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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 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…
Walk Notts Strategic Partnership Meeting 16/1/24
In this meeting we heard from Andy Brooks from Peak Running about the fantastic Myth Busting FAQ’s we’ve produced in collaboration with Peak Running, Walk Notts and Walk Derbyshire. These have been created to make it a little easier for you to build the confidence needed to lead people to walk. Read them now, using…
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
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
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
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…
National Forest Company Launches Forest Society Grants
Provided by the National Forest Company, the Forest Society Grants aim to fund new ways of supporting the health and wellbeing of residents and communities within the National Forest. The programme will engage new and diverse audiences, increase participation and use local woodlands to connect with nature. Four or five grants of between £2,000 and…
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
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…