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AWARDS FOR ALL
Amounts: between £300 and £10,000 in any two year period
Eligibility: For people to take part in art, sport, heritage and community activities, and projects that promote education, the environment and health in the local community. You can apply if you are a not-for-profit group or you are a parish or town council, school or health body. You must have a bank account that requires at least two people to sign each cheque or withdrawal. You must use the grant within one year.
Exclusions: profit-making companies, statutory bodies not mentioned above and individuals.
Submission / closing dates: No closing dates, submissions accepted throughout the year.
For more information: www.awardsforall.org.uk
J. PAUL GETTY Jr. CHARITABLE TRUST
Amounts: Main Grants are between £10,00 and £250,00 over a 1 to 3 year period. Small Grants are up to £5,000 in 1 year.
Eligibility: Focusing on reducing re-offending, improving prospects, repairing communities, repairing lives, preserving heritage and sustaining the arts.
Exclusions: Individuals and charities based outside the UK.
Submission / closing dates: No closing dates, submissions accepted throughout the year.
For more information: www.jpgettytrust.org.uk
B & Q BETTER NEIGHBOUR GRANT
Amounts: provides £50 to £500 (at retail cost) of B&Q materials, for example, pond liners, plants, peat-free compost for projects such as a pond/wildlife garden or paints labelled low or minimal VOC for redecoration projects.
Eligibility: Applications submitted must be from a registered charitable organisation, school or other recognised community groups, for example Youth or Day Care Centres, Scouts, Guides, etc. There must be commitment from the applicants and the local community to the project. Provision of access for disabled people must be considered. Consideration should be made to the people involved in the project, for example, pupil involvement in a school project, may satisfy certain parts of the National Curriculum. Evidence must be shown that the project will have long-lasting benefits for those it touches. The project must be local to the store (within a 20 mile radius) and be sustainable.
Exclusions: The grant does not provide electrical/gas/petrol driven items for health and safety reasons.
Submission / closing dates: No closing dates, submissions accepted throughout the year.
For more information: To apply for a grant, applicants will need to contact the environmental champion, diversity champion or store manager at their local B&Q store, to discuss project details.
B & Q WASTE DONATION SCHEME
Amounts: This scheme allows donation of waste materials, for example slightly damaged tins of paint, off-cuts of timber, odd rolls of wallpaper and end of range materials.
Eligibility: community groups, charities and schools.
Exclusions: electrical, petrol and gas items are not available for donation. Any waste or surplus stock donated must not be re-sold.
Submission / closing dates: No closing dates, submissions accepted throughout the year.
For more information: The waste donation scheme is co-ordinated in store either by the environmental champion, duty or Warehouse manager who will keep a Waste Donation Form on file for interested groups.
CHILDREN IN NEED
Amounts: No minimum or maximum
Eligibility: Charities and not-for-profit organisations working with disadvantaged children and young people who must be 18 years and under, living in the UK.
Exclusions: Trips and projects abroad, medical treatment/research, unspecified expenditure, deficit funding or repayment of loans, retrospective funding, projects unable to start within 12 months of the award date, distribution to another organisation, general appeals or endowment funds, summer projects applied for in March, activities a statutory body is responsible for, the promotion of religion, additional projects for organisations that already hold a BBC Children in Need grant where funding is not coming to an end.
Submission / closing dates: 15th January, 15th April, 15th July, 15th October each year.
For more information: www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey
GARFIELD WESTON FOUNDATION
Amounts: There is no limit on the size of grant. Every application is considered on its own merits.
Eligibility: The Garfield Weston Foundation has helped a wide range of organisations with grants of varying sizes. Our recent rounds of funding have helped projects in the following categories: Arts, Community, Education, Welfare, Medical, Social, Religion, Youth and Environment.
Exclusions: Normally support cannot be considered for organisations or groups that are not UK registered charities. This restriction does NOT apply to churches, hospitals, educational establishments and housing corporations, which have exempt status. Applications from individuals or for individual research or study or from organisations outside the United Kingdom cannot be considered. The trustees do not support animal welfare charities.
Submission / closing dates: No closing dates, submissions accepted throughout the year.
For more information: www.garfieldweston.org
TESCO CHARITY TRUST
Amounts: between £1,000 and £4,000.
Eligibility: Tesco helps local and national charities as well as voluntary organisations to provide practical support for children, the elderly, and people with disabilities. Targets grants to areas where there are Tesco’s stores. Projects we have previously supported include: Playground equipment in schools and local communities, sensory garden or room projects, outdoor classrooms, breakfast and after school clubs, holiday play-schemes, part funding to purchase minibuses, befriending schemes, luncheon clubs / youth clubs, specialist equipment for disabled people, day trips / social trips – for elderly / disabled people
Exclusions: Salaries, fundraising events or challenges, conferences of seminars, grants to individuals, including students, activities which collect funds for redistribution to other charities or individuals, purchase of land of buildings, refurbishment to fabric of buildings, including lift installations, overseas appeals, expeditions or overseas travel, promotion of religion, sponsorship and marketing promotions, endowment funds.
Submission / closing dates: 30th September 2010
For more information: www.tescoplc.com/plc/storage/pdf/guidlines.pdf
YOUTH MUSIC- MUSIC IS POWER
Amounts: between £5,000 and £30,000
Eligibility: Youth Music funds organisations that work with children and young people between the ages of 0 and 18 years. It also funds work with young people up to the age of 25 when they are: in detention, have special educational needs or have disabilities. Youth Music projects can run for between 6 and 24 months. Youth Music funds projects that have included children and young people in the decision making behind their project and organisations that have a commitment to including children and young people in the running of their project should they receive funding. Youth Music can only fund activity and organisations in England. Youth Music funds projects that provide structured, regular and progressive music making
activities. Youth Music can only fund projects where less than 25% of project activity takes place in curriculum time. However we can fund projects that have more than 25% of activity in school time if they are working with children and young people who are: in detention, have special educational needs or have disabilities.
Exclusions: Organisations that are companies limited by shares are not eligible. Awards are not available for individual schools, schools are encouraged to work in partnership with two or more other schools.
Submission / closing dates: 10th September 2010, 10th December 2010, 10th March 2011.
For more information: www.youthmusic.org.uk
COMIC RELIEF UK GRANTS PROGRAMME
Amounts: .There are no minimum or maximum but most grants range from £25,000 to £40,000 a year for up to 3 years.
Eligibility: Focusing on mental health, domestic and sexual abuse, refugees and asylum seeking women, sport for change, local communities, older people, sexually exploiting and trafficing young people, young people and alcohol, young people with mental health problems.
Exclusions: Individuals, medical research and hospitals, churches or religious bodies where the money will be used for religious purposes, work where there is a statutory duty to provide funding, project where the work has already taken place, statutory bodies, profit making organisations (except social enterprises), minibuses.
Submission / closing dates: 17th September 2010, 7th January 2011.
For more information: www.comicrelief.com
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