Funding Advice

Update on the Community Action Group Support Service

At Community Action we are currently undertaking a service review. We are doing this to ensure that we can continue to provide you with support and advice into the future. As many of you will recognise, resources continue to reduce, and the work for our sector is ever-increasing. Community Action (CA) wants to be able to provide a responsive, quality service that meets your needs.

To undertake this review effectively, we have made the difficult decision to suspend the Group Support Service for a short period. This will allow our team the time to concentrate on redesigning the service and identifying additional resources. This work will commence on Friday 23 August 2024.

CA is still open and offering support through its online content offer, website, social media, Reach Out bulletins, training programmes, grants, commissioned projects and one-off events. If you are a group or organisation that is currently receiving direct support from CA, one of the team will contact you over the next couple of weeks to get an overview of what your priorities are and to identify any outstanding issues, as well as what support needs you have, so that we can feed these into our review process.

We really appreciate your support and patience in this and we will keep you up to date with any further news. You can read the full update here.

Please note that whilst we are working on redesigning the service, some of the information listed on this page and the other pages in the Group Support and Funding section of the website may be out of date.

Websites for Finding Funding and Other Useful Information

There are a number of websites that will give you a guided search to identify the most appropriate funding opportunities.

Finding Funding

Grants Online - Free online funding database to search for available funding: www.grantsonline.org.uk/search/grants
My Funding Central - An online funding database, that is free if your turnover is below £30,000: www.myfundingcentral.co.uk/Content/ShowPage/Pricing
Grantfinder – contains details of over 7000 UK and European Union grants and loans – www.grantfinder.co.uk There is a subscription to access the website.
Grants for Schools – www.grants4schools.info – funding search for schools to find relevant sources of grants and funding. There is a subscription for this website.

Other Useful Websites

Charities Aid Foundation – works to create greater value for charities and social enterprise. They do this by transforming the way donations are made and the way charitable funds are managed – www.cafonline.org

HM Revenue and Customs – encourages Payroll Giving, Gift Aid and donations of shares through tax reform – www.hmrc.gov.uk

Just Giving – enables any charity, however small, to use the web to raise money at a very low cost - www.justgiving.com
Directory of Social Change – provides information and publications on both fundraising techniques and resources. The DSC website contains an online catalogue of all its funding books, courses and funding databases. For more information visit www.dsc.org.uk

National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NVCO) – provides fundraising advice to national organisations. For more information visit https://www.ncvo.org.uk/help-and-guidance/#/

Sign up for our Monthly Funding Bulletin

Every month we keep you updated with all the latest funding opportunities and funding information relating to the voluntary sector. You can read the latest one here. If you wish to sign up to receive these bulletins, you can subscribe here.

Funding & Tender Alerts

In between sending out our monthly Funding Newsletter we also post any funding opportunities that arise in this time on the Funding & Tender Alerts page.