Our Big Gig 2014 to Fund 150 Community Groups
Up to £400
Deadline 4 April
150 community groups will be selected to run an event over the 11 to 13 July weekend. Funded by the
Department for Communities and Local Government, Our Big Gig is an annual event that brings communities together to improve community cohesion and inspire people to take part in music making opportunities in their local area.
Funding for artists & bands (England)
Deadline 8 April
The Momentum Music Fund is a £500,000 fund to develop the careers of talented artists and bands. It is anticipated that gr ants of between £5,000 and £15,000 will be awarded to between 50 and 75 artists/bands over the next 2 years.
Elephant Trust Status
Maximum £2,000 (up to £5,000 may be considered)
Deadline 14 April
The Trust awards grants to artists, small organisations and galleries within the United Kingdom to make it possible for artists and those presenting their work to undertake and complete projects when frustrated by lack of funds.
Film Festival Fund
Maximum £300,000
Minimum £5,000
Deadline 22 April
Funding is available to support film festival activity across the UK.
Fair Chance Fund
Maximum £3,000,000
Minimum £500,000
Deadline 22 April
A £15 million payment by results programme that aims to improve outcomes for a group of young, homeless people whose needs are difficult to address using existing services but, if not addressed, are likely to lead to long-term benefit dependency, health problems and increased crime.
£1Million BFI Film Festival Fund open for applications (UK)
Deadline 22 April
The British Film Institute (BFI) has announced that funding is available to support Film Festivals. A total of £1 million per year will be available until 2017. The fund will support festivals that provide UK audiences with greater film choices and increase audiences for specialist and independent British films
Women Make Music Grant Scheme (UK)
Up to £5,000
Deadline 28 April
The Performing Right Society (PRS) has announced that its Women Make Music grant scheme is now open for applications. Through the programme, financial support is available to women musicians; and new music in any genre is welcome, from classical, jazz and experimental, to urban, electronica and pop.
People’s Health Trust Active Communities
Between £5,000 and £50,000
Deadline 30 April
People’s Health Trust invites local not-for-profit groups in Lambeth, Southwark, Bromley, Lewisham,
Greenwich and Bexley to apply to its Active Communities Funding Programme. The funding programme is for not-forprofit groups with an income of less than £350,000 a year, seeking investment for projects lasting up to two years. Local groups and organisations with great ideas to make their communities an even better place to live are invited to apply for funding to turn their ideas into reality.
Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year Award
£10,000
Deadline 1 May
The programme is made in association with the National Portrait Gallery and sees inspiring artists of all levels compete to win a £10,000 commission, to form part of the permanent collection of the Scottish
National Portrait Gallery.

Arts Council England Strategic Touring Programme (England)
In excess of £15,000
Deadline 2 May
The £45 million Strategic touring programme is for projects that encourage collaboration between organisations, so more people across England experience and are inspired by the arts, particularly in places which rely on touring for much of their arts provision. The funding is available to both organisations and individuals. Partnerships, networks and consortia can also apply.
Funding for Young Designers (UK)
£500
Deadline 5 May
Ideas Tap, a non-for-profit initiative supports young creative people between 16 and 25 years of age, has announced that its Top Up Fund: Design is open to applications. During this funding round the Fund aims to offer ten individuals or groups £500 each to help get their design project off the ground.
Community Radio Fund (UK)
Average grant has previously been £15,000
Deadline 7 May
Community Radio Stations can apply for funding to support their core running costs. These can include:
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Management costs
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Administration, financial management and reporting costs
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Fundraising to support the station
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Community outreach work
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Costs involved in using volunteers; etc.
There is no upper limit of grant that can be applied for, however applicants are asked to take note of previous grants awarded.
New Science in Community Fund
Three levels: up to £10,000; up to £20,000; up to £40,000
Deadline 16 May 2014
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has launched a new grants programme to support the development of projects which take science to diverse audiences, and engage them with science in their own communities.
The People’s Millions 2014 Invite UK Entries
Deadline 16 May
The competition is open for entries from voluntary and community groups, local authorities, schools, statutory health bodies and branches of organisations or partnerships. The People’s Millions is an annual TV competition run by the Big Lottery Fund and ITV News which awards Lottery funding to community projects that improve the lives of local people.
