Grants from Suffolk Coastal
Suffolk Coastal has an annual
budget of around £170,000 for grants to support local
organisations that are providing useful services or facilities
across the district. These can either be capital grants, to
pay or help pay for an expensive piece of equipment or
building improvement, or revenue grants that are for more
routine running or day-to-day costs.
Revenue grants are awarded once a year in April. Application
forms are usually available in October and the closing date for
applications is the end of January.
Capital grants are awarded twice a year. The closing date
for applications for consideration by the Council's Grants Task
Group in January/February is 30 September and the grant is
available from April onwards. The closing date for applications for
consideration in June/July is 30 April when the grant is available
immediately. The maximum of any capital grant will be 40% of the
capital cost of a scheme to a maximum of £10,000.
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To find out more about capital or revenue grants
from Suffolk Coastal contact us on 01394
444626 or email
committee.section@suffolkcoastal.gov.uk.
Free funding and development surgeries
If you are a community, voluntary or faith organisation and you
need some funding to start up or develop your group you can take
advantage of the free monthly funding and development surgeries run
by the Suffolk Coastal Resource Network. One hour slots are
available for you to talk to advisors from the Resource Network and
Suffolk County Council. The surgery dates and venues for 2008
are:
- Tuesday 28 October - Wickham Market
- Tuesday 11 November - Framlingham
- Thursday 27 November - Saxmundham
- Tuesday 9 December - Aldeburgh
Services offered include help with:
- Organisational health check
- Policies and the running of your organisation or group
- Achieving charitable status
- Legal issues
- Financial health check
- Personnel issues
- Finding appropriate funding sources
- Writing your funding applications
To book your appointment contact Karen Lawson at the Suffolk
Coastal Resource Network on 01473 275195 or email
karen.lawson@savo.co.uk.
Sources of grants and funding
Listed below are over twenty organisations that are sources of
funding with an indication of the types of projects they support.
More detailed information can be found on their websites.
If you would like to search for other sources of funding, try
the Grantnet website (new window).
Action for Market
Towns (new window)
A not-for-profit membership association promoting the vitality and
viability of small towns across the UK. Offers members assistance
in accessing funding.
Contact: 0845 644 6202
Email: info@towns.org.uk
Awards for All (new window)
Grants of
between £300 and £10,000 for people to take part in art, sport,
heritage and community activities, and projects that promote
education, the environment and health in the local community.
Contact: 0845 600 2040
Email:
general.enquiries@awardsforall.org.uk
Biffaward (new window)
Funds projects which provide and improve public amenities for
communities or projects that increase or maintain biodiversity
within 10 miles of a Biffa operation. The fund offers three levels
of support providing grants from £250 up to £5,000 from its Small
Grants Scheme, between 5,000 and £50,000 from its Main Grants
Scheme and between £150,000 and £500,000 under its Flagship
Scheme.
Contact: 01636 670000
Email: grants@rswt.org
Big Lottery Fund (new window)
Details of
current funding programmes including The People's Millions which
gives people a say in how Lottery money is spent in local
communities.
Contact: 0845 410 2030
Email:
general.enquiries@biglotteryfund.org.uk
Charles Hayward Foundation (new
window)
Makes grants to charities and charitable
organisations which are registered in the UK. Funding areas include
heritage and conservation, criminal justice, hospices, older people
and youth at risk..
Contact: 020 7370 7063
English Heritage (new window)
Grant schemes designed to help with the protection and promotion of
the historic environment including repair grants to historic
buildings, places of worship and war memorials.
Contact: 01223 582700
Email:
eastofengland@english-heritage.org.uk
Esmee Fairbain Foundation (new
window)
Makes grants to organisations which aim to improve
the quality of life for people and communities in the UK, both now
and in the future. The Foundation has a main grant-making fund
which supports work that focuses on the UK’s cultural life,
education, the natural environment and enabling people who are
disadvantaged to participate more fully in society. It also
allocates funds to specific strands of work which currently
includes biodiversity, museum and heritage collections and new
approaches to learning.
Contact: 020 7297 4700
Email:
info@esmeefairbairn.org.uk
Football Foundation (new window)
Makes grants ranging from £100 to £1m for improvements to
facilities in parks, local leagues and schools and to increase
participation in grass roots football.
