This funding update assembles the national funding opportunities for the voluntary
and community youth sector as highlighted in the NCVYS Strategic Information
Service Bulletin during February.
It highlights funding with a focus on workforce development, but readers should be
aware that funds in the other sections may also support workforce development.
To receive these monthly funding updates by email please enter your details in this
form.
National grants and awards
European youth funding
The UK National Agency for Erasmus+ has announced a series of tailored advice
sessions for organisations across the UK to help support you through the
Erasmus+ application process. To find out more and book a place on a relevant
advice session, please go to the Advice Sessions page on the website.
The European Commission has launched the Erasmus+ website. It includes project
information and the results of all projects supported by under the integrated
Erasmus+ Programme for Education, Training, Youth and Sport.
The British Council and Ecorys have published application guidance for Erasmus+
applications for Key Action 1(Mobility for Young People and Youth Workers).
Technology
The Nominet Trust's Social Tech Seed programme supports entrepreneurs that are
focusing their talent and technology on tackling some of the big social issues in
sectors including education, employability and health care. The programme will
offer up to £50,000 in funding, as well as business support, to nurture, develop and
test early-stage ventures using digital for social impact.
Research
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has published a call for one or more projects to
investigate the nature, extent and changes in destitution in the UK. The works aims
to develop a conceptual map of destitution which provides insights into the types
of people affected, pathways into and out of it, drivers, risk factors and protective
factors. The project budget is up to £180,000. The deadline for applications is
Wednesday 26 March 2014.
The Office of the Children's Commissioner has published an invitation to tender to
research into the views and experiences of children and young people in residential
special schools. The total value of this contract is expected to be in the region of
£32,000 - £37,000. The deadline for applications is 13 March.
Skills
The Centre for Social Action Innovation Fund can provide financial support from
£50,000 to £500,000, usually in the form of grants to innovators that use social
action to help people improve their skills and get into work, including through
enterprise and self-employment. The deadline to submit an Expression of Interest is
31 March 2014 but submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Environment
The Big Lottery Fund has announced its newest funding programme which will
bring together the environment and young people. The £30 million Our Environment
Our Future programme will support projects that enable young people (aged 11-24)
to improve their local environment and increase their employability through
learning new skills. The Big Lottery Fund is seeking one UK-wide strategic partner
to coordinate the programme. The deadline for Stage One applications is 16 May.
1
Youth creativity
The Adobe Youth Voices Awards is a global challenge that invites youth to creatively express their vision
for driving change in local communities and to present potential solutions through visual storytelling.
Entries are eligible to win Adobe software, hardware, cash grants, and a charitable donation to a cause of
their choice. Media must be submitted by April 18, 2014.
Local communities
Awards for All, the small grants scheme from Big Lottery Fund, gives groups a quick and easy way to get
small Lottery grants of between £300 and £10,000. The programme aims to help improve local
communities and the lives of people most in need.
Active Communities is a funding programme for local people with great ideas about how to help create
fairer places to grow, live, work and age well. They are looking for ideas which will create stronger
connections between people and help make their local neighbourhoods even better. Not-for-profit groups
with an income of less than £350,000 a year can apply for between £5,000 and £50,000 for projects lasting
up to two years. Applications are currently being invited from organisations in Cheshire, Warrington, and
Halton (passed), Norfolk (passed), and North Yorkshire and York (deadline 12 March).
Victims
The Ministry of Justice has committed £500,000 over the next financial year to provide services, like advice
and counselling, to help male victims of rape and sexual violence who previously have not been able to
receive such support and encourage them to come forward after experiencing such a crime. The fund is
intended to help those aged 13 and over, but will also be available to "historic victims" who were under 13
at the time.
Sport
The Swimathon Foundation provides grants of between £300 and £2,500 to encourage and support
organisations in the UK which increase access to swimming and provide activities aimed at helping
individuals and communities enjoy the benefits of swimming throughout their lives. The deadline for
applications is 24 March.
Vulnerable young people
The Department for Education has published details of the £30m children's services innovation
programme, including its focus areas and how to apply for seed grants. The programme seeks to support
the development, testing and spreading of more effective ways of supporting children who need help from
children's social care services. Priority areas for the first year of the programme will be developing new
models of social work practice and rethinking support for vulnerable adolescents in or on the edge of care.
The Peter Cruddas Foundation aims to benefit disadvantaged and disengaged young people in the UK by
ensuring their funding reaches those most in need. Those they cannot help financially, they hope to help
in other ways through mentoring, business planning and networking. The deadline date for 2014 is 1
September.
Lottery projects
The National Lottery Awards are open to authorised representatives of projects that have received Lottery
funding at any time since 1994. The winner in each category will receive a cash prize of £2,000, which can
be put towards their project. Winners will be determined by a public vote and will appear at a BBC One
Awards Ceremony. The deadline for entries is 12 March.
Art and inspiration
The £45 million Arts Council England's Strategic Touring Programme is designed to encourage
collaboration between organisations, so that more people across England experience and are inspired by
the arts, particularly in places which rely on touring for much of their arts provision. Grants are for above
£15,000. The next deadline for application is Friday 2 May 2014.
Various causes
The Trusthouse Charitable Foundation's grants programme supports projects in the UK which address
issues in rural communities and/or areas of urban deprivation. It awards around 300 grants totalling
roughly £2 million each year. The Foundation awards Fast Track Grants of £5,000 and under, Small Grants
up to £10,000 and Large Grants up to £30,000.
2
Technology
The Big Lottery Fund (BIG) is announcing an investment of up to £15 million to build the skills that people
and organisations across the UK will need in order to take full advantage of support and services available
online. BIG's programme, which is still under development, will be open for applications in the autumn and
BIG expects to fund a very small number of UK-wide projects focussing on communities most in need. BIG
is announcing the programme now to give potential applicants the time to consider the sort of
partnerships that they will need to be put in place to meet the challenge of raising digital skills across the
UK.
Youth enterprise
UK Youth and Starbucks have announced that Starbucks Youth Action funding is available for young
people to deliver a project making a positive difference to people in their community. Young people aged
between 16-24 and living anywhere in England, Scotland or Wales can apply now for funding. Applications
are open until 9am on 17 March 2014.
Youth justice
The Youth Justice Board and Ministry of Justice wish to re-commission the operation and management of
Youth Detention Accommodation in three of the four Secure Training Centres. Claire Pardoe, Prison
Procurement Manager at MoJ, said: "We are actively encouraging the participation of the VCSE as part of
the supply chain that will deliver the contracted services. The requirement will be most relevant to VCSE
organisations delivering education, resettlement and rehabilitation related services to young people." For
more information please email YJB_STC_Project@yjb.gsi.gov.uk.
Local services
Locality's Our Place programme will provide a £4.3m package of support and grants to support at least 100
neighbourhoods to design and deliver local services that focus on local priorities and reduce costs.
 Getting Ready grants of £3,000 are available from January to March 2014 (or until a sufficient number
have been accepted onto the programme)

