This means that if you’ve been running a pensioners group for several years, you can apply to them to fund it for a year. If you run summer playschemes, you can ask them to fund the next one. It doesn’t matter whether they or someone else has funded the activities before.

The pilot applies only to groups with a turnover below £30,000. All other conditions remain the same, so if you’ve had £10,000 from them recently you can’t apply again within a year. Guidance notes and application form are on their website.

An important point - the forms and guidance won’t change, so where the form asks on page 3 whether you are asking for repeat/ongoing activities, it’s fine to say ‘yes’, despite the form saying you must put ‘no’ to get funded. You will still need to make a good enough case on the rest of the form that your activity is needed, and that it helps people.

They hope this will encourage bids from small groups doing really important successful  work, as they won’t have to try and make the activity look ‘new’ each time they write a bid. This has been a common complaint from many groups, and it’s really good that the Lottery have taken this on board. Awards for All is a good scheme, funding a wide range of activities with a very good success rate - over half the bids are funded. This change makes it even better.

SYFAB will be holding meetings in each district to publicise the fund - watch out for details. We are also happy to look over a form that you’ve filled in. We do this free for groups with no paid worker. Just email it to us.

Contacts:

Big Lottery Fund
Advice Line: 0845 4 10 20 30
Website: http://www.awardsforall.org.uk/england/index.html

SYFAB:
Telephone: 0114 249 4343
Email: advice@syfab.org.uk

• Help bring people in neighbourhoods and communities closer together
• Improve quality of life for local residents
• Support people who are disadvantaged or vulnerable communities
• Help to increase people’s prospects of becoming employed
• Involve minority and hard to reach groups
• Promote healthy living, sustainability and promote equality

The Trust will support ongoing or new projects. Full details, along with the guidance notes and application forms are on the website; completed forms must be posted to the Trust.

Deadline: 13 August 2012.
Contact: Esh Group Community Team, 3360 The Pentagon, Century Way, Thorpe Parke, Leeds, LS15 8ZB
Website: http://www.eshgroup.co.uk/corporate-responsibility/community/gycwithesh/

The next two dates for this are 28 May and 25 June, at Doncaster CVS offices, near the station. You need to book an appointment.

Contact: SYFAB
Telephone: 0114 249 4343
Email: advice@syfab.org.uk

DATT have grants of up to £5,000 for innovative ideas that could help structure people’s time and support recovery for people with drug and alcohol problems.

If you would like to discuss this opportunity please contact Tracey Ford or Simon Finney, their contact details are below.

You can request an application form and guidance by telephone or email, the contact details are below.

Voluntary Action Sheffield (VAS) have also reported this opportunity on their website, you can read their news story here.

Contact: Sheffield Drug and Alcohol Action Team
Telephone: 0114 2736 851
Email:
To request an application form: Yvonne.allsopp@nhs.net
For more information: tracey.ford1@nhs.net or simon.finney@nhs.net
Website: www.vas.org.uk/news2/34

Preference will be given to organisations which show a willingness to raise money of their own. The charity doesn’t have a website, but there are some details about it on our Funding Search database (you need to register to view it). Applications need to be made in writing, on the form  available from the correspondent below.

Deadline: 1 June

Contact: Secretary to the Allott’s Charity, c/o Council Governance Unit, PO Box 634 Barnsley, S70 9GG
Telephone: 01226 773061.
Email: patjepps@barnsley.gov.uk

Grants of up to £2,000 are available to groups working with this children of this age, doing positive activities which will make a difference to their area.

The website below has full details of the scheme, including guidance notes, application form, and  child protection forms which will need to be completed.

Closing date - Monday 11 June 2012

Contact: Accountable Body Services Team
Telephone: 0114 273 4074.
Email: accountablebody.services@sheffield.gov.uk
Website: http://northeastassembly.wordpress.com/2012/05/14/positive-activities-fund-2012-13/

It will be if interest of groups who work with, or include, people who are elderly, disabled, or have other conditions that make traveling difficult. Voluntary or private sector organisations can apply; the aims of the fund are:

• Create new business, projects or social enterprises that help people to travel more and to more places
• Support a range of innovative projects which focus on developing the adult social care market in Sheffield
• Enable providers to develop innovative ways of improving service quality, reduce costs and transfer efficiencies to their customers
• Stimulate new ways of working.

The fund will make grants between £1,000 and £20,000. Applications need to be made online - the application form and guidance notes are on the website. Several support sessions have been planned, where you can talk to someone about your bid - contact Emma below for details of these.

Deadline: 22 June 2012

Contact: Emma Crawley
Telephone: 0114 2685271
Email: accountablebody.services@sheffield.gov.uk
Website: https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/in-your-area/grants/smallgrants/travel-innovation.html

• Green space
• Waterways
• Young people.

This will be the last round of the Green Bond Awards.

You can register your interest on the form available from the website.

