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  • Grants up to £2,500 from Foundation Derbyshire

    Grants up to £2,500 from Foundation Derbyshire

    Foundation Derbyshire is an independent local funder, offering small grants to community and voluntary groups, local charities, and CIC’s, working across Derby and Derbyshire. Grants are for up to 12 months and they can fund equipment and general running costs such as rent and transport.  Click here for more information.

  • 95 schools in Notts and Derbyshire selected to complete Active Lives Young People Survey this term

    95 schools in Notts and Derbyshire selected to complete Active Lives Young People Survey this term

    95 schools across Notts and Derbyshire have been selected by Sport England to complete the Active Lives Young People Survey this Summer term. The survey is the biggest of its kind, gathering insight into young people’s physical activity habits and their feelings towards physical activity. Schools which complete the survey receive a detailed, personalised report…

  • LTA Tennis Foundation Grants for Innovation, Scaling Up and Recovery

    LTA Tennis Foundation Grants for Innovation, Scaling Up and Recovery

    The LTA Tennis Foundation want to partner with other organisations including charities CICs, schools and colleges and local authorities to help them deliver their vision of ‘tennis opened up’ and implement their mission of ‘improving lives through tennis’. The total funding pot is £1m in 2023 which is focused across three grant making themes: Innovate: …

  • Nottinghamshire County Council: Local Communities Fund – Revenue Funding

    Nottinghamshire County Council: Local Communities Fund – Revenue Funding

    Applications for Revenue funding are invited from Voluntary and Community Sector organisations that have developed effective activities in response to a local need or gap analysis, in particular activities that: Revenue funding can help towards the running costs (‘core costs’ or ‘overheads’) that are essential to delivering the project / service as described in the…

  • Nottinghamshire County Council: Local Communities Fund – Capital Fund

    Nottinghamshire County Council:  Local Communities Fund – Capital Fund

    Eligible organisations can apply for one-off Capital grants up to a maximum of £20,000 per organisation in any funding year. Applications for Capital funding should have in place at least 50% match funding and should show how the proposed project: Examples of how the Capital funding could be used include: The closing date for the Spring 2023…

  • Nottingham PlayZone – Invitation to Quote for Project Manager

    Nottingham PlayZone – Invitation to Quote for Project Manager

    Active Partners Trust, on behalf of the Nottingham Playzone Consortium (NPC), is seeking to appoint an organisation or individual to act as Project Manager from Monday 1st June to Friday 19th January. The Nottingham Playzone Consortium (via Active Notts) will appoint the Project Manager (PM) to manage the consultation process and submission of the Playzone…

  • Football Foundation Energy Support Programme Invites Expressions of Interest

    Football Foundation Energy Support Programme Invites Expressions of Interest

    The Football Foundation’s Energy Support Programme is accepting applications from community football organisations in England to help them lower their energy usage. A total of £6 million will be available across two funds, the Energy Fund and the Floodlight Fund. In addition, the Foundation has designed guidance specifically for football clubs that will provide some…

  • The Inactivity of Refugees

    The Inactivity of Refugees

    Overall, an estimated 1.1m people migrated to the UK in 2022 (year to June). After subtracting those who emigrated, the UK population rose by 504,000 – the net migration total. That is a record jump from a high of more than 330,000 seen in 2016, the year of the Brexit vote. Asylum applications, including those…

  • Portland College and This Girl Can

    Portland College and This Girl Can

    We know from data and insight that young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) are less likely to be active and if we want to address this inequality, we have to provide more support to empower these young people to move more in a way that works for them. Portland College in Nottinghamshire…

  • Talking Space – Sharing stories of co-production

    Talking Space – Sharing stories of co-production

    This Talking Space was held on March 23rd 2023 and was an opportunity to hear some recentexamples of co-production and co-design across Notts and Derbyshire. You can watch or re-watch the recording now to hear from a variety of different approaches toengaging and learning from different communities and service users. Here is a preview of…