Health & welfare
Civil Society - Charity Awards
The Charity Awards recognise and celebrate excellence in the leadership and management of charities across the UK. UK charities of any size are eligible to apply under a number of broad categories of activity, as follows: advice, support and advocacy; arts, culture and heritage; children and youth; disability; education and training; environment and conservation; grantmaking and funding; healthcare and medical research; international aid and development; social care and welfare. The deadline for applications is 9 March 2012.
(Source: Grantfinder Newsflash, 5/12/11)
Wales4Africa health links grant scheme
The Welsh Government is pleased to offer grant funding for health links with sub-Saharan Africa during 2012-13/2012-15. The purpose of the scheme is to support the professional development of staff through their participation in health links with a sub-Saharan African territory. For NHS staff this can be part of their Continuing Professional Development. This grant scheme can support either work to develop a new link or work being taken forward by an ongoing health link. Criteria for applying and the application form can be found on the Welsh Government website, please follow the link below: http://wales.gov.uk/topics/sustainabledevelopment/intdevelopment/walesforafrica/wfafricagrantscheme/?lang=en. The scheme is open until 5 March 2012.
The James Tudor Foundation
The James Tudor Foundation which was established in 2004 makes grants of approximately £1 million per year to registered charities within the UK. The areas which the Foundation wants to support are palliative care; medical research; health education, awards and scholarships; the direct relief of sickness; and the UK independent healthcare sector. The grants are usually available to cover project costs (although core costs will be considered) and are usually available for one to three years. Applications can be made at any time and decision for grant applications of below £5,000 are made within one month whilst decisions on applications of above £20,000 will be made within four months. http://www.jamestudor.org.uk/
Living Well with Dementia
Living Well with Dementia is keen to attract ideas from charities and social enterprises and public sector agencies throughout the UK (as well as the private sector) for services, products or activities that will transform the lives of people with dementia and their carers and families. There are no restrictions on the type of solution/improvement idea that might receive support but the Awards are particularly targeted at ideas that will impact on the lives of people immediately after a diagnosis of dementia and before the condition might require a move into specialist residential care. Further details are available from http://designchallenges.ning.com/. You can also email filiz.ciftici@designcouncil.org.uk or Amanda.gore@designcouncil.org.uk or phone 020 7420 5251.
(Source: fundinginformation.org, 5/9/11)
O2 ‘Think Big’ Project
Youth Cymru has up to £30,000 to give away to young people in Wales who want to put something back into their communities. They are a national partner with O2 and Youth Cymru is able to provide easier access for young people to funding for their projects. Youth Cymru will approve £300 project funding and give a mobile phone to any project that meets the criteria. Think Big funds all sorts of things. The only limit is young people’s imagination. There are six project categories: think campaigning – make a stand and push for change; think neighbourhood – improve the local area; think planet – work for a better environment; think learning – share knowledge and ideas; think expression – help people discover their artistic talents; think well-being – inspire people to lead a healthier life. Further details are available from Keith Thomas via email keith@youthcymru.org.uk or visit www.O2.co.uk/thinkbig
Health and Social Care Grant Funding
The Welsh Assembly Government, HSSDG, is inviting bids from Third Sector organisations for three year grant funding to commence by 1 April 2012 and payable under:
- Section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968; and
- Children and Families Organisational Grant (CFOG)
Grant applicants must be voluntary organisations operating in the social care and health care sector and must operate on an all-Wales basis. Bids are invited from all-Wales voluntary organisations in the social and health care sectors including physical and/or sensory disabilities, learning disabilities and/or autistic spectrum disorders, carers, mental health and older people, children in need, disabled children and child protection. A copy of the application forms and guidance notes, including contact details of the person(s) to whom enquiries can be made and completed application submitted, are available at: http://wales.gov.uk/topics/health/socialcare/?lang=en.
