Machine visit www.greengrantsmachine.co.uk
Garfield Weston Foundation
The foundation is delighted to support a wide range of organisations but will only consider applications from UK registered charities.
It will not fund one off events or make a commitment to fund over several years. Grants made are typically for a single year. For more information click here...
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
The Esmée Fairbairn foundations main fund prioritises work that:
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Addresses a significant gap in provision
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Develops or strengthens good practice
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Challenges convention or takes a risk in order to address a difficult issue
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Tests out new ideas or practices
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Takes an enterprising approach to achieving its aims
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Sets out to influence policy or change behaviour more widely
To download the guidance for applications please click here... or visit www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk for further information
Steel Charitable Trust
Grants are made primarily to registered charities in the UK within the following funding areas:
- Arts and Culture
- Disadvantaged
- Education
- Environment
- Health
For further information including details on how to apply please click here
Oak Foundation
Oak Foundation addresses the issues of global social and environmental concern, particularly those that have a major impact on the lives of the disadvantaged.
Oak's priorities and areas of particular emphasis are
- Environment
- Housing and Homelessness
- International Human Rights
- Issues Affecting Women
For further information including details on how to apply please click here
The Bromley Trust
A grant-making trust, set up in 1989, to offset 'man's inhumanity to man'.
Funding is broken down into three main funding streams:
1) Human Rights
2) Prison Reform
3) Environment
If you are interested in applying to the Bromley Trust for support please click here for further information.
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