Argyll Communities - No-deadline Funding

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Red Nose Day Programmes 2005-2008

This is our biggest grants fund. It awards some of the money raised from Red Nose Day. During 2005-08 we are concentrating our funding on 6 programme areas:

To go straight to the application forms, please click here.

For grants under £5000 there is no deadline.

It's Your Community

is a programme managed in partnership by the Conservation Foundation and O2. Up to 60 projects from all over the UK receive awards of up to £1000 every month. The awards are designed to support individuals and groups seeking to make a positive change in their community.

The 470 plus projects so far awarded throughout the UK, including Scotland, represent different aspects of our communities - social, cultural, sporting and environmental - they all share the common theme of bringing people together to make a difference.

Further information, including an application form, criteria and a full guide to applying is available to access here or you can call free on Tel: 0800 902 0250.

Travellers Aid Trust: The Violet Clegg Fund
Small Grants for Travellers to Overcome Hardship or Benefit Communities

This scheme, previously run under the name of the Small Grants Programme for Travellers, has recently been revised and new criteria have been introduced so please be sure to read through the revised guidelines before applying. The Violet Clegg Fund awards grants of up to £250 for applications that fall within two main categories. Grants can either be for a specific purpose/item or meeting the overall costs of such a
purpose or item.
Category 1 grants are those that are of benefit to Gypsies and Travellers who are experiencing exceptional hardship. By exceptional hardship we mean situations that go beyond the general hardships experienced by the Gypsy and Traveller community on a day to day basis.
Examples of this might be such things as repair costs for damage or loss caused by fire, relief for individuals suffering from severe ill health or disability, children with special needs, or families experiencing domestic violence.
Category 2 grants are those that are of benefit to a community. Examples of this might be exchange trips between residents on different sites, improving or providing safe play areas or equipment or other activities that are of general benefit to members of a community. This is a rolling grants programme so there is no deadline and applications can be sent in at any time. Please read the full grant guidelines for more details of this programme
Downloads are available at http://www.travellersaidtrust.org/grants
They also have a Special Bursary Fund to support Gypsies and Travellers meet their travel and accommodation costs to meetings, conferences and training related to law reform.
Amount: Open to Individual Gypsies and Travellers or groups—up to £500
The Travellers Aid Trust
PO Box 16
Llangyndeyrn, Kidwelly
Carmarthenshire SA17 5BN
Tel./fax: 01269 870 621
E: info@travellersaidtrust.org
W: http://www.travellersaidtrust.org

Funding to Promote Educational Opportunities for Disadvantaged Young People

Schools, universities, community groups, charities and research bodies with new project and research ideas that provide educational opportunities for young people from non-privileged backgrounds have the opportunity to apply for funding through the Sutton Trust. The Sutton Trust will fund projects in formal educational settings in any area where there is need, including rural and inner city areas. The only exception is for specialist schools - The Trust generally only funds these schools in the London area. Previously funded projects by the Trust have included curriculum enrichment projects which help gifted and talented primary children to achieve their educational potential as well as projects that provide support for parents and carers as their children's first educators. In particular the Trust is looking to fund projects that are able to connect with the "hard to reach" parents and encourage them to engage in their child's early learning. There is no deadline for applications, as the Trustees meet at regular intervals throughout the year.
For more information, please visit http://www.suttontrust.com/funding.asp

Dulverton Trust

Registered charities and organisations with charitable status active in the areas shown below may have the opportunity to apply for funding through the Dulverton Trust:
 Youth and Education
 General Welfare
 Conservation
 Religion
 Preservation
 Peace and Security; and
 Africa
The Trust provides two principal types of grants. These are major grants of up to £25,000 for national or regional projects and minor grants of up to £3,000 aimed at organisations operating at local or county level. A very limited number of grants are awarded on a recurring basis. The Trustees meet four times a year to consider Major Appeals, in February, May, July and October. Appeals on the Minor Appeals Agenda are considered four times a year at variable times between the Main Agenda Meetings.
During 2006/07 the Trust awarded grants totalling £2.8 million.
For more information, please visit http://www.dulverton.org

Prince's Trust Community Cash Awards

Community Cash Awards are grants of up to £5,000 to help young people set up a project that will benefit their community. For example setting up a music studio, a youth club, a youth advisory board, a local magazine. Anyone aged 14-16 and in school, but struggling or anyone aged 16-25, unemployed or working less than 16 hours a week can apply.

Projects must: be run and managed by people between the ages of 14 and 25; clearly benefit the local community; benefit the people running the project; be a new or developing project.

Formal groups or organisations are not eligible to apply. Funding of up to £1,000 is available for 14-16 year olds; up to £5,000 is for those aged 16-25.

The Cattanach Charitable Trust

The Cattanach Charitable Trust has launched an online application form. With its new website, the Trust has also changed its grant-making programme to prioritise families with young children. It will focus for the next five years on organisations and projects offering hope of a better life to children, especially those under 10 years of age, and their families and communities.