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New £3m Platinum Jubilee Village Halls Fund Accepting Applications with First Deadline of 20 January
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…
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Small Grants for Charities working with Yapp Charitable Trust’s Priority Groups
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 …
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Funding for charities working with either disadvantaged young people or older people
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…
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New Derby and Derbyshire Mental Health Fund
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•…
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Funding Workshop: NLCF – Awards for All and Reaching Communities
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…
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Staying active when living with long term health conditions
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.…
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Marilena feels the health benefits of moving more
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…
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Apply Now to Derbyshire County Council’s Warm Spaces Fund
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…
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Latest Active Lives Children and Young People Survey results released
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.…
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Talking Space – Enabling women who are less active to move more
Our final Talking Space of 2022 took place which focused on ways to encourage Women and Girls to move more. The session focused on strategies and stories from the This Girl Can campaign in Nottingham and featured contributions from Loz Uttley from Nottingham City Council and TGC Community Activator and Zumba Instructor Charm Daley. This…
