Wednesday 30 October 2024
Marlene Reid Centre, 85 Belvoir Road, LE67 3PH
Session 1: 1:30pm – 3:30pm
Session 2: 4:30pm – 6:15pm
The Leicestershire VCSE Funding Fair is a face to face event and all Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise organisations based in the county are invited to attend and speak to local and national funders who are actively investing in community groups in your area.
The Funding Fair will give you the opportunity to:
- Float your ideas past potential funders
- Learn about current funding programmes
- Find out how VAL can help you to succeed in your future bids
There are 8 confirmed funders who will give presentations and offer some 1:1 appointments:
[Please Note – This event is for County based VCSE groups only, City Based groups are not eligible to attend]
More funders will be added as their attendance is confirmed.
VAL Sector Support Team – available to discuss any support you need with your organisation or volunteer recruitment.
Book your place nowFunders Information
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easyfundraising
We turn daily shopping into every day magic!
Every time an online shopper spends, brands donate cashback towards your charity target. Giving you a free, effortless way to raise funds.easyfundraising partners with over 8,000 brands who want to give back, transforming ordinary online shops into extraordinary rewards. It won’t cost you any extra. The cost is covered by the brand.
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The Key Fund
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.
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Leicestershire & Rutland Community Foundation
Overview
The Community Foundation works to encourage local philanthropy. We set up and manage grant giving charitable funds for families, individuals and companies. We also manage local and national grant programmes such as National Emergency Trust, Department for Media Culture and Sport (DCMS) Tampon Tax, #iWill; Wesleyan Foundation; St Matthews Big Local. We have various grant programmes that open at various times of the year. These include matching family and corporate funds to causes they are interested in supporting, and giving grants on behalf of larger national agencies. So keep an eye on our website page ‘Apply for Funds’. For any enquiries please email: grants@llrcommunityfoundation.org.uk
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The National Forest
We offer funding and advice across a range of themes in the National Forest that help us to grow the vision together. From tree planting and woodland management, to tourism and arts, we believe we can cultivate change, one project at a time.
Grant Information TBC
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The National Lottery Heritage Fund
The National Lottery Heritage Fund is the largest dedicated funder of heritage in the UK.
We believe that understanding, valuing and sharing our heritage brings people together, inspires pride in communities and boosts investment in local economies.
We distribute National Lottery grants from £3,000 to £5million and over, funding projects that sustain and transform the UK’s heritage.
We provide leadership and support across the heritage sector, and advocate for the value of heritage.
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North West Leicestershire District Council
UKSPF Community Grant
Round four applications are open until Friday 25th October 2024. This is the final round of funding.
The fund is open to North West Leicestershire parish and town councils, parish meetings, constituted voluntary and community groups, uniformed groups, PTAs and not-for-profit organisations.Small Grant Scheme
Now open for applications – Grants are available for new projects, to try something different or for one off pieces of expenditure for projects, equipment and other items. You can apply for 50% of your total project costs up to a maximum of £500.The small grant scheme aims to make grants easily available to local community and voluntary groups. There is no deadline for applications.
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Severn Trent Community Fund
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.
By this we mean:
People: Projects that help people to lead a healthier life and gain new skills
Places: Projects that help to create better places to live in and use
Environment: Projects that will help look after our natural environment, give people greater access to that environment or help look after waterWe seek to fund projects that link to these key elements of community wellbeing – with favourability shown to projects that ideally lie within a ‘sweet spot’ that incorporates all three. If you’re applying for over £75,000, please note that a combination of all three of these themes is necessary to be eligible.
And of course, being a water company, naturally we’d love to see applications for projects that have a connection to water too (although not essential)! This might mean creating sustainable drainage, installing grey water recycling or creating water efficient green spaces.
Grants available from £2,000 to £200,000 – find out more here.
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Sport England
Sport England’s vision is to transform lives and communities through sport and physical activity and that everyone in England feels able to take part in sport or activity, regardless of age, background or ability.
They are 3 funding programmes currently open:
Small Grants – £300 to £15,000 covering revenue items such as new/additional equipment (not replacing existing equipment), coaches fees (additional activity), facility hire (new/additional activity), and coaching, qualifications with a view to engage new participants into new activities and tackling inequalities.Active Together crowdfunding – up to £10,000 matched funding available for revenue and capital to support priority projects following the impact of Covid 19, energy and cost of living crisis organisations delivering community activities
Places and Spaces crowdfunding – up to £10,000 matched crowdfunding available for capital projects looking to improve spaces and places for sport and physical activity.
You have the choice of booking onto either the afternoon or the early evening session.
Please DO NOT book onto both:
Afternoon Session 13:30 – 15:30
Early Evening Session 16:30 – 18:15
Only 2 people per VCSE organisation will be allowed to book on.
Book your place now