Getting Going grants of £10,000 will be available from May/June

Going Further grants of between £5,000 and £7,500 are for those who are prepared to push the
boundaries and up to £20,000 will be available for projects preparing to break new ground
Arts
Arts Council England has announced the total amount they will invest in arts and culture over the period
2015-18. The arts budget for 2015/16 includes three main funding streams:
 National Portfolio for Arts Organisations programme budget of £271 million of grant-in-aid and
approximately £60 million of National Lottery funding

An increase to the Grants for the Arts budget to £70 million Lottery funding to support individual artists,
community and cultural organisations

A Strategic Fund budget of £127 million Lottery funding to support the wider development of arts
organisations, participants and audiences across England
Sport
The Premier League & The FA Facilities Fund is offering grants of £10,000 - £500,000 to support the
development of new or refurbished local football facilities in England. Funding is available for projects
that:
 improve facilities for football and other sport

sustain or increase participation among children and adults

help children and adults to develop their physical, mental, social and moral capacities through regular
participation in sport
Applications may be submitted at any time.
3
Health and education
The Hilton in the Community Foundation wants to help young people have a brighter future by investing in
improving access to education and investing in the improvement of health care. It supports work with
children and young people who are disabled, hospitalised, homeless, or life limited. The Foundation does
not generally make awards of more than £30,000 per year to one organisation. The 2014 deadlines for
applications are 6 May, 29 July, and 14 October 2014.
Capital costs
The Clothworkers Foundation provides funding for capital costs such as building refurbishment and office
equipment for organisations which improve quality of life for people and communities facing
disadvantage. The Main Grants Programme has no maximum grant, though grants of more than £75,000
are rare, and the Small Grants Programme provides grants of between £500 and £10,000 for capital costs.
There are no deadlines for applications.
Sport
Boost Charitable Trust was created in 2005 to Build On Over-looked Sporting Talent, to champion the
disabled and disadvantaged and to inspire them to overcome their challenges through the power of sport.
Boost believes that sport is for everyone and they hope to work with people from all ages, races, colours,
creeds and physical abilities. The Trust will only support charities or non-profit making organisations with
a focus on sport.
Youth Contract delivery partners
Groundwork UK is the Prime Contractor to the Education Funding Agency for the delivery of the
government's 16-17 Youth Contract in a number of contract package areas (CPAs) (the East Midlands,
Greater Manchester & Cheshire, and Merseyside, Lancashire & Cumbria.)They are currently looking for
additional delivery partners to offer personalised mentoring support to NEET 16-17 year olds in these
areas. The programme aims to support NEET young people at the highest risk of long-term disengagement
into sustainable positive outcomes in the form of education, training or apprenticeships. Please contact
Anna Howe, Head of Programmes or Andy Harrison, Programmes Manager or call 0121 2368565 to find out
more.
Young entrepreneurs
Virgin has announced the launch of Virgin StartUp, a not-for-profit company, which will offer financial
support, mentoring and business advice to thousands of young entrepreneurs across the UK.
Working with The Start-Up Loans Company (SULC) as a delivery partner, Virgin StartUp will provide loans
to entrepreneurs between the ages of 18-30 across the UK.
Loans for start-ups
The Fredericks Foundation provides business support and microloan funding for start-ups and small
businesses in various areas across England. Loans are available from £500 to £10,000 per business, over
terms from six months to five years.
Online skills
The Big Lottery Fund has launched a Basic Online Skills, a £15 million programme to improve the basic
online skills of people across the UK who rarely or never use the internet. The Fund is looking for national
organisations or partnerships to explain how they could use between £5 million and £15 million to deliver
face-to-face training and support across the UK.
Green spaces
The £1m Rethinking Parks programme, which is being run jointly by Nesta, the Heritage Lottery Fund and
Big Lottery Fund, will award grants to support ideas for making green spaces financially sustainable. The
programme is offering funding from £50,000 to £100,000 for each project, plus a package of non-financial
support.
Disabled young people
The CLA Charitable Trust helps to provide facilities for the disabled to take part in country sports and
