There is a voting unit in the Virgin Money Lounge, Piccadilly and the awards will go to the community organisations with the most votes from Virgin Money customers and Lounge members. Every three months, local community organisations can win £2,000 – with awards of £1,000 and £500 for the runners-up.
Pre-announcement of ERA-NETs SUSFOOD2 and CORE Organic Joint Call – Towards Sustainable and Organic Food Systems
The ERA-NETs SUSFOOD2 and CORE Organic Cofund have published a pre-announcement of a Joint Call – Towards Sustainable and Organic Food Systems – which is expected to be launched on 2 September 2019.
Local Authorities Invited to Test Children’s Social Care Projects
The Department for Education (DfE) is seeking to work with local authorities to test projects from the Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme.
Funding to Increase Organ Donations within BAME Communities
Funding boost to help promote organ donation among black and Asian communities.
WRAP Launches Non-household Municipal Waste Business Grant
The deadline for stage one outline applications is 4 September 2019.
The Non-household Municipal Waste Business Grant scheme is part of the £18 million Resource Action Fund, which has been established by the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) to support resource efficiency projects, with the goal of diverting, reducing and better managing waste.
New £100m Climate Action Fund to Open for UK Applications in Autumn
The Climate Action Fund is expected to open for applications in Autumn 2019 with the first awards being announced ‘well within the first half of 2020’. The funding criteria of the programme will be announced later this year.
The National Lottery Community Fund (NLCF) has announced that its newest fund will build a network of people and communities, well-placed to drive change within, between and beyond their community. The new fund is being launched as the level of concern over climate change continues to rise.
Final Round of the MOD Education Support Fund
The bidding round for the 2020 ESF opens on Monday 3 June 2019 and applicants have until 12.00pm on Monday 30 September 2019 to submit their application.
Grant for UK maintained schools with service children of frequently moved or deployed parents.
Bright Ideas Fund
The Bright Ideas Fund supports new community business ideas through the start-up and planning stages with tailored business support, to the implementation stage with grants of up to £15,000.
Youth work grant funding 2020- 2022 engagement sessions
The youth work funding will be launched on 1st August 2019 with a deadline for submission on 7th October 2019.
Voluntary sector youth providers are invited to attend a funding workshop to find out more information about new funding and the bidding process: The workshop details are as follows:
Small Grants for Social Prescribing
GLA’s Team London have released a small grants programme for groups tackling social isolation. VAC met with Team London officers whilst the grant criteria was being decided and emphasised the need to fund initiatives that were already working well but were coming under pressure from social prescribing referrals. This is one way we can use our social prescribing data we gather to influence decisions.