Deadline: 29 June
Contact: Anna Cooper, Groundwork
Telephone: 0114 263 6425
Email: anna.cooper@groundwork.org.uk
Website: www.yorkshire.groundwork.org.uk/south-yorkshire/news–events/news/2012/green-bond.aspx

The Loscar Wind Farm Community Fund can give small grants of up to £1,500 to projects based in Harthill, Woodall, Thorpe Salvin and Wales.

Funding can be for general community activities that benefit the residents of the areas or projects and initiatives that, educate, promote or implement:
• Sustainable use of energy and energy efficiency
• Sustainable use of other resources
• Reducing climate change
• Nature conservation
• Charitable environmental projects that address the needs of the local community

Further information and application forms are available from the website.

Don’t forget that South Yorkshire Community Foundation offer a range of grants for groups in Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield, go to their website for more details.

Deadline: Ongoing
Contact: South Yorkshire Community Foundation
Telephone: 0114 242 4294
Email: grants@sycf.org.uk
Website: www.sycf.org.uk/apply_for_a_grant/the_loscar_wind_farm_community_funds/

Reaching Communities – the commonest reasons for failure are not identifying need, unclear outcomes, and not fully involving users in the planning and delivery of projects. While the fund maximum is £500k, the panel which makes awards expects any project above £300k to be an example of excellent practice. We ran workshops to help people work on the reasons for failure, but it is clear that the whole need/outcome/activity thread is a tricky one to get your head round. We hope to run separate training sessions on this in the future. The Lottery’s Big Learning Zone has lots of guidance on this and other topics.

Awards for All – around half of applications are funded, so this is a fund with a very high chance of success. Three things can give an eligible bid the highest points score – it is your first application to the fund, your total project costs are less than £10k, and your total income is below £10,000. While you are asked which of the four outcomes your project meets, it is better to explain how you meet one or two well, than try and justify a poor fit with three or four.

Don’t forget, if you are struggling with applications for either of these, SYFAB can help by looking at draft bids and giving feedback. This service is free for small groups (those with no paid worker), and charged at a subsidised rate for other South Yorkshire groups with an income below £300,000. Contact SYFAB for more details.

Contact: Big Lottery Fund
Telephone: 0845 4 10 20 30
Website: http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/

Contact: SYFAB
Telephone: 0114 249 4343
Email: advice@syfab.org.uk
Website: www.syfab.org.uk

It is an award for individuals,  aimed at campaigners who are tackling social and economic disadvantage and inequality, so could well apply to people within community or voluntary groups.

Winners  receive a tailored package of support,  including one to one coaching and a residential skills-building weekend.

More about the scheme, including a video of last year’s winner, and application and nomination information are available on the website.

Contact: SMK

Website: http://www.smk.org.uk/social-and-economic-justice-20/

One is a re-run of a scheme done in March to match fund  every pound given to local charities via the donation site localgiving.com. That time, £375,000 was allocated in just three days. This time, £500,000 will be available in September, but it is likely to go just as quickly, so be ready.

The second initiative, the Challenge Prizes, will reward two new ideas which:

• involve lots of people in giving better support to older people in their area.
• mobilise people to reduce waste in their communities.

Details of how to apply, and how much the prizes will be, have not yet been announced. The scheme will run through NESTA, which supports innovation; they will work with shortlisted groups, and select the winners.

Press Release: http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/news/government-announces-over-1-million-encourage-people-support-good-causes

This could be  groups in the early stages of their development, groups who find raising funds difficult, or those who have a particular project that they need to finance. They are also willing to accept bids that help individuals, like the cost of equipment for a person with special needs.

Groups who have previously received or applied for grants are welcome to apply again. More details, and application forms, can be downloaded from the Doncaster CVS web page below.

Deadline: 5 pm 30 June 2012.

Website: http://www.doncastercvs.org.uk/news/newsitem/1332

Date: Tuesday 15 May 2012
Venue: Sheffield Central Quaker Meeting House, 10 St James Street, Sheffield, S1 2EW
Time: 10:30am – 1:00pm

Alan Eagle will be speaking from the The Santander Foundation. The Santander Foundation, formerly the Abbey Charitable Trust, makes grants up to £10,000 to disadvantaged people through two priorities:

• Education and training – any activity through which people gain something whether skills and knowledge or confidence and self esteem

• Financial capability – things like costs of running a credit union, projects delivering financial advice and helping people to understand their benefit entitlement.

Registered charities, Friendly Societies, Industrial and Provident Societies registered under charitable not membership rules (an exception to this are credit unions - who the Foundation can fund) are eligible to apply for funding from the Santander Foundation.

Asha Karbhari will be speaking from The Key Fund. The Key Fund supports social enterprise activities that further regeneration in deprived and disadvantaged communities in Yorkshire and the Humber. They give financial (grant and loan packages) and enterprise development support.

There will be an opportunity for you to ask questions to the funders.

The first presentation starts at 11:00. Free tea and coffee is provided from 10:30am. Please note, people are not supposed to take their drinks into the prayer room where the presentations are held.

There is no need to book, just turn up on the day.

