Funding and Tender Alerts

Derby Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) Programme - Easter 2025

The Holiday Activities and Food Programme aims to provide enriching activities and a healthy meal for disadvantaged children in the Easter, Summer, and Christmas school holidays.

The Department for Education has now confirmed that the HAF programme will be funded throughout 2025. We have yet to hear what Derby's allocation will be but are continuing with the EOI process for Easter 2025 so we are in a position to deliver a similar level of provision as in previous years

The funding can enable local groups to provide holiday activities and food to school-aged children from Reception to Year 11 (inclusive) who are eligible for free school meals (FSM) in Derby. This fund is open to schools, the voluntary sector and private providers who can meet the objectives of the programme, and from organisations who would be interested in 'scaling up' their current provision to meet the needs of a wider cohort of children and families. We would welcome joint applications from organisations working in partnership to offer children and young people holiday club experiences, ensuring the diverse needs of children in our city are taken into consideration.

Please read the guidance carefully before beginning your Expression of Interest (EOI) as there have been changes since 2024. To be considered for grant funding you will need to complete the EOI form and submit it to Community Action by 27 January 2025 at 8:00am. You can either complete the finance section within the EOI or supply it separately via the Finance Section spreadsheet. All of these documents are available to download below:

• Derby HAF Easter 2025 - Programme Guidance
• Derby HAF Easter 2025 - Expression of Interest Form
• Derby HAF Easter 2025 - EOI Finance Section

Please contact the HAF team with any queries, or if you would like to discuss your EOI prior to submitting. You can reach us from 3 January 2025 by emailing haf@communityactionderby.org.uk

Deadline for applications: Monday 27 January 2025 at 8am

Derby Health Inequalities Partnership (DHIP) Vaccination Grant: Wave 2

The COVID-19 pandemic shone a light on the existing inequalities in health outcomes experienced in Derby by Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic populations, along with people who live in areas of deprivation. As a result, Derby City Council and Community Action Derby jointly established the Derby Health Inequalities Partnership (DHIP) to support a community-led response to these issues.

Funding has been secured from NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) through the Access and Inequality (A&I) funding initiative to support the continuation and further development of DHIP’s Vaccination Grant programme.

The grant will be used by selected small community organisations to promote vaccine information amongst hard-to-reach communities in Derby City by carrying out community event(s), with a focus on COVID-19 and Flu. The programme will target communities disproportionally affected by COVID-19 infection and mortality by developing a better understanding of vaccines and residents' health literacy and needs.

Groups can apply for a maximum of £2,500 to cover all costs associated with the project.

This fund is open to voluntary sector organisations that can meet the charitable objectives of the programme, and from organisations who would be interested in 'scaling up' their current provision to reduce health inequalities. Organisations should have a maximum turnover of £100,000. Priority will be given to smaller organisations with a turnover of less than £50,000.

Deadline for applications: Friday 24 January 2025

For more information and to apply, please read the Guidance Notes first and then complete and return the Application Form -  both available below:

• DHIP Vaccination Grant Wave 2 - Guidance Notes
• DHIP Vaccination Grant Wave 2 - EOI Application Form

If you have any further questions about the Vaccination Grants, these can be directed via email to:

• Ailya Habib - ailya.habib@communityactionderby.org.uk or
• Natasha Cover - natasha.cover@communityactionderby.org.uk

November 2024 Funding Newsletter

We've just sent out our latest Funding Newsletter!

Read it here

Opportunities include:

• The Windrush Day Grant Scheme 2025 - Grants of up to £50,000 available to celebrate the Windrush generation
• The Childs Charitable Trust Grants - Grants available to organisations that actively share the Christian gospel in their work
• The Hedley Foundation Grants - Grants up to £5,000 awarded to charities that are able to demonstrate quantifiable outcomes to beneficiaries
• Grants to Charities - The Ironmongers’ Company - Grants up to £10,000 available to enable disadvantaged young people reach their potential
• Help The Homeless Grant Scheme - Grants up to £5,000 available to UK-registered charities that support the homeless
• Music for All Grants - Grants up to £2,000 available to support music making
• The Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Arts Fund - Funding of between £90,000 and £300,000 over three years is available to support cultural organisations
• And much more!

