Chesterfield Borough Council are inviting community groups and voluntary organisations from across the town to apply for support from their new Community Grants Fund. More than £118,000 is available to eligible local groups in this financial year (2023/24) – with awards ranging from £500 to £6,000 – to help boost grassroots projects that will improve…
Local sports clubs and community groups can apply now for grants of up to £10,000 to support new exercise and sporting initiatives in their area, following the launch of the latest phase of our Community Matters Fund. The £500,000 ‘Active Communities’ fund has been launched to empower communities, improve health and widen participation in local…
Short, free training sessions that will develop your skills, improve your knowledge and ultimately help you develop your club. Each workshop typically lasts two hours and they’re open to anyone involved with a community sports club. The following Club Matters sessions are scheduled over the next few weeks. Introduction to Legal Structures – Workshop Tuesday,…
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…
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…
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’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…
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…
Young people from schools across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire took part in the Notts School Games Forest Games Activity Days. Organised by the Notts School Games Organiser Network, the events were held at Sherwood Pines on Thursday 29 June and Tuesday 4 July. Pupils from selected schools across the city and county were given the chance…
A short film has been produced which shows some of the learning that came out of an event in April which explored the lived experience of people who have been referred into green social prescribing activities. The event was held at St Ann’s Allotments, and was attended by a range of people from health, social…