You can see the Sheffield Funding Forum flyer here: sheffield-funding-forum-flyer-may-2012

Contact: South Yorkshire Funding Advice Bureau
Telephone: 0114 249 4343
Email: advice@syfab.org.uk

“Running costs? Overheads? Core costs? Staff salaries? Revenue costs? Administration?

Whatever you call it, we fund it.

In 2011 we gave £20 million towards organisations’ core running costs such as salaries and overheads, over half of our total grant-making. We know that for organisations to achieve extraordinary things, they need the ordinary things to be funded, and we are happy to do it.

When you apply to us, follow our guidance and make a convincing case for how a grant towards your organisation’s core costs will allow you to make the biggest impact.”

This addresses one of the commonest concerns for groups seeking  major funding - but please don’t send in a bid to them for your finance or admin worker without thinking carefully about it. Your work will still need to match the fund’s themes, and you will need to demonstrate how the core funding  you request will allow you to improve people’s quality of life. Check out their details on our funders database here (you need to register), or look on the Foundation website. Next the picture of some apples, naturally.

Contact: Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
Website: http://esmeefairbairn.org.uk/

• Initial Grants to help groups get up and running or those TARAs new to membership of RotherFed. New TARAs can access free support from Rotherfed to help them publicise and run their initial meetings and develop their constitution.

• Maintenance Grants for established groups who have been up and running for at least a year. Groups can apply every year for this grant, subject to satisfactory examination of their accounts.

Application forms are available on the website.

These  grants  are only available for Rotherham TARAs who have at least 20% membership that are council house tenants, and are members of Rotherfed.

Contact: RotherFed
Telephone: 01709 368515
Email: info@rotherfed.org
Website: http://www.rotherfed.org.uk/news/417/490/TARA-Grants-2012-13

This will award contracts for the following activities

• Face-to-face Legal Aid services in family, immigration, asylum, debt and housing
• Telephone services in family, housing, debt, special educational needs and discrimination

They are also inviting tenders for additional services in mediation and housing possession Court duty schemes.

A pre-qualification questionnaires (PQQ) for each of these services will be published  on 21 May, linked from the website below.

Deadline:  12 noon 18 June 2012.

Contact: Community Legal Services
Website: http://www.legalservices.gov.uk/civil/cls_news_13727.asp

Projects should have clear and realistic goals, and show how they would address the following objectives:

• Development of a Champions’ Network of community representatives as part of challenging attitudes to forced marriage in target communities
• Creation of local partnership boards in targeted areas as part of developing localised approaches to tackling forced marriage and supporting victims
• Development of local initiatives and services to raise awareness of and tackle forced marriage
• Tackling forced marriage in the Traveller communities, developing options for work to challenge behaviour and support victims/potential victims
• Development of peer group mentor’s scheme to provide training and support
• Development of programmes to support the teaching of consent in marriage across schools and colleges of higher learning
• Co-ordination and development of online presence on the provision of forced marriage services through a variety of social media
• Development of a series of workshops and debates on forced marriage and related issues
• Development of work with faith groups and religious leaders to strengthen the message that forced marriage is not condoned by any major religion, and also tackle the use of religion as an excuse for abuse

Deadline: 31 May 2012

Contact: Forced Marriage Unit
Telephone: 020 7008 0151
Email: fmu@fco.gov.uk
Website: http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroad/when-things-go-wrong/forced-marriage/domestic-prog-fund/

The Peak
5 Wilton Road
London
SW1V 1AP

Their telephone numbers and e-mail addresses are not changing.

Woodward Charitable Trust funds:

• Children and young people who are isolated, at risk of exclusion or involved in anti-social behaviour
• Minority groups including refugees, gypsies and travellers. Projects that promote integration and community cohesion will be favoured
• Prisoners and ex-offenders, including help for prisoners’ families. Projects that help the rehabilitation and resettlement of prisoners and/or ex-offendersare supported as well as requests to help prisoner’s families
• Homelessness, especially affecting young people and women, and covering facilities such as women’s refuges
• Arts outreach work by local groups involving and for the benefit of disadvantaged people
• Disability projects which can include rehabilitation and training for people who are either physically disabled or learning disabled, as well as help to improve employment prospects
• Environmental projects, especially with a strong educational element.

Full details of this funder (and many others) are available on the SYFAB Funding Search database, it’s free to use and can help you find funders for your project.

Website: www.woodwardcharitabletrust.org.uk

Things are tough in fundraising at the moment. It can be hard to know the best way to present your project or to understand exactly what a funder wants to know about you, and this, coupled with a challenging economic climate can be a toxic mix to anyone seeking funding for their organisation.

The challenges of putting in a good application were demonstrated to us recently at BIG Lottery events in South Yorkshire. The BIG Lottery officers revealed that outside Sheffield, South Yorkshire submits fewer applications than other areas, and they are not as likely to succeed.

Equally, the pressure on funders and the competition applicants can face when applying for funding were outlined by an article in Third Sector magazine last year. They reported the Chief Executive of Children in Need, David Ramsden, as saying that 70% of applications to Children in Need are unsuccessful. They go on to say:
“Of the 30 per cent that were selected, he (David) said not all got the amount they had asked for. Because demand was so strong, his organisation had to make tough decisions about what it would fund.”
www.thirdsector.co.uk/news/1091805

Having established that it’s tough out there, what can you do about it?

