Funding Opportunities – August 2016
SASSOT’s ‘ACCESS Across Staffordshire’
The funding scheme has been established to encourage and support the development of new projects that particularly target under-represented groups. This round of funding will make grants of up to £2,000 available however projects will be require to provide 30% match funding (cash or in-kind) of the total project costs.
Find out more – closing date: Friday 9th September 2016
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Local Authority Funding Schemes
There are a number of sports grants and funding schemes run by the local authorities within Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent for clubs and athletes. local-authority-funding-schemes-updated-nov-2016.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council – £100k available for city’s sport groups
Sports clubs around the city are being encouraged to apply for funding from a £100,000 cashpot which aims to boost opportunities for residents to participate in sporting activity. The money has been made available by Stoke-on-Trent City Council through its Community Grants Programme (CGP), as part of the European City of Sport celebrations. Clubs and organisations can apply for one-off cash grants of up to £2,000 which can be spent on delivering activities and training, new equipment or enhancements to existing sporting facilities, among other things. The money will support community sports programmes across the city, which will help residents of all ages and backgrounds become healthier through sport and exercise.
To be eligible to apply, groups must satisfy a criteria checklist. These include being based in the city or drawing at least 75 per cent of their members from Stoke-on-Trent, operating on a not-for-profit basis and not having a turnover of more than £50,000 per year. All projects must provide opportunities for people of all ages and gender to take part in competitive or recreational sport and be completed within 12 months of funding being awarded. To apply for funding and view the full eligibility criteria, visit: www.stoke.gov.uk/communitysportsgrants
Note: From the funding guidance:
- There will be four funding panels each year – March, June, September and December.
- In 2016 only the awards panel will meet in October, with application deadline of the end of September.
- Applications must be received at the end of the preceding month in each case for subsequent rounds in 2017 – so in February, May, August and November.
PCC People Power Funding Window Opens
Great ideas for community safety solutions come from local people which is why Police and Crime Commissioner Matthew Ellis is inviting groups in Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent to bid for money from his People Power Fund from Monday 1 August 2016.
As part of his commitment to local communities, the Commissioner is providing £500,000 in 2016/17 through the fund in the form of grants of between £100 and £3,000. The window for the latest round of applications for People Power Funding is now open until 14 September 2016.
- More details, including application forms, are available at www.staffordshire-pcc.gov.uk/fund
The fund is supporting locally-driven community safety activities throughout Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent. These could include providing long term, sustainable positive activities for young people to help reduce anti social behaviour, mentoring programmes for targeted local groups through to activities that reassure and improve the quality of life in local areas. In the last two years over 200 local projects across Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent have received People Power Funding.
Mr Ellis said: ‘The Commissioner’s People Power Fund puts half a million pounds back into local communities and is easy and simple to apply for. It’s about local ideas to sort out local issues like anti social behaviour. If you’ve got a good idea, the People Power Fund may be able to help you achieve it. If you’re a community group with good ideas to cut crime or make your area safer go to the website now to find out more.’
People Power applications need to be sponsored by the group’s Neighbourhood Police Officer or PCSO and will initially be assessed by the local Community Safety Partnership.
SITA Trust becomes SUEZ Communities Trust
The change is taking place because the company which donates the landfill tax credits distributed by the Trust has recently rebranded as SUEZ Recycling and Recovery UK. Over the coming weeks you will notice our website, emails etc. being updated with our new logo and company name. In the meantime you can continue to contact us in the usual way. Source of information
Coalfields Community Investment Programme
The Coalfields Regeneration Trust is dedicated to improving the quality of life for the 5.5 million people living in Britain’s former mining communities. Many of these communities still require support due to the huge impact the closure of the mines had upon them.
The fund is open to projects that deliver in the top 30% most deprived coalfield communities and that will make a positive difference in addressing the following themes:
Skills: Growing the skills of people in order to increase their opportunities
Employment: Developing pathways to increase the number of people in work
Health: Supporting projects that increase participation in activities/services that improve the health and wellbeing of people in former coalfield communities. This may include sports projects focusing on the stated underrepresented groups (Impairment Groups/Disabled People, Women and girls, Victims of abuse, Carers, Homeless people), healthy eating initiatives, mental health support and projects focusing on promoting social interaction and engagement.
The deadline for the October decision making committee is 16th September 2016.
Eligible wards in Staffordshire
Sport England Small Grants
Small Grants uses Lottery funding to make awards of between £300 and £10,000 to not-for-profit organisations to help more people play sport.
Find out more or read Sport England’s step by step guide.
Sport England Funding update 2016
We are always keen to hear about new, exciting and effective ways to get more people active and improve lives
Tell us about your project idea
Maybe it’s an exercise class in a care home, an inner city basketball project or a new combined leisure centre, GP surgery and library in the heart of a rural community. Whatever it is, if you’ve got a great project idea, we’d like to hear about it and discuss whether it’s something we could potentially fund.
Here’s what to do
To tell us about your project idea, you can either call us on 0345 8508 508 or email funding@sportengland.org
One of our colleagues will take some initial details, and then ask one of our investment fund leads to contact you directly to have a more detailed conversation.
It might be that your project is right for one of our current funding schemes, like our Small Grants or Strategic Facilities funds.
If not, we’ll be able to tell you about the new investment programmes we’re developing and when they’re likely to be open for new applications. Some will be opening very soon.
Don’t worry – you won’t be making an application at this stage, so you don’t have to prepare any long documents or fill in a form. We’d just like to discuss your idea.
Greggs Foundation Local Community Projects Fund
Small grants of up to £2,000 from not-for-profit organisations to help organisations based in local communities to deliver activities that they wouldn’t otherwise be able to.
All projects must support a community of interest, ie people who are:
- Disabled or suffering chronic illness
- Living in poverty
- Voluntary carers
- Homeless
- Isolated older people
- Other demonstrable significant need
Postcode Dream Fund
The Dream Fund gives organisations the chance to deliver the project they have always dreamed of, but never had the opportunity to bring to life. We are asking charitable organisations across Great Britain to think big, be ambitious and collaborate with other not-for-profit partners to deliver their dream project.
Dream Fund 2017 is now open for applications. Applications are to be submitted via an online form that is available to access below. The deadline for applications is September 15th at 5:30pm.
PCC People Power Funding Window Opens
Great ideas for community safety solutions come from local people – which is why Police and Crime Commissioner Matthew Ellis is inviting groups in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent to bid for money from his People Power Fund from today (Monday, 1 August).
As part of his commitment to local communities, the Commissioner is providing £500,000 in 2016/17 through the fund in the form of grants of between £100 and £3,000. The window for the latest round of applications for People Power Funding is now open until 14 September.
The fund is supporting locally-driven community safety activities throughout Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent. These could include providing long-term, sustainable positive activities for young people to help reduce anti-social behaviour, mentoring programmes for targeted local groups through to activities that reassure and improve the quality of life in local areas. In the last two years over 200 local projects across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent have received People Power Funding.
Mr Ellis said: ‘The Commissioner’s People Power Fund puts half a million pounds back into local communities and is easy and simple to apply for. It’s about local ideas to sort out local issues like anti-social behaviour. If you’ve got a good idea, the People Power Fund may be able to help you achieve it. If you’re a community group with good ideas to cut crime or make your area safer go to the website now to find out more.’
People Power applications need to be sponsored by the group’s Neighbourhood Police Officer or PCSO and will initially be assessed by the local Community Safety Partnership. More details, including application forms, are available at www.staffordshire-pcc.gov.uk/fund
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