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DWP Launches Second Phase of Funding to Reduce Parental Conflict

About the Fund

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is seeking bidders for a slice of its new £3.6 million Challenge Fund to improve parents’ access to conflict support.

Application Deadline

The Government has committed up to £33 million to continue running the programme between 2022 and 2025

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Applications Invited to Royal London Changemakers Programme for UK Social Entrepreneurs

About the Fund

Does your social venture help people build financial resilience? Or does your organisation help people engage in the societal impact of the move to net zero?

Are you powered by your own lived experience and looking to grow your impact and income from trading?

Royal London and the School for Social Entrepreneurs are looking for innovative, ambitious leaders of social enterprise and social ventures in UK and Ireland that are helping to build financial resilience or supporting a fair and just transition to net zero, and are looking to grow their impact and income from trading.    

Application Deadline

1 PM 17th May 2022

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Loan Funding for London Community Housing Renovation Projects

About the Fund

Community groups, public, and private landowners in England, Scotland, and Wales can apply for funding to develop or scale-up rewilding projects on land or at sea.

Rewilding Britain is offering grants of up to £15,000 to help foster new and ambitious rewilding projects, or scale-up pre-existing projects, across Britain. The Rewilding Innovation Fund will support rewilding projects on land and at sea, at a scale of more than 40 hectares, that adhere to Rewilding Britain’s rewilding principles.  

Application Deadline

The deadline for this round of applications is 31 March 2022.

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Community Businesses in England Can Apply Now to the New Powering Up Programme





About the Fund

Powering Up is a programme for community businesses who need support shifting from an emergency mindset to investing in future planning. Our ambition is to support you as community business leaders, and your teams, as you embark on developing or growing your organisation. Powering Up supports community businesses in the key areas of digital growth, zero carbon and sustainability, and financial resilience, with a cross cutting theme of diversity, equity and inclusion.

Application Deadline

The Powering Up programme will run for a total of four years with multiple rounds of funding.

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International Collaborative Arts Fund Open for Applications

About the Fund

On Thursday 21 October 2021, a new small pilot fund will open to support the development of partnerships and co-creation projects between individuals and organisations in the arts across the four nations of the UK and in Europe and beyond.

Application Deadline

Monday 11 November 2021 

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Arnold Clark Community Fund Reopens for Winter Funding

About the Fund

The fund currently aims to help UK charities and local community groups continue their important work which may be at risk due to the coronavirus pandemic.

During the winter campaign, the funder is offering grants of up to £1,000 to be used for charitable or community purposes.

The funding is intended to support organisations dealing with or addressing the following categories:

  • Food banks
  • Toy banks
  • Poverty relief
  • Housing and accommodation

Application Deadline

31 December 2021

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Together for our planet – The National Lottery Community Fund

About the Fund

We’re offering from £1,000 to £10,000 of National Lottery funding to support communities across the UK to take action on climate change.

Projects should reflect what matters to your community and can be small in scale. They could cover an area like:

  • food
  • transport
  • energy
  • waste and consumption
  • the natural environment

Application Deadline

5pm on 18 November 2021.

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Youth Endowment Fund and Comic Relief Invite Applications to £10m Fund

About the Fund

The Youth Endowment Fund and Comic Relief are working together in this round which has a theme of ‘a supportive home – helping families to overcome challenges’.

Application Deadline

The second themed round is open to applications with a deadline of 1 December 2021.

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Postcode Dream Fund Opens for Applications for Funding Starting in 2022

About the Fund

The Dream Fund was created to encourage charities in Great Britain to collaborate so that they can deliver their dream project.

The themes change each year. The current themes are:

  • Environmental Systems Change – this theme is looking for collaborative and innovative projects that develop long term solutions to systemic environmental problems. Areas of interest include projects that challenge environmental degradation, in particular focusing on biodiversity and species preservation.
  • Social Inequality– this theme is looking for projects take systematic approaches to addressing the root causes of social inequality. Successful projects will be able to demonstrate how they will promote the social inclusion of groups that are disadvantaged or excluded from society. Potential areas of interest include early childhood development and educational attainment.
  • Pandemic recovery – this theme is looking for projects that will support society to o recover from the effects of the pandemic. Potential areas of interest include loneliness and social isolation, health and wellbeing, domestic violence and support for neglected groups who have suffered disproportionately during the pandemic.

Application Deadline

Stage 1 applications will be accepted from 1 October 2021 to 1 November 2021 (5:30pm).

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