Funding

Young Camden Foundation and John Lyon’s Charity are delighted to launch for a third consecutive year the Supplementary Education Fund 2021.

This fund is designed to support out of schools settings attached to organisations and/or supplementary schools in Camden to provide high quality educational programmes. YCF will support extra-curricular educational activities that are accessible, fun and engaging whilst ensuring the safeguarding of children and young people.

Grants are available for local charities and organisations across the UK working to make a difference in their communities.


Objectives of Fund

The Foundation aims to transform communities and change lives across the UK by making grants to charities and grass-roots community organisations.

The first round of funding is called ‘Kits-for-Kids’, and aims to help as many children as possible to be active and enjoy sports by providing them with the right equipment to do so.

In the first round of funding, grants of up to £750 will be available to charities as part of the ‘Kits-for-Kids’ scheme. There are 250 grants available.

The Black Fund is a new fund created by Little Mix’s Leigh-Anne Pinnock and footballer Andre Gray. The fund is based on the traditional savings scheme Paadna. Their aim is to support groups whose work tackles racism or supports black communities.

Grants of up to £5,000 are available for groups with an annual income of less than £200,000. The organisation must also have
• At least one social media channel
• A current safeguarding policy
• Previous years account.

The deadline for applications is 30th June 2021.

The Arts Council's open access programme for arts, museums and libraries projects. Fund is open to individual artists and practitioners, community and cultural organisations, museums and libraries.

Grants awarded between £1,000 - £100,000.

The Youth Music Network have launched the NextGen Fund to help emerging musicians and behind the scenes creatives take a step forward in participating and changing the music industries.

Grants are available to a range of UK arts organisations for projects to transform their activities and build expertise, capacity and connections within and beyond the arts sector.

Youth Endowment Fund for innovative projects to reduce youth violence

In 2021 YEF will be running two £20 million themed grant rounds:

Another Chance: Diversion from the Criminal Justice System - the programme aims to find out how diversionary programmes can prevent children aged 10-17 years old from becoming violent and keep them out of the criminal justice system.

Applications from 19 April 2021 to 14 May 2021.

A Supportive Home: Helping Families to Overcome Challenges - aims to find the most effective approaches to help families and carers create a supportive home environment for children aged 6-14 years old (including looked-after children), reducing the likelihood of them becoming involved in violence.

Applications will open in September 2021

Find out more at an online workshop on 25 March.
https://youthendowmentfund.org.uk/funding/

Supporting organisations working with young and young adult carers. Young carers can face many barriers and challenges within schools which may lead to them not reaching their full academic potential. When young carers are recognised within the school environment, work can be done to ensure that the impact their caring role has on their education is addressed and minimised.

A quick way to apply for smaller amounts of funding between £300 and £10,000.

With the COVID-19 pandemic still with us, we'll continue to support people and communities most adversely impacted by COVID-19.

Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Comic Relief launch Tech for Good digital development fund ‘Build’.

Together they we will open the next round of funding for our joint Tech for Good programme, Build, in January 2021.

The Tech for Good programme was created in response to the need for charities to use technology to explore different approaches to delivering better services.

The Mayor of London announced £750,000 to work with communities to protect grassroots cultural centres, social clubs, youth, education and other spaces that are locally rooted and critical for supporting vulnerable groups during the pandemic.

Trust for London is an independent charitable foundation tackling poverty and inequality in the capital.

Trust for London support work providing greater insights into the root causes of London’s social problems and how they can be overcome; activities which help people improve their lives; and work empowering Londoners to influence and change policy, practice and public attitudes. There are seven funding programmes for 2018-2022.

The closing dates for applications are:
2 February 2021, 1pm
1 June 2021, 1pm
5 October 2021, 1pm

The Ragdoll Foundation’s Open Grants scheme has been designed to support the cultural sector’s work with children and young people. Its vision is to support projects where the concerns of childhood can be heard. All applications are expected to contribute to the Ragdoll Foundation’s primary purpose. The Foundation is mainly interested in applications that involve children during their early years, but appropriate projects for older children (up to 18 years) will also be considered.

Near Neighbours brings people together in communities that are religiously and ethnically diverse, so that they can get to know each other better, build relationships of trust, and collaborate together on initiatives that improve the local community they live in.

This Community Covid Relief Grant will;
-Support communities who have been affected by the Covid-19 Pandemic
-Support organisations who represent the communities they seek to serve
-Support projects that work to address social isolation, financial distress and digital exclusion
-To encourage projects that adapt and translate resources that will benefit their communities
-Interested in work that improves community engagement with public health initiatives.

Grant Rounds 1 and 2 are available to UK registered charities to support people who are homeless.

ROUND 2 OF GRANT APPLICATIONS OPENS ON 25TH NOVEMBER 2020

This fund is for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community groups and organisations, working to deliver COVID-19 services in England.

This grants programme is designed to help tackle the disproportionate impact of COVID 19 on BAME communities.

The Inclusive Recovery Fund is a £4.75 million fund to help social entrepreneurs in England, designed to help social entrepreneurs deliver their important services and grow their impact while adapting to the challenges the Coronavirus crisis has presented.

The fund aims to support leaders with
-direct first-hand experience of the social problems
-who are activating these experiences to inform
-shape and lead their social ventures to directly benefit the communities they share those experiences with

This fund is to help small and medium sized BAME groups and their communities build wellbeing, resilience and capacity through their various funded projects following the pandemic.

The UK Youth Fund – Covid Relief has been created to support youth organisations who have not had access to the crisis funding they require to survive the Covid pandemic.

Youth organisations with an income of under £250,000, that are based in, and deliver their work in England are eligible to apply for up to £50,000.

A £2.5 million fund, with up to £10,000 in match funding, as part of a support package to help clubs and organisations set up and run crowdfunding campaigns related to Covid-19, such as for a loss of income due to the pandemic.