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Please note. We have compiled this briefing from publicly
available information. We have no involvement in the allocation
of funds and cannot give advice on the likelihood of a project
gaining funding. We generally do not include trusts or grant-giving
bodies. Please contact the funding providers listed below
for advice on your application.
Resources
Issues
- NIACE Discussion paper: Squaring
the circle: funding non-accredited adult learning under
the learning and skills council, May 2001
Government Programmes
Lottery
General and European
Research
A
Guide to local trusts, 2006-2007
ContinYou, 2006, £29.95
A series of guides devoted to practical fundraising
within the regions of England, Each guide examines local trusts'
grant-making policies and practices, examples of grants made
and advice concerning applying and contact details.
Thinking
Big Summary
2006
A newsletter for applicants and would-be applicants containing
resources for securing Lottery funding. Available for free
download at www.nof.org.uk.
A-Z to finding funds: directory
for funding for early years education and childcare
Department for Education and Skills, 2002
Guide produced by the DfES to help early years education and
childcare professionals to seek potential sources of funding.
Contact DfES Publications on 0845 60 222 60 or email dfes@prolog.uk.com.
Adult Literacy, Numeracy and ESOL
- A Guide to Learning and Skills Council (LSC) Funding 2003/04
(Skills for Life)
Department for Education and Skills, 2003
"The purpose of this guide is to help providers
understand the funding mechanism used for the majority of
literacy, numeracy and language learning in England for 2003/04.
It replaces the Planning and Funding Guide for 2002/03, but
does not include a directory of other sources of funding for
basic skills. If you are seeking funding outside LSC provision
you should contact the Regional Coordinator for your area,
who will be able to advise on other sources of funding. Contact
details for the regional coordinators can be found at www.dfes.gov.uk/readwriteplus/Who_We_Are."
To download the guide visit www.dfes.gov.uk/readwriteplus,
or order copies from DfES publications on 0845 60 222 60.
Ref: SFLFG 0304
Fail to plan: Plan to fail - A toolkit for black voluntary
and community organisations
NIACE, Novemeber 2004
This easy-to-use guide provides information on preparing funding
applications; how to make Government policy work for you;
sources of funding opportunities; the role of infrastructure
networks and the structural support available; listing of
useful organisations and resources. Price £20. Call
0116 2044216 or visit www.niace.org.uk.
Family Learning Network funding guide. The National
Family Learning Network online funding directory is updated
monthly and provides information on funding opportunities,
funding support agencies and regional funding opportunities
for family learning. Visit www.familylearningnetwork.com.
Funding Directory for family learning.
The National Family Learning Network has produced a guide
to funding family learning activity for its members. Membership
of the network is free. Visit www.familylearningnetwork.com.
Funding Neighbourhood Learning
NIACE, March 2004.
Advice for voluntary and community groups on how to
generate income for neighbourhood education. It covers the
major statutory bodies and grant-making trusts, and advises
charities how to increase their chances of success.
Visit www.niace.org.uk.
Guide to Arts Funding in England.
Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 2003
Available to download free of charge from http://www.culture.gov.uk/Reference_library/Publications/archive_2003/arts_funding_guide.htm
Raising money for out-of-school-hours
learning: a practical guide to trust fundraising for school
and school groups
ContinYou, 2003, £15 (£12.50 to members)
Series of practical guides, available by regions,
on trust fundraising for schools and school groups to support
out-of-school-hours activities. They provide general guidelines
and tips, as well as a directory of UK and regional grant-making
trusts and lottery bodies. The guide was produced by Education
Extra, before it merged with the Community Education Development
Centre to become ContinYou.
Contact ContinYou on 020 8709 9901 or visit www.continyou.org.uk.
Building the future of learning: a guide to sustaining
out-of-school-hours learning.
Published by the Big Lottery Fund and available at www.nof.org.uk.
Squaring the circle: funding non-accredited
adult learning under the learning and skills council
Cheryl Turner, development officer, NIACE, May 2001.
