# Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society launches £1 million Covid fund and other funding news

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/07/09/shipwrecked-mariners-society-1m-covid-fund-other-funding-news/
- Published: 2020-07-09T08:55:15+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**A round-up of recent fund related-news, including new launches and updates.**

 

 

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> The Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society has established a £1M COVID-19 Response Fund
> to provide financial support to UK merchant seafarers and fishers affected by 
> the coronavirus pandemic. Have a read in more detail here: [https://t.co/2Op4iyb2Qw](https://t.co/2Op4iyb2Qw)
> — Shipwrecked Mariners (@ShipwreckedSoc) [July 7, 2020](https://twitter.com/ShipwreckedSoc/status/1280472877339467776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

 

#### Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society launches £1m Covid-19 fund

 

The [Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society](https://shipwreckedmariners.org.uk/) has established
a £1m COVID-19 Response Fund to provide financial support to UK merchant seafarers
and fishers affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

 

The response fund has launched to coincide with Seafarers Awareness Week (6-12 July)
and will provide support to working age seafarers facing the economic impact of 
the pandemic, supplementing the Society’s existing annual grant expenditure of £
1.4m, which is predominantly focused on providing support to retired seafarers, 
or those suffering with health issues.

 

The new fund signifies a temporary change in spending priorities to reflect the 
disastrous financial impact on working mariners and represents the biggest uplift
in Society spending since WW2.

 

 

 

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#### TownsWeb Archiving opens digitisation grant applications early

 

TownsWeb Archiving has decided to open its [digitisation grant](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/2020-twa-digitisation-grant/)
early for application this year to enable organisations to start planning for their
next digitisation project and begin working on making their case for a successful
grant application to support it.

 

Three grants of £3,000 each are available and, every institution or organisation
shortlisted will receive an optional £500 of match funding to put towards their 
digitisation project.

 

The deadline for applications has been extended until the end of the year with dates
to be confirmed shortly.

 

 

 

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#### YouthMusic announces £2m Incubator Fund

 

Youth Music has launched a new £2m [Incubator Fund](https://new.youthmusic.org.uk/incubator-fund)**_,_**
offering grants of up to £30,000 over two years to music industry employers to support
the career development of young creatives aged 18-25.

 

The new fund is expected to run over at least the next two years and is designed
to help music industry organisations, particularly micro-businesses and SMEs, to
harness the skills and creativity of diverse young talent. Youth Music is inviting
employers with interesting ideas on how to incorporate young people into their business,
to work with them in partnership to offer sustainable and meaningful career and 
development pathways. The fund is available to people in England, Scotland, and 
Wales and has been made possible by support from players of People’s Postcode Lottery.

 

Youth Music has launched a campaign as well as the fund to help pave the way for
an alternative future for the music industry with improved diversity. In its new
report, [A Blueprint for the Future](https://new.youthmusic.org.uk/blueprint-future),
the charity sets out a plan centred on cultivating the talent, energy, and passion
of young people and calls on the industry to follow suit to tackle longstanding 
inequalities, which have been brought into sharp focus by the Black Lives Matter
movement and the coronavirus pandemic.

 

 

 

 

#### SSE creates Trade Back for social organisations

 

In response to the Covid-19 crisis, the School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE) has
created [Trade Back](http://www.matchtrading.com/trade-back/): a new type of grant
that incentivises social organisations to trade, while supporting them to recover
and rebuild.

 

Trade Back draws on the learning from Match Trading® grants, which SSE launched 
in 2017. Match Trading has supported 500+ social impact organisations to grow, with
support from The National Lottery Community Fund, the Scottish Government, Lloyds
Banking Group, Power to Change, Access – The Foundation for Social Investment, Esmeé
Fairbairn Foundation, The Rank Foundation and Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity.

 

Trade Back grants match ‘pound-for-pound’ an increase in income from trading above
Covid period levels. The Trade Back grant is made up of two elements: a small traditional
grant to kick-start recovery efforts, and an incentivised grant to accelerate growth
by rewarding an increase in income from trading.

 

From October 2020, 100 social-sector businesses will receive Trade Back grants of
up to £7,000 as part of SSE’s biggest UK programme: the Lloyds Bank and Bank of 
Scotland Social Entrepreneurs Programme, run by the School for Social Entrepreneurs,
jointly funded by The National Lottery Community Fund and the Scottish Government.

 

 

 

> [@BarnetTogether](https://twitter.com/BarnetTogether?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) are 
> coordinating an effort to best support the most vulnerable in our community.
> DONATE
> NOW to support trusted grassroots local organisations, in Barnet, to provide frontline
> support to those most in need.Link to donate: [https://t.co/CxzMYEDEA7](https://t.co/CxzMYEDEA7)
> [pic.twitter.com/xEUWwP4L4w](https://t.co/xEUWwP4L4w)
> — Young Barnet Foundation (@Young_Barnet) [March 16, 2020](https://twitter.com/Young_Barnet/status/1239571849270431745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

 

#### Barnet Together launches Barnet Community Response Fund

 

Local**_ _**charity partnership, Barnet Together has launched the [Barnet Community Response Fund](https://www.youngbarnetfoundation.org.uk/coronavirus).

