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  • Mansfield Building Society’s Community Support Scheme

    Mansfield Building Society’s Community Support Scheme

    The Mansfield Building Society operates a Community Support Scheme through their charitable trust.  The scheme supports community groups, charities, and other deserving causes with financial awards typically between £250 and £1,000. They make total Community Support Scheme awards of about £20,000 each year.  The scheme covers projects delivered in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. The aim of…

  • The Community Shares Booster Fund is a Funding Scheme to Support Community Share Offers.

    The Community Shares Booster Fund is a Funding Scheme to Support Community Share Offers.

    The Booster Fund supports new and existing community businesses that are at all stages of a community share issue. This includes the very early stages of exploring whether it’s the right choice, through planning a community share issue to being ready to launch, or in exceptional cases, recently launched.  What funding is available? Funding support…

  • Empower Girls Leadership event supports and inspire girls to move more

    Empower Girls Leadership event supports and inspire girls to move more

    More than 70 girls from Nottingham City schools took part in the Empower Girls Leadership event alongside student volunteers from the University of Nottingham as part of work to support and inspire girls to move more. Organised by the University of Nottingham, School Sport Nottingham and Active Notts, the event was held at David Ross…

  • Looking at the Possibilities of Raising Funding Through Community Shares

    Looking at the Possibilities of Raising Funding Through Community Shares

    What are community shares? Community shares offer an excellent way for groups to raise larger sums of funding for projects that benefit their communities. They’re a popular choice for securing much-loved community assets because you can raise significantly higher average contributions when your supporters are asked to invest for the long-term, rather than simply donating.…

  • An insight into Physical Activity Behaviour in Nottingham City

    An insight into Physical Activity Behaviour in Nottingham City

    Scott Hartley, from our Insight partners, Press Red present’s an Insight into the Pysical Activity Behaviour of people in Nottingham City. This Insight has been created using Active Lives Survey data and the Census data and id especially interesting as it’s the first time we’ve had a chance to properly analyse physical activity behaviour pre,…

  • Seven Friends Foundation – Supporting Causes that are Ignored

    Seven Friends Foundation – Supporting Causes that are Ignored

    The Seven Friends Foundation provides small grants to organisations that fulfil their charitable aims which are: Their next deadline for applications is February 1st 2024. They want to support those organisations and causes that are unpopular or do not receive widespread public attention. This could be due to negative focus within the media; due to…

  • Funding to Help Kickstart School Projects

    Funding to Help Kickstart School Projects

    Grants of up to £500 are available to schools and educational organisations across the UK seeking funding to kickstart projects that will benefit their students. The Twinkl Prize Draw Community Collection will help fund any type of project, such as setting up a breakfast club, resourcing after-school activities, purchasing new playground equipment, upgrading an ICT…

  • Funding to Make Playing Football More Accessible at Grassroots Level

    Funding to Make Playing Football More Accessible at Grassroots Level

    Grants of £1,000 will soon be available to community groupst o start offering football or expand their existing provision to under-represented young people. The Barclays Community Football Fund will primarily support girls and young people in deprived or underrepresented areas through local organisations to reduce inequalities in the participation in sport and physical activity.  This…

  • Boots Charitable Trust Extends Grants Programme to Support Local Communities across the UK

    Boots Charitable Trust Extends Grants Programme to Support Local Communities across the UK

    Boots Charitable Trust is an independent registered charity wholly funded by Boots UK Limited. The Trust recently expanded its grants programme from its home base of Nottinghamshire to across the UK. Registered charities working in the areas of health, lifelong learning, community development and social care can apply for grants of between £100 and £10,000.…

  • Tesco Community Grants has changed to Tesco Stronger Starts.

    Tesco Community Grants has changed to Tesco Stronger Starts.

    Tesco Community Grants fund thousands of local community projects across the UK, helping to fight holiday hunger, tackle mental health, support young people, host community events and much more. Please visit the Tesco Stronger Starts website to find out more about what kinds of projects can be supported, to apply for a grant and to nominate local…