67% of learners involved in adult and community learning take
part in non-accredited courses. This 16-page briefing explores
the scope for funding non-accredited adult learning in the
context of quality assurance arrangements and examines some
of the issues affecting the development of a quality framework
for non-accredited programmes. It concludes with a set of
criteria for demonstrating the eligibility of this work for
mainstream funding. It also lists issues and questions raised
for further discussion and clarification, for example, the
impact of bureaucracy upon smaller providers, particularly
in relation to data management and benchmarking and the interpretation
of evidence in the context of non-accredited learning and
the issue of learner progress.
Available for download: visit www.niace.org.uk
The Government funding website was launched in October
2003, following an earlier pilot. It provides information for
voluntary and community organisations on the grants available
from Government departments - Home Office, Department for Education
and Skills, Department of Health and what used to be the Department
for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (now covered
by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and a separate Department
of Transport). It provides online application facilities and
a database containing a directory of the website's users, designed
to encourage networking and information sharing. Registered
can also receive email updates about new programmes or revised
schemes. The site is managed by the Directory of Social Change.
Visit www.governmentfunding.org.uk.
Aimhigher
Aimhigher is a national programme set up to widen participation
in higher education (HE) in England by raising the aspirations
and developing the abilities of young people from under-represented
groups, including disadvantaged social and economic backgrounds,
ethnic minority communities and the disabled. It is funded
by the Department for Education and Skills and the Higher
Education Funding Council for England.
The role of Aimhigher is to:
- raise aspirations and motivation to enter HE among young
people from under-represented groups in schools, further
education and workplace learning and help them to apply
to the institution and/or course best able to match their
abilities
- raise the attainment of potential HE students from under-represented
groups, so that they gain the academic or vocational qualifications
and learning skills that will enable them to enter HE
- strengthen progression routes into HE via vocational courses,
including Apprenticeships, whether they are delivered in
schools, colleges or the workplace
- improve the attainment, aspirations, motivation and self-esteem
of gifted and talented young people aged 14 to 19; and the
quality of identification, provision and support for those
students in schools and colleges.
From 2006 to 2008, under new arrangements, Aimhigher funding
for schools is to be determined by Aimhigher partnerships
and paid to schools in the form of a separate grant. Area
Steering Groups (ASGs) will be given allocations of funds
for local use, as before, and decide how these funds should
be distributed between schools, colleges, universities and
other partners. They will also decide on how much should be
retained by the local authority for central coordination.
Visit the Aimhigher practitioner website for further information
including details of national, regional and area contacts
- www.aimhigher.ac.uk/practitioner.
Children,
Young People and Families Grant Programme
Launched in September 2005 by the DfES, this single grant
programme will fund voluntary organisations to do work of
national significance that supports the outcomes of the Every
Child Matters: Change for Children programme. It brings together
five existing grant programmes managed by the DfES: Children
and Young People's Participation Fund; National Voluntary
Youth Organisations Grant Scheme; Safeguarding Children and
Supporting Families grants; Strengthening Families Grant;
and Sure Start VCS grants. The programme is open to charities,
or non-profit-making organisations set up and run on similar
lines to a charity.
From April 2006, funding that would have been available through
these programmes will be offered through the new single programme.
For 2007-2008, grants of up to £270,000 have been awarded
to 32 organisations. The names of the successful organisations,
and details of the awards which are being made to them, are
available to download below in the annex to the guidance.
In addition, a further £16.5 million will be provided to support
the second year of work which was originally approved under
the 2006-07 grant. Details on funding for the 2008-2009 year
will become available on the Children, Young People and Families
Grant Programme in the fall.
For information and grant application forms visit www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/strategy/voluntaryandcommunity/cypfgrant/.
Creative Partnerships
in April of 2002, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport
created a new Arts Council of England initiative aimed at
creating new ways of including young people of school age
in the cultural life of their communities. Known as creative
partnerships, the intiative aims to develop and nurture young
people and support arts organisations and creative people
working with young people. The DCMS links projects with specialist
arts colleges, Excellence in Cities, the Music Standards Fund
and local arts organisations. For more information: visit
www.creativepartnerships.com.
