New Beginnings Fund Opens Round 2 to Support Refugees in Parts of England
The UK Community Foundations announced this week that a second round of £440,000 is now open for local projects which welcome refugees and asylum seekers into the UK.
The New Beginnings Fund was set up in February 2016 to support community groups across the UK to welcome and integrate refugees and asylum seekers in to the local community. The first round of funding was released in June 2016, with £506,000 going to local projects across the UK.
Concertina makes grants to charitable bodies which provide musical entertainment and related activities for the elderly. This not only brightens up their lives, but also provides a therapeutic benefit to their health and well-being.
Concertina is keen to support smaller organisations which might otherwise find it difficult to gain funding. Since its inception in 2004, it has made grants to a wide range of charitable organisations nationwide in England and Wales. These include funds to many care homes for the elderly to provide musical entertainment for their residents.
Charities are invited to make an application to the Trustees via the Administrator. They need to provide details of their charity’s objects, its financial position, the sector of the elderly community which it benefits, amount sought and proposed cultural activities or related facilities it intends to provide.
Grants are a maximum of £250.
Click here to download an application form.
Deadline: The trustees review applications after the deadline dates of April 30th and October 31st each year. Please submit your application in good time so the administrator can review it to ensure there are no omissions and that it is suitable before submission to the Trustees.
The Trustees are sorry but in an effort to reduce admin costs no email correspondence of telephone conversations will be entered into with regard to the application. No email applications will be accepted. Please send hard copy applications in the post.
Contact: Simon Baynes, Administrator: Bodfach Hall, Llanfyllin, Powys, SY22 5HS.
The Childwick Trust
The Childwick Trust provides funding to registered charities to assist people with disabilities, the promotion of health, the elderly in need and for the welfare of people involved in the horse racing world.
The grants fall under four main headings:
- Health
- The Racing World
- Jewish Charities
- Education in South Africa
Application Deadline: 31st October 2016
Allen Lane Foundation
Funds groups working with Asylum-seekers and refugees (but not groups working with a single nationality), Gay, lesbian, bi-sexual or transgender people, Gypsies and Travellers, Migrant workers, Offenders and ex-offenders, Older people, People experiencing mental health problems, People experiencing violence or abuse – income <£100,000. Deadline: Tuesday 1st November 2016.
Wren’s Community Action Fund Re-Opens for England and Wales
Grants of between £2,000 and £50,000 are available for projects that can demonstrate how they fall into Object D of the Landfill Communities Fund. Object D shows commitment to the protection of the environment, and the provision, maintenance or improvement of a public park or another public amenity. WREN’s definition of an amenity is something that a community will have access to and be able to use for leisure or recreation purposes.
Examples of eligible projects include, but are not limited to:
- Replacement doors and windows for village halls and community centres.
- Provision of children’s play equipment in open public spaces.
- Construction of footpaths and cycleways in public parks.
- The provision of all-weather play surfaces for MUGA multi use games areas.
- The provision of skate parks.
- Dipping platform and all weather paths at local nature reserves.
Although match funding is not a specified requirement, the Waste Recycling Group (as a condition of providing WREN with the Landfill Tax Credits) require project applicants to secure the help of eligible ‘Third Parties’ who will reimburse them with an amount equal to 10.75% of any grant committed. Third Party funders cannot, however, gain any unique benefit from the project put forward for funding.
Applications will be accepted from the following types of organisations:
- Registered charities which operate a community facility.
- Churches or Parochial Church Councils.
- Parish or Town Councils or Management Committees or User Associations acting on behalf of Parish or Town Councils.
- Local Authorities.
- CASC Registered Sports Clubs.
Other organisations may still be able to apply for funding if they apply as a secondary applicant with a Parish Council, Local Authority or charity which has an involvement in their project site.
The deadline for applications is Wednesday 22nd February 2017 (5pm).
Sage Foundation offers charities free accounting software
The Sage Foundation has launched new accountancy software designed specifically for the not-for-profit sector, and will offer charities free licences. The new accountancy software called Sage Live Non-profit, was built on the Salesforce App Cloud and launched last week on the Salesforce AppExchange. Eligible charities will be able to sign up for two donated Sage Live user licences through the Sage Foundation. Further licences will be offered at a 50 per cent discount, the organisation said.