recreation and training in agriculture and horticulture. It also promotes education in the countryside for
disadvantaged children and young people. The average grant is in the region of £2,500.
Arts
The National Youth Arts Trust has been launched. It has been founded to provide access to the performing
arts for young people between the ages of 7 and 25 from non-privileged backgrounds.
4
General Causes
The Stuart Halbert Foundation supports requests under one of four broad categories: people; animal
welfare; armed forces; local community (defined as Tynedale Valley and beyond). It recently made grants
of £1.2 million to charities in the North East of England.
The Thomas Cook Children's Charity aims to help sick and disadvantaged children and young people (0 to
18 years) in the UK and Ireland. There is no set minimum or maximum level of grant; grants are made
depending on the availability of funds at any particular time.
The Charles Hayward Foundation, a trust giving out £1m a year, has published new guidelines and
refreshed its website. The key priorities remain heritage and conservation, criminal justice and overseas
work. Major grants (above £7,000) are now only available to charities with an income above £350,000.
Organisations with income less than that can apply to the small grant programme, which has older people
as an additional priority.
The Santander Foundation's Central Fund offers grants of up to £10,000 for projects to help disadvantaged
people through education and training or financial advice. There are no deadlines for applications.
The People's Postcode Trust Small Grants Programme offers grants of between £500 and £10,000 to small
organisations and community groups for projects lasting up to 6 months. Four funding rounds are held
per year, but they are open to different regions each time. The opening and closing dates for the 2014
funding rounds are now available.
EBM Charitable Trust offers grants to charitable organisations active in the UK with grant awards of
between £5,000 and £100,000. Youth development is one of the priority areas. The Trust does not have a
website or provide an email address so you need to contact: Keith Lawrence, E B M Charitable Trust,
Moore Stephens LLP, 150 Aldersgate Street, London EC1A 4AB. Tel: 020 7334 9191.
Steel Charitable Trust provides grants between £1,000 and £25,000 for: Arts and Culture, The Environment,
Disadvantaged People and Education.
The Allen Lane Foundation provides grants between £500-£15,000 for up to three years. Funding is
focused on a number of specific beneficiary groups, including asylum-seekers and refugees, offenders
and ex-offenders, people experiencing mental health problems and people experiencing violence or abuse.
The John Laing Charitable Trust has announced that uninvited applications will no longer be
processed. Only organisations that work within homelessness, disadvantaged and exploited young people,
education or community regeneration will be asked to register in order to be considered for invitation to
request for funding.
European causes
The European Charlemagne Youth Prize aims to encourage the development of European consciousness
among young people, as well as their participation in European integration projects. The Prize is awarded
to projects undertaken by young people which foster understanding, promote the development of a shared
sense of European identity, and offer practical examples of Europeans living together as one community.
The prize for the best project is €5000, the second, €3000 and the third, €2000.
Ecorys and the British Council have launched a joint interim website on Erasmus+, the new EU funding
programme for education, training, youth and sport. The website provides news, information and
resources for UK organisations on the new funding opportunities available from January 2014. The new
programme is currently in the process of being approved at European level. The website will be updated
with the latest details on the programme as and when they are released.
This bulletin is prepared by the National Council for Voluntary Youth Services. Please contact Dominic
Weinberg at NCVYS for more details, or email dominic@ncvys.org.uk
If you forward the bulletin to other peop le or use information from it in your own publications, please
make sure that NCVYS is credited.
Disclaimer: NCVYS is not responsible for the contents or reliability of linked websites provided in this
bulletin and does not necessarily endorse the views e xpressed within them. We cannot guarantee that
these web links will work all of the time and we have no control over availability of the linked pages.
The bulletin reader assumes full responsibility for using the information provided in this bulletin, and
neither NCVYS nor any of its employees is responsible
or liable for any claim, loss or damage resulting
5
from the use of this information.