Funding for Summer Playschemes (UK)
Between £500 and £1,500
Deadline 18 May
The Hilden Charitable Fund has announced that its Summer Playscheme Grants Programme is now open for applications. The aim of the scheme is to help community groups run Summer Playschemes for the benefit of children of 5-18 years from refugee and ethnic minority families. The funding is available to voluntary agencies with an income of less than £120,000.
British Film Institute Programming Development Fund open for applications (UK)
Strand 1 £5,000 to £20,000
Strand 2 £15,000 to £150,000
Strand 3 £150,000 to £500,000
Deadline 2 June
The fund which is worth up to £1.4m per year to 2017 is designed to empower programmers and exhibitors to bring specialised and independent British films to audiences across the UK in fresh and original ways.
Clore Prize Fund (UK)
Deadline 6 June
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the Clore Duffield Foundation is making a £500,000 anniversary Clore
Prize Fund available to all past and present Clore Fellows across the Clore Leadership Programme and the
Clore Social Leadership Programme.

The Community Arts Fund/The Tall Ships Regatta
Deadline 30 June
The Fund will support a range of music and performance projects and participatory outdoor arts and events with a key focus on projects which can contribute to performances and activities in Royal Borough of
Greenwich’s Town Squares and Open Spaces during the Tall Ships Regatta. Applications for funding are invited from community based groups/organisations including those based outside Greenwich. Email: for information.
New Grant to Mark the Centenary of WW I (UK)
First World War: then and now is a rolling programme
Between £3,000 and £10,000
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has announced a new £6million small grants programme to help communities mark the Centenary of the First World War.
HLF - Our Heritage
Rolling programme
Grants of between £10,000 and £100,000
Funding is available for projects that make a lasting difference for heritage, people and communities in the
UK. The term 'heritage' refers to different things from the past that are valued and should be passed on to future generations and includes cultural traditions such as stories, festivals, crafts, music, dance and costumes.
Theatres Protection Fund (UK)
Applications can be submitted at any time
U p to £5,000
The Theatre Trust has announced that it is seeking applications through its Theatres Protection Fund for projects that address urgent building repairs, improve operational viability, introduce environmental improvements and which enhance physical accessibility. To be eligible, applicants have to own or manage theatres with titles or signed leases of more than 5 years on buildings.
Disabled People's User-Led Organisations (DPULO) Programme- Facilitation Fund
Up to £30,000 - no minimum
The Disabled People's UserLed Organisations (DPULO) Facilitation Fund’s aim is to provide financial support to DPULOs that they otherwise could not easily secure.
Co-operative Membership Community Fund
Grants between £100 and £2,000
The Fund provides grants to voluntary groups, community groups and local charities throughout the UK.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Arts Programme
The Foundation is currently accepting applications under its Arts Open Grants Programme from formally constituted groups.
Wakeham Trust
Grants between £75 to £750
Groups of individuals as well as small community and voluntary groups within the UK that want to improve their communities can apply for funding through The Trust. They are particularly interested in supporting community arts projects as well as other neighbourhood and community projects. Applications can be made at any time.
The Steel Charitable Trust Grants
Grants of between £1,000 and £25,000
Applications can be made at any time.
The Steel Charitable Trust is a grant-making trust supporting general charitable purposes. Grants are made to registered charities in the UK within the areas of arts and culture.
Garfield Weston Foundation
The Garfield Weston Foundation makes around 1,500 one-off grants per year across the UK.
Its priority areas include the arts, community, education, welfare, medical, youth, religion and environment.

Investment and contract readiness fund
The £10m three year Investment and Contract Readiness Fund on behalf of the Office for Civil Society is open. The Fund will support social ventures to build their capacity to be able to receive investment and bid for public service contracts. Grants between £50,000 and £150,000 will be available on a rolling basis to ambitious social ventures who will go on to raise at least £500,000 investment, or who want to bid for contracts over £1 million.
Foyle Foundation Small Grants Programme
Small charities operating in the areas of the arts and learning that have an annual turnover of less than
£100,000 per annum can apply for funding of between £1,000 and £10,000 through the Foyle Foundation’s
Small Grants Programme.
