This Week's Funding News w/c 1st May 2017

New or Updated Funding Initiatives

Charles Hayward Foundation

The Charles Hayward Foundation (registered charities only) provide both Main Grants (up to £25,000 a year for 1-3 years and Small Grants (up to £7000).  Main grants cover Social & Criminal Justice, Heritage & Conservation and Overseas work.  Small grants cover Social & Criminal Justice, Heritage & Conservation and Older People.

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D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust

The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust funds UK registered Charities operating in the UK in the fields of the advancement of the arts, health and medical welfare and environmental protection or improvement.  Grants are usually in the range £500 - £5,000 and core costs will be considered.

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Slieve Rushen Wind Farm Fund

The Slieve Rushen Wind Farm Fund (managed by Fermanagh Trust) will donate £50,000 a year for economic, social, and educational community and voluntary organisations/projects which are not politically affiliated and which are located within a ten-mile radius of the Slieve Rushen.  Preference will be given to projects with an environmental theme and/or linked to sustainable local activities.

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Key Dates for your Fundraising Diary

National Churches Trust: Pilot Maintenance Grant Programme

This Maintenance grant programme is a pilot programme, in partnership with the Pilgrim Trust, offering awards of between £1,000 and £2,500 to encourage churches to act on small, urgent maintenance issues and repairs to listed church buildings, as identified in a recent Quinquennial Inspection Report, condition survey or report by a gutter management contractor, and costed between £2,000 and £10,000.

Application Deadline 10 May 2017

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Comic Relief: Youth Social Action Fund

Comic Relief has partnered with the #iwill campaign, to create a £2.4 million fund to target young people from less affluent backgrounds to get young people involved in social action.  Big Lottery Fund and the Department of Culture, Media and Sport have each invested £20 million to support young people access high quality social action opportunities.  Of the total amount available, £400,000 is available for grants in Scotland, Wales and NI.

Closing Date (12 Noon) 12 May 2017

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Mama Cash Fund for Women

Mama Cash is the oldest international women's fund supporting women's rights groups and organisations in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, Latin America and the Carribean, and the Middle East and North Africa. They offer general support grants, project grants, and travel grants. Grants are both single year and multi year grants up to a maximum of three years with grants ranging from €5,000 to €50,000.

Closing Date 15 May 2017

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