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Funding Sources - Grants from Organisations (H-W)
Heritage Lottery Fund
The Heritage Lottery Fund distributes money raised by the national Lottery to support all aspects of heritage in the UK. It gives grants up to £50,000 to support a wide range of projects involving the local, regional and national heritage of the United Kingdom. Projects must satisfy 1 or more of 4 criteria;
1. to encourage more people to be involved and make decisions about their heritage;
2. to conserve the UK’s diverse heritage;
3. to ensure that everyone can learn about, have access to and enjoy their heritage;
4. to achieve a more equitable distribution of grants across the UK, by making more grants available to parts of the UK and communities which have received little funding from HLF to date.
North West Office Tel: 0161 831 0850
Landfill Tax
Landfill Tax Credits (LTC) can be spent on projects which provide and improve public amenities (Category D), or create, restore and manage areas specifically to increase biodiversity (Category DA). Up to £50,000 can be awarded to a project. Biffa and Hanson distribute LTC within 10 miles of their operations to registered Environmental Bodies (EBs). Schools cannot directly become EB’s but a “Friends of” group can be set up which can. There is guidance on this on ENTRUST’s website, in their “library” section, including a model constitution. To find out if your school is within 10 miles of a Biffa or Hanson operation, visit their websites and use the post code search facility.
Biffa: Hanson
Furthermore, both organisations offer smaller grants directly, rather than through LTC, to organisations within 10 miles of their operations. Organisations do not need to be registered EB’s to receive this funding.
Biffa Small Grants Scheme is open to any not-for-profit community led organisation with its own bank account. Groups can apply for between £250-£5,000 although the total cost of your project must be no more than £10,000. Funding is available for Wildlife and habitat conservation and creation, improving opportunities for informal education and lifelong learning and access to sport, culture or recreation.
Hanson Community Grants Scheme is open to any local community group or not-for-profit organisation with its own bank account. Grants of £250 - £4,000 are available for projects which create amenities for, and involve, local communities or wildlife and habitat conservation and creation, on sites with public access.
In both instance contact tel: 0870 036 1000, email: grants@rswt.org
Ineos Chlor Grants
Under the Landfill Tax, a small number of grants are available to schools for school grounds development in the Runcorn and Frodsham area. This is distributed by Cheshire Wildlife Trust and Mersey Forest, although applications should be made to Ineos Chlor. A maximum of 6 schools a year receive up to £3000 on a first come, first served basis. Contact Janet Ward for further information.
Living Spaces
No new applications being received
Local Heritage Initiative
The Local Heritage Initiative supports a wide range of local heritage projects and can cover a variety of activities Typical acceptable projects will help investigate, explain and care for local landscape, landmarks, traditions and culture. Grants of between £3,000 and £25,000.
North West LHI Adviser, Susannah England, Tel: 01768 865752
Lottery
The former National Lottery schemes (New Opportunities Fund (NOF) and Community Fund (CF)) have been combined to create the Big Lottery Fund. The Fund will deliver programmes across the UK that are designed to improve the quality of life for people and communities, address disadvantage and encourage community participation. A range of schemes under NOF and CF still operate. Find out which funding streams are available and their criteria Tel: 0207 211 1800, email: general.enquiries@biglotteryfund.org.uk.
MAGNET
Macclesfield Area Green NETwork have small grants of up to £500 for sustainability and environmental projects in the Macclesfield area. Grants are awarded twice per year in May and October.
Contact Abi Johnson at Groundwork Macclesfield & Vale Royal tel: 01606 723160
Marks and Spencer Community Involvement
The aim of the awards is to add value to the communities in which Marks and Spencers operates. Funding between £1000 - £10,000 is available for projects that improve employability and help others to help themselves.
Enquiries to: Community Involvement, D147, Marks & Spencer Plc, Michael House, Baker Street, London, W1A 1DN
Tel: 0207 2684502
Mersey Basin Campaign - Unilever Dragonfly Awards
The Unilever Dragonfly Awards reward projects that encourage and enable local people to take an interest and look after their waterside and their environment. There are four categories: Individual, Schools, Group and Overall. Winners receive a trophy, certificate and cash prize towards the future development of local projects. First prize receives £2500, with runners up prizes of £1000.
