The Central Social & Recreational Trust provides grants in the region of £1,000 for activities involving young people under 21 years of age and who belong to a club/organisation. Grants can be used to cover the cost of equipment, to assist in the maintenance of property owned by the club or where there is a…
Capital grants are available for village halls in rural areas across England to enhance, upgrade, extend, improve, and construct halls so that, as a result, new activities can take place bringing communities together. The funding aims to support the modernisation and improvement of village halls, so that they are fit for purpose and can provide…
The Yapp Charitable Trust has just opened to support running costs and salaries of up to £3,000 for organisations with expenditure less than £40,000 per year They offer grants only to registered charities with a total annual expenditure of less than £40,000. They will not fund work that does not focus specifically on one of …
Following a period of closure to review its grants processes, the Masonic Charitable Foundation has reopened its Small and Large Grants applications on a rolling basis. This announcement relates to grants in two main areas: The Foundation offers large grants starting from £10,000 up to around £60,000, and small grants of between £1,000 and £5,000…
Erewash Voluntary Action are administering a Grants Programme that will support small to medium voluntary and community organisations and social enterprises across Derbyshire and Derby city that work with people to improve their mental health. There will be two types of grants available:• Mini grants of up to £500 for small groups and organisations, including non-constituted groups•…
Derbyshire Dales CVS will be hearing from Marc Lupson from the National Lottery Community Fund in the New Year. This will be on Zoom, and they hope to offer a further opportunity for a face-to-face meeting with the Lottery in the Spring. The National Lottery Community Fund run programmes such as Awards for All…
Local people from Shirebrook have told us why they think it’s important to stay active and keep moving when living with long term health conditions. They talked about what motivates them and how they got involved in chair-based exercises. Being active helps them to get out and meet people, improving their mental and physical health.…
Marilena, a community champion from the NG20 group, was inspired to move more after attending some training delivered by Healthy Chats CIC. The training aimed to build people’s confidence to have more conversations about physical activity, and it helped Marilena to realise that moving more would actually help relieve her knee pain rather than make…
Are you part of a charity, voluntary organisation, or community group? Could you offer a warm space to people who need it with some help from us? You’re invited to apply to Derbyshire’s Warm Spaces Fund to help you get set up. They’ve already had 63 applications totalling just over £51,000 and have now increased…
The latest results from the Active Lives Children and Young People Survey show that, nationally, children and young people’s activity levels overall have recovered to pre-pandemic levels, with 47% of children meeting the Chief Medical Officers’ guidelines of taking part in an average of 60 minutes or more of sport and physical activity a day.…
