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Voluntary Arts England > funding > current funding
Dancing for Fun bursary scheme - posted 16.8.2010  area: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
deadline: 1 October 2010
Dancing for Fun are piloting a bursary scheme to help you set up and develop dance and movement classes within Cambridgeshire and Peterborough for the 50+.
Dancing for Fun and Better Health is part of Age UK national fit as a fiddle campaign funded by the Big Lottery Wellbeing Fund. They support a range of different dance and movement classes throughout Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, and are currently offering a bursary scheme to help organisations and individuals to set up new dance and movement opportunities.
For more information please visit www.livingsport.co.uk/player/dancing-for-fun-and-better-hea/5308/bursary
Learning in Communities Award - posted 09.8.2010  deadline: 3 December 2010
UnLtd have teamed up with NIACE to offer one individual the chance to receive a Learning In Communities Award to establish a project to engage adults in learning. If you have an innovative idea to get adults in the community back into learning, this is your chance to apply for the Award of up to £5,000 and a complete support package to help get your idea off the ground.
NIACE - the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education exists to encourage more and different adults in better quality learning of all kinds. They campaign for - and celebrate the achievements of - adult learners, young, old and in all their diversity.
This initiative is being promoted as part of their Sign Up Now campaign, motivating adults to sign up for learning opportunities during September's enrolment activity.
Criteria
To be eligible for the Award, you must have an original and innovative project that:
Engages adult learners, defined as being 18 or over, or if under 21, having been out of full time education for at least 3 years, in a regular learning activity.
Your project must not:
Be part of your paid employment
Involve political or religious campaigning
Involve activities outside the law or against public policy, or anything that encourages ethnic, religious or commercial disharmony
Involve employing people other than yourself to carry out most of the project work
Be used mainly to achieve academic qualifications
Be used to fund living expenses
You can apply as an individual or an informal group if you are:
Over the age of 16
Living in England (please note this Award is not open to applicants outside of England)
Not on behalf of an established organisation
5 shortlisted applications will be posted onto the UnLtd website in January 2011 where the public will vote for one Award Winner. The Winner will be announced by February 4th 2011.
For more information or to request an application form, please email learningincommunities@unltd.org.uk or call 0845 850 1122.
The David and Elaine Potter Foundation - posted 02.8.2010
The David and Elaine Potter Foundation is motivated to use philanthropy to encourage the values and beliefs of the founders within society in its largest definition. The Potters believe in the constructs of the rational mind the great edifice of human thought science, philosophy, the social sciences, the arts and ethics.
The will consider: general or core funding; specific programme grants; small lead gifts for innovative, new or enhanced programmes; challenge gifts to encourage the participation of other donors; and one-time and short-term gifts to sustain a programme until its long-term funding is realised.The Foundation prefers to use its funding to leverage other donor participation. Requests for endowment, capital campaigns, construction, equipment purchases and debt reduction should not be submitted.
The Foundation has also given smaller grants to a number of institutions, in an array of issues including human rights, prison reform, the environment, individual educational grants, health related charities and the performing arts. It is committed to multi-year grants where relevant and to the concept of general core support grants.
Support can only be given to organisations or groups that are charitable within the UK meaning of that term. This includes UK registered charities and exempt charities such as hospitals, educational establishments, museums, and housing corporations. Applications from individuals or for individual research or study cannot be considered and the trustees do not generally support humanitarian aid or animal welfare charities. The Foundation strongly prefers to fund strategically; for capacity building, to grow a specific charity or area of interest, or to leverage additional support for an organisation.
www.potterfoundation.com
Bonnie Bird Choreography Fund - posted 02.8.2010 deadline: 9 September 2010
Applications are invited for two funding awards from the Bonnie Bird Choreography Fund to encourage the development of choreographers in the early stages of their career.
UK New Choreography Award
The award is given to undertake research, a personal project or personal study which the choreographer believes will contribute in a vital way to forwarding his/her development as an artist.
Marion North Mentoring Scheme Award
To provide choreographers with the opportunity to have feedback from, and discussion with an experienced choreographer/dance artist for an approximate period of a year.
Applications for the awards are welcome from:
professional choreographers in all styles;
British choreographers or choreographers who have lived in the UK for at least 12 months;
choreographers who have not yet received regular/substantial funding;
for the UK New Choreography Award applications are also welcome from more experienced choreographers who are at a major turning point in their careers.
For more information on the awards and to download application forms please visit www.laban.org/home/bonnie_bird_choreography_fund.phtml or email bonniebirdchoreographyfund@googlemail.com.
