Fundraising News

This Week's New COVID-19 Funds

• Consortium: LGBT+ Futures Grants Programme

Thanks to the National Emergencies Trust, a total funding pot of £350,000 is available to LGBT+ non-profit groups, organisations and projects.

FUNDS CLOSING SOON

Community Foundation for NI: The New Needs Fund (NB Now Closing 1pm on 21st August instead of 28th)

Grants of £1,000 to £15,000 to help organisations and communities to respond better, addressing new needs appearing as a result of the Coronavirus and where restrictions mean finding new ways of meeting existing needs and #build back better, helping to ensure organisations can thrive and continue to provide longer-term support to communities.

COVID-19 FUNDS CLOSING SOON​

ESB COVID-19 Recovery Fund (Closing Date, 5pm on 10th August)

Administered by Groundwork NI, open to initiatives and activities addressing the aftermath of coronavirus in communities around their wind farms. Suggested awards of £1,000.

COVID-19 FUNDS CLOSING SOON​

• COVID-19 Homelessness Response Fund (Next Closing Date Today, 3rd August)

5.5 million for 2nd round of grants distributed by Homeless Link.

New or Updated Schemes

The Childcare Recovery Support Fund (Opening today 27th July)

Aims to provide financial assistance (tiered levels of awards depending on the childcare provision offered and the opening/operational dates following endorsement from the HSC Trust. Administered by Early Years – the organisation for young children on behalf of the Department of Education.

Closing Soon - Deadline (or may close early if funding is exhausted)

Ecclesiastical Insurance: Movement for Good Awards £50,000 Awards (Closing 24th July)

The Movement for Good awards is an online nomination scheme programme designed to give £1million to charities. The aim is to put their giving directly into the hands of remarkable organisations (like yours perhaps) that are changing people’s lives for the better. 10 charities will be awarded £50,000.

Urgent Updates

Community Foundation for NI: The New Needs Fund (IMPORTANT CHANGES)

NB Now offering grants of £1,000 (initially minimum grant was £3000) to £15,000 to help organisations and communities to respond better, addressing new needs appearing as a result of the Coronavirus and where restrictions mean finding new ways of meeting existing needs and #build back better, helping to ensure organisations can thrive and continue to provide longer-term support to communities.

Urgent Updates

Arts Council NI: Organisations Emergency Programme (This fund is now closed to new applications)

Offering grants of up to £25,000 to small and medium sized organisations to help them continue creative work, assist with extra operational costs due to COVID-19, and to help plan for recovery.

New funding schemes this week:

The National Lottery Community Fund: The Emerging Futures Fund

The National Lottery Community Fund want to find out how to help communities move towards recovery and renewal after the impact of COVID-19 and draw on all the creativity they’ve seen in communities and across civil society. So they’re funding organisations to look at how things are changing, what is needed in this transition, and what is possible in the future. Funding of between £20,000 - £50,000 is available.

New funding schemes this week:

The National Lottery Fund: COVID-19 Charities Fund

TNL Community Fund are distributing the COVID-19 Charities Fund with a grant from the Northern Ireland Department for Communities. This funding programme will provide financial support of up to £75,000 to charities who have lost income due to the impact of COVID-19 and are not able to cover unavoidable costs until 30 September 2020.

New funding schemes this week:

Arts Council NI: Organisations Emergency Programme

Small and medium sized organisations will be able to apply for maximum funding of £25,000 to help them continue creative work, assist with operational costs, where these have been affected as a result of the COVID-19, and to help plan for recovery.

Closing date: Friday, 12 June at 4pm. Visit the website here

DETAILS OF OUR FREE GRANTTRACKER OFFER

You can see all the schemes listed in a one-stop format, (and over 800 more relevant to NI charities), on GrantTracker, our funding database. And we're still offering a month's free access to GrantTracker to any organisation in the sector who needs it in these challenging times.

DETAILS OF OUR FREE GRANTTRACKER OFFER

You can see all the schemes listed in a one-stop format, (and over 800 more relevant to NI charities), on GrantTracker, our funding database. And we're still offering a month's free access to GrantTracker to any organisation in the sector who needs it in these challenging times.

DETAILS OF OUR FREE GRANTTRACKER OFFER

You can see all these schemes in a one-stop format, (and over 800 more relevant to NI charities), on GrantTracker, our funding database. And we're still offering a month's free access to GrantTracker to any organisation in the sector who needs it in these challenging times.

DETAILS OF OUR FREE GRANTTRACKER OFFER

We're still continuing to help everyone in our sector by offering NI's leading funding database free to everyone for a month. Join the 193 organisations who have already benefitted....

Details of our FREE GrantTracker Offer

We really want to help mitigate everyone's loss of income due to the current lock-down. So, we're still offering NI's leading funding database free to everyone for a month. Join the 161 organisations who have already benefitted....

Details of our FREE GrantTracker Offer

We really want to help mitigate our sector's loss of income due to the current lock-down. So, we're offering NI's leading funding database free to everyone for a month. Click the link above and join the 125 organisations who have already taken up our offer to get a month’s free GrantTracker subscription.

Details of our FREE GrantTracker Offer

Click the link above and join the 74 organisations who have already taken up our offer to get a month’s free GrantTracker subscription. Get access to over 800 funding schemes and get ahead not just on COVID-19 funding, but also potential sources of funding for when the pandemic is over.

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Note - All GrantTracker subscribers can simply sign into GrantTracker to find all the schemes below in an easy to access, one-page, one stop shop, format. And for those with some downtime it's a great time to subscribe to GrantTracker - see below for details.