SYFAB would suggest preparation is the key to helping you make successful applications and to help you do this, we offer two courses that will help you to prepare for fundraising by helping you to choose suitable funders and avoid common mistakes:

SYFAB’s course Finding Funders will give you the tools to select suitable funders from the outset. It’s a two hour course and by the end of it you will know how to:
• Find suitable funding opportunities for your organisation using SYFAB’s Funding Search database and Funding News
• Understand how to get the best out of the SYFAB Funding Search database
• Sign up to the SYFAB Funding Search and Funding News services.

Here are some recent comments from course attendees about what they had learned:
• “There is a lot out there; the course leaders are passionate”
• “The broad range of funders out there and how to apply more successfully”
• “So much – funding site, search, applying tips and hints!”
• “How to start up; how to look for funding; who I should be talking to; where to look for funding”
• “How to find out who to apply to for funding”
• “Just how much local funding is available”

You don’t need any special IT skills for the course, but you should be familiar with using the Internet and have an email address.
The next courses are running on the following dates:

Date: 18 May 9.30 - 11.30 (refreshments available from 9.15)
Venue: Voluntary Action Barnsley, The Core, County Way, Barnsley S70 2JW
Date: 15 June 9.30 - 11.30 (refreshments available from 9.15)
Venue: Doncaster Women’s Centre, 21 Cleveland Street, Doncaster DN1 3EH

Our Introduction to Fundraising course is a three hour session aimed at people who are new to funding and is a introduction on how to find funders and how to present your project.
By the end of the session you will be able to:
• Name some sources of charitable funding
• Identify which sources of funding their project is likely to appeal to and why
• Gain experience of what a potential donor needs to know about their project in a written format and will be able to describe two or three examples of good writing practice
• Gain some experience of verbally presenting their projects in front of an audience of peers and describe two or three key aspects to making a clear and effective presentation.

Recent attendees reported that they had learned the following:
• “Clear letter writing”
• “Common bid errors”
• “What it is like making decisions on awarding grants”
• “Good overview of fundraising”
• “Feel more confident about having a go and looking into available funding”
• “Target the funding application very carefully”
• “Better ways and greater chance of getting funding”

The next courses are running on the following dates:

Date: 18 May 12.30 - 3.30 (refreshments available from 12.15)
Venue: Voluntary Action Barnsley, The Core, County Way, Barnsley S70 2JW
Date: 15 June 12.30 - 3.30 (refreshments available from 12.15)
Venue: Doncaster Women’s Centre, 21 Cleveland Street, Doncaster DN1 3EH

So, no more papering over the cracks…get your sanding blocks ready, set a day aside and get prepared!

You need to book places to attend these courses so please contact:

Contact: SYFAB (for a booking form)
Telephone: 0114 249 4343
Email: advice@syfab.org.uk

The following websites have useful background and advice on successful fundraising:

Top 10 tips for successful applications: from funders
http://www.fundingcentral.org.uk/Page.aspx?SD=1775

Directory of Social Change article
http://www.dsc.org.uk/PolicyandResearch/News/Thechanginglandscapeofgrantmakingtrusts

Advice from Santander Foundation:
http://www.santanderfoundation.org.uk/spotlight.aspx

Top tips and common mistakes when applying for a grant
http://www.lotteryfunding.org.uk/top_tips.htm?rcode=undefined

This event will provide a historical context for the Community Development role, consider what it means to work in Community Development today and look at some of the tools and learning opportunities available for developing the skills of today’s workers.

The event is relevant to:

• Present Community Development workers
• Those employing Community Development workers
• Students of Community Development and related subjects
• People who would like to explore a career in Community Development.

Go to the website for more information and a booking form.

Deadline: 14 May (to return booking form).
Website: www.involveyorkshirehumber.org.uk/events/diary/working-in-community-development-today/

The scheme will see 100 social entrepreneurs each year receive comprehensive support from the SSE, as well as a grant ranging from between £4,000 and £25,000. .

The full press release is here. To register your interest in applying for the awards programme, see contact details below:

Contact: Alexa Kellow
Telephone: 0207 089 9120
Email: lloyds@sse.org.uk

They can apply for one-off grants of between £500 to £2500 for things like:
- club facilities, grounds-keeping tools, training courses, pitch hire, mini-vans and washing machines

The scheme will not fund:
- advertising and promotions, fundraisers, kit/team wear, club trips/tours, holiday training camps and club personnel wages/expenses e.g. fuel.

There are three more application rounds this year - the next closes on 30 June. The McApplication form is on the website.

Contact: http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/ukhome/Sport/Football/Investment/small-grant.html

It’s a concise description of which regional structures have been abolished and which have been created and provides an interesting overview of the changes over the last couple of years. It has a particular focus on structures that may affect the rural voluntary and community sector in Yorkshire and Humber.

You can download the briefing here.

