Various Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust grant programme deadlines are approaching.

The Peace programme supports work which will advance peace and nonviolence. The Trust wishes to fund work which will influence the actions and thinking of the public and of people in positions of power.

Grants are also available through the Power and Responsibility programme for work which strengthens the democratic process, enhances corporate accountability and builds confidence in the way decisions are taken.

The Quaker Concerns programme funds work relating to the Religious Society of Friends.

The Racial Justice grants programme seeks to promote racial justice and equality of opportunity. This programme operates at three levels - West Yorkshire, nationally and at a European level.

The next deadline is 7 September 2010.

For more information, see the Trust’s website here.

The Directory of Social Change has started a series of interviews on good grantmaking, with some of Britain’s leading grant making trusts and foundations.

The first interview is with Lisa Suchet, Chief Executive of the Nationwide Foundation. You can view the article here.

The Baily Thomas Charitable Trust awards grants to organisations to support research into learning disability and to aid the care and relief of those affected by learning disability. The Trust funds work around severe learning difficulties and autism. It does not fund work focusing on mental illness or dyslexia.

Grants from £250 can be awarded for capital and revenue costs, including project and core costs.

Deadlines each year are 1 May and 1 October.

For more information see the Trust’s website here.

Further to our earlier posting about Community Grants in South Yorkshire, here is some additional information from Humber Learning Consortium about priority areas for these grants in Barnsley.

The grants are from £2,000 - £12,000 for small community groups and social enterprises with an annual turnover under £300,000, no more than nine full-time equivalent staff and not in receipt of direct ESF funding. The grants are to put on learning activities that move disadvantaged and hard-to-reach workless adults closer to the labour market.

There are two application deadlines - 10 September and 8 October. All monies must be spent by the end of November 2010, so the grants would be most suitable for bite-sized learning (short-courses/taster activities).

Applications from any hard-to-reach/deprived area in Barnsley are welcome but projects that work in or with the following communities are particularly welcome in this round:

Barnsley Sheffield Road/Worsbrough Common West

Cudworth Darfield Road

Goldthorpe Central/Goldthorpe South

Grimethorpe Central and Michaels Estate/Grimethorpe Red City and Hillside

Kendray West/Kendray Central - projects working in Kendray East and Stairfoot South and Kendray South also welcomed

Lundwood/Burton Grange

New Lodge

Town End/Longcar

Wombwell Copeland Road

Worsbrough Bridge

For more information please contact: Niall O´Reilly, Community Grants Project Leader - South Yorkshire, telephone: 0114 278 1316 or visit the Humber Learning Consortium website here.

Further to our earlier posting about Community Grants in South Yorkshire, here is some additional information from Humber Learning Consortium about priority areas for these grants in Sheffield.

The grants are from £2,000 - £12,000 for small community groups and social enterprises with an annual turnover under £300,000, no more than nine full-time equivalent staff and not in receipt of direct ESF funding. The grants are to put on learning activities that move disadvantaged and hard-to-reach workless adults closer to the labour market.

There are two application deadlines - 10 September and 8 October. All monies must be spent by the end of November 2010, so the grants would be most suitable for bite-sized learning (short-courses/taster activities).

Applications from any hard-to-reach/deprived area in Sheffield are welcome but projects that work in or with the following communities are particularly welcome in this round:

Batemoor

Darnall North East

Gleadless Valley North West

Manor West/Manor Estate/Manor Sheffield Parkway

Norfolk Park West

Stubbin/Brushes North West

Upperthorpe South East/City Centre North

Westfield North West

Woodhouse South West

Wybourn East

For more information please contact: Niall O´Reilly, Community Grants Project Leader - South Yorkshire, telephone: 0114 278 1316 or visit the Humber Learning Consortium website here.

Further to our earlier posting about Community Grants in South Yorkshire, here is some additional information from Humber Learning Consortium about priority areas for these grants in Doncaster.

The grants are from £2,000 - £12,000 for small community groups and social enterprises with an annual turnover under £300k, no more than nine full-time equivalent staff and not in receipt of direct ESF funding. The grants are to put on learning activities that move disadvantaged and hard-to-reach workless adults closer to the labour market.

