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This page provides information to local voluntary and community groups in Hillfields on potential sources of funding and other resources that may be available to them. It incorporates the funding opportunities included in the monthly Updates and also other opportunities and links to potential funders. Other groups in Coventry may also find this information relevant to them.
West Midlands Learning & Skills Councils are calling for application for Objective 2 Co-Financing. The following documents can be found on their website:-
- Prospectus
- Application Form
- Application Guidance
- Scoring System
- Tender document
It is important that you access the Tender doc before completing the application form. Contacts names are contained within the prospectus.
The website address is www.lsc.gov.uk/cw/documents/default.htm
Some help may be available for local groups in Hillfields with Health Related Funding. Download a leaflet (pdf format 221Kb)
H £ L P! (Harness £unding for Local Projects), the City Council’s new External Funding Helpdesk was launched in January. The External Funding Helpdesk is a new service in the City Development Directorate open to Council employees and all local voluntary and community organisations. The Helpdesk is an information provider and sign-posting service for all forms of external funding available nationally, to the region and within the City. Funding information is available on European, National Lottery, Advantage West Midlands, Government Office West Midlands, Regeneration Zone, Neighbourhood Renewal Fund, Sure Start, Single Regeneration Budget, New Deal for Communities, Central Government funds and grant-making trusts and foundation grants. In parallel with the launch, the helpdesk has published the second edition of its newsletter that will be of interest to everyone seeking external funding. If you would like your name to be added to the Helpdesk mailing list please contact Sarah Crawley, External Funding Officer, on 7683 1394 or E mail Sarah.Crawley @ coventry.gov.uk
Download
the latest H£LPDesk Newsletter (No 5) (pdf file 492 Kb)
External
Funding Guide (May 2003) (pdf file 179 Kb)
National Lottery
"At a Glance Guide" (May 2003) (pdf
file 124 Kb)
You can submit an enquiry to the H£LP Desk using a downloadable form. Just e mail it to Sarah.Crawley @ Coventry.gov.uk
The Neighbourhood Renewal Fund has provided a Community Chest for grants of up to £5000 for projects in target areas and communities. Find out more (pdf file).... (or text in htm file... )
Other Resource Links:
DrugScope Millennium Awards Scheme
From the beginning of February 2002, DrugScope's Millennium Awards Scheme will be available to individuals and small groups across the whole of England. There is £1 million to give out in grants over the next two and a half years. Awards are available for individuals of between £1000 and £3500 and for small groups of up to £15,000. The scheme is open to anyone but they are particularly interested in receiving applications from young people, parents, tenants and concerned local residents, black and minority ethnic groups, ex-offenders, current and ex-drug users.
Awards can be used to set up community action and support groups, develop materials or hold events / seminars to inform others about drugs or pilot local drug prevention projects.
For more information contact DrugScope at 32 -36 Loman Street, London, SE1 0EE. Telephone 020 7928 1211 or e mail sarahan@drugscope.org.uk Website: www.drugscope.org.uk
PACT Youth Grant Scheme
The Regeneration Minister announced on 29th May 2003 that £30 million is being made available to the Living Spaces programme. The concept behind Living Space is to give local residents money, advice and practical support to bring about long lasting change for their environment. Grants of between £1,000 and £100,000 are being offered to the following:
* Play Areas
* Community Gardens
* Local parks
* Village Greens
* Nature Areas
* Kick-about areas
* Ponds
* Courts and squares
* City Farms
Applicants can benefit from the Living Space Enablers when putting together plans, getting local organisations together and drawing up the budget. These community enablers have been nominated from local wildlife trusts, Groundwork trusts, civic trusts and Federation of City Farms. The Groundwork Trust with Green Space are managing the programme, with Green Space proving the applications and information and Groundwork appraising the applications. To receive an application pack email info@living-spaces.org.uk or call 0845 600 3190 (local rate) or write to:
Living Spaces
PO Box 2014
Reading
RG4 7XU
http://www.living-spaces.org.uk
This programme is part of the new Sustainable Communities Programme of the ODPM, part of which is the £89 million Liveability fund for local authorities which we should receive more information on soon.
National Lottery
Download the latest "At a glance guide" to the National Lottery prepared by Coventry City Council's National Lottery Officer, May 2003. [New]
Community Fund (previously the National Lottery Charities
Board) - You can now download the new electronic application form from
the
Community Fund website. This new form allow you to save your answers to the
questions, which you can then send to them on a floppy disk. Visit the Project
funding section of their website at
http://www.community-fund.org.uk
and follow the on-screen instructions to download a form. These forms are
available for all current grants programmes.
New Opportunities Fund
Awards for All - download a National Lotteries briefing note.
Funding for Local Heritage Projects - download a briefing note
Green Spaces and Sustainable Communities Community groups, environmental projects and green spaces throughout the city are expected to benefit and local agencies have joined forces to maximise the city’s chances. The green spaces and sustainable communities initiative, worth almost £100million in England, aims to help communities understand, improve or care for their local environment, with a particular focus on areas of disadvantage. The New Opportunities Fund is working with 7 partner agencies to distribute the grants: Barnardo’s, BTCV, The Countryside Agency, English Nature, RSNC, Sport England and Sustrans. Each group is running it’s own grant programme focusing on community green spaces, children’s play and environmental sustainability. Grants are available from £2,000 to £150,000 and can be used to purchase land and equipment and cover on-going running costs.