Website: www.involveyorkshirehumber.org.uk/resources/briefings/changes-to-governance-structures-and-arrangements-in-y-h/

Register your interest for when the new funds are available - set for June 2012

Website: http://www.communitybuildersfund.org.uk/apply/register-your-interest/

They want to find out what’s really happening in the sector and use the information gathered to brief politicians, key agencies and the media.

This is the tenth successive quarter they have run the survey, it allows them to show and analyse trends, as well as giving an immediate snapshot. You can find out more here.

It takes just a few minutes and you can get in touch with Ruth if you have any queries.

Click here to go to the survey.

Deadline: 25 May
Contact: Ruth Beattie, Invole Yorkshire and Humber
Email: ruth.beattie@involveyorkshirehumber.org.uk
Website: www.surveymonkey.com/s/2SQ7MX3

It is a very flexible funder in terms of the groups it will fund, how much, and what activities, so if you work with disadvantaged children and young people aged up to 18, check out what they can offer:

Who? Any constituted not for profit group can apply. You don’t have to be a registered charity.

How much? There is a small grant scheme for up to £10,000, and a larger grant scheme where most awards are for below £100,000.

What for? Capital and revenue costs in projects which benefit disadvantaged children. This can be salaries, and overhead costs relating directly to the project. They will fund projects running between one and three years. ‘Disadvantage’ can cover such things as:

• Illness, distress, abuse or neglect
• Any kind of disability
• Behavioural or psychological difficulties
• Living in poverty or situations of deprivation (much of Rotherham, when compared to the UK, will fit this)

You will need to show how your project will change the lives of the children for the better. Where possible you should take into account their views and involve them in decisions that affect them.

So who’s been successful locally? Here are some Rotherham groups currently benefiting from Pudsey’s hard work:

• Base to Beat studio and partners received £78,345 for music and music production workshops and tuition for disadvantaged young people

• Rotherham United Community Sports Trust £75,472 to provide exercise and healthy life-style activities for disadvantaged young people with poor health

• Kelford School Rotherham £10,000 to access a riding stable for disadvantaged young people living in South Yorkshire to use together to develop vocational skills

• Rotherham Advocacy Partnerships £38,289 to support young people with a range of learning disabilities aged 14-18. They will help each young person plan for their future and begin to prepare for adult life and adult services.

To adapt a phrase from another well known funder, THIS COULD BE YOU! If you work with children & young people, this funder is one you should take a good look at.

Gemma Stothard is the Regional Officer for Children in Need. She says “In Rotherham, BBC Children in Need already funds music sessions for young people in Herringthorpe, befriending support for Asian young women, advocacy services for teens and sports and recreation activities at an after school club. Requests from organisations can include sessional workers, salaries, equipment, venue hire and capital expenditure. We’re keen to help more groups access our funds.”

Gemma has very kindly offered to attend a ‘Meet the Funder’ event organised by SYFAB in Rotherham shortly, so come along and hear about the scheme and how to apply. Space is limited, so please book a place:

Details:

Monday 14 May, from 10.30 – 1.00 at Voluntary Action Rotherham, Coke Hill, Rotherham S63 2HX

Contact: SYFAB
Telephone: 0114 249 4343
Email: advice@syfab.org.uk

Education and training: to help disadvantaged people improve their confidence in a skill, or their understanding of a subject. This does not have to be formal training or lead to a qualification (although these activities are eligible too) but could be part of lifelong learning.
Examples of possible activities include independent living skills, anger management, improving self-esteem, reminiscence projects for older people, art and craft sessions or IT classes.

Financial capability: help disadvantaged people understand how to manage their money. It could include budgeting skills as well as managing the financial challenges that arise from being a carer, unemployment, break up of relationships, disability or ill-health.
Examples of possible activities include costs of running a credit union, delivering financial advice and helping people to understand their benefit entitlement - any project helping people to make informed choices about their finances might meet this priority.

A local charity based in Rotherham has secured a donation relating to this priority to provide financial advice and training to local residents with learning disabilities.
Speakup Self Advocacy aims to support people with learning disabilities to lead independent, inclusive and well supported lives. The donation will fund a trainer for a new project called ‘Budgeting for my life’ which will focus on giving people the necessary skills to budget and manage their money independently on a daily basis. The project has been a tremendous success so far with 55 people enjoying learning how to manage their money.
Anne Ferguson, Principal Officer at Speakup Self Advocacy said: “We are extremely grateful to the Santander Foundation for the donation, which has enabled us to set up this training course. We have also developed a shopping game which is working extremely well at getting the message across.”

Would you like to know more? Alan Eagle, the Foundation Manager, is coming to South Yorkshire shortly to attend ‘Meet the Funder’ sessions, so here is an opportunity to hear first hand about his scheme:

Rotherham: Monday 14 May, 10.30 - 1.00 at Voluntary Action Rotherham, Coke Hill, S60 2HX (with Children in Need)
Sheffield: Tuesday 15 May, 10.30 - 1.00 at The Quaker Meeting House, St James St. Sheffield S1 2EW (with the Key Fund)

Please book for the Rotherham event - places are limited.

