Wellcome Trust – Arts Awards

Wellcome believe the arts are an effective way of stimulating debate and engaging people with biomedical science. Visual art, music, moving image, creative writing and performance can reach new audiences which may not traditionally be interested in science and provide new ways of thinking about the social, cultural and ethical issues around contemporary science. Collaborative and interdisciplinary practice across the arts and sciences can help to provide new perspectives on both fields. The arts can also provide imaginative ways of engaging and educating young people in the field of science.
Arts Awards support imaginative and experimental arts projects that investigate biomedical science.

The scheme aims to:

• stimulate interest, excitement and debate about biomedical science through the arts
• examine the social, cultural, and ethical impact of biomedical science
• support formal and informal learning
• encourage new ways of thinking
• encourage high quality interdisciplinary practice and collaborative partnerships in arts, science and/or education practice.

All art forms are covered by the programme: dance, drama, performance arts, visual arts, music, film, craft, photography, creative writing or digital media. The Trust invites applications for projects which engage adult audiences and/or young people.

There are two levels of awards:

For small to medium-sized projects (up to and including £30 000) upcoming deadlines are 27 April 2012 , 27 July 2012 & 26 October Decisions will be made approximately three months after the relevant deadline.

Arts Awards, Wellcome Trust, Gibbs Building, 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE Tel: 020 7611 7222 Fax: 020 7611 8269 Email: arts@wellcome.ac.uk

Website: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Public-engagement/Grants/Arts-Awards/index.htm

Creative people and places fund – Arts Council

The Arts Council will invest in a small number of places of greatest need to establish action research projects called Creative people and places. This investment will encourage long-term collaborations between local communities and arts organisations, museums, libraries and local authorities. It aims to empower them to experiment with radically different approaches and develop inspiring, sustainable arts programmes that will engage audiences in those communities.

Excellence will be central to the activity supported and although funding can only be guaranteed for three years, they would like to see applications which carry a 10-year vision for these communities.

A total of £37 million will be available to establish around 15 Creative people and places projects between autumn 2012 and autumn 2015. It is anticipated that the majority of proposals will be for between £500,000 and £3 million over three years.

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Consultation Event for the Voluntary & Community Sector Infrastructure in Manchester

Macc

There are two separate consultation events. You may wish to attend one or both.

Description of event:

MACC would like to invite you to a special voluntary sector consultation.  These events have been arranged throughout the city, over a number of days, to look at the development and changes to Voluntary and Community Sector Infrastructure in Manchester.

Macc’s role in the voluntary sector is evolving. As part of that we have committed to reviewing the management, governance and structure of Macc but above all to consult with the local sector about the kinds of support and activities you want us to run.  We are now in a position to start this process however; we don’t want this to be a one-off exercise: it’s an ongoing dialogue. Our vision is that the consultation should be owned by and accountable to the local sector but we need your help.  Please attend a session and let us know what you want from us now and in the future.  

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Help the Homeless

Help The Homeless’s main funding remit is the regular allocation of Small Grants (generally up to £3000) for capital costs to small and medium-sized charities only (those with a turnover of up to £1m per annum). Grants to larger charities will only be considered if the project is suitably innovative and it is only possible for a large organisation to develop it.

All applications must relate to projects that assist individuals in their return to mainstream society, rather than simply offer shelter or other forms of sustenance.

Help The Homeless‘s main funding remit is the regular allocation of Small Grants (generally up to £3000) for capital costs to small and medium-sized charities only. Grants to larger charities will only be considered if the project is suitably innovative and it is only possible for a large organisation to develop it.

All applications must relate to projects that assist individuals in their return to mainstream society, rather than simply offer shelter or other forms of sustenance.

All applicants must use the official form downloadable from the website and clearly describe the aims and structure of their organisation, their future plans and specific details of how any grant money will be spent. A copy of the latest available audited accounts is also required.

The quarterly deadlines for grant applications each year are: 31st March / 30th June / 30th September /31st December.

