Modernisation Fund offers £1,000 bursaries for charity collaboration
Howard Lake | 9 June 2009 | News
The Government’s Modernisation Fund Grants Programme is offering bursaries of £1,000 to small charities to help them become more resilient by working more closely with others.
The funding is being delivered by Capacitybuilders, and is part of the Government’s action plan for the third sector, ‘Real Help for Communities: Volunteers, Charities and Social Enterprises’, announced in February this year.
Bursaries are open to third sector organisations with an annual turnover of between £150,000 and £750,000 and working primarily in England, and applications close on 17 July 2009.
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The Modernisation Fund Grants Programme is targeted at third sector organisations who are engaged in providing services that meet the needs of people and communities affected by the recession.
The bursaries are designed to allow organisations to buy at least two days of advice and support to explore how they can become more resilient and work more closely with others, including through collaboration or merger.
The programme will be extended in the Autumn when £10,000 grants will be available to successful applicants who wish to take “further significant steps towards collaboration or merger”.
www.modernisationfund.org.uk
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He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.