Read it here

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Derby Community Lottery - Register as a good cause today!

Derby Community Lottery is a weekly online lottery. All funds raised go to good causes that benefit the local community in Derby. 

Good causes that support Derby can get their own page on the site. For every £1 ticket sold, the chosen cause will receive 50p, with an additional 10p going into a Central Fund that will be distributed to other causes in the community.

Who can apply?

Your organisation must:

• Provide community activities or services within Derby, which are of benefit to the residents of Derby
• Have a formal constitution or set of rules
• Have a bank account requiring at least two unrelated signatories
• Operate with no undue restrictions on membership

And be either:

• A constituted group with a volunteer management committee with a minimum of three unrelated members that meets on a regular basis (at least three times per year)
• A registered charity, with a board of trustees
• A registered Community Interest Company.

How to apply:

• Visit the Derby Community Lottery site or click here.
• Follow the instructions on the screen and fill in the required details.
• Community Action Derby will check and approve the good causes.
• Once the cause has been approved, causes will have their own Derby Community Lottery web page and can start selling tickets in 1-2 working days.
• All the good cause needs to do is market the lottery to their supporters.
• Every month the good cause will get funds they’ve raised directly into their nominated bank account.

Deadline: There is no deadline to be a good cause

If you have any questions regarding the Derby Community Lottery or signing up to be a good cause, see our Frequently Asked Questions brochure here

Alternatively, you can contact us here:

Email: support@DerbyCommunityLottery.co.uk

Call: 01332 307308

Easyfundraising: Festive fundraising for your organisation

Are you looking for a simple festive fundraising idea?

Did you know that 70% of shoppers will do their Christmas shopping online this year and that this can easily turn into funding for your organisation?

By registering your good cause with Easyfundraising, Christmas gift retailers like eBay, Amazon, Argos, John Lewis and more, will donate money to your organisation when your supporters shop with them, at no extra cost to the shopper.

To take advantage of this festive fundraising idea, register your organisation on the easy fundraising website. Then all you need to do is tell your supporters about it and watch the donations come in!

Grants of up to £5 Million Available to Foster Stronger Community Connections

Charities and other not-for-profit organisations that want to help communities come together and make the UK a better-connected society can apply for grants of between £500,000 and £5 million through the National Lottery Community Fund (NLCF)—UK Fund.

The fund is open to UK-based registered charities, community interest companies, charitable incorporated organisations, community benefit societies, co-operative societies, constituted voluntary or community organisations, statutory bodies, companies limited by guarantee, and partnerships of organisations.

The fund will fund up to 20 organisations annually for projects that can run for up to 10 years.

The fund is looking to support projects that:

• Improve relationships between people with different life experiences. For example, bring together people from different backgrounds, generations, or places.
• Help people and communities who find it difficult to meet face-to-face to make meaningful connections online - For example, because of physical or mental health or poor transport links. Or because they live far apart from other people who have a shared identity or experience to them.
• Help people from all backgrounds influence the future of their communities, such as by setting up ways for communities to influence decisions that affect them.
• Help children and young people facing specific challenges change the systems that affect them by making their voices heard and acted on.
• Help more organisations involve and listen to children and young people, using what they say to improve their communities and the systems and services they rely on.

The funding can be used for:

• Staff costs, including sessional workers
• Development work (testing new ways of working, staff training and development, developing governance, tech or IT upgrades and purchases, sharing learning)
• Transport
• Utilities and running costs
• Volunteer expenses
• Learning and evaluation
• Equipment
• Capital costs (we can consider funding capital costs but do not expect these costs to be a significant amount of the proposed budget)
• Costs associated with delivering your project in other languages – for example, in Welsh.

Projects must demonstrate that they have the potential to benefit communities across the UK, scale their impact, and focus on equity.

There is no deadline and applications can be submitted at any time.