There are two application deadlines - 10 September and 8 October. All monies must be spent by the end of November 2010, so the grants would be most suitable for bite-sized learning (short-courses/taster activities).

Applications from any hard-to-reach/deprived area in Doncaster are welcome, but projects that work in or with the following communities are particularly welcome in this round:

Balby Bridge
Balby Carr Bank
Hexthorpe and St Sepulcher Gate West

Balby St Peter´s Road
·Applications from Balby Woodfield North also welcomed

Bentley New Village South
Bentley New Village North

Carcroft West

Denaby Main

Instoneville (Askern)

Intake Central
Intake Heather Wood

New Rossington South

Wheatley Park North

Woodlands Crescent

For more information please contact: Niall O´Reilly, Community Grants Project Leader - South Yorkshire, telephone: 0114 278 1316 or visit the Humber Learning Consortium website here.

Further to our earlier posting about Community Grants in South Yorkshire, here is some additional information from Humber Learning Consortium about priority areas for these grants in Rotherham.

The grants are from £2,000 - £12,000 for small community groups and social enterprises with an annual turnover under £300k, no more than nine full-time equivalent staff and not in receipt of direct ESF funding. The grants are to put on learning activities that move disadvantaged and hard-to-reach workless adults closer to the labour market.

There are two application deadlines - 10 September and 8 October. All monies must be spent by the end of November 2010, so the grants would be most suitable for bite-sized learning (short-courses/taster activities).

Applications from any hard-to-reach/deprived area in Rotherham are welcome, but projects that work in or with the following communities are particularly welcome in this round:

Aston North West

Canklow North

East Herringthorpe North/East Dene East - Applications from East Herringthorpe South; East Dene North East and Dalton also welcomed

Flanderwell

Greasborough South

Maltby East – Maltby Main/Maltby East - Muglet Lane

Masborough West/Masborough East/Jordan

Rawmarsh North East/Parkgate

Thrybergh South/Thrybergh East

Thurcroft South

For more information please contact: Niall O´Reilly, Community Grants Project Leader - South Yorkshire, telephone: 0114 278 1316 or visit the Humber Learning Consortium website here.

The Charity Commission’s Faith and Social Cohesion Unit closes at the end of August 2010. The Unit has worked with faith-based charities on governance and charity registration issues.  A range of online resources from the Unit, aimed at faith-based organisations, is available on the Charity Commission website here.

Cycle 4 of many of the Comic Relief programmes is closing during September. Cycle 5 for most of the programmes is opening on 11 October 2010. The programmes are as follows:

• Older People - current round deadline for submission of interest, 3 September 2010; next round not yet announced

• Mental Health - Cycle 4 deadline for submitting your application is 17 September 2010; cycle 5 opens 11 October 2010, deadline 7 January 2011

• Domestic and Sexual Abuse - Cycle 4 deadline for submitting your application is 17 September 2010; cycle 5 opens 11 October 2010, deadline 7 January 2011

• Refugee and Asylum Seeking Women - Cycle 4 deadline for submitting your application is 17 September 2010; cycle 5 opens 11 October 2010, deadline 7 January 2011

• Sport for Change - Cycle 4 deadline for submitting your expression of interest is the 3 September 2010; cycle 5 opens 11 October, deadline for expressions of interest 17 December 2010

• Young People aged 11-25:

* Sexually Exploited and Trafficked Young People - Cycle 4 deadline for submitting your application is 17 September 2010; cycle 5 opens 11 October 2010, deadline 7 January 2011

* Young People and Alcohol - Cycle 4 deadline for submitting your application is 17 September 2010; cycle 5 opens 11 October 2010, deadline 7 January 2011

* Young People with Mental Health Problems - Cycle 4 deadline for submitting your application is 17 September 2010; cycle 5 opens 11 October 2010, deadline 7 January 2011.

For more information on the grant programme, see the Comic Relief website here.

The Third Sector Europe Network (TSEN) website has information for organisations wishing to contact potential, prime National Offender Management Service (NOMS) providers about becoming a sub contractor.

See the TSEN website here for details of how to register for this.