27 July 2020
Welcome to your funding alert. Here you will find local funding opportunities to support your idea or project.

These are really strange times and we know many of you are still supporting your local community. There is new information on funding coming out everyday, here is some of it. Keep an eye out for future funding alerts.

Gloucestershire County Council: Thriving Communities Grant 

Gloucestershire County Council has launched the ‘Know Your Patch Networks and Thriving Communities Grant’. The grant supports not-for-profit organisations and community groups who provide support and activities to help people stay well and do the things they enjoy. This includes helping people to remain living independently at home for as long as possible.

Due to Covid-19, project objectives can be delivered virtually or include the use of technology. Support will be given to projects that: 

• help to promote social engagement and connections
• build confidence and provide activities
• enrich lives and personal wellbeing. 

You can apply to deliver projects in more than one locality and grant awards will be considered up to the value of £7,500.

To request an application form, email Gloucestershire County Council and specify where your project will be delivered. 

The deadline for applications is 31 July 2020. 

We can move: Fundraising surgery series 

The online we can move Introduction to Crowdfunding session is taking place on 26 August 2020. 

Crowdfunding is a great way to raise vital funds, engage your existing supporters and attract new donors.

Through the session you'll receive excellent practical guidance from an award-winning trainer and an intensive guide to making your crowdfunding campaign successful.

In this jam-packed interactive course, you'll also receive a digital workbook and bespoke 1:1 follow up session with your trainer.

Places are limited, so book your place to avoid disappointment.

Social Enterprise Support Fund: Grants to support social enterprises during Covid-19

Social Enterprises affected by Covid-19 are invited to apply for this funding.

To be eligible, social enterprises must have been incorporated for at least a year, with the majority of their beneficiaries in England. Your annual income before Covid-19 must have been between £25,000 and £1.5 million.

Grants between £10,000 and £300,000 are available.

The deadline for applications are:

• Round 2: open from 1:00pm from 13 August to 20 August 2020
• Round 3: open from 1:00pm on 10 September to 17 September 2020.

Julia and Hans Rausing Trust: The Charity Survival Fund

Grants up to £250,000 are available for core activities, depending on your charity’s size. This core funding is available to help charities, especially small and medium-sized, to offset lost income in the current financial year due to Covid-19.

You can apply if you are a registered charity that:

• has a beneficial area within the UK
• actively operates across one of the three areas prioritised by the Trust: health and wellbeing; welfare and education; arts and culture
• has an annual income below £5 million 
• has lost (or is forecast to lose) income due to Covid-19
• has not already received Covid-19 related funding from the Julia and Hans Rausing Trust. 

The deadline for applications is 5:00pm on 27 July 2020. 

Gloucester City Council: Your Gloucester small grants

Gloucester City Council has allocated £10,000 to support, encourage and enable local residents and communities to shape and drive local community. Projects will use the asset-based community development approach.

Your activity will need to kick-start or enhance community-based activities to benefit groups, young people or adults in Gloucester City. 

Who can apply?

You can apply if you are a constituted or unconstituted group. Individuals must have the support of a constituted group which has agreed to be the banker for their project.

Grants are available to individuals up to £250 and for groups up to £500.

Applications can be made at any time until the funding has been spent.

Thirty Percy: Gloucestershire place-based funding initiative

This is the first phase of Thirty Percy’s Gloucestershire place-based funding initiative, which aims to have a greater impact by concentrating funding, knowledge and expertise in one location.

The focus for this first phase of work will be:

• supporting young people as active citizens
• cultivating food security. 

The Foundation will make its first round of strategic grants in September 2020 and will allocate a total budget of £3 million to grants for projects between 1 to 3 years in duration.

The deadline for applications is 31 July 2020.

Covid-19 Community-led Organisations Recovery Scheme

Funding up to £100,000 is available for community organisations facing financial difficulties caused by Covid-19. 

The scheme is aimed at organisations delivering services in their local community to support people who are at high risk from Covid-19, with an emphasis on Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, BAME-led or BAME-supporting businesses.

Applications open on 28 July between 10:00am – 1:00pm. There will be two more rounds taking place on:

• 4 August 2020 from 10:00am – 1:00pm
• 11 August 2020 from 10:00am – 1:00pm.

Independent Age – community grants fund 

Independent Age has launched a £2 million Independent Age Grants Fund to help smaller charities across the UK who work with older people hardest hit by Covid-19. 

The funding will be made available over four separate funding rounds. In each round Independent Age will make £500,000 available.

To be considered, programmes will need to support one of the following two groups:

1. Older people living in particularly complex and challenging situations. This can include older people that have no network of family, friends or community to call on; have a disability or long-term health condition; care for a dependent adult with learning disabilities or dementia or face other circumstances that make it harder to manage at this challenging time. 
2. Older people in danger of being out of sight and out of mind. This includes organisations connecting with older people who are very isolated and most at risk of missing out on the help available from the government or charities that serve a wide client group.

The deadline for applications is

• 2 July 2020
• 21 August 2020
• 18 September 2020.

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