4 funds with upcoming deadlines
Melanie May | 13 December 2021 | News
From grants to set up community fridges to support for organisations involved in suicide prevention, here’s news of four funds with upcoming deadlines.
Funding for community-based organisations in London
Laureus Sport for Good Foundation and Foot Locker through the Foot Locker Foundation, are partnering to launch a multi-country initiative aimed at supporting underserved communities and addressing health, wealth, and opportunity gaps.
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Over the next year, the Community Empowerment Program will provide grants, starting at $20,000, to organisations that offer a range of services for young people, including sports-based youth development, health and wellness, education and life skills support, mentoring, and workforce development.
In addition to grants, Foot Locker will engage store team members in each of the target cities, helping bring the programming to life through in-store learning opportunities, community “clean-ups,” mentoring, and other volunteer activities.
The grant application process is now open and will close on 17 January. In the UK, community-based organisations in London (Brixton) are eligible to apply.
Funding available to set up community fridges
Not-for-profit groups across the UK can now apply for grants of £4,000 to cover all costs associated with establishing a new community fridge.
This includes:
- Staffing
- Buying fridges and freezer
- Volunteer expenses
- Utilities
- Insurance
- Print display materials
- Cleaning materials
- Relevant staff training
To be eligible for funding, organisations must:
- Be setting up a new community fridge, which has not yet opened
- Establish the community fridge within six months and have intentions to sustain the project for at least three years
- See the potential for setting up future food and environment-related projects
The fridge should be open to the whole community and not used for emergency food provision, and ideally not located within a two-mile radius of an existing community fridge or similar project.
100 community fridge projects are expected to receive grants, with applicants from areas with higher levels of deprivation given priority.
The deadline to apply is midnight on 1 February 2022.
Kent Community Foundation offers funding with new digital inclusion fund
The new Kent Community Foundation Digital Inclusion Fund is offering grants of up to £10,000 for organisations, to enhance digital offers in the Kent County Council area. Thanks to a match funding programme from Kent County Council, Kent Community Foundation’s donors have raised over £300,000 for the new Digital Inclusion Fund.
A £162,000 contribution from Kent County Council encouraged Kent Community Foundation donors to dig deep and rise to the match challenge ensuring local organisations will benefit from a fund of £300,000 to improve technology for their beneficiaries. The Fund will specifically support projects where technology infrastructure is targeted towards disadvantaged young people seeking training and employment, the elderly and vulnerable adults.
Organisations supporting these three key areas will be funded from the Kent Community Foundation Digital Inclusion Fund:
- disadvantaged young people, including looked after children, to access online resources for school projects
- older people to navigate digital services to help them to access benefits and health services
- vulnerable adults to access training and skills development to able to live independently
In addition to these three priorities, the fund will also support technology loan or upgrade schemes supporting the same key groups, but with the added benefit of organisations being able to purchase hardware that they can loan to their service users. Grants from the Digital Inclusion Fund are not available for individuals.
The closing date is 15 January.
£4m available from Suicide Prevention Fund
Applications are open until 16 January for grants from the £4 million Suicide Prevention Fund to support suicide prevention voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations in 2021 to 2022.
The funding will support organisations to continue providing services, for example by helping to cover any financial gaps for these organisations caused by COVID. The funding is only available to support the delivery of suicide prevention activities in England. All awarded funding must be spent by 31 March 2022.
The funding is available for a wide range of suicide prevention groups and organisations with experience of delivering activity intended to prevent suicide, and who have a primary focus on suicide prevention. This could range from national and umbrella organisations to unconstituted community and user-led groups.
Part of the Suicide Prevention Fund will be ring-fenced specifically for micro-organisations and groups (user-led, community-led or peer support groups or organisations who may be unregistered or unconstituted) and who have experience of delivering activity intended to prevent suicide.
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.