For example, the school winner in 2003 had been involved for many years in projects designed to improve the waterfront environment and raise awareness of the River Weaver. The school has focused on the environment, disabled access and environmental art. The children are involved in a wide range of projects including wildflower planting, design picnic table access for the disable and generally improving their surroundings.
Closing date – first week October. Contact 0161 2428200, web: Mersey Basin
National Grid Community 21 Awards
The scheme is currently undergoing changes and it is not yet certain whether the programme will be replaced. Contact National Grid on 02476 537777 for more information.
REEP
REEP is the Religious Education and Environment Programme. The REEP Garden Awards is a competition open to all schools. The task is to design a garden and submit your entry using information technology. Awards are for at least £500 and are given to projects which demonstrate either an awareness of faith tradition in their design, or the practice of stewardship in their function and design. Contact REEP on 020 72427147
Regional Arts Lottery Programme
The Regional Arts Lottery Programme provides funding for arts activity. Grants for the arts are for individuals, arts organisations, national touring and other people who use the arts in their work. They range between £200 - £30,000. At the level of individual schools it is likely that the Programme will consider funding projects with artists in residence where the beneficiaries include not only pupils from the school but also the wider community. Applicants must be formally constituted and partnership funding of 10% in cash from another source is required. Applications are accepted at any time. Tel: 0845 3006200, Web: Arts Council
The Foundation for Sport and the Arts
The Foundation, is supported by the Littlewoods, Vernons and Zetters football pool companies, aims to enhance the quality of life in communities through the encouragement and funding of sport and the arts at every level. Grants do not usually exceed £50,000, but may be used for a wide variety of purposes including playground equipment, soft impact surfaces & refurbishment of premises. Tel: 0151 259 5505, email: contact@thefsa.net, web: The Foundation for the Sports and the Arts
The Tree Council
Tree planting grants, applications by June 30th, allocated in autumn.
Tel 020 74079992, email info@treecouncil.org.uk
Transco Grassroots
Provides support to registered charities, community groups and schools working on projects to ‘protect, preserve and improve their own environments for the long term benefits of their community’.
Enquiries to: Mel Speight, Transco NW Tel: 01524 844938
Vale Royal Borough Council – Local Sustainability Grants
Local Sustainability Grants aims to encourage community participation in sustainable development in Vale Royal. It is open to all community groups, voluntary groups and schools within the Borough. Grants of up to £1000 are available to no more than 50% of project costs. Awards are made twice a year in May and September. Projects should involve a wide section of the community and address either local food, sustainable use of natural resources, protection of biodiversity, encouraging local decision making, encouraging local distinctiveness or education for sustainable development. Contact Laura Needham, Vale Royal Borough Council, Tel:01606 862862
Volvo Young Environmentalists Award and Practical Environmental Project Scheme
Run by Volvo Cars, these two linked initiatives enable children and young people between the ages of 10–16 to do something positive to help their local environment. There are £500 awards to Primary and Secondary schools for practical environmental projects. Projects should be submitted by August each year. This leads to the possibility of going through to The Volvo Adventure in Sweden where there is a prize up to $10,000. Grants of between £100 and £5,000 have been awarded to schools and community groups for environmental projects. For further details on both initiatives Tel: 0207 9321778
The Waterways Trust - Small Grants Scheme
Projects must be waterway-related and do at least one of the following:
• Provide lasting environmental enhancement
• Encourage public enjoyment and awareness of the waterways
• Actively involve and benefit the community
Grants of up to £1,000 are available and would not normally be the sole funder for a project, contributing a minimum of 20% of the total cost of the project. Grants may be considered for a phase of a larger project. Contact Jenny Rogers, The Waterways Trust. Tel: 0151 373 4387
Whitbread Volunteer Action Awards
Volunteer Action Awards are the "Oscars" of the volunteering world recognising and celebrating voluntary activity. They recognise the outstanding contribution made by individuals, organisations and companies to their local communities. Awards include the areas of charities, people with disabilities, the underprivileged, environmental concerns, sports activities, neighbourhood clubs, church, community youth groups or support in local schools. Individual regional winners will receive £1,000, half for the cause for which they were nominated, and half to be spent at their discretion. Winning organisations will receive a £1,000 grant to be used for developing volunteering in their organisation and the overall organisation winner will receive a further £1,000. Email: norina.underwood@whitbread.com
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