Improving Futures
The Big Lottery Fund has launched a new scheme, Improving Futures. The scheme will fund up to 20 voluntary and public sector partnerships with grants of up to £900,000 to offer targeted support to families with children aged five to ten years old. Applications are welcomed from UK-based partnerships between voluntary and public sector organisations and must be led by voluntary organisations. Partnerships must be locally based and can address needs including housing, health and employment. With this new funding, the Big Lottery Fund wishes to make a difference for the children, families and communities supported through the programme.
Health Innovation Challenge
The Health Innovation Challenge Fund (HICF) is a £100 million, five-year parallel funding partnership that aims to stimulate the creation of innovative healthcare products, technologies and interventions, and facilitate their development for the benefit of patients in the NHS and beyond. There is no set funding amount and up to 100 per cent of full economic costs will be covered. The following types of organisations (singly or in collaboration) will be eligible for funding: NHS organisations (including NHS Trusts and NHS Foundation Trusts), and equivalent UK authorities; Universities, research institutes and not-for-profit organisations; start-up companies founded to capture and develop intellectual property of relevance to healthcare; biotechnology, pharmaceutical, bioinformatics, engineering or other companies. The theme for the new call for proposals is ‘smart surgery: innovative technologies or interventions to reduce, replace or refine invasive surgical procedures.
(Source: Grantfinder Newsflash, 17/2/11)
Ministry of Justice: Support to Witnesses and Victims of Crime
The Ministry of Justice is to guarantee three-year funding to voluntary organisations in England and Wales that provide direct specialist help to victims and witnesses of crime. £9.4 million a year will be available from 2011 to work in local communities to: Help victims of serious violent crime; help individuals bereaved by murder and manslaughter; help victims of hate crime; help victims of robbery and burglary; help victims of anti-social behaviour; help bereaved families of fatal road traffic crimes. Funded organisations must provide a frontline support service in England and/or Wales for victims of crime and witnesses, this means: Intervention and practical assistance; Emotional support; Advocacy, advice and/or information. Grants will run from 2011 to 2014.
The three funding areas are:
Rape Support Fund
The full guidance notes are at www.justice.gov.uk/guidance/docs/rape-support-fund-guidance-eligibility-criteria.pdf. There’s a FAQ page at www.justice.gov.uk/guidance/docs/rape-support-fund-qanda.pdf.
Victim and Witness Fund
The full guidance notes are at www.justice.gov.uk/guidance/docs/victim-witness-fund-invite-tender.pdf. There’s a FAQ page at www.justice.gov.uk/guidance/docs/victim-witness-fund-questions.pdf.
Homicide Fund
The full guidance notes for the Homicide Fund are at www.justice.gov.uk/guidance/docs/homocide-fund-invite-tender.pdf. There’s a FAQ page at www.justice.gov.uk/guidance/docs/homicide-fund-questions.pdf.
If you have any specific questions you can e-mail rapesupport@justice.gsi.gov.uk.
There is a single stage application process. The application form is available at www.justice.gov.uk/guidance/victim-witness-support-funding.htm.
(Source: fundinginformation.org, 28/1/11)
Rayne Foundation
The foundation offers financial assistance within the sectors of art, education, health and medicine, and social welfare and development. Special areas of interest for the foundation include: achieving learning outcomes via the work of artists and arts organisations; developing numeracy skills; and improving the quality of life for older people. Applications for grants outside these areas are also welcomed by the foundation. An application form is available to download from the foundation’s website and may be submitted by email or post at any time. Further details are available from www.raynefoundation.org.uk.
(Source: Charity Funding Report, Issue 105)
Volant Charitable Trust
The Volant Charitable Trust was set up by the author JK Rowling to support charitable causes in the UK. The Trust has two broad areas of funding: research into the causes, treatment and possible cures of Multiple Sclerosis. Support for charitable organisations whose purpose is to alleviate poverty and social deprivation, with a particular emphasis on children's and women’s issues. Although no minimum or maximum amount is specified in the guidelines, the Trustees are prepared to support a charity by way of regular annual payments. Such payments are expected to cover project associated costs and will only, in exceptional circumstances, exceed three years. Applications are accepted from registered charities in the UK. Applications may be submitted at any time and the Trustees meet in March and September each year to assess applications.