Futurebuilders
Futurebuilders is a government investment programme, launched
in May 2004, which aims to improve public service delivery
through long-term investment in the voluntary and community
sector in England. The £125m fund will be distributed over
three years and is run by a voluntary sector consortium comprising
Charity Bank, Unity Trust Bank, NCVO and Northern Rock Foundation.
Investments will be made in the following five areas of public
service delivery: community cohesion, crime, education and
learning, health and social care, and support for children
and young people. Futurebuilders will provide loans, capacity
building support and small development grants with the aim
of encouraging sustainable funding within the voluntary sector.
For more information: www.futurebuilders-england.org.uk
Local Network Fund for Children Young
People
The Local Network Fund for Children and Young People enables
groups to meet the needs of children and young people aged
0 to 19 through funding, advice and support. Current funding
is set to run until March 2008. The fund is operational throughout
the whole of England and channels money directly to local
community and voluntary groups which aim to tackle poverty
or disadvantage experienced by children and young people,
through a range of projects. Grants of between £250 and £7,000
are available to projects that meet one of its four themes:
aspirations and experience; economic disadvantage; isolation
and access; and children's voices.
Contact the national call centre on 0845 113 0161 or visit
www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/strategy/localnetworkfund
Case study:
Cartwheel Community Arts, Rochdale
Expanded their Magic! Club after school provision to provide
creative family literacy workshops to adults and children
in an area of high unemployment and poverty. Developed activities
for families to work on together at home, taking into account
low levels of confidence and skills among parents. Artists
worked with the families using digital video and photography
to document the project.
Neighbourhood Renewal Fund
(England)
The Neighbourhood Renewal Fund aims to enable the most deprived
wards within the 88 designated authorities to improve services,
narrowing the gap between deprived areas and the rest of the
country. Funds can be spent in any way that will tackle deprivation
in the most deprived neighbourhoods, particularly, but not
exclusively, in relation to the Government's neighbourhood
renewal targets. Criteria states that "where service quality
is at risk or requires improvement, funding should be devoted
to mainstream services, such as schools, provided that the
funding benefits the most deprived areas". Funds can be used
to support services provided not only by the local authority,
but also by other organisations.
£525 million has been made available for the 2007-2008 year.
Funding streams for the
seven strands of neighbourhood renewal
For more information: www.neighbourhood.gov.uk.
Contact the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit at the Office of the
Deputy Prime Minister on 08450 828383.
Neighbourhood Support Fund (Connexions)
More
information -completed in 2006.
New Deal for Communities (England)
This is a Government initiative to tackle the problems of
deprived areas, established in 1998. It addresses poverty
and social exclusion through improving job prospects, reducing
crime, improving educational achievement and reducing poor
health. The emphasis is on self-help and New Deal Communities
determine their own spending. Partnerships have been established
in 39 neighbourhoods across England, and over the ten-year
duration of the programme, they will receive a total of £1.9
billion. A key Government objective for the programme is to
ensure the active participation of businesses. For more
information: www.neighbourhood.gov.uk.
Contact Patrick Atagana, NDC programme team at the Office
of the Deputy Prime Minister, on 020 7944 6746 or email patrick.atagana@odpm.gsi.gov.uk.
Standards Fund (England)
Only local education authorities can apply for the Standards
Fund described in the Schools Standards Framework Act 1998.
It includes funding for literacy and numeracy support, study
support and Playing for Success. Schools should contact their
local education authority to find out more or visit www.dfes.gov.uk/standardsfund.
Sure Start
Sure Start is a Government initiative to improve opportunities
for all families with young children in areas of deprivation.
All 524 Sure Start local programmes are now operational, helping
up to 400,000 children living in disadvantaged areas. Programmes
help parents develop positive attitudes to learning in their
children and provide greater awareness of and access to public
services. Many local Sure Start plans include working with
adults with literacy needs. For more information: www.surestart.gov.uk
Contact: Sure Start Unit, Caxton House, Tothill Street,
London SW1H 9NA. Tel: 020 7273 5389.
