Grants & Funding Information – Updated 11th June 2021
Norman Family Charitable Trust – COVID Fund – deadline 18th June 2021
The Norman Family Charitable Trust recognises that the COVID pandemic emergency has placed an unprecedented strain on local communities and wishes to support non-profit organisations as they return to normal operations as restrictions are eased.
To run alongside its ongoing main grants programme the Trust is setting up the Norman Trust COVID Fund. Substantial funds will be made available and grant applications are invited from charities and other non-profit organisations (including schools) in Devon. There will initially be a first round of funding with decisions made in July 2021. Depending on the response to the first round, one or two further rounds of funding may be opened to applicants later in the year and this may include extending the area of benefit to other parts of the South West. Updates regarding further rounds will be posted on the Trust’s website. Applying for both the COVID fund and the Trust’s ongoing Main Grants programme during the current financial year is possible, if your organisation is eligible.
Applicants will need to provide clear evidence of how COVID adversely affected their organisation and the need for funding. This will include latest accounts and a budget for the current financial year plus details of funding received from other sources. Please do not apply to this Fund if you are unable to demonstrate a very clear need for financial support and/or are unwilling to provide monitoring information after the grant period.
You can visit their website for a list of the eligibility criteria and an online application form. Deadline for applications is midday Friday 18 June 2021.
Tarka Country Trust – Community Wildlife Fund
The Community Wildlife fund is currently open for applications from community groups in North Devon and Torridge Districts wanting to carry out small scale projects that both benefit wildlife and involve the community. The maximum grant is £500.
The Tarka Country Trust’s Community Wildlife Trust has previously supported:
North Devon Moving Image CIC for “Wild Shorts” – a wildlife and environmental short film competition.
North Devon Barn Owl Box Project for supply of free barn owl boxes for farmers with suitable buildings and habitat.
Gaia Trust for creation and management of bird scrapes as Home Farm Marsh, Fremington.
The Greater Horseshoe Bat Viewing Platform, which was built to help people view these rare mammals near Braunton.
Meddon Green Local Nature Reserve to help carry out pond clearance, access improvements and interpretation.
It’s advised to read their guidance notes before applying to the Trust – click on this document for the guidance notes
Submit your completed application to info@tarkacountrytrust.org.uk or send a paper copy to Tarka Country Trust, Taw View, North Walk, Barnstaple, EX31 1EE
Stop Loan Sharks Community Fund – deadline 30th June 2021
Local residents, charities, community and voluntary groups, schools and statutory agencies can apply for grants of up to £5,000 for activities that highlight the dangers of Loan Sharks and have a positive impact on their communities.
The Illegal Money Lending Team encourages bids from multiple organisations working together who can each bid for £5000 to put towards a collective project.
The Stop Loan Sharks Community Fund is made available from money seized from convicted loan sharks by the England Illegal Money Lending Team (IMLT). Organisations will need to demonstrate the positive impact their project would have on their community, and how their project contributes to delivering the IMLT’s priorities which include:
- Contributes to raising the awareness of the dangers of using loan sharks
- Prevents crime and disorder and publicises the Stop Loan Sharks message
- Promotes the work of the Illegal Money Lending Team (IMLT) in communities
- Encourages reporting of loan sharks
To find out more, and to apply, visit: Stop Loan Sharks
Petroc Community Grants – European Social Fund – deadline 5th July and 15th September 2021
Community Grants is a programme that is part funded by the European Social Fund and the Education and Skills Funding Agency. This project is designed to make available small grants of up to £ 20,000 to third sector and other small organisations for mobilising disadvantaged or excluded unemployed and inactive people to enable their progress to employment. Organisations that access grants need to be well placed to reach excluded individuals facing barriers, which hinder their access to mainstream provision.
The purpose of the grants is to:
Engage with marginalised individuals and support them to re-engage with education, training or employment
Support a range of activities aimed at assisting the disadvantaged or excluded to move closer to the labour market by improving their access to mainstream ESF and domestic employment and skills provision
Provide support to the hardest to reach communities and individuals, especially those from deprived communities, to access employment or further learning and training.
The programme runs until 31st July, 2022 and is expected to reach 671 participants in Devon, Plymouth and Torbay and 192 participants in Somerset.
Participants must be aged 16 years or over, legally resident in the UK and able to take paid employment in the UK and be unemployed or ‘inactive’.