Contact: SYFAB
Telephone 0114 249 4343
Email: advice@syfab.org.uk

• Improved public spaces
• Community support for all age groups, and people getting on together
• More things for children and young people to do to raise aspirations
• Getting people out of poverty and ready for work
• Reducing health inequalities.

The programme is especially interested in new groups with new activities in parts of Shiregreen, Wincobank and Brightside to complement or extend existing activities.

You can download the application form from the website.

Deadline: noon on 25 May
Email: shiregreenandbrightside@hotmail.co.uk
Website: www.shiregreenandbrightside.com

Date: Tuesday 15 May 2012
Venue: Sheffield Central Quaker Meeting House, 10 St James Street, Sheffield, S1 2EW
Time: 10:30am – 1:00pm

Alan Eagle will be speaking from the The Santander Foundation. The Santander Foundation, formerly the Abbey Charitable Trust, makes grants up to £10,000 to disadvantaged people through two priorities:

• Education and training – any activity through which people gain something whether skills and knowledge or confidence and self esteem

• Financial capability – things like costs of running a credit union, projects delivering financial advice and helping people to understand their benefit entitlement.

Registered charities, Friendly Societies, Industrial and Provident Societies registered under charitable not membership rules (an exception to this are credit unions - who the Foundation can fund) are eligible to apply for funding from the Santander Foundation.

Asha Karbhari will be speaking from The Key Fund. The Key Fund supports social enterprise activities that further regeneration in deprived and disadvantaged communities in Yorkshire and the Humber. They give financial (grant and loan packages) and enterprise development support.

There will be an opportunity for you to ask questions to the funders.

The first presentation starts at 11:00. Free tea and coffee is provided from 10:30am. Please note, people are not supposed to take their drinks into the prayer room where the presentations are held.

There is no need to book, just turn up on the day.

You can see the Sheffield Funding Forum flyer here: sheffield-funding-forum-flyer-may-2012

Contact: South Yorkshire Funding Advice Bureau
Telephone: 0114 249 4343
Email: advice@syfab.org.uk

10 May – Concord Sports Centre: 8.45-1.00
17 May – Wincobank Chapel: 11.45-4.00
22 May – Pakistani Advice Centre: 11.45-4.00

Each workshop will be delivered by experienced fundraisers, and there will be guest speakers from South Yorkshire Funding Advice Bureau. Refreshments and lunch will be provided at each workshop. Everyone is welcome. For further information or to book your place (and a 10 minute consultation for your group) please contact :

Rob Womack 0114 223 3627 or Vicky Moss 0114 243 8486.

• Sources of funding available to community groups
• Running community buildings effectively
• Marketing your group and using social media
• Advice and support available from partners and organisations
• Supporting each other through a rural network

There will be plenty of time to ask questions, talk to  support agencies about how they can help you and network with other community groups like yours. The South Yorkshire Rural Network Project has been providing advice and support to rural community groups and voluntary and community organisations over the last three years and would really like to hear your views about whether the support has been helpful and what it could do to best support you in the future.

The meetings are as follows:

Barnsley: 21 May, 6:30 – 8:30,  Silkstone Pavillion, Silkstone, Barnsley, S75 4NG
Doncaster: 24 May, 6:30 – 8:30, Bawtry Library, Bawtry, Doncaster, DN10 6NE
Sheffield: 28 May, 6:30 – 8:30, Bradfield Village Hall, Low Bradfield, Sheffield, S6 6LB
Rotherham: 31 May, 5:30 – 7:30, Kiveton Park & Wales Village Hall, Kiveton Park, S26 5RF

Refreshments will be available from half an hour before the start. Please book a place so they can cater for you.

Contact: Lucy Atkins, Rural Action Yorkshire
Telephone: 07834 322296,
Email: lucy.atkins@ruralyorkshire.org.uk

This framework is designed to invite new provision to Doncaster so they are allowing providers looking to set up new services to tender. Should a provider be successful in securing a place on the framework then the new service they proposed must be operational within 4 months of the contract award date.

The aims of the framework are to:

• Ensure quality supply
• Increase number of quality facilities in the local area
• Improve standards of living and augment skills of young people in care
• Provide accommodation and care appropriate for the young person.

Details:

Application deadline: 17.00 on 28 May
Duration: 25 June 2012 for 2 years
Contact: Allan Madeley, Doncaster Council
Telephone: 01302 737664
Email: allan.madeley@doncaster.gov.uk

Social ventures can only apply to the fund in partnership with an approved adviser and can apply for between £50,000 - £100,000 to buy specialised contract readiness support and to pay for some of the costs of moving their investment/contract readiness plan forward.

It will open to applications on 21 May 2012.

The fund is currently looking for organisations to become approved providers providing support to social ventures. You can apply via the website.

For more information see the website at: www.beinvestmentready.org.uk

If you are organising a community event between now and October 2012, register your event with community games to access:

• A Community Games grant of up to £500
• Support and help to organise and promote your event
• Resources – t-shirts, certificates, banners, bunting, posters etc

Deadlines for applications are at 1.00 on the following days:
11 May, 15 June, 13th July and 10th August

A limited amount of funding is available, so the money may run out before the final dates.