Comic Relief International Grant Programme
Comic Relief helps some of the poorest and most disadvantaged people in the world to turn their lives around. The International Grants programme currently has seven open categories: trade; people affected by HIV and AIDS; people affected by conflict; street and working children and young people; people living in urban slums; women and girls; sport for change; common ground initiative. Grants are awarded to UK registered charities whose aim is development and who work closely with local organisations. Applications to Comic Relief’s trade programme, and to the Enterprise and Employment programme under the Common Ground Initiative may be made from any UK registered organisation that can show that all profits generated from the project will be reinvested in the project. Project grants of up to £1 million and research and development grants of up to £25,000 are available.
(Source: Grantfinder Newsflash, 6/8/10)
W G Edwards Charitable Foundation
The foundation primarily aims to provide care for the elderly. The main aim of the foundation is the provision of care for the elderly through existing charities for capital projects and for schemes of ongoing care. However, in addition the foundation aims to offer other financial support by: supporting as many projects as possible by awarding smaller grants; donating to the refurbishment and building of projects that are approaching completion instead of those in planning stages; supporting a range of older people such as those who are blind or homeless; sponsoring individuals and named items rather than contributing into a pooled fund. Further details are available from www.wgedwardscharitablefoundation.org.uk.
(Source: Charity Funding Report, Issue 99)
RYA Sailability
The charity has two principal objects: to provide or assist in the provision of facilities for recreation or other leisure-time occupation for disabled people with the object of improving their condition in life; and to promote and encourage recreational sailing by disabled people through co-ordination and integration with the existing structure of associations and clubs within the United Kingdom. The trust provides grants to assist in developing the participation of disabled people in sailing; these are awarded under the following categories: volunteer recruitment; training; provision for disabled children and young people; equipment provision; and grant for minor activities (small grants programme). Applicants can be either RYA affiliated sailing clubs and centres, or simply organisations that are seeking to develop their facilities for disabled people. Further details are available from www.rya.org.uk.
(Source: Charity Funding Report, Issue 98)
Maurice Wohl Charitable Foundation
The aims of the foundation are broad, although particular emphasis is placed on causes that support the following areas: the care, welfare and support of children (including education); the promotion of health, welfare and the advancement of medical services; the relief of poverty, indigence and distress; the care, welfare and support of the aged, infirm, handicapped and disabled; and the support of the arts. The foundation will also consider granting a small number of substantial capital donations for worthy causes that fall within its priority areas. Further details are available from Diane Morgan, tel 020 7383 5111.
(Source: Charity Funding Report, Issue 98)
Marsh Christian Trust
The trust aims to support general charitable institutions. The causes usually supported by the trust fall broadly with the following categories: social welfare; literature, arts and heritage; environmental causes; conservation and animal welfare; healthcare and medical research; education and training; miscellaneous; and overseas appeals. Grants are only made to registered charities that are experienced in their chosen field of work with particular consideration given towards charities displaying a Christian emphasis. Further details are available from www.marshchristiantrust.org.
(Source: Charity Funding Report, Issue 100)
The Hedley Foundation
The foundation supports activities that benefit young people, disabled people and the terminally ill. The foundation uses about seventy per cent of its budget to primarily award grants to young people for education, recreation, support, training, health and welfare. The foundation’s remaining budget is used to support the disabled and the terminally ill by providing specialist equipment and support for carers. Further details are available from www.hedleyfoundation.org.uk.
(Source: Charity Funding Report, Issue 99)
The Dulverton Trust
The trust awards grants to registered national, regional and local charities in the UK. Priority is given to charities that work in areas where there is severe deprivation and/or isolation. Grants are awarded to organisations under the following categories: youth and education; general welfare; conservation; preservation; peace and humanitarian support; and Africa. Further details are available from www.dulverton.org.