Grant Recipients:
To access this funding organisations must be either a Small Organisation, in that you employ fewer than 49 full time equivalent staff and have an annual turnover equal to or under EUR 10 million or a balance sheet equal to or below EUR 10 million or a Third Sector Organisation which operates within the Third Sector meaning the part of an economy or society comprising non- governmental and non-profit making organisations or associations including charities, Voluntary and community groups.
Grant Application Process:
Petroc have developed a two stage application process and will offer training and guidance to any organisations who wish to submit an application. The full applications detailing the projects activities and targets to be achieved will be assessed by a panel including a member of Petroc staff (but not the Petroc Projects Team), a member from the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and a nominated person from the area in which the programme is planning to deliver.
Application assessment windows:
Assessment window opens: 14th Jun 2021, for decisions made 5th Jul 2021
Assessment window opens: 25th Aug 2021, for decisions made 15th Sep 2021
If you would like to know more about this programme visit the petroc website or if you would like to discuss please contact Lesley Taylor on communitygrants@petroc.ac.uk
Woodward Charitable Trust – deadline 30th July 2021
The Trustees look to fund projects that help families and young people and that are aiming to improve the life chances of the beneficiaries. Projects that promote community cohesion and the development of skills that will change the outlook and outcomes for the users are favoured by the Trustees. Organisations that promote volunteering and involve both past and present users in their operations or management are encouraged. Trustees only consider applications for core costs and are looking for organisations which aim to achieve a positive impact in at least one of the following areas:
- Children and Young People who are isolated, at risk of exclusion or involved in anti-social behaviour and projects to help those who have been in the care system.
- Disadvantaged Families, this covers parenting support and guidance, mental health, food poverty, refuges and domestic violence projects
- Prisoners and ex-Offenders and specifically projects that maintain and develop contact with prisoners’ families and help with the rehabilitation and resettlement of prisoners and/or ex-offenders after their release.
General grants are available to registered charities as well as consideration being given to Charity Incorporated Organisations (CIOs) and Community Interest Companies (CICs). Round 2 opened Monday 24 June 2021 and closes midday Friday 30 July 2021. Decisions will be made at the October Trustees meeting with successful applicants being notified by email by the end of November 2021.
More information on the application process can be found here Link to Woodward Charitable Trust Website
Radcliffe Trust – next deadline 31st July 2021
The Radcliffe Trust supports the development of the skills, knowledge and experience that underpin the UK’s cultural heritage and crafts sectors. This includes support for emerging craftspeople of high quality craft and conservation projects demonstrating creative outcomes by designer-makers, projects with potential for capacity building within the sector, and some special needs projects focusing on therapeutic benefits of skills development.
The deadlines are twice a year, with the applications submitted by 31st January being presented for consideration by the trust in June, and a deadline of 31st July for those to be presented in December.
If you have any questions or require support contact radcliffe@thetrustpartnership.com or to apply online visit Radcliffe Heritage Trust
Armed Forces Covenant Fund – Force for Change Programme – deadline 2nd August 2021
This programme will award grants of up to £10,000 for community projects that reduce isolation and promote integration; supporting post-Covid recovery in local Armed Forces communities affected by isolation.
One-year grants are available of up to £10,000 to support ideas that need small amounts of funding to deliver nimble and focused local projects to Armed Forces communities. Or small grants will be made to support services, projects and activities that are used by Armed Forces communities, but which are struggling as a result of the impact of the Covid pandemic.
The deadline for applications to round two of the programme is 2 August 2021.
Go to their website where you will find frequently asked questions and answers as well as the online application form, Covenant Fund
William and Jane Morris Fund; Grants for Churches – deadline 31st August 2021
The Fund accepts applications from churches, chapels and other places of worship built before 1896 for grants of between £500 and £5,000 to carry out small programmes of conservation work to decorative features and monuments. All work funded must be directed by a professional architect or established conservator and completed according to the principles of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB)
Eligible work could include (but is not limited to):
- Stained glass windows
- Sculpture
- Furniture
- Internal monuments
- Tombs
- Wall paintings
Apply at Morris Church Conservation Grants
AONB – Small Grant Scheme Open for Applications – applications process open May to Dec 2021
Community groups, businesses and farmers can now bid into the £22,000 pot of the North Devon Coast Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty’s (AONB) small grant scheme, otherwise known as the Sustainable Development Fund.
