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Welsh Government - Community Facilities and Activities Programme 2007 - 2011

The key features are:

· CFAP is now a capital-only funding programme

· the focus is now on funding smaller bids from grass roots organisations

· provision of pre-application support to applicants.

2011 deadlines:

14th October 2011

Applications must be with the Welsh Assembly Government by 17:00 hours on this date. Only original, signed applications will be accepted.

E-mailed versions with the original to follow can no longer be accepted. 

Application packs are available on the Welsh Assembly Government website at the following address:

http://new.wales.gov.uk/topics/housingandcommunity/grants/cfap/?lang=en

Up-dated November 2010

The Community Foundation in Wales Comic Relief Local Communities Grant Programme is currently open for applications.  The Community Foundation in Wales manages this small grant for Comic Relief.  The larger grants are still distributed by Comic Relief.

Not-for-profit organisations can apply for grants of between £1,000 and £10,000 for projects that increase access to sport and exercise for people who face social exclusion and isolation, or are experiencing difficulties in their lives as well as projects that increase local services, build skills of local people, increase community cohesion and respond to local economic needs.

The closing date for applications is the 15th February 2012.

Full guidelines and an application form can be accessed on the Foundation's website, www.cfiw.org.uk

Up-dated January 2012

The Millennium Stadium Charitable Trust Grant Scheme

Millennium Stadium Charitable Trust

There are three separate rounds a year, based on the area of operation of applicant organisations.  Projects are funded under the following priorities; sport, the arts, the environment and the community. 

• Local Applicants (now closed) – groups with a remit to serve the local community or town can apply for up to £2,500. Applications will be assessed in March and groups will be informed in April of the outcome.
• National Applicants – groups with a remit to serve the whole of Wales can apply for up to £12,500.  This round opens 1 February 2012 with a deadline of 16 April 2012 at noon.  Applications will be assessed at the start of July and therefore projects need to be starting after August 2012.
• Regional Applicants – groups with a remit to serve a region of Wales or a local authority area can apply for up to £7,500.  This round opens 1 June 2012 with a deadline of 10 September 2012 at noon. Applications will be assessed in November and therefore projects need to be starting after December 2012.

The guidelines and the application form are published on the website.

http://www.millenniumstadiumtrust.co.uk

or contact the Trust on 029 2049 4963, email MSCT@fusionuk.org.uk

Millennium Stadium Charitable Trust

The Trust Office,
Millennium Stadium Charitable Trust
c/o Fusion
PO Box 1071 
Cardiff
CF11 1RL

Up-dated - January 2012

Elephant Trust

The Elephant Trust was created in 1975 by Roland Penrose and Lee Miller with a view to develop and improve the knowledge, understanding and appreciation
of the fine arts in the United Kingdom.

Grants are available to artists, small organisations and galleries within the UK. The Trust's aim is to make it possible for artists and those presenting their work to undertake and complete projects when frustrated by lack of funds. The Trust supports projects that develop and improve the knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the fine arts.

Deadlines 2012:   16 January 2012                    2 April 2012

If you have not heard by 6 weeks after the application deadline then your application has not been successful. All material that is accompanied by a stamped addressed envelope will be returned.

http://www.elephanttrust.org.uk/

Up-dated January 2012

Funding available...

Funding for Learning, The Arts and through a Small Grants Scheme.

Who Can Apply?

UK Charities operating in the UK.

The Foyle Foundation makes grants to UK charities whose core work is in the areas of Learning, The Arts and through their Small Grants scheme.

Learning - The main priorities for support are:

• libraries, museums and archives
• special educational needs and learning difficulties
• projects that reduce overheads or which help generate additional revenue will also be considered

Arts - for applications that make a strong artistic case for support in either the performing or visual arts.  The main priorities for support are:

• helping to make the arts more accessible by developing new audiences, supporting tours, festivals and arts educational projects
• encouraging new work and supporting young and emerging artists
• building projects that improve or re-equip existing arts venues (rather than construction of new facilities, although this will not be excluded)
• projects that reduce overheads or which help generate additional revenue.

Small Grants Scheme

The Small Grants Scheme is designed to support smaller charities in the UK, especially those working at grass roots and local community level, in any field, across a wide range of activities.

Applications are welcomed from charities with an annual turnover of less than £100,000 per annum.

The Foundation will make one year grants of between £1,000 and £10,000 to charities which can demonstrate that such a grant will make a significant difference. Demonstrating ongoing sustainability is also important, particularly if local authority or other regular funding has been lost.

