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  • Annual Gardening Competition – Win up to £1,000

    Annual Gardening Competition – Win up to £1,000

    Cultivation Street is an annual competition to win up to £1000 in gardening vouchers for your community, neighbourhood or school garden. The school category closes 20 July 2023 and all other categories 1 August 2023. This year, they have a special category that is open to any school or community garden that has been designed…

  • National Lottery Community Fund – New Strategy

    National Lottery Community Fund – New Strategy

    The National Lottery Community Fund has unveiled its new strategy which says a focus going forward will be on four key missions where it wants its funding to make the biggest impact: There will be more announcements to come about new funding opportunities and programmes as The National Lottery Community Fund starts to work through…

  • NEW.  The Million Hours Fund: Supporting Youth Activities during the Summer Holidays

    NEW.  The Million Hours Fund: Supporting Youth Activities during the Summer Holidays

    Up to £3 million is available through The National Lottery Community Fund’s (TNLCF’s) Awards for All England programme this summer.  This is the first phase of funding of the Million Hours Fund, which totals £11 million up to March 2025. Awards for All England welcomes applications for projects that will support young people primarily aged…

  • Sport England Small Grants Fund – New Deadline, 31st March 2024

    Sport England Small Grants Fund – New Deadline, 31st March 2024

    Sport England’s Small Grants fund has announced a new deadline for applications. This window for applications has been extended to 31st March 2024. The focus is on sport and physical activity for people who maybe less active.. They are particularly interested in projects working with people living within the 30% most deprived communities. They are…

  • National Lottery Community Fund Surgery at Bolsover CVS

    National Lottery Community Fund Surgery at Bolsover CVS

    Bolsover CVS is running a National Lottery Community Fund surgery for community-based organisations. The surgery will be on the 17th July 1-4pm The new area representative officer for the National Lottery Community Fund, Dayna, is offering twenty-minute appointments for organisations to come and discuss opportunities with lottery.  Funding opportunities include Awards for All, which offers…

  • Awards for All Grant Funding – Changes this Autumn

    Awards for All Grant Funding – Changes this Autumn

    Some significant changes have been announced in the National Lottery Community Fund’s new strategy which will impact upon their Awards for All grant programme. There is a greater emphasis on equitable funding.  They advise that they “know not all communities have the opportunities or the right set-up to come together. So, while our funding is…

  • East Midlands Airport School Eco-Garden Funding – Deadline 21st June

    East Midlands Airport School Eco-Garden Funding – Deadline 21st June

    East Midlands Airport have opened their School Eco Garden funding which gives grants to schools to turn their eco garden dreams into a reality. Schools in the catchment area are invited to design their eco garden and can bid for up to £10,000. Your project can consider:• a garden that uses materials that are sustainably…

  • Cycling UK – Big Bike Revival Programme

    Cycling UK – Big Bike Revival Programme

    Cycling UK is inviting volunteer led-groups, social enterprises, and other not-for-profit organisations to deliver cycling events in an effort to get people back on their bikes. Grants of up to £2,000 are available to support organisations across England to deliver the Big Bike Revival Programme in the form of local events until the end of…

  • Funding Fair – Community Action Derby

    Funding Fair – Community Action Derby

    Community Action Derby will be hosting a Funding Fair on Thursday 29 June, 1pm – 4.30pm, at the Multi-Faith Centre, Kedleston Road, Derby DE22 1GB. Attendees will get a 15 minute time slot to speak 1-2-1 with the funder/s of their choice and ask any burning questions they may have, such as what grants are…

  • Community Ownership Fund – Reopening 31st May.

    Community Ownership Fund – Reopening 31st May.

    The government is providing £150 million over 4 years to support community groups to take ownership of assets and amenities at risk of being lost. Voluntary and community groups can bid for funding to acquire important assets and run them for the benefit of the local community. The latest round will open 31 May 2023…