International

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.

GwirVol grants 2011-2012
GwirVol is pleased to announce the launch of the 2011-2012 youth volunteering grants.

The aim of the GwirVol Youth Volunteering Grants scheme is to support the delivery of a wide range of new volunteering opportunities in Wales and overseas that will support the step change in access to volunteering for young people aged 16-25 and especially for disadvantaged young people. The GwirVol grant scheme offers five different strands of funding.

Creating Opportunities: For organisations looking to create new youth volunteering projects, new youth volunteering roles or to recruit more young people into existing volunteering roles. Creating Opportunities grant applications can be for up to a maximum amount of £10,000.
Promotions: For organisations looking to promote the benefits or challenge the perceptions of volunteering to young people or about young people to their local communities. Shout it out! grant applications can be for up to a maximum amount of £3,000.
Street Games: For organisations looking to develop volunteering opportunities in doorstep sports within deprived areas. StreetGames grant applications can be for up to a maximum of £2,000.
International: For organisations looking to develop overseas volunteering opportunities that benefit young people and their communities in Wales as well. International grant applications can be for up to a maximum amount of £30,000.
Millennium Volunteers: For organisations looking to recognise the commitment young people give to volunteering through offering the 200 hour award of excellence. Millennium Volunteers grant applications can be for up to a maximum amount of £10,000.

How to apply:
You can get more information and download the application forms and guidance at http://www.gwirvol.org/en/grants/.

Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust
The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust have responded to the current economic situation by changing its previously published three-year schedule of priorities. 2011 will be the last year that it will be possible to get grants for overseas projects. For the next few years the priorities will be:

In 2012 there will be two priorities: community and medical.
In 2013 the priority will be children and youth.
In 2014 the priority will return to music and the arts.

Applicants must be registered charities within the UK. Grants are only given for revenue and not capital purposes. Grants are made twice a year, with closing dates on 1 June and 1 November. There is no application form. The trustees want you to use the format below.

Applicants should include only: a letter summarising the application, including acknowledgement of any previous grants awarded from the Trust; a maximum of 2 sides of A4 (including photographs) summarising the project; a detailed budget for the project; a maximum of 2 side of A4 (including photographs) summarising your charity’s general activities; your most recent accounts and annual report. Applications should be sent to Karen Frank, Administrator, The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust, PO Box 124, Stroud, Gloucestershire GL6 7YN. Further information is available from www.austin-hope-pilkington.org.uk/index.php.
(Source: fundinginformation.org, 21/1/11)

Big Lottery Fund: International Communities
The Big Lottery Fund has launched a new international funding programme called International Communities. Due to run until 2015, the budget for the period 2010-12 will be up to £26 million. Grants of between £50,000 and £500,000 will be available to UK-based NGOs and voluntary organisations that are working with overseas partners to tackle the causes of poverty and deprivation and bring about a long-term difference in the lives of the most disadvantaged people.

The programme will support UK-based voluntary organisations and NGOs working in partnership with organisations in Africa, Asia (including the Pacific and Central Asian countries), the Middle East, Central and South America, the Caribbean and/or parts of Eastern Europe and the Balkans.

Grand Challenges in Global Health
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is inviting applications to its Grand Challenges Explorations in Global Health programme, which supports innovative early stage research that expands solutions available to global health problems. Grants can be for up to $100,000 and are available to researchers at all levels of experience. The emphasis for Grand Challenges Explorations is on testing early stage ideas. Each application round has its own priorities, and for this round the health topics are: designing new approaches to cure HIV infection; creating the next generation of sanitation technologies; the poliovirus endgame: creating ways to accelerate, sustain and monitor eradication; creating new technologies to improve health of mothers and newborns; creating low-cost mobile phone based applications for priority global health diseases. Applications are invited from not-for-profit organisations and companies, for profit companies, government agencies and academic institutions.
(Source: fundinginformation.org, 8/9/10)

Michael Sacher Charitable Trust
The trust aims to apply its funds towards a diverse range of general charitable purposes. The causes supported by the trust fall within the following funding categories: arts culture & heritage; education, science & technology; community & welfare; children & youth; medical & disability; overseas aid; and religion. Further details are available from 020 7289 5873.
(Source: Charity Funding Report, Issue 101)

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 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)

British Council - English Language Teaching Research (Eltra) Awards
This new scheme aims to fund a number of awards to facilitate the production of innovative research designed to benefit the learning and teaching of English around the world. Any person resident in the UK with an affiliation to a UK educational institution is eligible to apply. Further details are available from the British Council’s website.

Comic Relief – International Grants Programme
Comic Relief, which recently raised over £78 million as a result of Red Nose Day, has issued completely revised guidelines for its International grant-making programme for 2009-12. Using the strap line ‘A just world free from poverty’, priority areas include: trade; people affected by HIV/AIDS; people affected by conflict; street and working children and young people; people living in urban slums; women and girls; sport for change; small and diaspora-led organisations. Further details of both the International Grants Programme and the UK Grants Programme are available here.
(Source: fundinginformation.org, 15 June 09)

The Equitable Charitable Trust
The aim of the Trust is the advancement of the education of young persons under 25 years, in particular for those who are mentally or physically disabled or disadvantaged in some way. Grants fall into three broad categories: projects or services of an educational nature that supports the learning and development of disabled children and young people in the UK; projects of an educational nature for disadvantaged children and young people in the UK, particularly those that support the delivery of the national curriculum or vocational learning opportunities; and overseas projects that will help increase participation in, or improve the quality of, education for disadvantaged or disabled children and young people in developing countries. Grants made by the trust can be allocated towards project costs, capital expenditure, equipment and/or the salary costs of a post. Further details are available from here.
(Source: Charity Funding Report, Issue 87)

DFID’s Development Awareness Fund
The Government’s Department for International Development (DFID) has issued updated guidelines for its Development Awareness Fund (DAF) Main Grants programme 2010/11. The DAF is open to any UK-based organisation or network that wishes to work within the Government’s agenda to raise awareness and understanding of global poverty and how it can be reduced. Grants will range from £10,000 to £100,000 a year, and this funding round covers projects that start after 1 April 2010. Grants can be for up to 3 years.

As well as this Main Grants programme, the DFID has a Mini Grants programme. This provides grants within each country of the UK of between £1,000 and £10,000 per project. Full information, and the application forms are available here.
(Source: fundinginformation.org, 3 June 09)

Nominet Trust
Applications are being invited to support UK-based and international Internet-related initiatives in the sectors of education, research and development, safety and social inclusion. Projects should meet the needs of the Trust’s target groups, which are young people, older people, people with disabilities, people with illnesses, and generally those that are disadvantaged or vulnerable. As you might expect, applications are taken online. There is an initial eligibility questionnaire available. The Trust’s website is at www.nominettrust.org.uk.
(Source: fundinginformation.org, 1 May 09)

The Waterloo Foundation
The foundation is interested in projects that help globally, particularly in the areas of the disparity of wealth and climate related issues. Their aim is to help both the global community and the local community in Wales through their four main programmes: world development; child development; environment and projects in Wales.