(Source: Charity Funding Report, Issue 100)
The Beatrice Laing Trust
The trust makes grants in the following categories: children & youth – child welfare, education, youth development; health & medicine – addiction/ rehabilitation, disability/physical handicap, emergency services, medical welfare & research, mental health/mental handicap; overseas aid – development projects, relief projects; religion – community outreach, religion: home, religion: individuals, religion: overseas; and social welfare – armed Services, community projects, crime reduction/prison welfare, elderly, housing, welfare projects. Further details are available from Elizabeth A Harley, Administrator, tel 020 8238 8890.
(Source: Charity Funding Report, Issue 100)
Childwick Trust
The Childwick Trust provides funding to registered charities to assist people with disabilities, the promotion of health, the elderly in need and for the welfare of people involved in the horse-racing world. No minimum or maximum amount of grant is specified, although the majority of grants in the health category are typically between £2,000 and £10,000, with a small number of more sizeable amounts awarded for larger projects. The Trustees meet to consider applications twice a year, in May and December, and applications can be made at any time.
Bupa Foundation – Philip Poole-Wilson Seed Corn Fund
This Fund invites healthcare professionals involved in research, or university-based researchers with an interest in health or social care, to apply for funding for exploratory/pilot research projects in the following areas: surgery; preventive medicine and epidemiology; health information and communication between patients and health professionals; health at work; mental health of older people. The Fund has a total of £200,000 per annum to provide individual seed corn grants of up to £20,000 per proposal. The annual deadline for the receipt of applications is 31 July, for proposals to be considered at the November Board meeting. Further details are available here.
Skinners’ Company – Lady Neville Charity
The Skinners' Company Lady Neville Charity aims to distribute grant funding across a diverse range of activities and interests within the UK voluntary sector. Grants of up to £1,000 are available to organisations that can demonstrate a clear and significant contribution that funding would make to their project or activity. Applications are accepted from registered charities and not-for-profit organisations based in the UK that employ less than the equivalent of four full-time paid staff and work in one of the Charity's four priority areas: disability; local heritage; local community; performing and visual arts. Grant making committees are held in May and November each year. Therefore, mid-March and mid-September should be treated as deadlines for applications.
(Source: Grantfinder Update, March 10)
C Charitable Trust
The C Charitable Trust awards funding to charitable organisations in the UK involved in a wide range of projects, including: projects benefiting people with physical or mental disabilities; buildings preservation and heritage works; and environmental protection. Grants are usually awarded to registered charities. There is no minimum grant and the maximum award is usually £5,000, although applications are reviewed on a case-by-case basis and larger amounts may be awarded. Applications can be made at any time.
(Source: Grantfinder Update, March 10)
Macmillan – helping you help others grants
Funding is available for cancer self-help and support groups across the UK. New and established groups can apply for funding of up to £500 and £3,000 respectively. Funding may be used, for example, for event costs, promotional activities and the purchase of group materials (ie computers, laptops and display materials). Applications from new groups are assessed on a monthly basis. Further details are available from here or e-mail resources@macmillan.org.uk.
(Source: Grantfinder Update Jan 10)
Comic Relief UK Grants
There have been some changes to the closing dates for applications to the Comic Relief UK Grants programme. The priorities cover sexually exploited and trafficked young people, young people and alcohol, sport for change, young people and domestic and sexual abuse, refugee and asylum seeking women, mental health, and young people and mental health. Details of the programmes to support older people and for young carers have yet to be published. You are encouraged to apply when you are ready, but applications are considered in cycles.
(Source: fundinginformation.org, 18/11/09)
Unlimited Commissions
Unlimited Commissions is part of a four-pronged approach to enable the celebration of disability, arts, culture and sport as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. A £1.5 million commission fund has been set up to support the production of quality work by disabled and deaf artists and arts organisations led by disabled or deaf people across the UK. There are four elements to the programme: unlimited commissions; unlimited talent; unlimited presents and unlimited international. Applications for Unlimited Commissions are welcome from disabled and deaf artists and disabled and deaf-led arts organisations throughout the UK that wish to develop their work, strengthen their artistic practice, challenge perceptions and forge new partnerships with presenting venues and events. Further information is available on the website or contact your arts council office – Jennifer.stoves@artswales.org.uk.
