Funding Information

 

Rosa’s FGM Small Grants Programme

 

Rosa is proud to announce a three-year small grants programme to tackle Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the UK. Funded by Comic Relief, the grants of between £500 and £5,000 will be available to voluntary and community organisations across the UK. The grants will help funded organisations to:

·         become more confident, more knowledgeable and more skilled in tackling FGM within their communities;

·         improve their skills in engaging with, and lobbying, statutory bodies to encourage appropriate responses to FGM;

·         contribute to a unified movement across the UK bringing together a range of organisations engaged in tackling FGM.

 

Grants will be available for training, mentoring, research, networking and delivering advice and support services. The first of five funding rounds will open on Tuesday 27 August and will close to applications on Monday 30 September. Round two will launch in mid-December. Application forms and guidance notes are available upon request.

For further details please contact Rosa at FGMsmallgrants@rosauk.org

Dream Fund 2014

 

This year's Dream Fund is now open for applications. Organisations have until September 20th to submit a one page summary outlining the proposal for their 'Dream' project. Registered charities and community organisations in Scotland, England or Wales can join forces to apply for up to £250,000 to deliver a new and innovative project up to 24 months in length that meets one of the following funding criteria:

1.    Encourage healthy living

2.    Social Enterprise

3.    Environmental Sustainability

 

For more details, click here - http://www.postcodetrust.org.uk/dream-fund.aspx

Voluntary Action Fund – Volunteering Support Cluster

 

The Volunteering Support Cluster grant scheme supports clusters of four to five voluntary and community organisations in Scotland to: Create new or enhanced volunteering projects. Increase the diversity of volunteers, especially those from disadvantaged groups. Improve opportunities, skills and personal development through volunteering. Enhance their services and improve their capacity to deploy, support and train volunteers. Grants of up to £30,000 are available to fund a Volunteer Co-ordinator/Manager (or similar role) who will work across the cluster to help develop volunteering opportunities, management and practices. Applications are invited from organisations with an annual income of under £250,000, although priority will be given to those with an income under £100,000. The Round Two deadline for applications is 5pm on 31 January 2014. For more information, please visit http://www.voluntaryactionfund.org.uk/   Volunteering Support Grant   Background - The Volunteering Support Grant (VSG) offers funding to third sector organisations to create new or enhanced volunteering projects, increasing the diversity of volunteers, especially those from disadvantaged groups, and improving opportunities, skills and personal development through volunteering. The grant also supports third sector organisations to enhance their services and improve their capacity to deploy, support and train volunteers. Funding of up to £10,000 is available for up to 12 months activity. VAF particularly welcomes applications from organisations that have little experience of volunteering.   Eligibility criteria - To be eligible to apply for a Volunteering Support Grant applicants must be:   A Third sector organisation (voluntary organisation or community group), whose Board of Trustees or Management Committee are predominantly volunteers; Working in Scotland with an annual income of below £250,000 in their last financial year; and Organisations that can start the project within 10 days of receiving funding. Organisations do not need to be registered charities, although their constitution/set of rules should make clear that funds will only be spent on purposes established in the constitution, and not distributed amongst members. To know more, please contact our Volunteering Team on 01383 620780 or VSFenquiries@vaf.org.uk.   Comic Relief – UK Grant Programme   Objectives of the Scheme - Comic Relief is committed to bringing about a just world, free from poverty. Comic Relief’s grant making strategy is based on the following themes: Better futures. Healthier finances. Safer lives. Fairer society. Available Funding/Support - Grants of over £10,000 are available. There is no set upper limit but most grants are expected to be for between £20,000 and £40,000 per annum. A small number of larger grants may be made but only where the work has either regional or national significance, is delivered by a number of partners or is clearly breaking new ground. Grants are made for a maximum of three years. Comic Relief will only consider one proposal from an organisation at a time.   Applications may be submitted at any time. For more information, visit their website: http://www.comicrelief.com/