More Funding Opportunities

The Mohammad Ibrahim Foundation
The Mohammad Ibrahim Foundation is a private independent grant making foundation. It makes grants to organisations that aim to improve the quality of life for people and communities in the UK, both now and in the future. It likes to consider work which others may find hard to fund, perhaps because it breaks new ground, appears too risky, requires core funding or needs a more unusual form of financial help such as a loan.

Youth Music Open Programmes
Youth Music, the national organisation that works alongside the formal and community-based sectors to support music making and music training has announced that its open grant making programmes will close on 15 December 2008. Funding is available to non-profit making organisations for music making activities that are held mainly outside of school hours and that complement music in the national curriculum. The grants available range between £5,000 and £30,000.
Deadline: 15 December 2008

The Peter De Haan Charitable Trust
The Peter De Haan Charitable Trust focuses its grant-making on social welfare, the environment and the arts. The Trust’s arts programme focuses on projects and organisations which are partnership-based with young people as the protagonists of the creative process; have an emphasis on community cohesion and under-represented groups; support confidence-building, collaboration and the incubation of ideas amongst young people and are innovative, wide-reaching and based on tangible outcomes.

The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation - The New Approaches to Learning Strand
This strand is intended for work in schools and early years settings that is unlikely to gain statutory funding because it is new, risky, unorthadox or overlooked. It is available for work that tackles thorny educational issues and improves young people's educational attainment and motivation, particularly where it is likely to influence national policy and practice.

George Loggie Bursary
The bursary is worth £1000 for a young person to use `to facilitate imaginative and inspiring creative ideas to aid their personal and artistic development`. The George Loggie bursary was set up in 2002 in memory of former Northern Arts Chair George Loggie. The bursary is worth £1000 for a young person to use `to facilitate imaginative and inspiring creative ideas to aid their personal and artistic development`. You can apply if you are a young artist under 21 working in any artform. Examples of the how the bursary might be used include travel to train with a specialist, new equipment to enable the young person to realise an idea or a community arts project led by the young person. Email Jane Tarr at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it for an application form.
Deadline: 24 October 2008

GreenPrints
Managed by the SITA Trust and is an England-wide volunteering programme offering opportunities to design and deliver your own Flagship project over a longer period of time. The Flagship programme can fund your own project lasting up to 12 months:
Projects should be designed, created and actively led by volunteers aged 16 – 25 years and should focus on improving an outdoor space which is open to the public - a park, playing field, river, beach or cycle path. Groups can apply for up to £10,000 and practical support from an experienced GreenPrints Mentor.
Deadlines: 24 October 2008

The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund
Charity which makes grants to voluntary organisations that are actively engaged in the care of people with learning disabilities. The following areas of work normally fall within the Fund's policy; Capital building/renovation/refurbishment works for residential, nursing and respite care and schools; employment schemes including woodwork, crafts, printing and horticulture; play schemes and play therapy schemes; day and social activities centres including building costs and running costs; support for families, including respite schemes; independent living schemes; support in the community schemes; swimming and hydro-therapy pools and Snoezelen rooms.
Deadline: 1 October 2008

The VOLANT Charitable Trust
This Trust was set up by the author J K Rowling to support charitable causes. One of the trusts two broad areas of funding is: charities and projects, whether national or community-based, at home or abroad, that alleviate social deprivation, with a particular emphasis on women’s and children’s issues.

WREN Small Grant Scheme
The WREN Small Grants Scheme has been established to assist applicants looking for funding on small projects that can make a real difference to a local community. Funding applications between £2,000 and £15,000 will be considered with a total project cost under £50,000 and the project must be within 10 miles of a Waste Recycling Group landfill site.

Solway Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Sustainable Development Fund
This fund is being delivered by the Solway Coast AONB during 2008-9 and can support a range of activities including practical work, feasibility studies or research projects, group development, awareness raising (e.g. village walk leaflets or village interpretation panels) and training (e.g. traditional crafts). Public, private, voluntary sector and community groups can apply. Individuals and businesses can also apply where the project shows a clear benefit to the wider community in and around the Solway Coast AONB. For further information please contact the Projects Officer at the Solway Coast AONB on 016973 33055.

