New or Updated Funding Initiatives
NEWSFLASH! Comic Relief: Core Funding for Small Organisations
Comic Relief have just launched an exciting new pilot core funding and support scheme for small organisations delivering work in the UK with an annual income of £100,000 - £500,000. They are launching the scheme in response to the fact that smaller organisations rooted in the communities they serve play a vital role in supporting people to make positive changes in their lives, yet they are being particularly hard hit by the current economic challenges and have identified core funding as critical to their stability. Grants will be up to £20,000 for each of two years (maximum grant of £40,000). They anticipate making approximately 100 grants initially, to a total value of £4 million.
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Arts Council Young Musician’s Platform Award
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland, in collaboration with BBC Northern Ireland, offers awards for young, exceptionally talented solo musicians/singers in Classical, Jazz and Traditional Music who are ready to enter the professional world as artists. The financial award associated with this scheme will allow applicants to spend a sizeable amount of time learning from a master musician/ teacher/composer etc. abroad. The BBC will facilitate this scheme by offering two professional broadcast performances to 5 successful applicants, between the period January – December 2017.
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Northern Ireland Screen: Assembler Programme
As part of the Assembler Programme, Northern Ireland Screen intends to use Lottery Funds, provided through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, to fund the early stage development of up to 6 games with the aim of one of the selected projects going into production on a budget of £200,000 of less in 2017-18.
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NIHE: Rural Community Awards
NIHE’s Rural Community Awards aim to improve community spirit within rural neighbourhoods and encourage rural communities to protect the physical asset of the rural landscape and to celebrate their communities. On offer is a prize fund of £4,000, with four prizes of £1,000 being awarded to help and support those communities working to improve their respective area.
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NIE Networks Charities Fund
This scheme aims to raise around £100,000 annually and in 2013 donated over £95,000 to local charities in Northern Ireland. They like to support tangible benefits like special equipment, IT apparatus, promotional goods etc. that will improve and enhance lives in Northern Ireland. Funding ranges from £200 to £750.
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NB Sadly, the Sutton Trust is now longer accepting unsolicited grant applications.
Upcoming Dates
PHA: Small Grants: Emotional Wellbeing & Suicide Prevention
The Public Health Agency (PHA) has identified funding for a small grants scheme to address the themes of Mental Health & Emotional Well-Being, Suicide Prevention and Self- Harm, and have commissioned CLEAR to facilitate this process. The PHA is keen to fund programmes founded on evidence based practice with a particular focus on those using one or more of the ‘Take 5’ Steps to Wellbeing. This scheme covers the Western, Belfast, Southern & South Eastern Areas. Public Health Agency
Closing Date 23 Jun 2016 (3pm)
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Omagh Enterprise: Do It For Real
Omagh Enterprise Company have come together with UnLtd, Comic Relief and Spirit of 2012 to launch ‘Do It For Real’ to help young people in Northern Ireland, aged 16-30, discover their full potential and contribute to their communities, their futures and their livelihoods through social entrepreneurship. There are three packages of support: Test It Awards provide funding of £500 to explore, plan and try out a social action idea. Do It Awards offer up to £2,500 to transform an idea into a social venture and create a more positive social impact, Build It Awards help ventures become sustainable by supporting personal expenses of £15,000 to enable young people to commit to the social enterprise.
Closing Date: Test It Awards 24 Jun 2016 (5pm)
Closing Date: Do It Awards 24 Jun 2016 (5pm)
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Trocaire Mobilising for Justice Grants Scheme
Through the Mobilising for Justice Grants Scheme, Trócaire offers support to projects in development education, campaigning and advocacy across the island of Ireland. These projects raise awareness of Ireland’s role in addressing global injustice and poverty. The Mobilising for Justice Grants Scheme offers grants from €500/£400 for small-scale, local projects, and up to €20,000/£17,000 per year for projects with regional or national impact.
Closing Date 24 Jun 2016
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Steve Reid InNOVAtion Award
This partnership between the Steve Reid Foundation and PRS for Music Foundation provides an opportunity for emerging artists that make outstanding music to receive a grant of up to £1,500 to assist them with their creative goals and mentoring from an experienced, successful working artist. 2016’s opportunity follows a hugely successful pilot year of mentoring and support which featured artists including Lady Vendredi, recent MOBO Award winning Moses Boyd, Hector Plimmer, Wu-Lu, and recent Ninja Tune signee Sarathy Korwar. The scheme is open to anyone that is writing and performing their own music and is currently unsigned and unmanaged.
Closing Date 30 Jun 2016
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