This week's newsletter

Compiled by the Grants Team at North Devon Council.

Email grants@northdevon.gov.uk or call 01271 388253

 

The Hilden Charitable Fund Summer Play Scheme Grants

Grants ranging from 500 pounds to 1,500 pounds are available for UK voluntary and community groups to provide summer play schemes for disadvantaged children.  Deadline for applications is 4th June 2019.

The small grants scheme for Summer Play Schemes is available to voluntary and community organisations in the UK with an annual income of less than 150,000 pounds. There is no match funding requirement.

The Fund also operates a main grants and an overseas grants programme.  Its UK priorities are homelessness, penal affairs, asylum seekers and refugees, as well as community based initiatives for disadvantaged young people aged 16 to 25.  Hilden’s grant making priorities overseas are for projects in developing countries working on community development, education, and health.

The Fund particularly welcomes projects that address the needs and potential of girls and women.  

Eligible projects must be:

• Summer play schemes for children aged 5 to 18 years
• Local schemes lasting for 2 to 6 weeks and
• Schemes with strong volunteer support

Some priority will be given to projects that show they are inclusive of children from refugee families and show involvement of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) groups.

Further information together with an application form (which should be posted not emailed to the Fund) is available on their website www.hildencharitablefund.org.uk

Contact details for the Fund are:  The Hilden Charitable Fund, 34 North End Road, London
W14 OSH. Telephone 0207 603 1525 or email: hildencharity@hotmail.com

 

Peter Cruddas Foundation

The Foundation gives priority to programmes designed to help disadvantaged and disengaged young people in the age range of 14 to 30, to pursue pathways to Education, Training and Employment with the ultimate aim of helping them to become financially independent.

Preference will be given to the support of projects undertaken by UK registered charitable organisations (currently not CIC's or Social Enterprises), in England and Wales only, for the benefit of such people.

Those they cannot help financially, they hope to help in other ways, through mentoring, business planning and networking.

The Peter Cruddas Foundation can only donate to UK registered charities.

To qualify you must be:

• A charity registered with the charity commission in England and Wales benefitting people living in England and Wales.
• Currently applications from charities in Scotland and Northern Ireland, for Capital Appeals, from CIC’s and Social Enterprises or individuals are not being supported.

If in any doubt about your eligibility or project, please contact the Foundation Administrator:   Stephen Cox, Foundation Administrator regarding your application before you apply, or anytime during the application process.   The deadlines are the 1st March and 1st September each year.

Contact him via email: s.cox@petercruddasfoundation.org.uk or call 0203 003 8360.  The Foundation’s address is: Stephen D Cox, Foundation Administrator, Peter Cruddas Foundation, 133 Houndsditch, London, EC3A 7BX.

It is strongly recommended that you read the guidance notes available on their website notes to help you complete the application form.

The guidance, and application form, are available at http://petercruddasfoundation.org.uk/how_to_apply.htm

 

Devon Emergency Resilience Fund

Grants of up to 1,500 pounds are available to parishes with a community emergency plan, or who are developing such a plan.  Experience has shown that a wide range of small resilience measures can make a real difference to the risk in the community.

The fund is open for community groups, flood groups and parish/town councils, but not for individuals.  It is available through Devon Communities Together. If you do not yet have a plan in place you may still be eligible for a grant if you can show how the funding will support activity identified in a draft plan in development.

Funded by Devon County Council, and administered by Devon Communities Together, the Devon Emergency Resilience Fund is available to put these small resilience measures in place.  The fund can cover equipment and minor practical works that will reduce risk and provide immediate benefit to the community.

Full guidance and the application form are available www.devoncommunities.org.uk/grant-funding-emergency-flood-resilience

There is no closing date for applications, however the fund is limited and DCC urge communities to make early applications as it will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.  

 

Beaverbrook Foundation

The Foundation makes charitable donations to Registered Charities for:

• Capital expenditure, i.e. to acquire or upgrade physical assets such as buildings, fixtures and fittings, machinery, furniture and other equipment
• Revenue / running costs, and
• Special projects

The Trustees promote the concept of match funding and may make a payment conditional upon the applicant obtaining the remaining funding from other sources.  Grants are not normally considered to cover expenditure that has already been incurred or committed.

To apply only visit www.beaverbrookfoundation.org/grants/

 

The Radcliffe Trust

Today, The Radcliffe Trust continues the work of Dr John Radcliffe’s charitable bequest through the support of Music and Heritage and Crafts.

Applications are invited from CICs, CIOs and other organisations (individuals cannot apply) to either the Music Scheme or the Heritage & Crafts Scheme. 

The applications are considered by the Trust twice a year. The deadlines are the 31st January and 31st July each year.  For consideration by the Trustees in June the deadline for applications is 31^st January.  For consideration by the Trustees in December, the deadline is 31^st July.  Only on-line applications will be accepted.

The application form will request information about the organisation, the project and finances, so please ensure that you have gathered this information in sufficient time to submit the application before the deadline.

You will be able to return to the application form to edit details up to the point at which it is submitted.  Once submitted the application cannot be edited.

If you wish to discuss your application, please contact their administrator on 01285 841900 or via radcliffe@thetrustpartnership.com. 

Full details of each scheme, along with the online application forms, can be found at:

• Music: https://theradcliffetrust.org/music-grants/ or
• Heritage and Crafts: https://theradcliffetrust.org/criteria/

 

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