5 funding opportunities – local & nationwide
Melanie May | 30 September 2021 | News
From grants for marketing campaigns, to help for projects supporting people with learning and development to help them with work opportunities, and local grants for Greater Manchester and the Cambridge area, here’s a round up of funding available.
First round of #OneGM Grants announced with £43,848 given out to 46 community groups AND next round of applications open. Please RT to spread the word! In partnership with @4EVERManchester #funding #charity #manchester #greatermanchester @MayorofGM @greatermcr pic.twitter.com/sIOE2ywSpy
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— Greater Manchester Mayor's Charity (@GMMayorsCharity) September 17, 2021
Grants available for Greater Manchester community groups
Grants of up to £1,000 are available to community groups in Greater Manchester through the One GM Community Fund.
The fund is open for applications until 26 October.
The One GM Community Fund is a partnership between the Greater Manchester’s Mayor’s Charity and Forever Manchester, distributing money raised by the Greater Manchester community to support those most affected by the Covid crisis across the area.
The Fund will support projects working in one of the following areas:
- Families and individuals experiencing food poverty
- Support for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness
- Community based mental health and well-being support
Applicants must be based in one of the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester and have an annual income of less than £25,000. Applicants meeting the theme ‘Support for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness’ will be considered up to a maximum annual income of £75,000.
Up to £30,000 available for nonprofits helping people with lifelong learning & development
Jay Charity Consultancy Services, in partnership with CABWI, are offering grants of up to £30k to promote lifelong learning & development that enables people to enter the labour market or gain additional skills to further develop their career.
The fund aims:
1. To work directly with young people (aged 14-24) who are either not in employment, education, or training (NEET), or with young people who are at risk of becoming NEET, to improve their access to employment and the labour market.
2. To reach and work with individuals with complex barriers to employment, enabling them to move closer or into employment, including but not restricted to ex-service personnel and ex-offenders.
3. Increase the life skills of people so that they may further develop their careers, with a particular focus on the water, utilities, and construction industries.
Grants of up to £30,000 a year will be available for up to two or three years. Applications are currently open, with a closing date of 15 October.
Housing-related grants available from The Cambridge Building Society
Grants are available from The Cambridge Building Society Community Fund, which contains around £500,000 from dormant accounts.
The Cambridge Building Society Community Fund offers grants to support local voluntary groups, community groups and organisations that are undertaking charitable work with a connection to homes or housing.
This might include projects that:
- Enable access to housing and homes for all
- Tackle homelessness issues
- Support vulnerable people with their housing needs
- Give advice about housing
- Help vulnerable people into a home
Grants of between £2,500 and £10,000 will be made to assist charitable projects located within a 15-mile radius of The Cambridge’s branch and store network.
Applications opened in August to award between £2,500 and £10,000 for the next round of grants, which have a closing date of 1 November and will be decided at the end of the year. The fund is administered through the Cambridgeshire Community Foundation, which supports local community projects.
Grants of up to £125,000 available through £1m Faith New Deal Pilot Fund
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government recently launched a £1 million Faith New Deal Pilot Fund to support faith-based organisations working alongside local authorities and other local partners to support their communities during the pandemic and in the recovery phase.
The pilot scheme will provide up to £975,000 for faith groups working on community projects supporting one or more of the following Covid-19 recovery objectives:
- Mental wellbeing and loneliness
- Debt advice
- Employability
- Food poverty
- Increasing community engagement through volunteering
The funding will be distributed as:
- Grants of up to £125,000.
- Grants of up to £200,000 for innovative projects to be delivered by new or existing partnerships. This must include a community need that seeks to support COVID-19 recovery and solve a local problem.
The fund will provide up to a maximum of 50% of the project’s delivery costs.
Applications will be accepted from faith-based organisations, either as individual organisations or as a consortium in a partnership arrangement with a local service such as a local authority, public institution or other non-faith based Voluntary Community Sector and Enterprise (VCSE). Both newly formed and existing partnerships can apply.
The deadline for applications is 7 October.
Fund launches to help smaller charities with marketing campaigns
The Worshipful Company of Marketors has announced the launch of a new giving initiative, the 2021-2 Charity Marketing Grants Programme.
This programme, which is being financed by The Marketors Trust, has been founded to inspire and enable smaller charities to create marketing campaigns that will have a real impact in support of their cause, providing funding as well as professional marketing advice and support from the Marketors’ Outreach team for the development and running of their campaigns.
The Grants Scheme is open to all independent UK charities with an annual income of between £10,000 to £100,000 who are registered with The Charity Commission for England and Wales. Applications close on 10 January, with the winning charities set to be announced in Spring 2022.
Five charities will be selected to benefit from a total fund of £20,000, with a top grant of £10,000 and four grants of £2,500 to be allocated by the judging panel.
About Melanie May
Melanie May is a journalist and copywriter specialising in writing both for and about the charity and marketing services sectors since 2001. She can be reached via thepurplepim.com.