Other funding opportunities
Are you missing funding opportunities? Here's a round up of some of what's available at the moment for faith-based social action and community projects.
Community Energy Peer Mentoring Fund is a new £0.5m fund from the Cabinet Office’s Centre for Social Action and the Department of Energy and Climate Change. Currently, community energy groups work on a variety of different projects such as raising funds for solar panels on community buildings to installing energy efficiency measures to help communities save money on their energy bills. Learn about one such community energy project. The new funding is designed to help new groups working in this area to get off the ground so they can start saving money and generating energy in their community. It will also help existing groups to professionalise, develop business plans and scale up their work. The Fund is open between Friday 15 November and noon on Thursday 12 December 2013.
Vulnerable and Disengaged Young People Fund. This is a new funding stream through the Cabinet Office Centre for Social Action and has up to £2m to help grow ambitious social action programmes to inspire England’s most vulnerable young people. Organisations looking to create or further develop inspiring social action programmes for young people can apply for a development, evidence or scale-up grant. Applications can come from the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector, public bodies (for example Local Authorities) and businesses with a social mission or a clear objective in their corporate social responsibility policy towards increasing social action, or businesses involved in the delivery of public service. Find out more about the Fund
European Funding is famously complicated but if you have European links and work in the area of employment and social inclusion you may wish to investigate PROGRESS (Programme for Employment and Social Solidarity).
The Galaxy Hot Chocolate Fund is giving small awards (£300) to help small, local community based projects and community-minded people.
Do faith groups use the opportunities to apply for funding from local funds? Here are just a few …
Staffordshire Community Arts Fund
Neil Hudgell Solicitors Trust - Yorkshire
John Grant Davies Trust – Greater Manchester (particular mention an interest in Christian and other faith groups “who seek to make their faith socially relevant in inner city areas.”
The Sir Andrew Martin Trust for Young People – Leicestershire
Contract/tender opportunity in Barnsley for, “suitably experienced voluntary/community sector organisation to deliver community learning activities (Financial Capability)”.