Last year, ten projects were funded with grants averaging £2,400 matched with cash and in-kind time. The full list of funded projects:
- Torridge District Council – Westward Ho! Slipway improvements
- Braunton Countryside Centre – Online events & website developments
- Greena Ecological Consultancy – Greater Horseshoe Bat Research
- Georgeham Parish Council – Newberry Road Footpath
- Plastic Free North Devon – Plastic Ambassador Virtual Reality Kit Project
- National Trust – Biodiversity Projects at Brownsham and Middleborough Hill
- Westcountry Rivers Trust – N. Devon Coastal Streams – Citizen Science
- West Country Buzz – Hartland Quay and West Titchberry Farm Scrub Management
- Woolacombe TIC – Provision of Storage Shed for Mobility Equipment
- National Trust – Baggy Point Pond Improvements
Applications are encouraged from those carrying out projects that bring an environmental, economic, social or educational benefit to the AONB.
“This year’s top priorities are nature & wildlife or sustainable farming,” said Jenny Carey-Wood the AONB Manager. “This could be improvements to habitats in villages, on tourist sites or on farms such as ponds, hedges, small woodland planting or scrub management to benefit wildlife. Information on farming and land management for visitors or processing and marketing of food produced from the AONB are other possibilities for grant support.”
Dr Eirene Williams, the AONB Vice-chair overseeing the grant scheme said, “We encourage a wide range of applications, from people and organisations with ideas for making our local habitats “bigger, better and more joined up”. We trust that the projects funded have lasting and sustainable benefits for our local wildlife in the face of climate change, but please go ahead and surprise us with innovative ideas”.
Grants can cover up to 75% of the project cost, and range in size from £100 up to £4,000 for an exceptional project. All projects need support from the local community.
Applications are open from May to December 2021 with projects needing to be completed by the end of February 2022.
Check out the AONB Management Plan for the full list of policies and priorities – https://www.northdevon-aonb.org.uk/about/management-plan-2019-2024
If you have a project idea, see the guidance and application form on our website www.northdevon-aonb.org.uk/our-work/grants or contact Laura Carolan on 01271 388628 or aonb@devon.gov.uk to discuss.
Lloyds Bank Racial Equity Fund
The fund is aimed at small and local charities that are led by and that support Black, Asian, and ethnic minority communities. Charities can apply for two-year unrestricted grants of £50,000 alongside development support.
The funding will be open year-round and will not be restricted by deadlines. The Foundation is looking to support charities where more than half of their Trustee Board self-identify as Black, Asian or minority ethnic, with an annual income of between £25,000 and £1m, and with a strong track record of helping people from minority communities across 11 complex social issues.
For the eligibility check, and the online application form visit Lloyd’s Bank Foundation
Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme – Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
The Government is providing up to £210m worth of voucher funding as immediate help for people suffering from slow broadband speeds in rural areas.
Vouchers worth up to £1,500 for homes and £3,500 for businesses help to cover the costs of installing gigabit broadband to people’s doorsteps.
The new UK Gigabit Voucher launched on Thursday 8th April 2021 and is only available through a supplier who is registered with the scheme.
From 8th April you will be able to check whether your premises is eligible for a voucher, find a list of registered suppliers, and see those who are active in your area, using the website: gigabitvoucher.culture.gov.uk
Barratt Foundation
To mark the completion of their 500,000th home, Barratt Homes has launched the Barratt Foundation, bringing together their charitable giving and long-term support for good causes and leading charities under one roof.
As the UK’s largest house builder, Barratt want to lead the industry in the scope, scale, and impact of their charitable work. Last year they raised and donated more than £4m – but now want to go further.
In addition to the achieving their 500,000th home milestone, with the pandemic both reducing funding for charities and making the work they do more important than ever, they feel this is the right moment to launch the Barratt Foundation.
It has a general purpose, but they will look to focus efforts on some key areas, including:
- Promoting social inclusion, particularly young people, the armed forces and the most disadvantaged and excluded in society.
- Helping the environment and nature, alongside our commitment to being the country’s leading national sustainable housebuilder
- Promoting physical and mental health
- Education and opportunity
To mark the launch of the Barratt Foundation, they are donating £500,000 across 10 charities chosen by their employees. These charities are Macmillan Cancer Support, Dementia UK, CALM, The Wildlife Trust, Marie Curie, Re-engage, The Samaritans, Refuge, The Matt Hampson Foundation and The Care Workers’ Charity.
If there is a local charity working in your area that you feel could benefit from their support, please direct them to the Foundation for more information and details on how to get in touch, or to make an application to the Barratt Foundation.
Small Grants Scheme – Foyle Foundation
This Small Grants Scheme is designed to support charities registered and operating in the United Kingdom, especially those working at grass roots and local community level, in any field, across a wide range of activities.
Online applications can be accepted from charities that have an annual turnover of less than £150,000 per annum. Larger or national charities will normally not be considered under this scheme.
