Strictly Wheelchair Dancing Celebrates Donation from the Galaxy Hot Chocolate Fund
Strictly Wheelchair Dancing, based in Manchester, is celebrating after receiving a £300 donation from the GALAXY Hot Chocolate Fund.
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Google Global Impact Awards
How would you use technology to change the world?
If you are a British non-profit, Google are inviting you to tell them how you would use innovation to tackle the world’s toughest problems and transform lives.
Applicants are invited to submit a technology-based project that has the potential to change society on a large scale. Google will review your projects based on three criteria:
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Woodward Charitable Trust - Children's Summer Playschemes 2013
Each year the trustees of the Woodward Charitable Trust set aside funds for summer playschemes for children between the ages of 5-16 years.
Most grants awarded are in the range of £500 to £1,000. Around 35 grants are made each year.
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Time to Change grants fund – Round 3 now open
Want to run a project to challenge stigma and discrimination in your community and beyond?
The Time to Change grants fund could support you to do this. The Grants will fund projects that bring people with and without mental health problems together and create opportunities for them to have meaningful conversations.
Projects must be led by people with experience of mental health problems. This means that people with first-hand experience take a lead at all levels and stages, from designing the project, to managing and evaluating the project.
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Esmee Fairburn Foundation – Food Strand
The Esmee Fairburn Foundation has a long standing interest in food and in its impact on people, communities and the wider environment.
The Food Strand supports work that demonstrates the important role food plays in wellbeing and that connects people to the food that they eat. As part of this primary aim the Strand seeks to bring about more sustainable food production and consumption policies and practices.
The Strand is open to both large-scale strategic interventions and innovative local work.
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Donate Mobile
New mobile phone service provider Donate Mobile, a dedicated third sector mobile phone service, has launched.
A simple SIM card swap to Donate Mobile enables 10% of a customer’s mobile phone bill to go to the customer’s nominated charity, at no extra cost to either the customer or the charity: Gift Aid can be applied to all qualifying donations.
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BBC Children in Need Small Grants and Main Grants Programmes – 2013 Deadlines
BBC Children in Need's Small Grants programme and Main Grants Prograemmes are open to charities and not-for-profit organisations to apply to.
The BBC Children in Need focus firmly on children and young people experiencing disadvantage. BBC Children in Need fund organisations working to combat this disadvantage and to make a real difference to children and young people's lives.
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Charities Online: Gift Aid is going online
From 22 April 2013, charities and Community Amateur Sports Clubs (CASCs) can sign up to make repayment claims electronically.
The new service, Charities Online, is being introduced in response to customer feedback. It will make repayment claims faster and easier by filing online. The current print and post repayment form will be replaced by three options for making claims.
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Social investment boosted by Big Lottery Fund ‘kick start’
The Big Lottery Fund (BIG) has launched a Kick-Starter fund to support organisations wishing to showcase the impact of their innovative projects to potential social investors.
The news comes as David Cameron prepares to use the UK’s presidency of the G8 Summit in June to put social investment on the global political agenda.
As of May 2013, England-based social businesses and those behind social investment products such as charitable bonds will be able to apply to BIG’s £299,975 Kick-Starter fund to pay for the development of a social impact report.
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Heritage Lottery Fund Sharing Heritage Programme
Not for profit organisations including community groups, social enterprises, community/parish councils and local authorities can apply for grants of between £3,000 and £10,000 for projects which make a difference to people, heritage and communities across the UK.
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