Herefordshire Funding Opportunities Update July 2016 Useful Contacts

Grants for projects that bring about positive change in the community - Morrison’s Foundation

Purpose: If your charity is looking for funding on a particular project that can demonstrate clear public benefits and bring about positive change in your community you can apply for a grant from the new Morrison’s Foundation. The Foundation is looking to award approximately £2 million a year for community projects that improve people's lives. There are examples of funded projects on the website.

Who can apply: Applicants must be from a registered charity whose project will improve people's lives. Applicants must also have financial information dating back to 2012 and have raised some of the funding elsewhere. Please download and complete the form from the website.

Amount available: Grants awarded to date range from £500 to £20,000.

Deadline: Applications can be made at any time. Decisions take approx. 3 months.

Capital and Revenue grants for community projects - Garfield Weston Foundation

Purpose: The Garfield Weston Foundation supports a broad range of organisations and activities that share a commitment to making a positive impact to the lives of the communities in which they work, and that are driven by a desire to achieve excellence. They make grants across the UK to organisations in the following categories: Arts, Education, Youth, Health, Community, Environment, Religion and Welfare.
Mindful of the challenging economic climate, the Foundation has continued to grow its donations (giving almost £55 million in the last year) and the Trustees are especially keen to see applications for core and project costs for charities delivering services directly to beneficiaries, especially in the welfare, youth and community fields, and also in regions of economic disadvantage.
Who can apply: Applications are accepted from the following organisations:
UK registered charities that operate within the UK – we will require your registration number

Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs) – as above your registration number is required

Educational establishments

Hospitals

Housing associations and corporations

Churches and cathedrals

Amount available: Capital and Revenue grants are available under the following schemes:

Main Grants - Under £100,000

For regular grants - under £100,000 - we have a one stage application process and applicants will know the outcome of their request within four months of applying.

Major Grants - £100,000 Plus

We have a slightly different approach for organisations wishing to apply for a major grant as these are considered by the Trustees at one of eight meetings per year. We therefore ask you to begin by sending us an initial letter in the post to outline your project, with information on the objectives, overall cost, current shortfall and timeframes.

Deadline: Applications can be made at any time so there are no formal deadlines for submitting applications that you need to worry about.
Sainsbury Family of Charitable Trusts
Purpose: The Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts is the operating office of 18 grant-making trusts established by three generations of the Sainsbury family. Each trust works autonomously as an independent legal entity with a separate board of trustees, actively led by an individual member of the family with keenly-followed interests. The Trusts vary in their interests and cover areas from heritage and the arts, through to social policy and leukemia care.
Who can apply: The trusts only fund registered charities or activities with clearly defined charitable purposes.
Amount available: Grant amounts vary from Trust to Trust.
Deadline: Applications area accepted on a rolling basis.
Further information

: http://www.sfct.org.uk/

Grants for community projects across the Edgar E Lawley Foundation

Purpose: The objectives of The Edgar E Lawley Foundation are for general charitable purposes with particular reference to medicine, to necessitous elderly persons, and to educational purposes with reference to the arts, commerce and industry. Its area of benefit is undefined within the United Kingdom but traditionally the Foundation has given particular assistance to smaller charities in the West Midlands area. The Foundation will not consider applications for grants from and on behalf of private individuals.
Who can apply: Charities across the UK but the focus of the Foundation tends to be on supporting those in the West Midlands area.
Amount available: Grants in the region of £1,500.
Deadline: Next deadline 29th August 2016

Grants to support homeless people back into mainstream society - Help the Homeless

Purpose: Help the Homeless, a national Charity which aims to help homeless people throughout the United Kingdom to resume a normal life.
Who can apply: They accept applications from small and medium sized charities and voluntary organisations (those with a turnover of under £1m per annum). Grants to larger charities may be considered if the project is suitably innovative and only possible for a larger organisation to develop it.
Amount available: Grants of up to £5,000 are available towards capital costs to support projects that assist disadvantaged individuals in their return to mainstream society, through residential or training facilities.
Deadline: Deadlines are the 15th March/June/September/December

Small Community Grants - The Bodfach Trust

Purpose: For charities in Mid Wales and on the Welsh Borders, grants are given in 5 areas.

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  Affordable housing
  
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  Care for the elderly
  
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  Helping young people
  
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  Preservation of old buildings
  
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  Supporting green spaces and public parks
  

Who can apply: The trust is particularly keen to support smaller organisations.
Amount available: Usually up to £500, but the trust may give more in exceptional circumstances.
Deadline: Next deadline 30^th September 2016