The focus will be to make one-year grants only to cover core costs or essential equipment, to enable ongoing service provision, homeworking, or delivery of online digital services to charities that can show financial stability.
The priority will be to support local charities still active in their communities which are currently delivering services to the young, vulnerable, elderly, disadvantaged or the general community either directly or through online support if possible.
Grants are available between £1000 and £10,000.
Small Grants Scheme – (foylefoundation.org.uk)
Devon County Council’s Locality Budgets
Devon County Councillors each have a locality budget of £10,000 per year to enable them to respond to local needs in their divisions, supporting projects or activities that benefit the communities they represent.
Councillors can, if they wish, make grants to support projects or activities that benefit the communities they represent.
Locality budget funding adds value to projects that are beneficial to local communities, and help meet the Council’s strategic objectives. Projects are diverse and reflect the needs of local communities. All projects should include some other financial contribution(s) and/or local support.
Any properly constituted not-for-private-profit voluntary or community group (including town and parish councils) can apply to their local county councillor for a grant from the locality budget fund.
Each councillor will normally make their own decision on which applications they wish to support, the only exception would be where the councillor may have a conflict of interest and the decision will have to be approved by an officer provided that the locality budget fund grant will be normally used within the financial period (April to March) of each year and is not used to benefit individuals or private businesses.
To discuss a locality budget fund application, you should contact your local County Councillor in the first instance. You can view a Map of Devon County wards of each of the Council’s electoral divisions to help you to identify your local councillor.
If your county councillor wishes to support your application, you must complete Part A of the locality budget application form, and ensure that the reverse side of the form is completed (terms and conditions) and then send it to the councillor so that they can complete Part B.
Hargreaves Foundation
The Hargreaves Foundation is a grant-making charitable foundation set up in 2020 by Peter Hargreaves and his family. Applications are open for organisations seeking funding to support those under the age of 18, and living with a mental health problem, physical disability or growing up in poverty through the mediums of sport and education.
The Foundation can fund clearly defined projects, initiatives or the purchase of specific items that support one or more of the following:
- Enables individuals to experience the mental and physical health benefits of participatory sport
- Ensures participatory sport is accessible
- Provides sporting or educational activities that foster life skills
- Aims to improve academic engagement and attainment
- Encourages the development of skills and personal attributes to aid future employability.
It is the intention of the Trustees to consider a targeted approach to funding and seek out opportunities which provide scope to ‘materially change the life of an individual’.
To apply online visit: The Hargreaves Foundation
National Lottery Heritage Fund
Applications are open for National Lottery Grants for Heritage from £3,000 up to £5million. They will prioritise projects that contribute to recovery from the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.
Between April 2021 to March 2022, when making funding decisions, they will prioritise heritage projects that:
- boost the local economy
- encourage skills development and job creation
- support wellbeing
- create better places to live, work and visit
- improve the resilience of organisations working in heritage
Their inclusion outcome – a wider range of people will be involved in heritage – remains mandatory for all projects funded.
In addition, all projects must demonstrate they are environmentally responsible and are integrating environmental measures into their projects.
You can read more on the Fund’s website: National Lottery Heritage Fund
Loans for charities
The Charity Bank provides loans to small and large organisations where the loan is being used for a social purpose. Loans are provided to social enterprises and other community organisations that benefit people and communities for a variety of needs including property purchase or refurbishments, capital investments, asset purchases, working capital loans and underwriting facilities for fund-raising programmes.
Loans may be offered to not-for-profit organisations, parish councils, charities, community groups, voluntary groups, community buildings and social enterprises.
Visit their website Charity Loans For UK Charities or email them: enquiries@charitybank.org.uk
Persimmon Homes
Persimmon homes has joined forces with Team GB – The British Olympic Association – to give away over £1 million to help projects for young people aged under 18 across England, Wales and Scotland.
There are three categories, or competitions. Each category has a first prize of £100k, second prize of £50k and third prize of £25k.
The categories are Education and Arts, Sport, and Health.
To enter, all you need to do is compete the application form telling them why your group or organisation deserves funding and what you will spend the money on should you be lucky enough to win. 87 of the shortlisted finalists, who did not win one of the top three prizes, could also win £5000 in runner-up prizes.
There will also be smaller individual prizes of £1000 each to be given away during May, June, July and August 2021.
A public vote will decide the final winners, with the decisions announced in November 2021.
