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.
Rolling Funding Programmes
You can use our website to search for rolling funding programmes. This is generally for funding where no application deadline has been set or where you can apply for funding at any time, or multiple times, throughout the year. You can filter the results by using the Funding Tag Cloud tool.
The funding listed below is mainly relevant to organisations in Camden. For a list of where to search for other rolling funding, please visit our Funding Sources page.
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.
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.
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.
Space to Connect Fund
£1.6 million partnership with the Co-op Foundation to help community organisations identify, improve and protect spaces where people can connect and co-operate. This Fund builds on the Government’s commitment to unlock the potential of community spaces as part of its Loneliness Strategy.
Places to Ride Grants Programme
Closing Date: 15 January 2021 (closes to new applications)
The programme will fund the development of multi-use facilities to engage with a broad spectrum of cyclists and to encourage people who have never cycled before to get on their bikes.
