Your Small Grant Funding Options Lynn Leadbeatter

Awards for All  Grants of £300-£10k  People have better chances in life with better access to training and development to improve life skills  Stronger communities with more active citizens working together to tackle issues  Improved rural and urban environments which communities are better able to access and enjoy  Healthier and more active people and communities

Awards for All – not funded  Ongoing staff costs  Day-to-day running costs  Existing activities or repeat/regular events (unless there is development or three years since last taken place)  Building/refurbishments costing more than £25k  Sports, arts and heritage projects (unless they just use these themes to meet Awards for All criteria)

Awards for All – Assessment  Evidence of need  Involve as many people as possible  Meet more outcomes  Organisation not previously funded  Small annual income  Small project 

Sport England Small Grants  Grants of £300-£10k  Enhance sporting experience for current participants  Increase participant numbers  Priority 1: Increasing the number of adults participating in moderate intensity sports  Priority 2: Reducing the drop-off rates for 16- to 19-year-olds  New activity, new costs, new sporting benefit

Sport England Small Grants – not funded  General running costs  Regular events and existing activities  Construction or refurbishment work  Temporary buildings and land improvement  Fixed capital items eg goals, nets  rants

Heritage Lottery Fund – Your Heritage  Grants of £300-£50k  Help people to learn about their and other people’s heritage  and either or both of the following:  Conserve the UK’s diverse heritage for present and future generations to experience and enjoy  Help more people, and a wider range of people, to take an active part in and make decisions about heritage

Your Heritage  Oral history  Buildings (not routine repairs)  Archaeology  Culture, tradition, languages and dialect  Natural and designed landscapes  Wildlife – habitats and species  No salaries of existing staff  Young Roots - £300-£25k for projects led by young people 

Craven Trust  Grants of £100-£1k  Pre-1974 boundaries include Keighley, Oakworth, Denholme, Wilsden, Cullingworth  Equipment, training, premises costs, set- up costs etc  No animal charities  Generally no running costs eg salaries 

Shipley Community Chest  Grants of up to £500  Community-based leisure/social/cultural activities  One-off activities, equipment and capital costs  Revenue costs only as start-up costs  New and previously unfunded groups encouraged  ng

Yapp Charitable Trust  Grants of up to £3k pa for up to three years  Registered charities only – at least three years old  Core funding for activities that have been going on for at least a year  Elderly people, children and young people aged 5-25, people with disabilities and mental health issues, moral welfare (eg addiction, abuse, offending) education and learning  Prefers work with marginalised people 

Allen Lane Foundation  Grants of £500-£15k or up to £5k pa for up to three years  Asylum seekers and refugees  Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender people  Gypsies and travellers  Migrant workers  Offenders and ex-offenders  Older people  People experiencing mental health problems  People experiencing violence and abuse

Allen Lane Foundation  Start-up, core or project costs  Make a lasting difference  Reduce isolation, stigma and discrimination  Encourage unpopular groups to share in the life of the community  Long list of exclusions 

Santander Foundation  Grants of up to £10k  Charitable status only  Education and training  Financial capability  Average grant £4k  No capital appeals, single ethnic groups 

Near Neighbours Fund  Grants of £250-£5k  Create first encounters between people of different faith and ethnic communities and develop mutual understanding  Create everyday interactions  Create civic engagement  Environmental, social, cultural, artistic and sporting projects 

Tesco Charity Trust  Small grants £500-£4k  Children’s welfare and/or children’s education  Elderly people and/or adults and children with disabilities  Two funding rounds a year in each category  16www.tescoplc.com/media/196678/com munity_award_guidelines.pdf

Co-operative Membership Community Fund  Grants of £100-£2k  Address community issue  Community benefit  Support co-operative values and principles  Ideally be innovative in approach  No social enterprises, cadets, core activities of auxiliary groups eg Woodland Folk  communities/community-fund/