The Freemasons' Grand Charity
This is a grant-making charity which supports people in need. Since 1981, they have made grants totalling over £72 million to thousands of individuals and non-Masonic charities. The work of the charity continues a commitment to charitable support that began nearly 300 years ago in the earliest days of organised Freemasonry.

The Northern Rock Foundation
The Northern Rock Foundation has reopened its grants programme for high-quality and high-profile culture and heritage projects in North East England and Cumbria. The programme will be worth £2 million in 2008. Northern Rock Foundation is now seeking applications to support performing arts, contemporary craft, design and new media, museum and heritage exhibitions, festivals and collaborations as well as professional training for people working in these areas.

The Lefevre Trust
The Lefevre Trust provides funding to support innovative projects between young people in France and the UK. It aims to improve understanding between the UK and France by enabling young people aged 11-19 to visit a partner group and further develop a joint venture. Funding is available for groups of young people from across the UK and France. All groups are eligible to apply; youth groups, extra-curricular clubs, sports teams, school groups, theatre troupes, arts organisations and so on.
Deadline: 31 October 2008

UK-German Connection - Challenge Fund
Creative projects for schools, colleges and youth groups can access a new
fund for language-and non-language-related activities, through the UK-German Challenge Fund. This is a brand-new fund targeted both at curricular and extra-curricular projects (large and small), with grants of normally 50% towards the overall costs, including materials, etc, but not exceeding £5 000. The grant covers support for all participating groups from both countries, but only one institution need apply. Deadline: 31 October 2008

Music grants for older people
The registered charity Concertina makes grants to charitable bodies that provide musical entertainment and related activities for the elderly. The charity is particularly keen to support smaller organisations that might otherwise find it difficult to gain funding. These include funds to many care homes for the elderly to provide musical entertainment for their residents.
Deadlines: 31 January 2009

Community Foundation for Lancashire
The Community Foundation for Lancashire is a spin-off of the Community Foundation for Merseyside. Like other community foundations, its main purpose is to act as an endowed funder of charitable organisations within the catchment area. The area of benefit is the county of Lancashire and the boroughs of Blackburn with Darwen, and Blackpool. The contact address, c/o Roebucks Solicitors, 12 Richmond Terrace, Blackburn BB1 7BG is that of the solicitors involved in the Foundation’s registration. It may also be possible to get information by calling the Community Foundation for Merseyside on 0151 966 4604.

HBOS Foundation – Community Action programme
Through its Community Action programme, the HBOS Foundation makes grants of up to £10,000 to support a diverse range of local activities. The programme, which is available in those communities where the HBOS bank operates, is open to registered charities and has two key themes: money advice and financial literacy and developing and improving local communities. Applications can be made at any time.

Myplace
Myplace is a ten year government strategy for improving youth facilities in response to clear ongoing demand from young people, parents and communities for more and better places for young people to go. The Big Lottery Fund is delivering myplace on behalf of the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF). For full details download the leaflet here.

The Juliet Gomperts Trust
The Juliet Gomperts Trust is a small charity which gives financial support to artists. The Trust will support all forms of contemporary fine art practice through project funding and residencies. The Trust fund a cross section of artists: recent graduates, emerging artists and established artists. It awards between six to eight thousand pounds per year. It judges applicants on artistic merit: vision, imagination and skill.

The Catalyst Awards
The Catalyst Awards are looking for inspiring stories of people who help their community by using social technology, especially ideas that others might be able to use for themselves. Two examples given are Liftshare (http://liftshare.com) and The Nag (http://thenag.net). There are ten categories, including The Shock for Good Award (for something that shocked people into doing something good) and the Revolutionary Award (for something that makes people in power more aware of the need for change).