The Percy Bilton Charity - posted 26.7.2010 deadline: various
The Percy Bilton Charity offers grants to UK registered charities whose primary objectives are to assist one or more of the following groups:
Disadvantaged / underprivileged young people aged under 25
People with disabilities, including physical or learning disabilities or mental health problems
People over the age of 60.
The Charity has two programmes for organisations to apply to:
Large grants offering one off payments for capital expenditure of £2,000 and over
Small grants - offering up to £500 towards furnishings and equipment for small projects. This programme is more suitable for smaller organisations.
There is no set deadline, but Board meetings are held quarterly in March, June, September and December to consider large grants. Applications may be submitted at any time and will be considered at the next appropriate Board meeting. Applications for small grants are considered monthly.
For more information, visit www.percybiltoncharity.org.uk/index.htm
European Cultural Foundation - Collaboration Grants - posted 26.7.2010 deadline: 6 September 2010
ECF are on the look-out for interesting project proposals from independent cultural and artistic organisations working together or with independent organisations from other sectors. They support projects that bring a renewed understanding of Europe to people of all backgrounds.
Think your project might be eligible? Please check out the guidelines and all other relevant info at:
www.eurocult.org/grants/collaboration-grants
The Terry Pratchett Prize - posted 26.7.2010 deadline: 31 December 2010
Sir Terry Pratchett and Transworld Publishers have launched a new award for aspiring debut novelists, The Terry Pratchett Anywhere But Here, Anywhen But Now Prize. Transworld will offer the winning author a publishing contract with a £20,000 advance.
The award will be judged by Sir Terry Pratchett, Tony Robinson, Michael Rowley from Waterstones and two senior members of the editorial team at Transworld Publishers.
For further details about the award, and full terms and conditions, see www.terrypratchett.co.uk/news%5Ctermsandconditions.html
The Leche Trust - posted 26.7.2010  deadline: various
The Leche Trust makes grants for any object or purpose which is recognised as charitable and in particular for
(a) the furtherance of education or academic research and
(b) the support of the National Trust and the preservation of rural England and
(c) financing the visits of teachers and students abroad.
At present, it is the trustees' policy to concentrate their work in five areas. They are:
the promotion of amity and good relations between Britain and third world countries;
assistance to academic, educational or other organisations concerned with music, drama, dance and the arts;
the preservation of buildings and their contents and the repair and conservation of church furniture (with particular emphasis on the Georgian period) conservation in all its aspects; and
the preservation of the nation's countryside, towns, villages and historic landscapes.
The trustees meet three times a year in February, June and October to review the applications received in the major grant categories. The Trust does not have an application form for the major categories of grants and initial approach should be made by letter, with accompanying evidence of the project, or by telephone to the Secretary.
More: www.lechetrust.org
BSLBT's Zoom Short Film Scheme - posted 26.7.2010  deadline: 17 September 2010
The British Sign Language Broadcasting Trust, through its Zoom Short Film Scheme, is inviting applications from British Deaf directors and Deaf writer/directors. The scheme aims to support the production of six short films, and will provide successful filmmakers with:
£2,000 of funding to make a short film up to 15 minutes in length;
the opportunity to work with Neath Films to make their film;
standard production insurance cover;
production support;
post production support including offline edit, grade and online edit.
Films of any genre will be considered, but films must be suitable for viewing by all ages, and must be in British sign language.
www.bslbt.co.uk/zoom
The Moto in the Community Trust - posted 12.7.2010  deadline: various
The Moto in the Community Trust is a grant making charity which looks to support a wide variety of local charity and community projects. The Trustees meet every 12 weeks. The next meetings are schedule for;
July 2010
October 2010
April 2011
The closing date for applications to the Trust for grants or partnership activities is 10 working days prior to the Trustee meeting. Their Community Grant Scheme is the most appropriate scheme for outside bodies wishing to approach the Moto in the Community Trust.
There is no minimum or maximum amount. The Moto in the Community Trust seeks to support as many community projects as possible, though it would be unusual for the Trustees to approve a grant exceeding £10,000 at this time. They only consider grants for projects that benefit communities where Moto is present, or that they have a significant staff catchment. As a rule their catchment area is 25 miles radius of a Moto site.
They encourage applications if:
You are a charity or a good cause within 25 miles of a Moto service area.
The project you are telling them about is in line with the objectives of the Moto in the Community Trust. The beneficiaries of the grant are UK based.
Your project involves or affects Moto staff or their families.
www.motointhecommunity.co.uk/grants.htm
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