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NEW!!! The National Lottery Community Fund: Great Ideas

The Great Ideas programme is designed to support support great ideas that don’t necessarily involve people at every stage but if implemented would contribute to putting people in the lead.organisations to work with local people to bring about positive changes in their communities. Funding from £10,000 to £500,000 is available.

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Eranda Foundation

Makes donations to registered charities working in the fields of medical research, education and the arts. In addition, social welfare is supported, especially work known to the trustees. Since its founding fifty years ago, it has made donations totalling more than £66 million to a wide range of charities.

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Money Saving Expert Charity

Funded by Money Saving Expert, they give grants of a few hundred pounds to a few thousand for not for profit organisations that deliver activities which make a lasting impact on how people think, behave and manage their money.

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The Henry Smith Charity - Strengthening Communities

Designed to support small charitable organisations working at grassroots level. targeting places that are economically marginalised and affected by poverty. Grant size: £20k – £60k per year for 1-3 years.

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Transform Foundation: Small Charities Website Grant

A funding opportunity for selected small charities with incomes below £350k annually to receive a new, best practice website built using templates funded by the Transform Foundation.

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Beatrice Laing Trust

They fund projects relating to the relief of poverty and the advancement of the evangelical Christian faith, both at home and abroad. Financial support is given to a wide range of charities seeking to relieve poverty in its broadest sense, both throughout the UK and overseas.

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Fishmongers Company Charitable Trust

Provides grants in the fields of Education in Prisons, Mental Health and Food and Nutrition. Applications will be considered for between £15,000 and £50,000 per annum payable for up to three years.

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NEW Comic Relief: Global Health Matters

Managed by the Community Foundation NI, this programme provides grants of up to £5000 to enable people with mental health problems to be able to access the support they need to recover and to be empowered to speak out and to live free from stigma and discrimination.

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The Marsh Christian Trust

Focuses on providing funding to help small organisations pay for various running costs, such as volunteer expenses, training days, equipment maintenance and other core outgoings. The nature of their funding is to support established charities and not to provide start-up costs.

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NEW! Community Foundation for NI: Pears Community Spaces Fund

​Small grants of up to £5,000 where community and voluntary groups are able to demonstrate a partnership approach that evidences need and joint working. The grant could be for using a shared space in their local community or to carry out joint activities or events aimed at bringing different communities together, whether that be communities of faith, ethnicity, neighbourhood or of different backgrounds.

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NEW Community Foundation for NI: Transformation and Growth Fund

Supports grassroots organisations addressing local housing and homelessness issues by providing organisational development grants to build sustainability, develop ideas and deploy innovative solutions to support people in vulnerable housing situations. Grants between £10,000 and £25,000 for 12 months.

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The Marsh Christian Trust

The Trust focuses on providing funding which could help small organisations pay for various running costs, such as volunteer expenses, training days, equipment maintenance and other core outgoings. The nature of their funding is to support established charities and not to provide start-up costs.

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Rosa: Voices from the Front Line

Rosa’s Voices from the Front Line programme supports women’s organisations to shine a light on their fight for gender equality in the UK, by resourcing advocacy and activists with lived experience of disadvantage. The programme offers grants between £500-£2,000. NB this funder is actively seeking more applications from NI.

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Lidl Community Works: Sport for Good

Through their new Community Works Sport for Good initiative, LIDL will be investing £160,000 in sports equipment for youth sports clubs across NI. Groups can be nominated online for up to £4000 worth of sports equipment using the 10 digit code at the bottom of a LIDL receipt.

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The Three Guineas Trust

The Three Guineas Trust is part of the Sainsburys Family Charitable Trusts and funds projects in the field of autistic spectrum disorder. Wherever possible, projects are preferred which include people with ASD in decision-making.

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Clothworkers Foundation: Main Grants Programme

The Clothworkers Foundation is the independent charitable arm of The Clothworkers Company. The Foundation aims to improve the lives of people and communities, particularly those facing disadvantage, deprivation and/or discrimination. Grants of over £10,000.

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Charities Aid Foundation (CAF): CAF Tourle Foundation Fund

The CAF Tourle Foundation Fund awards grants of up to £5000 grants to local charitable organisations delivering services for local people in all parts of the UK Their target audience are small place based charitable organisations with an income of under £50,000 p/a providing a service to the heart of their community.

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Groundwork NI: TESCO Centenary Fund

Up to £50,000 for not for profit organisations delivering projects of up to 12 months which provide a significant benefit to communities across NI. Community charity Groundwork is working in partnership with Tesco to deliver the Centenary Fund.

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Woodward Charitable Trust: Playschemes

One of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts. Each year the Woodward Charitable Trust fund summer playschemes for children between the ages of 5-16 years. Most grants awarded are in the range of £500 to £1,000. Around 35 grants are made each year.

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