For more information / to apply visit: www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/funding/programmes/the-uk-fund

Grants for small UK registered charities operating across the spectrum of social need

The Hedley Foundation is an endowed grant giving charitable foundation which supports small UK registered charities operating across the spectrum of social need.

The Trustees seek to help and improve the quality of life of people in the UK, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds. This is achieved by making grants, within budget, to registered charities for the benefit of young people, disabled people, elderly people, the terminally ill and otherwise disadvantaged people and their carers.

Grants are awarded to charities that are able to demonstrate quantifiable outcomes to beneficiaries. Typically, grants of up to £5,000 are made with occasional larger sums to charities where high impact can be achieved. Similarly, smaller charities often benefit from smaller grants of £250 upwards.  

Grants will not fund core salaries, building construction, general running costs, transport, financial deficits or overseas projects.  

UK registered charities with an annual income below £1m can apply, except those that received a grant from The Hedley Foundation, or submitted an unsuccessful application to the Foundation, within the last two years.

Applications submitted on behalf of a CIC, for religious institutions, museums or for an individual will not be accepted. 

Trustees meet four times per year to review grant applications.

For more information, please visit: www.hedleyfoundation.org.uk/apply-now

Grants to support projects that provide opportunities for disadvantaged children and young people to fulfil their potential

The Ironmongers’ Company wishes to support projects that provide opportunities for disadvantaged children and young people to fulfil their potential.

Registered charities that work with disadvantaged children under the age of 25 can apply for grants from £500 up to around £10,000. The average grant awarded is £4,000.

Projects must meet all of the following criteria:

• For children and young people under the age of 25 in the UK who are disadvantaged
• Consist of educational activities that develop learning, motivation and skills
• Have clear aims and objectives to be met within a planned timescale

Projects could, for example:

• support special educational needs,
• address behavioural problems
• promote citizenship, parenting or life skills.

Preference will be given to projects piloting new approaches where the outcomes will be disseminated to a wider audience.

There are two application rounds per year, which open in Spring and Autumn.

For more information and to apply, please visit: www.ironmongers.org/helping-charitable-organisations

Help The Homeless Grant Scheme

UK-registered charities that support the homeless can apply for up to £5,000 in funding from Help the Homeless.

Funding will only be provided for 'capital' projects, not core or running costs. All applications must relate to projects that assist individuals in their return to mainstream society, rather than simply offering shelter or other forms of support.

In order to be eligible for this funding, your organisation must be registered as a UK charity with the Charity Commission and have an annual turnover of under £500,000.

The quarterly deadlines for applications for funding each year are: 5pm on 15 March/15 June/15 September/15 December.

For more information, please visit: www.help-the-homeless.org.uk/applying-for-funding

Music for All Grants

Music for All is a UK charity that promotes music making. Grants are available for both individuals and community projects. This includes, but is not limited to: schools or any form of educational establishment, community projects, charities, organisations and companies. You do not have to be a registered charity to apply. Grants tend to be up to £2,000 for projects and up to £800 for individuals.

For more information please visit: www.musicforall.org.uk/apply-for-funding/application-process

Funding focusing on arts, education and learning, migration and young people

The Paul Hamlyn Foundation has several funds, with a focus on arts, education and learning, migration and young people.

The Foundation's current funds with a rolling application cycle are:

Migration Fund

• Aim: To bring about a world in which everyone is free to move, and no one is forced to move.
• Amount: Up to £60,000 per year (3 to 4 years); up to £50,000 per year (5 years)
• Duration: 3 to 5 years

Youth Fund

• Aim: To fund organisations who work with young people (14–25) to drive change so that future generations of young people can thrive.
• Amount: Up to £150,000
• Duration: 3 years

Arts-based Learning Fund

• Aim: To support arts and cultural organisations to work in partnership with schools and make arts-based learning a core part of education.
• Amount: £30,000 to £300,000; up to £100,000 per year
• Duration: 1 to 4 years

For more information, please visit: www.phf.org.uk/funding

Grants for projects that enhance and support the lives of disadvantaged children and young people

Wooden Spoon is the children’s charity of rugby, and funds projects across the UK and Ireland. Schools and not-for-profit organisations can apply for funding for UK projects that enhance and support the lives of children and young people who are disadvantaged physically, mentally, or socially.