To apply online visit Persimmon Homes Website
Ulverscroft Foundation – supporting visually impaired people
The Ulverscroft Foundation is a UK based charity supporting visually impaired people. The Foundation supplies grants to organisations looking for help with projects relating to improving the quality of life of visually impaired people.
Funding is mainly given to organisations directly helping the visually impaired, such as libraries, schools, colleges and hospitals.
Any organisation applying is only able to submit one application every 18 months regardless of the outcome of the application.
The Foundation is keen to support specific projects and associated costs, with capital costs, core salaries and general running costs not supported.
Applications can be made in writing by downloading, completing and posting an application form or, alternatively, by using their online application form. They also accept email applications. Details of the information required, as well as contact details and where to send the application, can be found on their website: Ulverscroft Foundation
Nationwide Building Society – Community Grants
Charities, Community Land Trusts and housing co-operatives who are making positive changes in their local areas can apply for grants of between £10,000 and £50,000.
Projects will be favoured that:
- help charities get back on their feet after the impact of Covid-19
- illustrate a clear link to Nationwide’s ambition for everyone to have a place fit to call home and can demonstrate the impact their project will have on the local community
- are supporting people in housing need, in original or creative ways. This includes both projects already delivering local impact and those carrying out research to find new ways to challenge the housing crisis
- have the potential to inspire and be used by others across the country
- have robust plans to measure and report on the difference the grant will make
- can demonstrate sustainability beyond the life of the grant, by building the skills of staff and volunteers, diversifying funding streams and providing long-term solutions for the people they are helping
- can evidence knowledge of local issues and have a network of local connections.
In 2021 they are capping the amount of Community Grant applications that will be accepted.
For more information visit Nationwide Grants (nationwidecommunitygrants.co.uk)
Flexible Plastic Fund
Businesses, retailers and recyclers are invited to access funding and support through the new Flexible Plastic Fund initiative. The scheme has been set up to incentivise the recycling of flexible plastics such as bags and wrappers.
The Flexible Plastic Fund is a cross-industry collaboration established in May 2021 by five founding partners: Mars, Mondelēz International, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever.
The aim is to create a circular system that incentivises the recycling of flexible plastics:
- Businesses that own brands that use flexible plastic packaging invest in the fund to become partners of the Flexible Plastic Fund.
- Participating retailers hold collection points within their stores where individuals can drop off their flexi-plastics for recycling.
- The plastics are transported to approved recyclers to create new products.
- These new products generate Packaging Recovery Notes which certify that the products have been recycled.
- If the new products meet the requirements of the Flexible Plastics Fund then a payment is made to the partners in the fund.
The Fund has a pricing hierarchy where food-grade plastic film benefits from a higher price than non-packaging material. The aim is to recycle at least 80% of the plastics collected in the UK – rising to 100% by 2023.
https://flexibleplasticfund.org.uk/
The E B M Charitable Trust
The aims of the E B M Charitable Trust are to support a wide variety of beneficiaries including charities involved in animal welfare and research, the relief of poverty and youth development.
A letter of introduction is recommended as unsolicited applications are not encouraged. Moreover, the Trust has stated that all its funds are committed. The Trust prefers to make donations to charities whose work they have researched and which is in accordance with its areas of interest. It tends not to support research projects as research is not a core priority but there are exceptions to this. Please note that the Trust receives a very high number of grant applications which are mostly unsuccessful.
However, if you have a charitable cause you believe the Trust will support, it may be worth submitting a letter or application as the Trust’s grants can be substantial and provided over a number of years.
A letter of introduction may be submitted at any time, addressed to:
Lynne Webster, the E B M Charitable Trust, Moore Family Office Ltd, 42 Berkeley Square
Community News!
Help our coastal environment by signing this petition
According to the Keep Britain Tidy report, over 16,000 cheap polystyrene bodyboards are discarded on UK beaches annually. These boards often snap and become unusable within minutes of use. When discarded, polystyrene crumbles into small white polystyrene balls, threatening our natural environment.
These boards are made from a block of standard unrecyclable block of expanded polystyrene wrapped in brightly printed plastic cloth, are sourced from abroad and transported thousands of miles only to often snap within minutes of use. They create an unnecessary carbon footprint and nature threatening waste. Once in the ocean, polystyrene attracts algae adding enough weight to cause the nuggets to sink and present itself as food to fish which could enter the human food chain.
The retailers of Westward Ho! have recently worked together to agree not to sell these and become the first town in the UK to ban their sale!
Please sign the petition to help get this great incentive rolled out across the country.
Ban the sale of cheap polystyrene bodyboards – Petitions (parliament.uk)
