Funding, Grants and Trusts
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| List of Charitable Trusts | Subscribers contacts SEFAN |
| Allen Lane Foundation | Imaginative and innovative projects, wanting charitiesThe Allen Lane Foundation is a grant-making trust, who support general charitable causes. |
| Argos Funding or Goods
Apply in writing to Argos Ltd Charities Dept, |
For registered charities & non-profit organisations, Your group must be people-related e.g. education & health, children (schools with special needs) but not animals / animal welfare. |
| Arts and Humanities research board | Small grants in the creative & performing arts. The scheme provides support for up to £5,000 The Arts and Humanities Research Council aims to: Support and promote high-quality and innovative research in the arts and humanities. |
| Association of Commonwealth Universities
36 Gordon Square, |
Scholarships at UK Universities |
| Awards for All | Lotery Funding of £500 to £5,000. In the South East region, they will score highly, those projects which -benefit children and young people up to the age of 18 in areas where access to facilities and services is limited, benefit disabled people, benefit older people (aged 60 or over), and help communities explore and share their heritage, traditions and cultures. See also section on micro grants for local level grants of £50-£500 |
| Baring Foundation merges funding streams | The Baring Foundation has announced that it will be merging the two funding streams that currently make up its 'Strengthening the Voluntary Sector' programme. This is currently composed of project grants of up to £30,000 and core costs grants, usually of £75,000 over three years. The Baring Foundation has decided next year to merge these two streams into a single fund of larger grants. It is likely that these will range from £20,000 - £100,000 and be for up to five years. They will be open to application through an annual bidding process throughout the UK and will be focussed by one or more organisational development themes. Applications for sums under £20,000 therefore will NOT be considered after the end of this year. |
| BDS Sponsorship | Sponsorship resource centres BDS Sponsorship Ltd are one of Europe’s leading sponsorship and allied income generation consultancies, encompassing the arts and education amongst others. |
| BLF Reaching Communities Fund | Funding is available to help improve local communities and the lives of people most in need. Grants are between £10,001 and £500,000 for up to five years on a full cost recovery basis. The maximum overall project size can be up to £750,000. To secure a grant you have to show you are responding to the needs of your community. Essentially, applicants needs to show how the community have been involved in the design of the project and how they will be involved in the delivery of the project. Organisations that can apply include registered charities, other voluntary and community groups, statutory bodies (including schools), charitable or not-for-profit companies and social enterprises. |
| BLF Big Boost Youth Programme | The Big Boost, which is funded by the Big Lottery Fund as part of its Young People’s Fund programme in England, will fund budding social entrepreneurs aged between 11 – 25. It aims to encourage social entrepreneurship among young people from all backgrounds, helping them develop projects which will make a lasting difference to them and to their communities. Grants of between £250 and £5,000 will be awarded to help individuals and small groups of young people aged between 11 and 25 years old run projects in their areas. |
| Brighton and Hove Business Community Partnership | The Brighton and Hove Business Community Partnership (“BCP”) provides a high quality and unique brokerage service to the private, community and voluntary sectors. |
| Brighton and Hove Grants | Funding available for 2006-07 in various areas -Arts Partnership awards between £500 t0 £2,500, Another funding partner must match awawrds.- Comunity Festivals grants up to £1,500 celebrating either local neighbourhoods or communities interest and identity. -Environmental Sustainability grants up to £2,500 for work to improve the local environment. -Implementing Organisational Equalities grants up to £2,500 to help improve equalities for staff, volunteers and service users. -Pride Community Chest £5000 will be available in small grants between £500 to £1000 to organisations wishing to take part in the Pride in Brighton and Hove celebrations in August 2006. |
| BT School Awards | All schools in UK are eligible for the awards up to £25K. Awards up to £75K for organisations involved in further and Higher education and libraries. BT is keen to promote projects between educational institutions and the wider community. (Click teacher info) |
| Carnegie UK | The Carnegie UK Trust is shifting its strategic focus from short-term grant giving to local organisations to supporting programmes that will make a sustained difference in peoples lives. After March, the Trust is replacing its grants programmes to the voluntary sector. It will step up its investment in independent national enquiries and support larger-scale action research designed to influence public policy and deliver longer-term change. |
| Charles Hayward Foundation Funding www.charleshaywardfoundation.org.uk |
UK registered charities working at a community and neighbourhood level can apply for funding between £1,000 and £20,000. Applicant organisations should aim to develop innovate new services or activities covering a variety of themes including heritage, providing community facilities or supporting older people. The foundation will fund capital costs and project funding may be offered for start-up or development activities. The foundation are interested in funding projects that cover arts, preservation and the environment. Applications can be made at any time and the trustees meet four times a year to consider applications. |