Grant application form and guidance are available from the website:

www.sysport.co.uk/community_games

The Emerging Issues Fund has £41,000 available in 2012/13. Groups in the area are able to bid for up to £3,000 throughout the year while funds remain.
The fund will  particularly support:
• Environmental activity
• Activities aimed at the younger or older sections of the community, or those in need of support
• Activity that seeks to bring communities together
• Activity that promotes community safety
• The costs of tutors and equipment or materials may be included in this.
Applications will be considered monthly; the form and guidance are available from the Area Assembly team.

South East Open Access Young People’s Activities - the Assembly is inviting organisations to tender to provide activities for young people. £25,000 is available in total – groups can tender for all or part of that; details are in a tender brief here. Activities should be:
• Across the four wards
• Free, well publicised and equally open to all local young people aged 11-19
• Suitable for different audiences

An expression of interest form is available from the Assembly team, and needs to be returned by 11 May.

Contact: Mick Fellowes (Assembly Officer)
South East Community Assembly Team
Sheffield City Council,
Town Hall,
Pinstone Street S1 2HH
Telephone: 0114 273 6929
Email: communityassemblysoutheast@sheffield.gov.uk
Website: www.southeastassembly.wordpress.com

If you are interested in putting your charity forward you have until May 14 2012 to register your interest.

See the full Sheffield Star report here.

Website: www.thestar.co.uk/community/marathon-organisers-in-appeal-to-charities-1-4501100?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed#

You can find out more about the Heritage Lottery Fund here.

Date: 24 May 2012, 9:30 - 12:30
Venue: Meeting Room, Doncaster Library, Waterdale, Doncaster, DN1 3JE

Please contact us to book a place.

Contact: SYFAB
Telephone:0114 249 4343
Email: advice@syfab.org.uk

• support local projects that improve the quality of life for local people
• promote a sense of ownership not only of problems but of local opportunities
• start more neighbourhood groups and revitalise existing groups

Darnall:

Deadline: 5.30pm on 25 May
Contact: Tinsley Forum
Telephone: 0114 244 5021
Email: admin@tinsleyforum.co.uk

Firth Park
Deadline: 30 May
Contact: Firth Park Community First Panel
Telephone: 0114 233 2984
Email: fpcfp@hotmail.co.uk

The next sessions are running on the following dates:

15 May, 26 June.

They will be held at Voluntary Action Rotherham. You need to contact us to book a place.

We are also running funding advice surgeries in Doncaster, Barnsley and Sheffield. Please contact us for further information or see our earlier posting at: http://syfab.org.uk/fundingnews/2012/02/02/free-funding-surgeries-from-syfab.

Contact: SYFAB
Telephone: 0114 249 4343
Email: enquiries@syfab.org.uk
Website: www.syfab.org.uk

Positive Activities Funding: grants of £500 - £2,000 for groups in the South Assembly Area working with 8 - 13 year olds.

Deadline is 6 June 2012.

Community Assembly Small Grants Funding: £250 - £1,000 available only in Graves Park and Nether Edge wards (the other wards have Community First funding available - see here). It is targeted at small local groups that promote the wellbeing of people and communities at risk of social exclusion by providing group activities. Projects should contribute to at least one of the Assembly’s priority themes:

• Environment
• Children and young people
• Safer and stronger neighbourhoods
• Health and wellbeing
• Learning, skills and employment
• Supporting communities.

Deadline is 30 May 2012.

Guidance notes and application forms for both grants are available through the website below.

Contact: South Community Assembly
Telephone: 0114 205 3050
Email: communityassemblysouth@sheffield.gov.uk
Website (blog): www.sheffield.gov.uk/in-your-area/community-assemblies/south/funding.html

Date: Tuesday 15 May 2012
Venue: Sheffield Central Quaker Meeting House, 10 St James Street, Sheffield, S1 2EW
Time: 10:30am – 1:00pm

Alan Eagle will be speaking from the The Santander Foundation. The Santander Foundation, formerly the Abbey Charitable Trust, makes grants up to £10,000 to disadvantaged people through two priorities:

• Education and training – any activity through which people gain something whether skills and knowledge or confidence and self esteem

• Financial capability – things like costs of running a credit union, projects delivering financial advice and helping people to understand their benefit entitlement.

Registered charities, Friendly Societies, Industrial and Provident Societies registered under charitable not membership rules (an exception to this are credit unions - who the Foundation can fund) are eligible to apply for funding from the Santander Foundation.

Asha Karbhari will be speaking from The Key Fund. The Key Fund supports social enterprise activities that further regeneration in deprived and disadvantaged communities in Yorkshire and the Humber. They give financial (grant and loan packages) and enterprise development support.

There will be an opportunity for you to ask questions to the funders.

The first presentation starts at 11:00. Free tea and coffee is provided from 10:30am. Please note, people are not supposed to take their drinks into the prayer room where the presentations are held.