 

The fund is handing out small grants to food banks and other local organisations
working to support the community response at this challenging time.  It has already
granted over £25,000 across 42 organisations to combat the growing demand for help
during the COVID-19 crisis.  Wave 5 (£8,000) is currently being assessed, with Wave
6 (£10,000) open for applications.

 

Barnet Together is a partnership between Young Barnet Foundation, Volunteering Barnet
and Inclusion Barnet, and they work together to support Barnet charities. To support
the fund, it is also calling for donations, and has launched a series of opportunities
for people to donate and support their community. This includes getting PPE to groups
and volunteers that are directly supporting residents displaying Covid-19 symptoms
and self-isolating by supplying food, getting their shopping, prescriptions or other
items.

 

The Barnet Community Response Fund is hosted by Young Barnet Foundation on behalf
of Barnet Together.

 

 

 

> 🤝| Can you help a young women pay for food, rent or other essentials this month?
> 
> Our Emergency Fund has already helped hundreds of young women, but we know there
> are still so many who need financial support. Find out more and donate here: [https://t.co/vgjQZoL7wK](https://t.co/vgjQZoL7wK)
> [pic.twitter.com/G5I61NRZb4](https://t.co/G5I61NRZb4)
> — Young Women's Trust (@YWTrust) [July 8, 2020](https://twitter.com/YWTrust/status/1280954989075148800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

 

#### Young Women’s Trust exceeds initial target for emergency fund

 

An [emergency fund](https://www.youngwomenstrust.org/emergency-fund) helping economically
vulnerable young women during the Covid-19 outbreak, has exceeded its target of 
raising £50,000 to have now raised over £126,000.

 

The Young Women’s Trust has now set itself a new target for the fund of £200,000
in total to help young women trapped in poverty as a result of the virus.

 

The money raised by the fund, set up in March, is in the process of helping 750 
young women. The fund distributes one off payments of £150 to pay for food, bills
and other essentials like children’s schoolbooks. If the fund reaches its new target,
it will be able to help 1,750 young women by the autumn.

 

The emergency fund has already been helped by significant donations and the generosity
of businesses and the organisation’s network of feminist allies. The fund has received
£25,000 from the beauty brand Olay and £25,000 from the Smallwood Trust – both long
term supporters of Young Women’s Trust. £21,000 was also raised by members of the
public through campaigning organisation 38 Degrees.

 

The Trust works with Women’s Aid, Women’s Resource Centre, and Women for Refugee
Women, which identify young women who can benefit and refer them to the Emergency
Fund.

 

 

 

> SOPHIE’S STORY: Theatre lovers help [@IanMcKellen](https://twitter.com/IanMcKellen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)&
> [@TheatricalGuild](https://twitter.com/TheatricalGuild?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) to
> help people like Sophie. Her husband has terminal cancer & she is the sole earner
> with no income since her theatre closed. Sir Ian doubles every pound you give 
> to TTG's appeal. Donate: [https://t.co/82TvnYYKi0](https://t.co/82TvnYYKi0) [pic.twitter.com/i6CBlTy33n](https://t.co/i6CBlTy33n)
> — The Good Exchange (@thegoodexchange) [July 9, 2020](https://twitter.com/thegoodexchange/status/1281132240496398336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

 

#### Sir Ian McKellen supports Theatrical Guild Emergency Fund

 

Sir Ian McKellen is donating £40,000 from his 80th birthday tour of theatres across
the UK as match funding to support The Theatrical Guild’s emergency fund.

 

TTG supports people working in backstage and front of house positions in theatres
across the UK.

 

With theatre productions ‘on hold’ until the autumn, possibly next year and all 
production work cancelled for the foreseeable future as a result of Covid-19, it
is [fundraising via The Good Exchange](https://app.thegoodexchange.com/project/18151/the-theatrical-guild/raising-the-curtain-after-coronavirus---backstage-and-front-of-house?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=ddca266c-ea03-4b73-ab1f-7fb22ec0e0d7&utm_term=the%20good%20exchange&utm_content=&utm_campaign=)
to enable it to support these people during this time. TTG is aiming to raise £100,000
and is asking theatre lovers to donate too.

 * **[£300,000 funding available for road safety projects](https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/08/12/300000-funding-available-for-road-safety-projects/)**(
   12 August 2020)
 * **[£3.3 million fund opens to support mothers & babies from deprived or BAME backgrounds](https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/08/25/3-3-million-fund-opens-to-support-mothers-babies-from-deprived-or-bame-backgrounds/)**(
   25 August 2020)
 * **[Grants of up to £10k available in final round of community business programme](https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/09/30/grants-of-up-to-10k-available-in-final-round-of-community-business-programme/)**(
   30 September 2020)

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