| Connecting Community Plus | These Community Grants will help locally managed organisations run local projects that make a difference in their local communities. The first round of the fund is open for applications between 10th April 2006 and 5th July 2006. Grants of up to £12,000 are available with £1,000,000 in total to distribute. Applicants will need to submit proposals that demonstrate successful delivery of key priorities for the fund, and it is expected that the majority of grants will be between £6,000 - £12,000. All funding from this first round must be spent by 31st March 2007. The fund has four key priorities: -Improving the experiences of people from Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) backgrounds in relation to access and outcomes from public services - education, employment, health, housing and the Criminal justice System -Increasing the confidence of people from BME backgrounds that public services are delivered in a fair and equitable way -Tackling racism and extremism -Bringing together communities from different races and faiths, and promoting a shared sense of belonging (community cohesion). |
| Creative Partnerships | Government-funded programme aiming to give school children in deprived areas the opportunity to develop creativity in learning and participate in cultural activities. |
| Efundraising | Efundraising enables charities of all sizes to accept secure, tax effective credit/ debit donations from their own website without the need for a specialised trading and banking service. |
| Emanuel Hurwitz Award for UK Violinists
Beeches, Well Hill, |
Annual awards open to all UK students and those studying in the UK, aged 25 or under. |
| Esmee Fairbairn Funding for East England | The Foundation's Education programme covers two broad areas of interest: New approaches to education and Hard-to-reach learners. We look to support imaginative and flexible approaches to learning that are unlikely to be funded through statutory education sources. Where appropriate, we will support the costs of professional and curriculum development, research and evaluation.The Foundation would be very pleased to hear from any Eastern region organisations that might be interested in applying for a grant. |
| ESTA Nannie Jamieson Nutshell Fund
6 Ember Lane, |
European String Teachers Association, British Branch. Modest Bursaries awarded annually for students and teachers of string instruments (ESTA members) for help to attend workshops, conferences and teaching courses. |
| Fidelity UK Funding | Encourages management & long-term self-reliance for non-profits. They want community development, health, arts & culture, & education projects that include capital improvements, technology upgrades, organisational development & planning initiatives, grants up to £100,000. |
| Foundation for Sport and the Arts (FSA) | We look to support a wide range of activities where there is clear beneficial impact across the community. Our particular goal at this time is to encourage active participation by young people. |
| Foyle Foundation | The Foyle Foundation distributes grants to charitable organisations in the areas of: Learning, Arts and Health |
| Gillian Sinclair Music TrustKPMG/ Martin Musical Scholarship Fund,
Beeches, Well Hill, |
Offers annual sponsored recitals at the Wigmore Hall to Martin Musical Scholarship Fund recipients. |
| Grants for the Arts | Lottery funding through ACE -Grants for the arts are for individuals, arts organisations, national touring and other people who use the arts in their work. They are for activities that benefit people in England or that help artists and arts organisations from England to carry out their work. |
| Guildford Cathedral Choir
Guildford |
The Dean and Chapter offer choral scholarships (subject to vacancy) to male alto, tenor and bass singers in conjunction with the University of Surrey. Basic scholarship is £600 per year. An Organ Scholarship lasting 1 year (which may be combined with the post of Music Assistant) is available worth £1500. An extension for a further year may be possible. |
| Hinrichsen Foundation
10-12 Baches St, |
Offers awards only in the areas of contemporary composition and its performance, and musicological research. Covers cost of degree and study courses. (Recording and the cost of purchasing instruments and equipment excluded). Preference shown to UK applicants. |
| Holst Foundation
43 Alderbrook Rd, |
Funds available to applicants of any age, primarily for the performance of music by contemporary composers. |
| June Allison Award for Woodwind
Beeches, Well Hill |
Annual award for outstanding woodwind performers. Award also includes recital in La Dolce Musica Series. |
| L D F Casbolt Memorial Award for Violinists
Beeches, Well Hill |
Offered annually to an outstanding violinist. |
| Lloyds TSB Foundation Grants 2006 | Priorities for 2006 include BME communities, charities working with older people, Refugees and Asylum Seekers, and charities working with those with learning disabilities. The Foundation will support charities that use their work to positively influence policy change and practice. They encourage all applicants to speak to them before submitting an application. |
| Local Network Fund for Children and Young People | The Local Network Fund for Children and Young People provides grants to small, local community groups in England to support vulnerable children and young people. The Fund aims to counter child poverty and youth disadvantage by providing opportunities for children and young people to achieve their potential. Most grants will range between £250 and £7,000, for one year's funding only. Two-year funding may be awarded to projects in exceptional circumstances. The maximum two year grant is £6,000 each year for two years. |
