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Community Energy Resilience Grants – Erewash
Erewash Borough Council has a small pot of grant funding for local community and voluntary groups who own or long-term lease the premises they operate from. This funding is for energy-saving improvements to the building. These include solar panels or heat pumps. Basically energy saving initiatives that will reduce carbon emissions and lower bills. Eligible…
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The Social Value of Physical Activity
The Social Value of participatory sport and physical activity Sport England’s latest research, published October 2024, finds that community sport and physical activity generates a staggering £107.2 billion in annual social value across the UK, highlighting its crucial role in national health and wellbeing and the importance of our work at Active Derbyshire and Active…
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Grants to Transform Children’s Lives Through Sport
The Belvedere Trust has a new initiative to identify registered UK charities with innovative, under-funded, scalable ideas that have the potential to transform children’s lives through sport. Up to £10,000 to run a pilot project that tests a new solution or improves upon an existing one, and that could be revolutionary at scale. The deadline to…
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Funding available for flood-damaged facilities -Sport England
Sport England’s Movement Fund is open to applications for emergency flood relief support. They are accepting applications to our Movement Fund from community organisations who’ve been impacted by the recent storms across the country. The Movement Fund helps to get more people active in England. Sport England understand that the places people use to be…
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Community Grant Fund – Restoring Nature – Peak District
The fund is a total of £60,000, open to community groups, schools and landowners within the Wild Peak Boundary that want to start or continue a project that improves land for nature in and around the Peak District. There is also an element of using community engagement to aid this and further develop the projects.…
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New East Midlands Sport Welfare Forum Launched
A new online forum to support clubs and groups locally has just launched across the East Midlands. Franky Boyland, the Active Derbyshire Sport Welfare Officer (SWO) is working in partnership with other Sport Welfare Officers (SWOs) from across the East Midlands to provide support and guidance to club welfare officers, coaches, committee members and volunteers…
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Women’s Health Hub Small Grants Fund – Derby
Community Action Derby are pleased to announce that they are administering a new funding stream on behalf of NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board (ICB). The Women’s Health Hub Small Grants Fund is now open to voluntary and community groups and organisations in Derby city. The objective of the Women’s Health Hub Small Grants…
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Derby & Derbyshire Mental Health Small Grants Fund
Erewash Voluntary Action is administering a new Mental Health Small Grants Fund from Joined Up Care Derbyshire. The objective of this fund is to enable local voluntary and community groups and organisations to improve or extend their work supporting Derby and Derbyshire residents aged 18 plus to maintain good mental health. Eligible organisations can apply…
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Fundraising – Digital Learning Grant
Almost 7 out of 10 charities are struggling to progress digitally*. If you are one of them, then you can apply for a fully-funded Digital Learning Grant to improve your digital fundraising skills. Previous participants experienced an increase in: JustGiving will be supporting 200 fundraisers to learn, network, and to get 1:1 support to boost…
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An Alternative Way to Raise Funding for your Project or Community Organisation
Do you feel like you’ve got to the end of the road with grants? Do you feel like you need another option to get much need funding for your work? Are things at a crisis point particularly with ever increasing costs? If so, have you thought about raising funding through a fundraiser / crowdfunding campaign?…