(Source: fundinginformation.org, 21/10/09)
The Tudor Trust
The Tudor Trust aims to support work which addresses the social, emotional and financial needs of people at the margins of society. The trust is interested in how organisations tackle these needs and their root causes; it wants to encourage growth, progression and development – not just keeping things as they are. The Trust is most interested in helping smaller, under-resourced organisations which offer direct services and which involve the people they work with in their planning. Further details are available from www.tudortrust.org.uk.
(Source: Charity Funding Report, issue 90)
The Taylor Family Foundation
The objects of the foundation are to help and support children and young people, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, in the areas of education, health, recreation and the performing arts. Further details are available from www.thetaylorfamilyfoundation.co.uk.
(Source: Charity Funding Report, issue 91)
Redrow Foundation
The objects of the Foundation are to relieve poverty and sickness in the UK and in particular, to provide accommodation and related assistance, including respite care especially for children, the elderly and those who are sick or infirm. The trust is keen to support applications where the grant will assist in the delivery of specific objectives or goals and will have a disproportionate and financially significant impact on the receiving charity. Further details are available from the Redrow Foundation, Redrow House, St David’s Park, Flintshire CH5 3RX. Tel 01244 520044.
(Source: Charity Funding Report, issue 92)
Old Possum’s Practical Trust
The principal object of the trust is to increase knowledge and appreciation of any matters of historic, artistic, architectural, aesthetic, literacy, musical or theatrical interest. Funding is more likely to be given for projects that involve: children or young people; disabled or disadvantaged people; and communities. Further details are available from here.
Joseph Strong Frazer Trust
Grants are used to support a very wide number of good causes, including: children; youth; old and infirm; hospitals and home; deaf and blind; disabled; mentally handicapped; medical and other research; maritime; armed forces; caring organisations; other trusts, funds and voluntary organisations; schools and colleges; leisure activities; animals and wildlife; and religious bodies. For application details contact the trust, c/o The Secretaries: Ward Hadaway, Sandgate House, 102 Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 3DX.
(Source: Charity Funding Report, issue 92)
G D Charitable Trust
The Trust has chosen to prioritise its grant making in the following charitable areas: the relief of animal suffering; the preservation of the environment; the promotion of equal opportunities for disabled people; and the relief of the homeless. The Trust prefers to support charities registered with the Charity Commission although it will consider other organisations as long as the purpose of the grant is considered to be charitable. Further details are available from G D Charitable Trust, 50 Broadway, Westminster, London SW1H 0BL. Tel 020 7227 7000.
Drinkaware grants
Drinkaware has updated the eligibility criteria for its programme of grants aimed at changing the UK’s drinking culture for the better. Activities should influence public behaviour and find innovative ways to raise awareness about the effects of alcohol and reduce its misuse and minimise alcohol-related harm. Grants of up to £100,000 are given throughout the UK. There are no closing dates. Applications are dealt with as received. Full information and updated application guidelines are available from here.
(Source: fundinginformation.org, 6 Aug 09)
Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation
The Foundation awards grants to a variety of categories including: education; youth; community; environment/conservation; health and welfare. Generally grants awarded will range from between £200 and £5,000. Grants will only be made to registered charities including schools in the UK. There is no application form – all submissions should be made in the form of a covering letter to the Director. Further details are available from Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation, 20 Berkley Square, London W1J 6LH. Tel: 020 7408 2198, fax: 020 7499 5859, email office@sunleyfoundation.com.
The Joshua Trust Group
The Trust supports religious organisations, institutions of higher and further education, and institutions caring for the poor and sick. The Trust supports organisations in both the United Kingdom and abroad. Further details are available from R Grussgott, tel 020 8238 2888, email info@shearsandpartners.co.uk.