Contact: The Secretary, Help The Homeless, 6th Floor, 248 Tottenham Court Road,   London W1T 7QZ Email: HTH@help-the-homeless.org.uk

Website:  http://www.help-the-homeless.org.uk/

Tesco Charity Trust Community Awards Scheme

The Tesco Charity Trust runs two funding schemes - the Community Awards and the larger Grants.  Please see below for details on each scheme.

Community Awards – The Tesco Charity Trust Community Awards Scheme provides one-off donations of between £500 and £4,000 to local projects that support children and their education and welfare, elderly people and adults and children with disabilities.

There are four rounds of funding each year.  Please see the website to view a copy of our criteria and application deadlines.  Applications should be made via the onlineapplication form. If you require any support whilst completing your application please contact our helpline Tel: 0845 612 3575.

GRANTS FOR CHILDREN’S EDUCATION AND CHILDREN’S WELFARE
Applications should be made between: 1st December & 31st January
Expected Decision date: End of April; OR 1st May & 30th June Expected Decision date: End of September

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Church and Community Fund

The CCF will support projects that:

• Significantly expand the Church’s engagement with neighbourhood renewal;

• Seek innovative ways of developing established community projects so that they either a) grow existing or b) evolve into new communities of Christian Faith, and;

• Replicate models of successful community engagement across the wider church.

The three new funding themes will replace the current CCF grant making stream, which closes on the 14th October 2011. The CCF will start to accept new applications to the new themes from the 3rd January 2012.

A new set of guidance notes that will contain specific criteria, examples of what type of projects will be funded and more detail about the new strategy will be available in mid-December 2011.

If you have any queries please send an email to Andrew Hawkings @ ccf@churchofengland.org.

The Church and Community Fund, (CCF), Church House, Great Smith Street, London SW1P 3NZ

Email: ccf@churchofengland.org   Tel: 020 7898 541
Full application details are on Website: www.churchandcommunityfund.org.uk

Portas Pilots

They are running a competition for local partnerships to bid for a share of £1 million.

The competition will select 12 towns to become ‘Portas Pilots’, with the winners benefiting from a share of £1 million to help turn around their “unloved and unused” high streets.

The pilot projects, led by local partnerships and consortiums in England, will be supported with funding of up to £100,000 per pilot as well as advice from a Whitehall Team and Mary Portas.

Eligible partnerships must identify an Accountable Body (local authority) to receive the grant, if they are not, themselves, a local authority.

It is expected that local authorities in receipt of the grant will work constructively with their communities, through their Town Team, in using the funding.

Proposals will be assessed on the following criteria:

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Worshipful Company of Weavers

The Fund’s aim is helping young people at risk of criminal involvement to stay out of trouble and assist in the rehabilitation of offenders, particularly young offenders both in prison and after release.   The Company prefers to help new projects in the early stages and, in particular, innovatory projects which could act as a model for similar work elsewhere; it sees its role as pump-priming and does not usually provide long-term funding, although it does sometimes provide more significant help to particular projects.

Applications are considered by the Charitable Grants Committee at their meetings in February, June and October. In considering whether a project is worthy of support and provided it meets all the Fund’s criteria, an assessment visit by a member of the Company is always made.

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Daiwa Foundation Awards and Grants

The Foundation awards grants to individuals and institutions in the UK and Japan in all areas of the visual and performing arts, the humanities, the social sciences, science and engineering, mathematics, business studies, and education, including schools and universities, and grass roots and professional groups.
Grant-giving in 2012 will be carried out via the following programmes:

DAIWA FOUNDATION SMALL GRANTS
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Baring Joint International Development grants programme

The Baring Foundation was set up in 1969 to give money to charities and voluntary organisations pursuing charitable purposes. In 41 years we have given almost £100 million in grants. Our budget for grant-making in 2010 is £2.5 million.

They have specific grants programmes concerned with the arts, international development and strengthening the voluntary sector.

The Joint International Development programme 2010, in collaboration with the John Ellerman Foundation, is now open. They especially encourage applications from African-led voluntary organisations based in the UK fitting these requirements.

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