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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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School Games events give young people the chance to be active in nature
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…
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Green Social Prescribing lived experience event film
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…
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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…
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Joy Marketplace now available as a directory of local services in Derbyshire
The Joy Marketplace is now available as a directory of local services in Derbyshire! Joy marketplace, hosted by Joined Up Care Derbyshire, is now available in Derbyshire to support social prescribing and promote community and voluntary sector services. The marketplace provides a directory of services in Derbyshire and both services and activities can be added…
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Accessing the Outdoors
In 2021 Paths for All commissioned the Sensory Trustto develop this brand new Outdoor Accessibility Guidance. We think they have done a fantastic job containing guidance on how organisations can make their places, spaces, activities and provisions as inclusive and safe as possible. It is written for anyone managing land for public access and recreation,…
