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UK Shared Prosperity Fund — £220m extra funding for ‘piloting and testing new approaches’

December 03, 2020
by Alun Severn
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With thanks to Debbie Assinder who posted this on LinkedIn. In the November Spending Review, the chancellor announced that £220 million will be allocated in 2021/22 to help local areas prepare for the introduction of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF). From 2022 the  UKSP
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Useful round-up of Covid-19 crisis funding sources

August 11, 2020
by Alun Severn
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Birmingham City Council’s Neighbourhood Development and Support Unit has produced a very useful round-up of Covid-19 funding sources. The list is current at August 2020 and contains over 120 sources. → External Funding — Covid-19 crisis response — view or downlo
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Lloyds Bank Foundation announces £7.4m Covid recovery fund

August 03, 2020
by Alun Severn
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Lloyds Bank Foundation has recently announced that a new £7.4m Covid recovery fund for small to medium charities will open for applications today. It is encouraging to see that Lloyds Bank Foundation is recognising the need for this funding to be unrestricted, enabling recipients to u
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National Lottery and partners announce £18.7m Social Enterprise Support Fund

July 13, 2020
by Alun Severn
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This terrific news, just in… The Social Enterprise Support Fund, a brand new £18.7m support fund for social enterprises, funded by The National Lottery Community Fund, the largest funder of community activity in the UK, has just opened and is taking applications now. The Social
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Round-up of funding opportunities

July 06, 2020
by Alun Severn
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I’m indebted to BVSC’s weekly e-bulletin for all of the following funding opportunities. They are reposted here in case anyone has missed them. If you aren’t already subscribed to BVSC’s e-bulletin you can subscribe here. The opportunities below are all either
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NLCF announces £200m Coronavirus Community Support Fund

May 21, 2020
by Alun Severn
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The National Lottery Community Fund issued a press release yesterday 20th May confirming that the it will be distributing funds from the government’s new Coronavirus Community Support Fund and that applications commence tomorrow Friday 22nd May. NLCF said: We’re delighted to con
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Government announces ‘top-up to local business grant funds scheme’

May 04, 2020
by Alun Severn
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Further to this post, the briefing paper we recently posted online (Covid-19 Social Economy Update) refers to eligibility criteria for the government’s Small Business Grant Fund. On p.4 (point [a]), we explain that the key eligibility mechanism for the Small Business Grant Fund
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Birmingham City Council announces £0.8m community grants fund for groups helping children and families during pandemic

April 18, 2020
by Alun Severn
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  Birmingham City Council statement reads: Community, voluntary and faith groups who are helping children, young people and families through the challenges of Covid-19 are invited to apply for grants of up to £10,000 to continue supporting families through this difficult period.
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Responding to change together: Funding reimagined for a new decade — WM Funders Network announces major conference

January 31, 2020
by Alun Severn
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CONFERENCE Responding to change together: Funding reimagined for a new decade Date: Thursday 12th March 2020, 10:30 – 15:45 GMT Organisers: WM Funders Network, One Walsall and SCVO Venue: Walsall Football Stadium, Bescot Stadium, Bescot Crescent, Walsall WS1 4SA Ti
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SCVO’s ‘Meet the Funder’ event makes a welcome return for 2017

October 27, 2017
by Alun Severn
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This, just in from Sandwell Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO)… Having taken a year out in 2016, Wednesday 22nd November sees the return of SCVO’s Meet the Funder event for 2017. With a focus on Social Capital and Social Investment, this year’s conference and
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USE IT! programme opens social enterprise challenge with £3K awards; also, forthcoming awareness workshops

September 28, 2017
by Alun Severn
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This news just in from iSE… USE IT! Programme — social enterprise challenge iSE is delighted to announce that applications for the USE IT Challenge are now OPEN. The USE IT Challenge offers existing social enterprises the opportunity to WIN an award of £3,000 to help
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HS2 announces Community and Environment Fund

September 13, 2017
by Alun Severn
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HS2 in conjunction with the Department for Transport and Groundwork has just announced £40m in funding to help projects aimed at minimising the disruption to local communities arising from phase one HS2 construction. There is an existing Business & Local Economy Fund (aimed specif
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West Midlands Academic Health Science Network — ‘Celebration of Innovation’ awards now open

February 15, 2017
by Alun Severn
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West Midlands Academic Health Science Network’s (WMAHSN) annual Celebration of Innovation Awards will be formally launched today (15 February) at the Merdian LIVE event. Following on from the success of last year’s awards — which saw more than 80 entries from ac
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Save Our Support plans second lobby against cuts to services for most vulnerable

February 01, 2017
by Alun Severn
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Birmingham Changing Futures Together is one of the organisations co-ordinating opposition to the cuts currently planned for the city’s various Supporting people services (see earlier post). It has just issued the following statement: I am writing to you asking for your support f
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New funding for small charities and VCOs in Birmingham and the Black Country

October 19, 2016
by Alun Severn
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The Heart of England Community Foundation (HoECF) has just announced that its new Birmingham and Black Country Communities Fund is now open for applications. This fund is aimed at small (income under £50,000 p.a.) charities and voluntary and community groups across Birmingham and the
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Funding opportunities in health, tech, young people and older people’s care

October 11, 2016
by Alun Severn
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Here’s a selection of funding opportunities we’ve picked up from various bulletins and newsletters over the past couple of weeks: 1.  The Nominet Trust’s Social Tech Seed is an open grant-funding programme that offers entrepreneurial organisations early-stage investm
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HLF launches new £10m grants programme to help 11-25s engage with heritage

September 29, 2016
by Alun Severn
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The Heritage Lottery Fund yesterday launched a £10m pilot programme and is inviting groups of charities and other organisations to apply for funding. The Kick the Dust programme aims “to make heritage relevant and inclusive for 11 to 25 year olds” and is inviting consortia of three or
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Government announces £80m ‘Life Chances Fund’

July 04, 2016
by Alun Severn
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The Cabinet Office has just today announced that as part of the Prime Minister’s life chances strategy a new £80m Life Chances Fund has been opened and will continue for the next nine years. The fund is described as a “top-up fund” for locally developed Social Impact
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Santander launches £2.5m small grants programme

March 22, 2016
by Alun Severn
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The Santander Foundation — Santander’s community grants and funding arm — has just been relaunched as The Discovery Foundation with a new £2.5m programme of small grants of up to £5,000 for charities, CICs, voluntary and community groups and social enterprises. The g
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NatWest SE100 announces 2015 awards — over £30,000 will be won

July 28, 2015
by Alun Severn
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Each year The NatWest SE100 Index recognises social enterprises listed in the Index that have demonstrated some of the best business practice within the sector. In 2014 five social enterprises were awarded £32,500 in prize money – and this year there again five NatWest SE100 awards to
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