# Modernisation Fund offers £1,000 bursaries for charity collaboration

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/06/09/modernisation-fund-offers-1000-bursaries-charity-collaboration/
- Published: 2009-06-09T10:38:12+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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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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