In order to maximise the benefit to Coventry, Groundwork Coventry and Coventry City Council have set-up a city-wide Advisory Group to help co-ordinate local bids and encourage applications from community groups. The Advisory Group, made up of several local organisations has already been working with partners via Area Co-ordination to undertake a mapping exercise to assess local needs. The next step is now to undertake detailed work with community groups to turn these needs into projects that can apply for grants. The first deadline for bids for 2 of the award partners is mid June 2001 – this work is now underway. For more information on the grant programme and application packs please contact Stuart Dunkley at the City Council on 024 7683 3849 or the Community Projects Team at Groundwork on 024 7655 4454.
Download individual National Lottery briefing notes on the different elements of the programme:
Overview
Wildspace
Social, economic
and environmental development (SEED)
Better
Play
Doorstep
Greens and Sustainable communities
The Local Network Fund is a small grant aimed to help make a difference to the lives of children and young people aged 0-19 years of age who are in poverty or at a disadvantage. The Local Network Fund may be for you if you are a locally managed voluntary, community or self-help group in Coventry and Warwickshire. Grants of between £250 and £7,000 are available for activities that demonstrate how community and self-help activities can improve the lives of disadvantaged children. The main themes for grant making are: Isolation and Access; Aspirations and Experiences; Economic Disadvantage; Children’s Voices. For an application pack and grant guidelines call the central help line on 0845 113 0161. WAYC have been appointed by the Heart of England Community Foundation to provide the outreach and support for the Local Network Fund, this means once you receive your application form WAYC can come and help you complete it. To be eligible, you need to have a child protection policy and constitution in place. If you haven’t got these in place, don’t worry, WAYC can help you with those too!
Coventry Law Centre, in conjunction with the Solicitors Pro Bono Group, is launching a new scheme in Coventry to provide free legal advice to local community groups. LawWorks for Community Groups aims to deliver free business law advice to community groups by matching volunteer lawyers with community groups that need specialist advice on non-contentious matters. All that any voluntary or community group needs to do to access the service is to complete a form and submit this with a copy of the organisation’s most recent accounts, to the Law Centre. For a form, or for more information about this service, contact Crispin Passmore on 7622 3053 or e mail crispin.passmore@covlaw.org.uk
Funder Finder has a programme called “Apply Yourself” to help community groups access resources. The programme is free and can be downloaded from the web at www.funderfinder.org.uk
Comic Relief UK Grants
BBC Children in Need
The Local Heritage Initiative
Now at the end of its first year, the Local Heritage initiative has funded a vast range of projects covering aspects of archaeological heritage, natural heritage, built heritage, customs and traditions, and industrial heritage. All projects must demonstrate three essential criteria: Local: the project must be started by and carried out by local people; Heritage: it should involve the richness and distinctiveness of locally important heritage assets, whether it is concerned with interpretation or preservation; Initiative: it should provide clear public benefits, with long-term plans. Standard grants are between £3,000 and £15,000, and may cover up to 60% of the project’s costs. Groups must have a constitution and an open bank or building society account to apply. Applications may be submitted at any time, and the Initiative is planned to run until at least 2010. For more information, for help with applications, or to read a range of suggestions and case studies, contact the Local Heritage Initiative at its new address: LHI Information, 11 University Street, Belfast, BT7 1FY Tel: 0870 9000 401 Website: www.lhi.org.uk
Advantage West Midlands is establishing a fund to provide loans to Social Enterprises that cannot access resources from traditional sources of finance. Loans of between £15,000 - £80,000 will be available. Support is targeted on Regeneration Zones (which includes Hillfields). For more information mailto:sallybavington@advantagewm.co.uk
Walking the Way to Health Initiative
Announced at the end of 2000, this £11.6 million initiative aims to encourage 1.5 million inactive people to reduce their risk of heart disease and enjoy their local environment, simply by walking. Set up by the British Heart Foundation and the Countryside Agency, the initiative will support the promotion of regular and brisk local community walks, will provide grants to 200 local walking for health schemes during its lifetime. Support through the initiative is available for: Training for the people who will be running local schemes, whether volunteers or community professionals: Insurance to cover public liability; Evaluation and accreditation of schemes; Grant assistance to help community, health and leisure organisations set up walking for health schemes (individuals and commercial companies are not eligible). Applications are welcome throughout the length of the initiative (initially unti1 2005). For details, contact the Walking the Way to Health Initiative hotline: Tel: 01242 533 258 Email: info@whi.org.uk Website: www.whi.org.uk
The Royal Town Planning Institute’s West Midlands Planning Aid team has a launched a new project called the West Midlands Planning Aid Regeneration Project. The project will operate in the Regeneration Zone and aims to support the involvement and influence of urban communities in decisions about planning and regeneration of their local areas. In particular it seeks to target groups that have not always had their say in planning and regeneration proposals, for example black and minority ethnic communities and people on low incomes. The project will provide local advice on planning and regeneration issues and co-ordinate the involvement of planning aid volunteers in providing long-term advice and support. It will also initiate and support long term community planning and regeneration projects to facilitate community involvement. The team will also organise seminars for local groups on the planning and regeneration process and will work with existing service providers and agencies to support community involvement in regeneration initiatives. More publicity is expected shortly but if you would like to explore how this project might help your organisation then contact Jon Lord on 0121 693 5551 or e mail allstaff@wmidlands.rtpi.org.uk
Community groups and charities in Coventry can take advantage of a free transport offer. The Evening Telegraph and Mercia Vehicle Hire have joined forces to make a Ford Transit van available. Drivers have to be at least 25, meet insurance criteria and pay for fuel. To book the van phone Mercia on 7636 3655.
Coventry University Student Union Horizon Project
Coventry University Students Union is able to help provide volunteers and grants to support local voluntary and community organisations in Coventry. Follow this link to find out more.
Fund Raising Activities in Hillfields
This page was last updated 16/09/03
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