Funding and Tender Alerts
In addition to posting funding and tender alerts on this page, we also send out a monthly Funding Newsletter - you can read past issues here. If you wish to sign up to receive these bulletins, you can subscribe here.
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
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
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
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
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:
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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.
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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