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation Arts Strand
Deadline ongoing
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Sustaining the viability of the arts sector through multi-year funding
Smaller grants to support organisations or projects which are testing out new ways of working
Providing funds to specialist infrastructure organisations to pass on to organisations
The development of emerging artists, emerging practice and new and more sustainable
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Arts organisations working with harder to reach groups and/or addressing difficult issues
Chapman Charitable Trust
Rolling programme
The majo rity of grants are of either £1,000 or £2,000. A few special projects receive £6,000.
The Trust supports charities in the areas of social services, culture and recreation, education and research, health, environment and heritage.
Tudor Trust grants for voluntary and community groups
Rolling programme
No minimum or maximum amount
The Tudor Trust is an independent grant-making trust which supports voluntary and community groups working in any part of the UK. The Trust particularly wants to help smaller, community-led organisations that work directly with people who are at the margins of society, and support positive changes in people’s lives and in their communities.
New £15m youth homelessness payment-by-results fund
A £15m fund to support young homeless people, where bidders will be assessed on the level of social investment they attract, has been jointly launched by two government departments. The Fair Chance Fund, which is jointly supported by the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Cabinet Office, is currently inviting expressions of interest. Full details can be found in this article .
Data Lab pilot will be extended for a further year
The pioneering Justice Data Lab pilot will be extended fo r a further year, along with a grant of £720,000 to provide support to the sector. The grant was awarded to a partnership led by the umbrella organisation
Clinks which aims to provide support to smaller voluntary organisations including those who specialise in rehabilitating specific groups of offenders support
Successful bids announced for £10 million capital funding to support drug and alcohol recovery
New government investment of £10 million has been awarded to services that are supporting drug and alcohol recovery across England. The capital funding is being distributed by Public Health England (PHE) via local authorities to service providers that support projects which contribute towards helping their clients to overcome dependency from drugs and alcohol. All recovery-focused adult drug and alcohol treatment and support services across England were entitled to bid for a share of the funding, provided that funding proposals were recovery-orientated and committed towards improving recovery outcomes.
The Lord Mayor's Dragon Awards 2014
Deadline 23 May
The Community Partners category rewards good practice and innovation by community organisations in working with businesses and in facilitating their involvement in the community. Making the application and attending applicant workshops are free of charge.

Lloyds Bank Community Fund invites nominations
Lloyds Bank is running its annual community fund promotion as part of its responsible business programme and inviting nominations for local good causes in the UK. Anyone over the age of 18 years and who is resident in the UK can nominate a project or a service that makes a positive difference to the local community for a cash prize. Awards range from £3,000 for a first place to £2,000 for a second place, £1,000 for a third place, and £500 for a fourth place.
Sport, physical activity and community funding information
London Community Foundation
The Foundation have host of grant opportunities for voluntary and community sector groups in Lewisham.
Charity Bank Publishes Guide to Charity Loans
Charity Bank has issued a brief Guide to Borrowing for Charity trustees to help trustees decide if taking out a loan is the right thing to do for their charity.
Google Launch Learning Hub for UK Charities
Google has launched a free initiative that intends to help 30,000 small and medium-sized charities enhance their fundraising capabilities by improving their digital abilities.
The Charity Commission , the regulator for charities in England and Wales has launched a new tool to help charities find umbrella and infrastructure bodies offering tailored advice and support.
Big Society Capital
A new financial institution set up by the UK government to finance charities and community groups has been launched. Big Society Capital will have £600million, of which the majority comes from unused cash in bank accounts that had been dormant for more than 15 years. The fund will back social enterprises that prove they can repay an investment through the income they generate.
Think Big
In partnership with the National Youth Agency and UK Youth, O2 has launched its Think Big social action programme to support young people in the UK. It’s designed to empower young people (aged between 13 and 25) who want to make positive changes to their communities.
Sign up to Localgiving.com and promote your charity to new donors
Localgiving.com is a new website for charities and community groups. It is specifically designed to support small, local charities by providing easy-to-use online marketing and donation tools that help to promote groups to local donors, engage with supporters and raise donations. For further information Anna Horsley at
The London Community Foundation annah@londoncf.org.uk, tel: 020 7582 5117
ProHelp
A national network of over 1,000 professional firms, each of which has offered to provide professional advice and strategic support free of charge to community groups and voluntary organisations in their local area.
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