(Source: Charity Funding Report, Issue 87)
John Ellerman Foundation
The foundation has a special focus of interest, which is the support of charities working with older people, especially those over 75 and suffering poverty and those in isolation. Applications from national charities working with and for older people are welcome and particularly those who provide support in practical ways, specifically to: reduce isolation and combat poverty; promote health and wellbeing; encourage family and inter-generational contact; and improve the quality of housing, security and residential care. In addition to the special interest, the foundation makes grants in the following five categories: health and disability; social welfare; arts; conservation; overseas.
(Source: Charity Funding Report, Issue 88)
Help the Homeless
Help the Homeless was formed with the principal aim of supporting the care and treatment of the single homeless, recognising that homelessness is not just about those who fit within the popular perception of a homeless person – but the whole range of people who lack a home through a variety of different circumstances. Grants are made four times a year (January, April, July and October) and in most cases to assist in the purchase of capital equipment. In certain circumstances they may be made to assist with running costs. Further details are available from here.
(Source: Charity Funding Report, Issue 87)
The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund
The fund supports projects dealing with learning disability, which is defined as severe learning difficulties and autism. Grants are given to projects concerning children and adults, and funding is given to: capital/building/ renovation/refurbishment work for residential, nursing and respite care and schools; employment schemes including woodwork, crafts, printing and horticulture; play schemes and play therapy schemes; day and social activities centres including building costs and running costs; support for families, including respite schemes; independent living schemes; support in the community schemes; and swimming and hydro-therapy pools and snoezelen rooms. Applications are accepted from registered charities. Further details are available from here.
(Source: Charity Funding Report, Issue 88)
The Sobell Foundation
The Foundation will support applications from registered charities in the following areas: medical care and treatment, including respite care and hospices; care for physically and mentally disabled adults and children; education and training for adults and children with physical and learning disabilities; care and support of the elderly; care and support for children; homelessness. Further details are available from www.sobellfoundation.org.uk or email enquiries@sobellfoundation.org.uk.
(Source: Charity Funding Report, Issue 85)
P F Charitable Trust
The Trust supports a wide range of UK charitable causes, including: the prevention of poverty; the advancement of – poverty, education, religion, health or the saving of lives, citizenship or community development, arts, culture, heritage or science, amateur sport, human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation, or the promotion of religious or racial harmony or equality or diversity, environmental protection or improvement; the relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage. Applications should be made in writing with full information to D Pocknee, Secretary, P F Charitable Trust, c/o R F Trustee Co Ltd, Ely House, 37 Dover Street, London WIS 4NJ. Tel 020 7409 5685.
(Source: Charity Funding Report, Issue 85)
Margaret Davies Charity
Registered charitable organisations, which benefit the people of Wales, are supported in the following areas: the visual arts; the performing arts; education; health and social; and provision for youth. Further details are available from Margaret Davies Charity, The Offices, Plas Dinam, Llandinam, Powys SY17 5DQ. Tel 01686 689172.
(Source: Charity Funding Report, Issue 86)
Legacy Trust UK
The aims of the trust are to make awards to individuals or organisations for charitable purposes including the following areas: cultural; educational; health sporting; and other charitable activities for the benefit of the community. The Trust aims to fund a range of cultural and sporting activities with the hope to leave a lasting legacy from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympics Games in communities throughout the UK. Further details are available from here.
(Source: Charity Funding Report, Issue 86)
The Charles Hayward Foundation
The Foundation predominantly funds capital costs and occasionally, project funding may be offered for start-up or development activities where these are not part of the on-going revenue requirement of the organisation. The Foundation has the following current categories: heritage and conservation; criminal justice; hospices; older people; overseas; small grant schemes of up to £5,000.
(Source: Charity Funding Report, Issue 86)
The Djanogly Foundation
The Foundation will support developments in: medicine, education, social welfare and the arts. Grants are also made to fund projects that relieve distress and promote the welfare of the aged and the young. Further details are available from The Djanogly Foundation, tel 020 7930 9845.
(Source: Charity Funding Report, Issue 85)
