Lloyds TSB Foundation

This year Lloyds TSB Foundation celebrates its 25th anniversary. The Foundation funds local, regional and national charities working to tackle disadvantage across England and Wales.  Seventy percent of our funding is for core costs, and our focus is on supporting underfunded charities that can make a significant difference to the lives of disadvantaged people by helping them to play a fuller role in the community.  Our strong local presence enables us to respond directly and promptly to local needs.

• We support registered charities whose core work helps disadvantaged people to play a fuller role in communities across England and Wales.
• We are particularly interested in work that achieves this through:
• improved social and community involvement
• improved life choices and chances
• helping people to be heard
• We are looking for work that directly or indirectly produces changes and benefits for users/beneficiaries.
• We fund running costs, including salaries to ensure that charities can maintain and develop their core work/services.
• We also provide funding for projects that build on charities' core work.

To check you are eligible and apply visit: http://www.lloydstsbfoundations.org.uk/Pages/Welcome.aspx

Santander Foundation

The Santander Foundation funding must directly help disadvantaged people through one or both of these charitable priorities:

• Education and training;
• Financial capability

Education and training: This could be any activity disadvantaged people undertake where they improve their confidence in a skill or their understanding of a subject. This does not have to be formal training or lead to a qualification, although those activities would be eligible too. Examples could include independent living skills, anger management, or improving self-esteem. Other examples could include reminiscence projects for older people and art and craft sessions for disadvantaged children. These are just a few examples and should not be regarded as a definitive list.

Financial capability: This priority covers activities which help disadvantaged people understand how to manage their money. It could include budgeting skills, accessing affordable credit as well as managing the challenges that arise from being a carer, unemployment, disability or relationship break up. Examples could be the costs of running a credit union, projects delivering financial advice and helping people to understand their benefit entitlement. Successful applications under this priority have included equipping a training kitchen for homeless people who learnt how to budget

effectively for their food and then went on to apply these principals to other parts of their lives.

Applications are invited from January 2011 onwards. Grants of up to £10,000 can be awarded anywhere in the UK. The average grant is £4,000. All funding is for one off donations. Grants are available to buy tangible items such as equipment or training materials. Grants are also available to fund project costs such as sessional worker fees, salaries, room hire or other costs incurred in the delivery of the charitable priorities.

Who can apply?

Organisations with charitable status for their work within the UK. This includes registered charities, Friendly Societies, Industrial & Provident Societies registered under charitable not membership rules (an exception to this are credit unions – who we can fund). Community Interest Companies or not-for-profit organisations are not funded unless they are also registered charities. More details from: http://www.santanderfoundation.org.uk/

Reaching Communities

The Reaching Communities programme has two strands:

1. Reaching Communities revenue and small capital – funding from £10,000 to £500,000 for revenue projects and/or smaller capital projects up to £50,000
2. Reaching Communities buildings – funding of between £100,000 and £500,000 for large capital projects

Reaching Communities funds projects that help people and communities most in need. Projects can be new or existing, or be the core work of your organisation.

Every project we fund must:

• Respond to need - Need is the term we use to describe a problem or issue, or situation where something needs to change to make things better for a person, or group of people or environment.
• Involve the people who will benefit from the project in planning and running the project

Achieve one or more of the following four outcomes:

1. People having better chances in life, with better access to training and development to improve their life skills
2. Stronger communities, with more active citizens working together to tackle their problems
3. Improved rural and urban environments, which communities are better able to access and enjoy
4. Healthier and more active people and communities.

Are you eligible?

You can apply for funding for a revenue or smaller capital project if you’re a voluntary and or community organisation, school, local authority, not for profit organisation or social enterprise.

You can apply for large capital funding of between £100,000 and £500,000 only if you are a unincorporated association, incorporated association, trust or company set up and registered as a charity; unincorporated association set up as a voluntary and community group; community interest company; not for profit company limited by guarantee; community benefit society; town or parish council and the eligibility checker confirms you are eligible – please check @ http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/prog_reaching_communities?tab=3&regioncode=-uk

Contacts

• Call our national helpline for advice on 0845 410 20 30.
• Email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• Visit our website at: http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/prog_reaching_communities?tab=1&regioncode=-uk

Awards for All England

Is a simple small grants scheme making awards of between £300 and £10,000. The programme aims to help improve local communities and the lives of people most in need.

They will fund projects that meet one or more of the following outcomes:

• People have better chances in life - with better access to training and development to improve their life skills.
• Stronger communities - with more active citizens working together to tackle their problems.
• Improved rural and urban environments - which communities are better able to access and enjoy.
• Healthier and more active people and communities.

For more information and to apply visit: http://www.awardsforall.org.uk/england/summary.html

Heritage Lottery Fund

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) sustains and transforms a wide range of heritage though innovative investment in projects with a lasting impact on people and places. As the largest dedicated funder of the UK’s heritage, with around £255million a year to invest in new projects and a considerable body of knowledge and evaluation over 15 years, we are also a leading advocate for the value of heritage to modern life. From museums, parks and historic places to archaeology, natural environment and cultural traditions, we invest in every part of our heritage. HLF has supported more than 30,000 projects allocating £4.5billion across the UK.

From rural landscapes and traditions, to cities and towns which were at the heart of the Industrial Revolution, heritage in the North West is rich and wide-ranging. Across the region, HLF is working with diverse communities to help create a sense of place and identity, and to regenerate communities.

We are keen to work together with local and regional groups to develop projects that will give people a better opportunity to experience, enjoy, care for and protect our heritage. We encourage any organisation which is planning to make an application for a heritage project to seek pre-application advice at an early stage.

For more information telephone: 0161 831 0850 and ask to speak to a member of the office or development team or visit: http://www.hlf.org.uk/InYourArea/NorthWest/Pages/Welcome.aspx