Projects must fall within Wooden Spoon’s Vision Statement: “Through the power of rugby, every child and young person has access to the best life opportunities, no matter what their background”. Projects must have a minimum predicted lifespan of five years. Grants will not be considered for salaries, administration costs, professional fees and ongoing overheads related to a capital project. There is no minimum or maximum grant limit.

Applications can be submitted at any time.

For more information and to apply, please visit: https://woodenspoon.org.uk/apply-for-a-grant

Grants for musical entertainment and related activities for the elderly

The Concertina Charitable Trust makes grants of up to £250 to charitable bodies that provide musical entertainment and related activities for the elderly. They are particularly keen to support smaller organisations that might otherwise find it difficult to gain funding.

Some of the charities that have received grants from Concertina include:

• Theatre Chipping Norton to help fund music recitals in six care homes
• Sue Ryder Care for music therapy workshops at Birchley Hall 
• Care homes for the elderly to provide musical entertainment for their residents.

Trustees review applications on a twice-yearly basis, with deadlines of 30 April and 31 October.

For more information, please visit: www.concertinamusic.org.uk/Grants

Co-operative Bank - Customer Donation Fund

Community Directplus is a Charity and Community bank account available from the Co-operative Bank.

Registered Charities, Community Interest Companies, Co-operatives and Credit Unions with a Community Directplus account can apply for up to £1,000 from the Customer Donation Fund.

Previous projects supported include:

• Digital Life Skills CIC which works to give children and young people a better digital future by empowering them to navigate the growing online world.
• Wiltshire Wood Recycling, a not for profit organisations, which received funding towards new tools, boots, hard hats and high-viz jackets for the workers.

Applications are open all year round: Applications received from 1 October to 31 March are assessed in April whilst applications received from 1 April to 30 September are assessed in October.

For more information please visit: 
www.co-operativebank.co.uk/business/community/customer-donation-fund

Children in Need - Core Costs Funding

Charities and not-for-profit organisations can now apply for the Children in Need Core Costs Funding Stream, which supports day-to-day operational expenses such as management, HR, office expenses, accountancy, communications, and governance.

Organisations must be not-for-profit and serve young people aged 18 or under in the UK, Isle of Man, or Channel Islands.

Eligible organisations can receive up to £120,000 over three years (£40,000 annually). Quicker decisions are available for grants of £15,000 or less per year. Applications over £15,000 per year require registration with the appropriate regulatory body.

There is no application deadline, organisations can apply at any time.

For more information please visit: www.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk/grants/apply/core-costs

National Churches Trust Grants

The National Churches Trust supports a variety of churches, chapels and meeting houses across the United Kingdom with its grants programmes.

Various grants are available to any Christian place of worship in the UK that is open for regular worship. The grants are focused on helping to keep church buildings in good repair, open for worship and community activities, and to allow them to continue to serve people, communities and visitors in all sorts of ways.

For example, you could be looking to repair your roof, install a kitchen or accessible toilets, clear asbestos or simply need help undertaking regular essential maintenance to your building.

Decisions on all applications are made by the Grants Committee, which meets three times a year (usually March, July and November).

For more information please visit: www.nationalchurchestrust.org/get-support/grants/medium-grants

Severn Trent Water Community Fund

Local charities, voluntary and community groups, schools, colleges and local authorities or parish councils in the Severn Trent Water region can apply for grants of between £2,000 and £100,000 to support local community projects.

The funding will support projects that help people lead healthier lifestyles, gain new skills, create better places to live in and use, and protect the natural environment.

There are currently two pots of funding available:

• New project funding - Grants of between £2k and £100 for brand new projects that have genuine community need and a real impact on improving community wellbeing.

• Core funding - Grants of between £5k and £20k for organisations that deliver vital community services, continue existing delivery.

For more information, please visit: www.stwater.co.uk/about-us/severn-trent-community-fund