More Info - http://www.foylefoundation.org.uk/index.php

Up-dated January 2012

In 2011/12 the Trust will fund smaller, community-led organisations which work directly with people who are at the margins of society: organisations which support positive changes in people’s lives and in their communities.

Organisations meeting the following:

• working directly with people who are at the margins of society
• with a focus on building stronger communities by overcoming isolation and fragmentation and encouraging inclusion, connection and integration
• which are embedded in and have developed out of their community – whether the local area or a ‘community of interest’
• which are thoughtful in their use of resources and which foster
  community resilience in the face of environmental, economic or social change
• with high levels of user involvement, and an emphasis on self-help where this
  is appropriate
• which work addressing complex and multi-stranded problems in unusual or imaginative ways
  

The Trust is more likely to fund groups with an annual turnover of less than £1 million.

Amount of funding available: There is no minimum or maximum grant amount awarded.
Type of costs: Capital, revenue, project and development funding
How to make an application: A first-stage proposal must include: a brief covering letter, of no more than one side of A4, on the organisation's letterhead; completed details sheet; and answer to four set questions on no more than two sides of A4
Contact details: 7 Ladbroke Grove, London W11 3BD
Tel: (020) 7727 8522
Fax: (020) 7221 8522
Website www.tudortrust.org.uk

Up-dated January 2012

Important news: The Lankelly Foundation and Chase Charity have merged to create the Lankelly Chase Foundation

Funding priorities: Arts, Breaking the cycle, Developing Communities, Free and Quiet Minds, Heritage, and a special programme for Refugees and Asylum Seekers.  Prefer to support community initiatives to meet local needs, concentrating upon smaller charities, many of whom will have only a local or regional remit. They will consider applications from large national charities but support will be rare and limited.
Amount of funding available: Grants from £1,000 to £40,000 are available under the programmes listed.   Grants are always made for specific purposes but they may cover capital or revenue needs.
Type of costs: Will consider revenue support to a maximum of 5 years
How to make an application: By letter to the address below
Contact details: The Lankelly Chase Foundation, 2 The Court, High Street, Harwell, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0EY
Telephone / Fax: 01235 820044
Website: http://www.lankellychase.org.uk/

Up-dated May '05

Environment Wales is now inviting applications for Management Grant funding for the coming financial year 2011-2012.Management grants are available to registered projects for periods of up to 6 years to fund new project-related posts. Please note that these must be new posts that are project-specific and not part of an organisation's core activities.

The maximum grant available is currently £12,000 per annum, the deadline is 15 October 2010.

If you would like to discuss a potential grant please contact your development officer for further details.

http://www.environment-wales.org/

Email: info@environment-wales.org

Telephone: 029 2043 1727

Information has recently been circulated about the Walter Guinness Charitable Trust - please note that this Trust only supports charities in the Wiltshire area so please do not apply.

Up-dated Oct '07

Grants to encourage and stimulate small actions and exploratory work by third sector organisations in Wales to undertake projects that lead the way in tackling climate change.

Grants can be used to help organisations educate those who have not yet worked to combat climate change. 

The Fund will distribute grants from £200 to a maximum of £2,000.  Match funding is not required.  The scheme can fund up to 100% of project costs. 

Those applying to the scheme may want to consider actions that their organisation could take internally to combat climate change.  Examples include initiatives that could be carried out in offices or premises, with staff, trustees or volunteers.  External actions may also be funded, including those that could be taken with client groups or the wider community.  Examples include exploring how climate change may impact the delivery of activities/services, giving a green dimension to core work.

The grants can be used either to help organisations take their first steps into combating climate change or to help educate others to learn more about and take action on this issue.  Specific examples of the types of projects that can be funded include:

• climate change awareness raising;
• encouraging positive behaviour change amongst individuals/communities;
• exploring and planning for the future impacts of climate change on the applicant organisation's activities and those it represents;
• expanding activities to help tackle climate change;
• establishing links with other organisations/groups who have an established climate change remit;
• learning from good practice/training; and
• testing feasibility of new ideas or new ways of working.

Deadline for receipt of applications:- DEADLINE EXTENSION UNTIL 25 March 2010

This scheme is funded by the Welsh Assembly Government and administered by the Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA)

Contact

Environment Wales
Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA)
Baltic House
Mount Stuart Square
Cardiff
CF10 5FH
Tel: 0800 2888 329 (Helpdesk)
Tel: (029) 2043 1727
Fax: (029) 2043 1701
E-mail: info@environment-wales.org
Website: http://www.wcva.org.uk