| Musicians Benevolent Fund Young Talent Awards 2006 | In 2005 the MBF distributed nearly £100,000 to more than 150 musically gifted young people under the age of 18, with awards ranging from £250 to £1,000. Awards are offered to those who are: • able to demonstrate a high level of musical achievement • in financial need • under 18 • in full-time education in 2006/2007 • British/Irish or resident in the UK/Ireland for the last 3 years Awards are offered towards the cost of: • buying an instrument • music lessons with a private teacher • fees or travel expenses for Saturday music centres and colleges |
| National Opera Studio
Morley College, |
One year course of intensive training for young professional singers. Grants and scholarships are available for 12 singers and 3 repetiteurs each year; mainly to cover course fees. |
| NESTA | National Endowment for science, technology and the arts, gives £5,000-100,000 for invention and inovation projects, £25,000-75,000 to exceptional people and is also interested in educational work. |
| NNAH National Network for the Arts in Health | The National Network for the Arts in Health (NNAH) brokers information and resources and facilitates appropriate links. NNAH is dedicated to listening to the needs of the Arts in Health field and responding to the needs of its members through products and services that inform practice on the ground. |
| Paul Hamlyn Small Grants | Especially inequality of access and lack of opportunity to experience the arts and enjoy them, especially for young people. (esp under achievers, minorities) |
| Performing Rights Society Foundation (PRSF) | A Widely respected as a refreshingly approachable and adventurous funding body, the Foundation supports an amazing range of new music activity - from unsigned band showcases to composer residencies, from commissions for new music to experimental live electronica. |
| Princes Trust bursaries | UK charity that helps young people overcome barriers and get their lives working. Through practical support including training, mentoring and financial assistance, they help 14-30 year olds realise their potential and transform their lives. |
| Reginald Conway Memorial Award for String Instrumentalists
Beeches, Well Hill |
Annual awards open to all UK students, as well as those studying in the UK, aged 25 or under. |
| RVW Trust
16 Ogle St, |
Assists with the cost of first Master's Degree in musical composition (non electro-acoustic or screen) for British applicants or those of British residency. Must have BMus or equivalent. |
| The Charles Haywood Foundation | UK registered charities working at a community and neighbourhood level can apply for funding of between £1,000 and £20,000. New charities that are not yet registered may be considered for start-up funding if they are able to demonstrate good governance and sound financial management. Applicant organisations should aim to develop innovative new services or activities covering a variety of themes including heritage, improving community facilities or supporting older people. The Foundation are interested in funding projects covering arts, preservation and the environment. |
| The Community Fund | The Community Fund is a one off sum of £500,000 that has been set aside for projects that will help develop safer and stronger communities in East Sussex. The fund has two major priorities: • supporting initiatives that address crime and the fear of crime • supporting initiatives that help local communities to improve their quality of life. |
| The Countess of Munster Musical Trust
Wormley Hill, |
Tuition and maintenance grants for UK and Commonwealth students, tenable at home or abroad. Available to instrumentalists aged 18-24 and singers aged 18-27. (Excludes conductors). Interest free loans available for instant purchase to young professional musicians aged under 28. |
| The Four Acre Trust | The Four Acre Trust works to help people `to make the most of their lives`. Grants of between £3,000 and £300,000 will be available to charities within the general scope of helping people make the most of their lives. The trust particularly welcomes applications from charities working with young people, and it is expected that up to a third will be working in the international arena. |
| The Gurney Charitable Trust
The Hundred House |
Arts and culture grants, which are for the benefit of the community |
| The Local Heritage Initiative | The Local Heritage Initiative programme, which provides grants of between £3,000 and £25,000 to community groups in England for heritage projects, ends this September. Up until then the LHI will continue to administer grants and provide support and advice to community groups, with 30th June as the final date for applications. |
| The Martin Musical Scholarship
Beeches, Well Hill |
Funds mainly postgraduate music students, both tuition and maintenance. Students may study abroad. Foreign students may also apply. Younger applicants are occasionally awarded prizes. |
| The Westdene Trust
beornardeastwell (at) onetel.net.uk |
Supporting outstanding music students |
| The William Wates Memorial Trust www.wwmt.org |
Not for profit organisations based in London and the South East working with disadvantaged young people may be eligible to apply for funding through the William Wates Memorial Trust. The Trust provides grants of approximately £50,000 per year for projects that focus on sport, arts and education. Most grants are in the region of £5,000, although in some cases grants of £15,000 over a period of three years can be given. |
| Trevor Snoad Award
Beeches, Well Hill |
Open to outstanding viola player aged 25 or under of postgraduate standard. Preference given to UK citizens. Award of £500 pays for tuition fees and/ or maintenance. |
| Uk Sponsorship | Information database on funders also sign up to - UK Fundraising News, our free fortnightly e-mail newsletter |
| Young Peoples fund | A fund for 11 -18 year olds (25 if disadvantaged) to carry out projects that will make a lasting difference to the community. Whether we are providing smaller grants for local groups or funding big, national 'transformational' projects, we want to regenerate and revitalise communities, with a particular emphasis on tackling disadvantage. |