Applications open on 2 December for grants from the new £4 million fund to support suicide prevention voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations across 2021 to 2022.
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has made available £4 million for a grant fund to support suicide prevention VCSE organisations across 2021 to 2022. A portion of the grant fund will be ring-fenced specifically to help support small community-led and user-led groups and organisations.
Application process
The application portal for the grant fund will open on 2 December and will close on 6 January 2022. The grant fund is being administered by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) on behalf of DHSC.
Further guidance and support on the application process will be available through a webinar shortly.
This page will be updated on 2 December with a link to the application portal, and key documents including the application guidance. This guidance will provide full details of the fund, eligibility criteria and application process.
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When applying for funding from Enovert Community Trust, it is important to demonstrate how your proposal will benefit your community.
Your application will be more effective if you can outline who will be using your facility, how many members of the community will frequent it, and if you can demonstrate a real need for it in the local area. Letters of support are helpful, as is succinct information about your project, which will enable the Trustees to gauge its impact. To be eligible for funding from the Trust, your organisation must comply with the following guidelines:
Non-profit distributing You don’t need to be a charity, but any surplus you make must be used to further your organisation’s objects. Surplus must not be used to pay dividends or other rewards.
Available to the general public: Your facility must be available to the general public as much as possible, and no less than four evenings or two days a week, or for more than 104 days in any one year.
Located within 10 miles of a landfill site or waste management facility operated by Enovert Management Limited in Kingswinford, Gloucestershire, Southend-On-Sea, South Gloucestershire, Walsall, Colchester or Weston-super-Mare.
Enovert’s Greatness Landfill Site in Sevenoaks is now closed and as a result the Trust has closed to new applications from the Sevenoaks area. Its last funding round for Sevenoaks was 10 September 2021 for a meeting on 19 October 2021.
Tesco Community Grants helps to fund thousands of local projects across the country. Since 2016 the scheme has supported over 40,000 community groups with more than £90 million in grants. The scheme aims to make a positive difference – because where our communities thrive, our business and our colleagues thrive too.
Tesco Community Grants is managed by Groundwork who are working with greenspace scotland to support applicants in Scotland.
How does Tesco Community Grants work?
Tesco Community Grants is open to charities and community organisations to apply for a grant of up to £1,500. Every three months, three local good causes are selected to be in the blue token customer vote in Tesco stores throughout the UK.
To apply for this position please download and complete the three-part application form at the bottom of this page and send it to hr@mindinwestessex.org.uk by the closing date of Thursday 2nd December 2021.
We are pleased to draw your attention to the application process for Leading Greater Essex (LGE) 2022 which is now open until 3rd December 2021.
As many of you will be aware for the past few years we have run Leading Greater Essex, a whole system leadership programme to support emerging leaders across the Greater Essex gain the skills and experience to further progress in their roles, look beyond organisational boundaries and help tackle complex cross-profession challenges.
Since 2016 more than 200 leaders have already successfully completed Leading Greater Essex and are now applying their learning within their place of work, operating as effective system leaders.
If you or your colleagues would like to hear more about the programme this year we would welcome the opportunity to talk to you further, if you would like to arrange a chat or presentation at an upcoming session please email Shammi Jalota (shammi.jalota@essex.gov.uk).
Local charities, community groups, and food banks have until 5 December to register to receive surplus food donations from Aldi this Christmas and New Year.
As part of Aldi’s pledge to donate 10 million meals this year to families across the UK facing hunger, the supermarket has committed to donate more meals than ever to good causes over the festive period.
Through its partnership with Neighbourly, all of Aldi’s 930 UK stores can already donate surplus food seven days a week, all year round. With all Aldi stores set to close on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day, the retailer also wants to ensure that any products approaching the end of their shelf life reach families who might otherwise miss out this Christmas.
Charities, food banks and community groups who could benefit from the scheme are encouraged to get in touch and register now for a festive food donation.
Existing charity partnerships will be prioritised for these festive collections, but where there’s availability, additional organisations are being invited to apply to be paired with a local Aldi store to collect fresh and chilled food products – including fruit, vegetables, fresh meat, fish and bread – ahead of stores closing on both Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve.
Mary Dunn, Managing Director of Corporate Responsibility at Aldi UK, said:
“Our food donations scheme operates year-round, but we know that Christmas can be a particularly difficult time for the families and communities we support.
“That’s why we are so committed to increasing the number of meals we donate over the festive season, and we look forward to working with local charities this Christmas to help us meet our 10 million meals target for the year.”
Steve Butterworth, from Neighbourly, added:
“With the impact of the pandemic still being felt by communities up and down the country, charities and local causes are expecting record demand for their services this Christmas.
“We’re sure there are lots more groups out there that could put this food to good use, so we’d encourage them to get in touch.”
Organisations do not need to be a registered charity to apply but must:
Have a level two hygiene certificate gained in the last two years
Be able to transport and store chilled food products after collecting them on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve at 5pm
Those interested in working with Aldi this Christmas should contact Neighbourly at aldichristmas@neighbourly.com before 5 December.
Aldi has been donating its surplus Christmas food for a number of years, and has been working with Neighbourly since early 2019. As part of this partnership, Aldi introduced community donation points in all stores earlier this month, offering customers the opportunity to donate any food or household products to local causes all year round.
If you represent a charity or an organisation that provide assistance to serving and former members of the British Armed Forces who are in need, you can apply for a grant from the Veterans’ Foundation. Grants are also available to operationally qualified seafarers and their dependants. Since mid-2016, the Veterans’ Foundation has given over £8 million in grants via 480+ grants to more than 270 unique organisations across the United Kingdom.
You can apply for a grant from the Veterans’ Foundation through our online platform. Before telling us about your charity or project please read our guidance.
Please note that the Veterans’ Foundation’s trustees are more likely to award grants to low and medium wealth organisations rather than ‘wealthy’ ones. They will consider a range of factors including the service or item being funded, the number of beneficiaries, the importance of the grant to the applicant organisation, the efficiency of the organisation, need of the beneficiaries and its urgency.