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  • Community Shares Booster Fund to Close in Early 2025

    Community Shares Booster Fund to Close in Early 2025

    It has been announced that the current round of the Booster Fund will be coming to an end in early 2025. The Fund supports new and existing community businesses that are at all stages of launching a community share issue. This includes the very early stages of exploring whether it is the right choice, through…

  • Severn Trent Community Fund – Grants for People, Place and the Environment

    Severn Trent Community Fund – Grants for People, Place and the Environment

    Applications can be made by: local authorities, parish councils, CIOs, CICs, registered charities, volunteer or community groups, educational establishments. Projects must be located in the Severn Trent region. And the community it is benefiting must be Severn Trent customers.  This can be easily checked via their website. Funding for new projects is linked to three…

  • Club Welfare Network Event – Nottingham Ice Centre

    Club Welfare Network Event – Nottingham Ice Centre

    Last week Franky held her first Club Welfare Officer network event, which was conveniently held at Nottingham’s National Ice Centre, who were the perfect hosts, thanks so much for your support. Listening to a number of clubs that Franky has visited, face to face events such as this were in demand, alongside forums that involved…

  • Voices in Sport

    Voices in Sport

    Franky attended a conference last week which helps to raise awareness of some of the stories of abuse in Sport. Franky said: “Recently many of us attended a ‘Voices in Sport’ conference which shared survivor and lived experience of abuse within sport. The conference was very hard hitting and we heard about the incredible journeys…

  • East Midlands Sports Welfare Officer Event

    East Midlands Sports Welfare Officer Event

    Join us on the 6th November at 6.15pm for our first East Midlands Sports Forum Virtual Event. Meet your local Sports Welfare Officer, no matter where you are in the East Midlands to learn whats happening and make valuable connections. Lizzie Whittington, East Midlands’ Regional Outreach Adviser from the Disclosure & Barring Services is our special guest for…

  • Autumn schools selected for Active Lives Young People Survey

    Autumn schools selected for Active Lives Young People Survey

    Ninety-eight schools from across Notts and Derbyshire have been selected by Sport England to complete the Active Lives Young People Survey this Autumn term. The survey is the biggest of its kind, gathering insight into young people’s activity levels, physical literacy, swimming proficiency, wellbeing, self-efficacy and levels of social trust. Schools which complete the survey…

  • East Midlands Airport Community Fund

    East Midlands Airport Community Fund

    Communities around East Midlands airport (south east Derbyshire and west Nottinghamshire) can apply for grants of up to £2,000 for projects that have a long-lasting community, social or environmental benefit. Applications must meet at least one of the funds objectives which include: • bring the community closer together through facilities for sport, recreation and other…

  • Derbyshire Mental Health Small Grants

    Derbyshire Mental Health Small Grants

    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. Maximum Grant Award £5,000 per organisation. ​Applicants will be expected to show a clear link between the activity they are applying…

  • Nottinghamshire County Council Local Community Fund

    Nottinghamshire County Council Local Community Fund

    Nottinghamshire County Council have reported that their Local Community Fund is due to reopen. Voluntary organisations and community groups helping to improve the health and well-being of Nottinghamshire residents, are set to share £345,000 of funding. For more information, including the range of grants available and the eligibility criteria see our future funding newsletters or…

  • Arnold Clarke Winter Community Fund

    Arnold Clarke Winter Community Fund

    Arnold Clarke’s Communities Support is available to organisations who provide services which are widely accessible to those within local communities and address the needs of the people living within them, supporting our local communities to a better future. This fund support projects within the following categories: Please note, although they want to help everyone, they…

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