New or Updated Funding Initiatives
Live Here Love Here: Small Grants Scheme
The Small Grants Scheme provides support to volunteer projects that reduce littering and dog fouling, improve the local environment, improve civic pride or enhance or attract tourism. Grants are available from £500 to £5000 and are open to volunteer and community groups, all school and third level education organisations, youth groups and sports clubs undertaking civic pride projects in all Council areas.
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UCIT: Sports Fund
Ulster Community Investment Trust (UCIT) is a Charity which provides loans exclusively to other third sector organisations such as community groups, charities, sports clubs and social enterprises in NI and the Republic of Ireland. In 2018 UCIT ‘kicked off’ a dedicated £4 Million fund for sporting organisations seeking finance.
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Lord and Lady Lurgan Trust
The Trust gives grants in the UK, usually in London and in NI and South Africa. Grants are generally between £1,000 and £5,000. Grants in NI are not restricted by particular categories but by the Trustees’ perception of need.
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Sport Relief: Safe, Secure, Settled Grant Programme
Sport Relief’s new Safe, Secure, Settled fund provides grants of £100,000 to £500,000 for projects using sport to improve the lives of young people up to 25 without a safe or secure place to live, helping them to gain the skills and resources to lead safe and positive lives.
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Key Dates for your Fundraising Diary
Co-Op Local Community Fund
Apply to be one of the local projects funded by Co-Op Local Community Fund across the UK as a way of giving back to their millions of members and their communities by providing funding to local causes that their members care about.
Application Closing Date 08 Apr 2018
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Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
One of JRCT’s five grants programmes, the Power and Accountability programme funds projects centred on strengthening corporate accountability, strengthening democratic accountability or encouraging responsible media.
Power & Accountability Deadline 09 Apr 2018
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The Wheel: Training Links
Training Links offers funding opportunities to groups of organisations in Ireland that choose to come together to form Training Networks and work collaboratively to address their shared training needs as a training network. Grants will be between €5,000 (minimum) and €25,000 (maximum) each.
Closing Date (5pm) 10 Apr 2018
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