The PRS Foundation for New Music (PRSF)
PRS Foundation is the UK's largest independent funder for new music of any genre, and provides a range of grants to stimulate and support the creation and performance of new music in the UK. PRSF promotes activity at the cutting edge of new music, encouraging the development of music in the UK. This is achieved through its own funding schemes and partnerships with other organisations.
The Foundation is widely respected as an approachable, adventurous, and straightforward organisation. It has already established a track record of funding a broad range of activity, from unsigned band showcases to composer residencies and from commissions for new music to experimental live electronica.
Deadlines: various

O2 It’s Your Community Awards
Turning derelict land into a playground. Planting trees where none grew before. Creating a wildlife pond where there was once a puddle. Turning an abandoned building into an arts centre for young people... It's Your Community is a new awards programme to help people come together to make a real difference to the communities in which we live. Awards of up to £1,000 are available to local groups and individuals, for anything that you can show will benefit your community.
Deadline: rolling programme

Making Music grants
Making Music which represents and supports over 2,350 voluntary music groups throughout the UK, including choirs, orchestras, and music promoters administers devolved funding programmes in certain areas across the UK to make project funds, training grants and guarantees against loss available to groups in membership and other voluntary music groups. Devolved funding programmes are currently available in the East Midlands, North East, North West, Scotland, South East and Yorkshire.
Deadline: rolling programme

The Joanies Trust
The Joanies Trust was set up in 2003 in memory of Joan Simpson and Joan Hughes. The Trust welcome applications from organisations working with young people aged 11 to 25. The Trust wish to support projects that offer intensive support as well as those that promote preventative work and diversionary activities, including the use of art forms for their therapeutic value, and specially those that are designed to lead to individual development through integration, work opportunities or accreditation.
Deadline: rolling programme

The Foundation for Sport and the Arts
The Foundation for Sport and the Arts was established in 1991 and has awarded grants worth over £350 million since then. The Foundation will stop giving out funds at the end of March 2009. Until then, their goal is to increase active participation in sport and the arts, especially amongst young people and those with more ability than resources. The FSA looks to support a wide range of activities where there is clearly beneficial impact across the community. Their particular goal at this time is to encourage active participation by young people. They look for evidence of energetic fund raising and the involvement and commitment of local people in trying to help themselves, where an award of up to £40,000 can make the difference between success and failure.

The Gordon Foundation
The Gordon Foundation helps people up to the age of 30 grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society. It offers grants to support their education in the fine or performing arts, particularly music, drama or design, or to allow them to engage in educational travel which involves physical challenge and endeavour.
If you would like to apply for a grant to support your education in the fine or performing arts, please write either by letter to Gillian Hoyle at the following address, giving details of your plans, your fundraising activities and a proposed budget:
Gordon Foundation, PO Box 214, Cobham, Surrey KT11 2WG

LUTSF
LUTSF helps dancers, choreographers, administrators, teachers, therapists, journalists, photographers, and others working in dance/movement to extend their knowledge and skills by attending a conference, pursuing a research project, or undertaking a short course of study in the field of movement or dance by paying travel expenses.

The Wakeham Trust
The Wakeham Trust provide grants to help people rebuild their communities. They are particularly interested in neighbourhood projects, community arts projects, projects involving community service by young people, or projects set up by those who are socially excluded. They favour small projects - often, but not always, start-ups. Grants are typically in the range of £75 - £750

The Paul Hamlyn Foundation: Education & Learning Open Grants Scheme
Aims to support the development of new ideas that help to increase education and learning for organisations, groups and individuals. There is no minimum or maximum limit and applications are currently being accepted for projects that foster innovation and change in the areas of supplementary schooling, school exclusion and truancy. Charities or not-for-profit organisations are eligible. Applications from schools, pre-schools, out of school clubs and youth clubs and local authorities will also be considered if they can demonstrate benefit to the wider community and that profits will be used for charitable purposes.
Deadline: rolling programme