Awards for All
Awards for All (previously Millennium Awards for All) has
been relaunched in England and continues to emphasise regional
and local projects that involve people in their community,
bringing them together to enjoy arts, sport, heritage, charitable
and other community activities. Grants are available from
£300 to £10,000 for specific activities not as contributions
to running costs. Priority is given to organisations with
a turnover of less than £15,000 per year. Awards for All brings
together small grants schemes for the National Lotteries Charities
Board i.e. Heritage Lottery Fund, Sport England and the Regional
Arts Lottery Boards. For more information: www.awardsforall.org.uk.
For other inquiries: Scotland 0645 700 777. Organisations
in Northern Ireland can apply for the small grants scheme
for grants between £500 and £10,000; call 0845 791 9191. Organisations
Wales may apply for grants between £500 and £5,000; call 0845
727 3273.
Big Lottery Fund
In June 2004, the New Opportunities Fund and the Community
Fund merged to become the Big Lottery Fund, which will distribute
half of the proceeds for good causes from the National Lottery.
This is anticipated to be between £600 and £700 million a
year until 2009, when the current Camelot licence ends. Funds
are available to all four countries of the UK. England, Wales,
Scotland and Northern Ireland each has its own local office,
as do the nine English regions.
The Big Lottery Fund distributes funding for charities and
the voluntary and community sectors (as under the Community
Fund) and health, education and environment projects (as under
the New Opportunities Fund). It will also take over the Millennium
Commission's role of supporting large-scale regeneration projects.
Support is available for a range of different types of funding
programmes, including 'open' grant programmes, where a wide
range of organisations can apply by completing an application
form, and other programmes concentrating on particular priorities.
The Reaching Communities programme,
launched in December 2005, is open to schools and voluntary
organisations for applications meeting one of four criteria:
offering people better chances in life; building strong communities
with more active citizens; developing improved rural and urban
environments; or creating healthier and more active people
and communities. It will allocate £100m to English projects
in its first year. Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales have
separate budgets for similar programmes.
The new Family Learning programme
focuses on family issues, family relationships and support
activities that will improve numeracy, language and literacy
skills - helping parents to understand more about how their
children learn and encouraging adults and children to learn
as a family. It is open for applications from 19 September
2006 to 29 August 2008, with a total of £40 million
providing grants of between £10,000 and £500,000.
The Community Libraries programme
aims to fund libraries that are seeking to become centres
of wider community learning and development via learning based
activities as well as creating, developing library spaces
that meet the needs of the whole community. Libraries will
be encouraged to work with disadvantaged groups, existing
users and non-users, voluntary and community groups and other
community service providers, and reflect local/national strategies.
Applications will be accepted up until March 30th 2007, with
the maximum grant offered being £2 million, and a minimum
offer of £250,000. A total of £80 million is available.
For more information: call the helpline on 0845 410
2030 or visit www.biglotteryfund.org.uk.
Heritage Lottery
Fund
The Heritage Lottery Fund gives grants for a wide range of
projects involving the local, regional and national heritage
of the United Kingdom, to help make it accessible and relevant
to everyone. It will fund library services for the following
areas of work:
- projects to help local communities to explore and celebrate
their roots through special collections
- using technology to bring collections to new audiences
- capturing memories of the local community through oral
history of reminiscence work
- developing new ways of involving young people through
a historic collection
- working in partnership with museums, archives and/or other
libraries
For example, Brighton and Hove Library Service received £295,000
to convert its special collections catalogue for the internet
and engage new audiences; Walsall Asian Library User Group received
£49,900 to create an oral history of Walsall's Asian communities,
in Asian languages and English, on CD, DVD and the internet.
The fund has three strands:
- Your Heritage: grants of £5,000 to £50,000
for community-focused projects
- Young Roots: grants of £5,000 to £25,000
for projects involving 13 to 20-year-olds
- Heritage Grants: grants of £50,000 or more
for conservation and access projects.
Call the Heritage Lottery Fund helpline on 020 7591 6042 or
visit www.hlf.org.uk.
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