OneFamily Foundation: Community Awards
The OneFamily Foundation helps fund community projects chosen by their customers. OneFamily customers simply nominate their favourite local community project for a Community Award of up to £5,000 or up to £25,000. Approved projects are then entered into a public online vote, which determines the winners. Projects will therefore need to campaign and raise awareness of their nomination in the Community Awards to gain the most votes! Whether you have a seed of an idea and the support to get it off the ground, or have an existing project that needs a bit of a financial boost, you just need to tell them about your plans, and how much you need – and you could make a real difference to your local community. The scheme has funded projects such as the renovation of school playgrounds and sports clubs, sensory gardens and respite centres for children with disabilities.
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John Hewitt Society: Summer School Bursary Scheme
The Summer School bursary scheme is an assisted community ticketing scheme and plays an important aspect of the Society’s outreach programme. A bursary offers financial support to those who otherwise would not be able to attend the Summer School. The scheme attracts a varied demographic: third-level students, at-home parents, professionals, retired/60+, etc. Full bursaries include accommodation for five nights, breakfast and ticket entry to all events. The Society can also offer discretionary half-bursaries which cover the entrance to all Summer School events for those who may have personal circumstances that do not permit them to spend evenings away from home, such as carers or dependants. Accommodation is not provided for half bursaries. Previous bursary students have gone on to become published writers, lead workshops, host live author events, be invited to read at poetry and writing festivals, and work in the literary sector.
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Dance Resource Base: Love to Dance Fund
The Love To DANCE Fund is a new initiative from Dance Resource Base (DRB) and Voluntary Arts Ireland (VAI) to foster excellence by providing dance teachers/facilitators with small grants of financial assistance to help with accessing best practice training opportunities outside of Northern Ireland. Funding for this project comes from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Dance teachers/facilitators will be eligible to apply for a limited number of small grants of up to £200 each to attend appropriate dance training and skill development opportunities in any dance style or any business development matters connected to their dance participation provision. NB Applicants must be current members of Dance Resource Base.
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Upcoming Dates
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’, an exciting new youth programme called 'Do it For Real' which aims to help young people become social entrepreneurs; creating social action ideas that positively impact people and their communities. Do it For Real will 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. Omagh Enterprise Company will provide three different packages of support to young people to start a social action project or venture, including funding, expert help, one to one guidance and networking: "Test It" Awards will provide funding of £500 to help you explore, plan and try out a social action idea. "Do It" Awards will offer up to £2,500 to transform an idea into a social venture and help you create a more positive social impact, "Build It" Awards will help your venture become sustainable by supporting personal expenses of £15,000 to enable you to commit to the social enterprise.
Closing Date for both "Test It" and "Do It" Awards - 24th June 2016 (5pm)
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Comic Relief: Maternal Mental Health
Comic Relief’s initial funding opportunity aims to ensure that more women experiencing maternal mental health issues will have access to high quality community based support in their local area. This scheme is be partly funded by HM Treasury’s “Tampon Tax” to support women’s and girls’ issues. Proposals are welcome for up to £120,000 for between two and three years of activity. Comic Relief anticipates making approximately 10 grants to existing or new community based providers of maternal mental health support. Applicants must be able to demonstrate how they will work within existing cross-sector referral pathways, or develop these in order to provide wrap-around support to women experiencing perinatal mental health issues.
Closing Date for Proposals (12 Noon) - 15th June 2016
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Money Saving Expert Charity: Innovation Round
The MSE Charity provides grants to constituted groups and charities to promote financial literacy through education or other activities. NOTE In 2016 there is now an Innovation Round. For this one grant round only, the funders are going to remove the upper limit of £5,000 and will consider applications between £2,000 and £15,000. Normal grant giving has been put on hold this round and instead they will be inviting expressions of interest for ideas for innovative projects. Is there a great idea lurking in your organisation? Have you been thinking about a really different way of helping people to manage their money better but not been able to find funding to kick it off? If you have, now is the time dust off its covers. All previous applicants and existing grant holders are eligible to apply for this unique grant round.
Closing Date for Proposals (5pm) - 10th June 2016
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