There is no need to book, just turn up on the day.

You can see the Sheffield Funding Forum flyer here: sheffield-funding-forum-flyer-may-2012

Contact: South Yorkshire Funding Advice Bureau
Telephone: 0114 249 4343
Email: advice@syfab.org.uk

The MSE Charity supports projects such as self-help groups and other innovative projects that will help educate people about money, debt, or consumer issues. It will give grants up to £5000.

Details of what they will fund, and the form you need to fill in very quickly are on the website.

Contact: MSE Charity
Website: https://www.msecharity.com/how-to-apply.aspx

The following are currently available, with others planned:

1. Business planning
2. Financial management
3. Fundraising
4. Governance and compliance
5. Managing staff and volunteers
6. Networking and partnerships
7. Policies and procedures
8. PR and marketing

You must be a member to view them, but you can join online, and is free.

Contact: sported
Website: http://www.sported.org.uk/join-us/members/

Have a look at it here.

Summer Volidays is a project run by Sheffield Volunteering, in which charities receive a team of Sheffield University and Student’s Union staff members and a small piece of funding in order to complete a task that would make a big difference to them. They are looking for activities that can be finished in one day, that don’t require any previous experience and that cater for a variety of abilities ( please note that they don’t recruit for fundraising activities). Charities will need to supervise the activity on the day and organise lunch for the volunteers (although funding is available for purchasing lunch). Reasonable expenses up to a maximum of £400 per organisation can be paid.

This year’s teams will be available between 26 - 29 June 2012 and will vary in size between 8 and 40 people.

Please read the guidelines before completing the form and return the finished form to Abigail Lownsbrough no later than 9:00 am on 8 May 2012.  You can email, post or deliver your application in person. Sheffield Volunteering will aim to respond to your application within one week to let you know if you have been successful.

You can contact Abigail to ask any questions or discuss any element of how the project works, or what types of activities have been successful in the past.

You can view the guidance here and the application form here.

Contact:  Abigail Lownsbrough, Projects Administrator, Sheffield Volunteering
Telephone: 0114 222 8549, 9.30 - 4:00, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
Email: Abigail.Lownsbrough@sheffield.ac.uk

See yesterday’s post for more details.

You can do just one of the workshops or come to both.

You need to book a place.

Contact: SYFAB (for a booking form)
Telephone: 0114 249 4343
Email: advice@syfab.org.uk

Other types of organisations, such as local authorities and businesses, can help deliver projects, but the bid must be led by charities.

The aims of the fund are:

Restore more natural features in and around waters.
Reduce the impact of man-made structures on wildlife in waters.
Reduce the impact of small, spread-out (diffuse) sources of pollution that arise from rural and urban land use.

There will be four application windows in 2012/13. The next deadline is 18 May 2012.

Further information can be found on the Environment Agency website.

Contact: Environment Agency
Website: http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/research/planning/136182.aspx

Sports clubs and individuals in the UK and the Republic of Ireland can apply to the fund; previous winners have used their awards for a variety of purposes including equipment, kit, training, coach development, travel costs, taster sessions. Applicants must be over 12 years of age.

For more information see the MARS Refuel™ Drink Fund website here.

Website: www.marsrefuel.com/refuel-fund

Finding Funders is aimed at members of voluntary and community organisations involved in fundraising. It will help you to:

• Sign up to the SYFAB Funding Search and Funding News services
• Find possible funding opportunities for your organisation using SYFAB’s Funding Search database and Funding News
• Understand how to get the best out of the SYFAB Funding Search database.

You don’t need any special IT skills for the course, but you should be familiar with using the Internet and have an email address.

Date: 27 April 9.30 - 11.30 (refreshments available from 9.15)
Venue: The RAIN Building, Eastwood Lane, Rotherham, S65 1EQ

We are also running the courses in Barnsley and Doncaster on the following dates:

Date: 18 May 9.30 - 11.30 (refreshments available from 9.15)
Venue: Voluntary Action Barnsley, The Core, County Way, Barnsley, S70 2JW

Date: 15 June 9.30 - 11.30 (refreshments available from 9.15)
Venue: Doncaster Women’s Centre, 21 Cleveland Street, Doncaster, DN1 3EH

You need to book a place.

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Introduction to Fundraising is designed for those who are new to funding and is a basic introduction on how to find funders and how to present your project.

Date: 27 April 12.30 - 3.30 (refreshments available from 12.15)
Venue: The RAIN Building, Eastwood Lane, Rotherham, S65 1EQ

We are also running the courses in Barnsley and Doncaster on the following dates:

Date: 18 May 12.30 - 3.30 (refreshments available from 12.15)
Venue: Voluntary Action Barnsley, The Core, County Way, Barnsley, S70 2JW

Date: 15 June 12.30 - 3.30 (refreshments available from 12.15)
Venue: Doncaster Women’s Centre, 21 Cleveland Street, Doncaster, DN1 3EH

You need to book a place.

Contact: SYFAB (for a booking form)
Telephone: 0114 249 4343
Email: advice@syfab.org.uk