active berwick - funding opportunities
O2 Community Award
Funded by telecoms company O2 and administered by the Conservation Foundation, this small grants scheme is designed to help community groups to follow the think global, act local maxim and take action to improve their local environment. Pretty much any community group across the UK can apply
http://www.itsyourcommunity.co.uk
Awards For All
We award grants of between £300 and £10000 for people to take part in art, sport, heritage and community activities, and projects that promote education, the environment and health in the local community.
www.awardsforall.org.uk
B&Q Better Neighbourhood Grant Scheme
Community groups and charitable organisations are invited to apply to their local B&Q groups for funding to support a local community project. Grants are available to help a community project get up and running. The scheme provides £50 to £500 (retail cost) of B&Q materials. Applications can be submitted at anytime.
http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/templates/content_lookup.jsp?content=/aboutbandq/2004/
social_responsibility/better_neighbour.jsp
Barclays Programme-Small Grants To Clubs
Barclays Bank Community Fund
Barclays provides scholarships and donations to projects working in the following areas: education, the environment, the arts, people with disabilities and social inclusion. Grants are available from £1,000 up to £25,000 although a higher amount may be considered in exceptional circumstances. The annual UK grant fund is around £32 million. There is no specific time taken to assess applications and a success rate is not published.
E-mail: alison.blench@barclays.co.uk
Website: http://www.personal.barclays.co.uk
Baring Foundation
The Foundation operates the grant programme: Strengthening the Voluntary Sector Programme.
E-mail: baring.foundation@uk.ing.com
Website: http://www.baringfoundation.org.uk
BBC Children in Need
Welcome applications for good quality, carefully planned, projects which show a clear focus on children in order to make a positive difference to their lives. These applications can be from: Self-help groups; Voluntary organisations; Registered charities.
Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey/grants/
Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation
Grants range in size from several hundred thousand pounds down to less than £1,000, although most grants will be for less than £10,000. As well as making grants for capital purposes, donations are also made for endowments, scholarship funds, research programmes and for core funding.
Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation
Big Lottery
Every year BIG gives out millions of pounds from the National Lottery to good causes. Our money goes to community groups and to projects that improve health, education and the environment.
www.biglotteryfund.org.uk
Brewery Loans
For over forty years Britain's Brewers have used their massive cash reserves to finance 'soft' loans to the licensed trade and in doing so created a beer tie.
www.inn-service.co.uk/home.php?page_14=2
Cash 4 Clubs
The Cash 4 Clubs sports grants scheme provides funding to community sports clubs in the UK. Funded by Betfair, in partnership with SportsAid, grants ranging for £250 to £1,000 are awarded throughout the year.
Community Action Northumberland
Community Action Northumberland is always searching for different ways to help communities in Northumberland. We welcome new opportunities to work in partnership with local businesses, government and voluntary agencies on projects supporting disadvantaged groups
www.ca-north.org.uk
The Community Foundation
Applications can be for between £250 and £5000. Groups can apply more than once until they have received £5000 in total .Each group or organisation can receive a maximum of £5000 during the entire programme.
www.communityfoundation.org.uk
ECB Facilities and Funding Development
This section of ECB hosts information relating to all aspects of funding and facilities in cricket.
www.ecb.co.uk/development/facilities-funding/
Football Foundation
The Football Foundation is one of the largest sports charities in the world and certainly the largest in the UK. Funded by the Premier League, The FA and the Government, the Foundation is a unique partnership between Central Government and the UK's leading sports industry.
www.footballfoundation.org.uk
Foundation for Sports and Arts
The Foundation for Sport and the Arts was established in 1991. We channel money originally donated by Littlewoods and other football pools companies to a wide range of sporting and artistic causes.
www.thefsa.net
Funding Information North East
On this website you will find information about Funding Information North East (FINE). Who we are, what we do and the services we offer to funders and the voluntary sector in the North East of England.
http://www.fine.org.uk/home.htm
Greggs Trust
Requests are assessed in March, June, September and November and applications should be sent in 2 months prior to meeting dates.
www.greggstrust.org.uk/links.html
Lottery Funding
Lottery Funding is a joint website run by all Lottery funding in the UK.
This site allows you to search information on current funding programmes across the UK.
www.lotteryfunding.org.uk
Match Funding
The Foundation is responsible for levering new and additional private investment into community sport in England, and for promoting the benefits of investing in community sport.
www.nationalsportsfoundation.org
RFU Grounds Match Funding
The Rugby Football Foundation is a Charitable Trust established by the Rugby Football Union. The purpose of the Rugby Football Foundation is to promote and develop community amateur rugby in England.
www.rfu.com/microsities/rff/
Ron Pickerings Memorial Fund
Applications are invited for grants from the RON PICKERING MEMORIAL FUND from young track and field athletes who are in education and may need financial help towards training or provision of equipment.
www.rpmf.org.uk
Sport England
Sport England is the government agency responsible for developing a world-class community sports system. Our radical new strategy is designed to get more people playing and enjoying sport and to help those with talent get to the very top.
http://www.sportengland.org/index/get_funding.htm
Sports Match
Sportsmatch applications for the 2008/09 financial year will not be accepted after 1 March 2009. Only projects that are able to spend and deliver their Sportsmatch funding by the end of March 2009 will be eligible for consideration. It is expected that this will predominantly result in only equipment projects being considered.
www.sportsmatch.co.uk
The Charity Bank
Indeed, we quite like it if you don't think of us as just a bank. We are here to help savers and investors, who care about the communities in which they live and work, to connect with and support charities and social profit organisations working for positive change
http://www.charitybank.org/
The Enable Sport Programme
The Enable Sport programme has been launched by Caudwell Children, in partnership with Barclays Wealth, for an initial three month period, to fund adapted sports equipment for disabled children participating in competitive sport. The funding is only available to individuals engaged in competitive sport and is not available to groups, clubs, etc.
www.caudwellchildren.com
The Dickie Bird Foundation
The Foundation offer grants to children under 18 years old. On receipt of their application, to participate in the sport of their choice, to the best of their ability, irrespective of their background, social circumstances, culture or ethnicity and to ensure that , in doing so, they improve their chances both inside and outside sport.
http://www.thedickiebirdfoundation.co.uk/
The Lords Taverners
We are a Charity, founded in and based upon cricket, that helps young people, particularly those with social, environmental, physical or learning disadvantages, to enjoy cricket and other sporting and leisure activities.
www.lordstaverners.org