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Causeway Coast and Glens District: Social Inclusion Fund

The ‘Social Inclusion’ grant programme provides small grants of up to £500 for local community and voluntary organisations that are involved in activities that encourage people within their community, particularly those that are socially excluded, to participate in social and recreational activities.

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Social Justice Small Grants to Community Development Fund

The Social Justice Small Grants Programme, funded by Atlantic Philanthropies, aims to support local community groups with projects and initiatives that contribute to peacebuilding, tackle the impact of poverty and austerity measures and/or give voice to excluded groups. For the first round of grant-making in 2017 the fund has up to 30K to award.

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Executive Office: Minority Ethnic Development Fund (MEDF)

This fund assists minority ethnic and local community organisations to promote good relations between people of different ethnic backgrounds. There are 3 tiers of funding ranging from £100 - £75,000. Funding seminars are also available for potential applicants on 15th, 16th and 17th February.

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Groundwork NI: Alpha Programme

The Alpha Programme, administered by Groundwork NI, distributes Landfill Tax Credits generated from the Mullaghglass Landfill site just outside Lisburn for projects making a positive impact at ground level, either developing facilities for community use or encouraging bio-diversity and environmental improvements.

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Lush Spring Prize

The Lush Spring Prize is a £200,000 annual prize fund to support projects around the world that are working towards environmental and social regeneration. The prize will support a range of projects – from the ideas stage, through to young and established organisations, and campaigns.

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Trusthouse Charitable Foundation

Trusthouse provides around £2 million a year in grants to projects relating to rural issues and urban deprivation. Trusthouse is managed on a day-to-day basis by the Henry Smith Charity, although the two charities are entirely separate and you can apply to both funders at the same time.

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Unltd: Spaces 4 Change

Spaces for Change (S4C) is a UK wide programme that will find, fund, support and connect young people aged 16-24 to start and run social ventures that unlock the potential of unused or under-utilised spaces for the benefit of the local community, especially other young people.

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The Henry Smith Charity - Revenue Grants

The Henry Smith Charity makes grants totalling over £25 million per annum for initiatives and projects that address social inequality and economic disadvantage. Applications for Revenue grants of £10,000 or more per year for work taking place in the UK can be made through their Main Grants Programme. The maximum length of funding than can be requested is three years.

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Rosa: Woman to Woman Fund

Supported by the “Tampon Tax”, this scheme provides grants of up to £25,000 for no fewer than 100 local grassroots women’s organisations across the UK. It will be supported by the ‘Tampon Tax.’ Grants are available for groups with an income of under £100,000 per year, to support a wide range of charitable work that benefits women.

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Office for Civil Society: Tampon Tax Fund 2017/18

The 2017/18 Tampon Tax Fund (run by the Office for Civil Society) offers 1,2 or 3 year grants to UK charitable, benevolent and philanthropic organisations for projects in one or two categories: supporting women and girls affected by violence and/or and improving the lives of disadvantaged women and girls.

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Clothworkers Company: Charity Governance Awards

The Charity Governance Awards is a not-for-profit initiative created to celebrate outstanding governance in charities both small and large in the UK. There is a cash prize of £5,000 for the winners in 7 categories.

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Halifax Foundation for Northern Ireland: Community Grant Programme

The Halifax Foundation for Northern Ireland's Community Grants Programme supports underfunded, grassroots charities that enable people, especially disabled and disadvantaged people, to play a fuller role in society. The programme is open to registered charities with an income of less than £1 million. Grants are for one year only and the average grant is currently £3200.

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Queen's Award for Voluntary Service

The Award recognises the vital role played by the hundreds of thousands of 'unsung heroes' of the community and voluntary world and emphasises the importance of continuing recognition of their work. It is the MBE for volunteer groups.

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Jean Sainsbury Animal Welfare Trust

The Trust's aims are to benefit or protect animals, relieve animals from suffering, conserve wild life and encourage the understanding of animals. Since being set up in 1982, the Trust has given over £8.4 million to animal welfare charities.

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Co-operative Local Community Fund

The Co-operative Local Community Fund are looking to fund 3 projects led by small, locally based organisations in each of around 1,500 local communities across the UK.

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Leeds Building Society Charitable Foundation

The Charitable Foundation was established by Leeds Building Society to support the communities around its nationwide network of branches and is funded by an annual donation from the Society. Since its establishment in 1999 it has made total donations of over £1.3 million. Donations are normally in the range of £250 to £1000. The application must be for capital expenditure. Applicants do not need to have an account with Leeds Building Society.

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Department for Communities (DfC): Community Halls Programme

Up to £500,000 is available in 2016/2017 for a pilot programme to support minor capital works in community buildings to maintain and/or enhance their valuable contribution to the local community and wider society. Community buildings include church halls, scout halls, orange halls and other halls and centres which are used for a multitude of activities. Individual awards of up to £25,000 will be made, with no match funding required.

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School for Social Enterprises in Ireland (SSEI): Advanced Diploma in Social Enterprise Bursaries

The School for Social Enterprises in Ireland (SSEI) is offering a number of £1000 Bursaries for its Advanced Diploma in Social Enterprise 2017 cohort – Ireland’s leading qualification in social enterprise development which is fully accredited, managed and delivered by the Ulster University.

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G&H Roberts Community Trust

The G & H Roberts Community Trust is a small family Trust, established to respond to the needs of one local community concentrating on areas of educational and social welfare. Over the years the close association with that particular community has dwindled and the Trust has now branched out into supporting a wider geographical area. They retain a strong connection to UK based charities, but have also supported specific projects around the world.

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Nominet Trust: Social Tech Seed Fund

Social Tech Seed is an open grant-funding programme that offers entrepreneurial organisations early-stage investment to develop innovative projects using digital technology to create significant social change, from environment and sustainability to education and employment. Grant funding, typically between £15,000 and £50,000 for a project of 9-12 months’ duration is available to help you demonstrate the social, user and financial value of an existing digital prototype.