Contact: 0845 345 4555
Email:
enquiries@footballfoundation.org.uk
Foundation for
Sports and the Arts (new window)
Makes grants to a wide range of sporting and artistic causes.
Contact: 0151 259 5505
Email:
contact@thefsa.net
Futurebuilders England (new
window)
Government-backed fund offering support and
investment to third sector organisations delivering public
services. They offer investment packages, starting at £50,000, to
third sector organisations that want to improve public services in
England.
Contact: 020 7927 6340
Email:
info@futurebuilders-england.org.uk
Garfield Weston Foundation (new
window)
Funds projects in the following categories: arts,
community, education, welfare, medical, social, religion, youth and
environment. Bodies applying for funding should normally be UK
registered charities, but this restriction does not apply to a
limited number of exempt organisations - churches, educational
establishments, hospitals and housing corporations.
Contact: 020 7399 6565
Government Funding Portal (new window)
Website giving access to Government grants for voluntary and
community organisations.
Grants for the Arts (new window)
Grants for individuals, arts organisations and other people who use
the arts in their work.
Contact: 0845 300 6200
Heritage Lottery Fund (new
window)
Gives grants to a wide range of heritage
projects including community focussed heritage projects
(Heritage Grants, Awards for All, Your Heritage), towns
(Townscape Heritage Initiative), places of worship, landscapes
(Landscape Partnerships) and young people (Young Roots).
Contact: 01223 224 881
Email:
eastofengland@hlf.org.uk
j4bCommunity (new window)
One of the most comprehensive voluntary and community sector grants
& funding databases in the UK providing up-to-the-minute news
and advice on funding sources.
Lankelly Chase Foundation (new window)
Main grant-making programmes are the Arts, Heritage, Breaking the
Cycle (domestic abuse), Developing Communities, Free and Quiet
minds (black and ethnic minority groups), Offenders and
Society.
Contact: 01235 820044
Lottery Funding (new window)
Lottery Funding is a joint website run by all lottery funders in
the UK which allows you to search information on current funding
programmes across the UK.
Paul Hamlyn
Foundation (new window)
Makes grants to organisations
organisations whose charitable activities help people to realise
their potential and have a better quality of life. The Foundation's
funding programmes are focussed on the arts, education and learning
and social justice. Contact: 020 7227 3500
Email:
information@phf.org.uk
Ruralnet (new
window)
Rural regeneration charity which promotes a living and working
countryside and finds new ways to help rural communities improve
and strengthen their economies. Ruralnet online provides its
members with online services such as Experts Online and xPRESS
Digest, a rural regeneration and funding news service.
Contact: 0845 1300 411
Email:
info@ruralnetuk.org
Single Suffolk Gateway (new window)
The Suffolk Single Gateway is a 'one stop shop' for publicising and
allocating Suffolk County Council grants, to voluntary and
community groups.
Contact: 01473 264653
Sita
Trust (new window)
Supports community improvement projects
around landfill sites owned by the waste management company SITA UK
and nature projects around any landfill site in England. Runs the
England-wide GreenPrints scheme providing funding and practical
support to make it easier for people aged between 16-25 to start
making a difference to their local environment.
Contact: 01454 262910
Email:
sita.trust@sita.co.uk
Sport
England (new window)
Invests in projects which help people
start, stay and succeed in sport.
Contact: 0845 8508 508
Suffolk ACRE – funding for Parish Plans (new
window)
Suffolk ACRE is managing Defra's Rural Social
Communities Programme funding providing Parish Plan grants to
community led steering groups, along with advice, support and
workshops.
Contact: 01473
242500
parishplans@suffolkacre.org.uk
Suffolk Environmental Trust (new window)
Allocates grants of up to £20,000 for community and environmental
projects from the Landfill Communities Fund. All projects must be
within 10 miles of a registered landfill site in Suffolk.
Contact: 01394 675299
Email:
djs.set@gmx.net
The Baring Foundation (new window)
Gives money to charities and voluntary organisations pursuing
charitable purposes and have specific grants programmes concerned
with strengthening the voluntary sector, the arts and international
development.
Contact: 020 7767 1348
Email:
baring.foundation@uk.ing.com