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Women & Girls, Community Laura Bowers Women & Girls, Community Laura Bowers

Safer Streets Fund

The Safer Streets Fund allows forces, local authorities and community organisations to invest in transformative crime prevention initiatives.The money will go towards the prevention of violence against women and girls in public, neighbourhood crime and anti-social behaviour. These projects will be able to roll out extra CCTV and streetlighting in their communities and expand work to change attitudes and behaviours and prevent these crimes happening in the first place.

Applications are on a rolling basis.

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Disabilities Laura Bowers Disabilities Laura Bowers

Active Travel Grant

UK charities and not-for-profit organisations can apply for funding from the national disability transport charity, Motability, to develop, expand and improve active travel options for disabled people. Grants of between £100,000 and £4 million are available over three years to help charities and organisations, including universities, to ensure disabled people have equal opportunity to make decisions about how they travel in the UK by providing access to quality and affordable active travel equipment and journeys – whether by walking, cycling, push scooters, or use of wheelchairs and other mobility aids.

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Barrow Cadbury Trust’s Migration Programme

Funding for grassroots groups supporting refugees, asylum seekers and marginalised migrants. Funds grassroots groups which aim to counter xenophobia, racism and Islamophobia. The fund is available for work to support and empower refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants and other marginalised migrants, and ensure they are involved in public debate on migration.

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Arts Laura Bowers Arts Laura Bowers

Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants

The programme supports development by allowing artists, cultural practitioners and organisations to work in new ways and to get their work out to new audiences.

The programme is always open, and has a quick turnaround so they can respond to applicants' good ideas.

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BA Better World Community Fund

Match funding (50%) of up to £50,000 to help organisations who are supporting social mobility, driving opportunity for education and employability in disadvantaged communities and supporting individuals from ethnic minorities as well as providing opportunities for girls in STEM. Funding will also target organisations who support and provide Health and Wellbeing services to those in need. There will also be funding available to support projects who help their local community become more sustainable by providing innovative ideas to prevent or reduce the impacts of climate change.

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Community Football Fund - Barclays

Grants of £500 are available for groups wishing to start offering football, those keen to expand their existing provision to new audiences or those already delivering football to under-represented young people. Alongside the grants, the programme will be offering training and support resources to groups to help reduce inequalities in the participation of football.

The programme will focus on including girls and young people from lower socio-economic and under-represented groups: including racially diverse communities, people with disabilities, and people from the LGBTQ+ community.

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Community, Green, Inequalities, Arts Laura Bowers Community, Green, Inequalities, Arts Laura Bowers

Esme Fairbairn Foundation Grants

Grants are available to organisations doing legally charitable work in the UK that focuses on Communities or people most affected being involved in campaigning or leading change / Work which makes connections across our aims: Our Natural World, A Fairer Future and Creative, Confident Communities. You must have an annual turnover of less than £100,000. Funds of £30,000 upwards

Ongoing deadline

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Youth, Education, Health, Arts Laura Bowers Youth, Education, Health, Arts Laura Bowers

The Weinstock Fund

The Charity’s aims are to support a wide range of charitable causes, particularly in the fields of welfare, children, education, medicine, music and the arts.In particular, the Trustees prefer to support smaller charities or projects. Grants typically range from £2,000 - £5,000 per annum. Multi-year grants up to a maximum of three years are considered.

Quarterly meetings

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Laura Bowers Laura Bowers

The Allen Lane Foundation

Funds small registered charities, voluntary groups, and charitable organisations. The average grant size is around £5,000-£6,000. Particularly interested in unusual, imaginative or pioneering projects which have perhaps not yet caught the public imagination.

Quarterly application deadlines

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Social Enterprise Laura Bowers Social Enterprise Laura Bowers

Community Shares Booster Fund

The Booster fund helps all types of community businesses to prepare a community share offer, to support their recovery from COVID-19.

Development grants – up to £5,000 to prepare a community share offer: financial planning, governance support, marketing costs and being awarded the Community Shares Standard Mark.

Match equity investment – typically matching pound for pound up to £25,000 invested by the Booster Programme, providing that the minimum share offer target is achieved.

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Green, Arts, Education Laura Bowers Green, Arts, Education Laura Bowers

The Finnis Scott Foundation

The Finnis Scott Foundation awards grants of up to £10,000 to projects in the areas of horticulture and plant sciences, as well as art history and the enhancement, conservation and preservation of art.  Preference is given to smaller charities where a grant would have a significant impact. The Foundation funds both capital and revenue projects.

Ongoing application window

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Homelessness Laura Bowers Homelessness Laura Bowers

Help the Homeless Fund

Up to £5,000 is available. All applications must relate to projects that assist individuals in their return to mainstream society, rather than offering shelter or other forms of sustenance.

The quarterly deadlines for applications for funding each year are: 15 March / 15 June/ 15 September/ 15 December

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 Always open funds

These funds have a rolling deadline and can be applied for at any time.