Meet the Funders – Leicester City

Our customers, and the communities we live and work in, are at the heart of everything we do. And that’s why, from 2020, we’re going to be giving away more than £10million over the next five years to support new projects by local charities and community groups in the Severn Trent region – helping to make a real and tangible difference in our communities.

Our customers have helped us to create and shape our new community fund. We’ve spoken to lots of you to better understand your community needs, and as a result, have chosen to design our fund around improving community wellbeing.

Funding is available from £2,000 up to £200,000 We seek to fund projects that link to these key elements of community wellbeing and If you’re applying for over £75,000, please note that a combination of all three of these themes is necessary to be eligible.

Do you have a project you need funding for? Why not come along and find out about this amazing fund.

Full details at www.stwater.co.uk/about-us/severn-trent-community-fund/

Application deadline: Ongoing

Awards for all

Social connections and community activities are at the heart of creating healthier, happier lives and a flourishing society. That’s why we support amazing community-led projects.
We offer funding from £300 to £20,000. And can support your project for up to two years.
You can apply for funding to deliver a new or existing activity or to support your organisation to change and adapt to new and future challenges.

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Reaching Communities England

Offers a larger amount of funding (over £20,001) for projects that last up to five years. We’re looking for projects that work with their community – whether that’s a community living in the same area, or people with similar interests or life experiences.

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Awarding money raised by the National Lottery, we are the largest funder of heritage in the UK. By heritage, we mean anything from the past that we value, and wish to pass on to future generations.

Our grant programmes fall into three funding bands: £3,000 to £10,000 and £10,000 to £250,000 which have a single-stage application process and are assessed in 8 weeks. Grants of £250,000 to £10,000,000 have a two round application process; each round is separate and is assessed in 3 months. There are quarterly application deadlines for these larger grants.

We expect all applications to meet this outcome:-

• A wider range of people will be involved in heritage

Applications may also meet one or more of these outcomes:-

• The funded organisation will be more resilient
• People will have greater wellbeing
• People will have developed skills
• The local area will be a better place to live, work or visit
• The local economy will be boosted
• Heritage will be in better condition
• Heritage will be identified and better explained
• People will have learned about heritage, leading to change in ideas and actions

More information can be found on our website www.heritagefund.org.uk

We manage a range of grant-giving funds for families, individuals, and local companies.

Our small grant programmes match our individual donor’s passions and interests with the grassroots projects that work at making local life better within their communities.

To apply for a grant from Leicestershire and Rutland Community Foundation, as a minimum you must be a not-for-profit organisation or social enterprise working in Leicester, Leicestershire and/or Rutland.

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The Movement Fund
The Movement Fund provides crowdfunding pledges, grants and support to help projects that get more people active. If you’re eligible and your project aligns with our goals, you could receive up to £15,000 to cover a wide range of costs and items that’ll help deliver positive change in your community.

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The fund is open and ongoing, with no date for closure.

If you’re unsure if the Movement Fund suits your project or need more information, please get in touch. Call us on 0345 8508 508 or email funding@sportengland.org

Through the free easyfundraising platform, thousands of online retailers including Sainsbury’s, eBay, Tesco, M&S, Asda, Argos, Just Eat, Morrisons, Trainline and booking.com will all donate money to your organisation when your community of supporters shop with them.

Whenever an online shopper buys something online, the retailer will send your organisation either a flat monetary amount or a percentage of what the online shopper spends, without it costing the shopper anything extra.  89% of people in the UK have bought something online in the past year so this is a simple way for your supporter network to raise money for you just by doing their shopping.

All types of organisations can receive this unrestricted funding – your organisation just needs to be registered with funding website easyfundraising.

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We provide flexible loans and grants to help enterprises start up, become sustainable, and grow; creating jobs, reinvigorating communities and offering social investment.

As a Social Enterprise ourselves, we understand the challenges you face and will support you, pre and post-investment, offering the right kind of money at the right time.

We offer investments from £5k up to £300k to community and social enterprises operating in the North of England and the Midlands.

Our Sector Support team offers free, confidential advice and support on all aspects of setting up and running your organisation.

We provide high quality training to broaden your skills and knowledge you need to manage your charity, social enterprise or community group.

We can help you, with preparing reading and writing funding and tender applications.

Visit us online at:valonline.org.uk/sector-support/

VAL – Volunteering

Volunteers are an integral part of the success of local voluntary and community sector organisations.

If you would like to find out how to involve the volunteers your organisation needs to thrive, our volunteering team is here to support you.

Our volunteering team can: post volunteering opportunities on your behalf so you can find the volunteers you need and help you develop relevant volunteering policies & advise on all aspects of  managing volunteers.

https://volunteer.valonline.org.uk