This is a place where you can find out about opportunities that are available to your organisation. From funding streams to events and training, The Essex Alliance will keep you informed.
This programme now focuses on funding projects and organisations helping communities through the COVID-19 pandemic
Award funding of £300 – £10,000 is available to cover six months of expenditure for activities supporting people affected by the coronavirus outbreak.
Organisations who are not looking for COVID-19 related funding are asked not to submit an application at this time.
DEADLINE: paused
WEBSITE: www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk
Third Sector Lab and SCVO Digital are working together to build a playbook for charities needing to quickly build out digital services.
A survey has been produced to find out the top priorities and issues being faced in regards to digital support during the COVID-19 crisis. To provide your feedback, please click here.
Third Sector Lab and SCVO Digital are also offering weekly Zoom calls for non-profits, community groups, social enterprises and other voluntary organisations. These calls are focused on helping the third sector think about how they can deliver information, support, and services using digital tools.
For more information on all of this, please click here.
The Charity Excellence Framework have created a free online toolkit and funding database, to help you increase impact and funding during the coronavirus outbreak.
DEADLINE: ongoing
WEBSITE: www.charityexcellence.co.uk
Local community organisers who need a small amount of financial support for things like flyer printing, incidental costs, or slightly larger projects are able to access community micro-grant funding.
As you will see, there has been no time to update the website for this new situation, so please do the best you can with the information on there and use the contact details at the bottom of the page if you need help.
DEADLINE: ongoing
WEBSITE: www.ealc.gov.uk/micro-grant-fund
Ian McLintock, founder of the Charity Excellence Framework, has produced a very in-depth list of details and links to emergency funding for charities. These include UK wide, UK country, regional, global, Government financial support, specialist funding and platforms.
As this information is constantly being updated, we suggest that you read the article on LinkedIn.
EDIT 9th April 2020
Ian McLintock has kindly contacted us to let us know that the list has now more than doubled in size and is being updated each Monday. The latest funder list and the 4 charity toolkits can be downloaded from the Charity Excellence website – www.charityexcellence.co.uk
There are also lots of free funding finders, funder lists and fundraising guides on the website.
The purpose of the Essex Coronavirus Response and Recovery Programme is to get help quickly to voluntary and community organisations that are in crisis as a result of the pandemic and need emergency funding to keep their vital services running.
Initially grants of up to £15,000 will be available. Priority will be given to those delivering vital services to older and vulnerable people, organisations helping to relieve pressure on public services and those co-ordinating a local community response.
DEADLINE: tbc
WEBSITE: www.essexcommunityfoundation.org.uk
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NCVO is conducting some research into diversity and volunteering to build on work completed last year on volunteer experiences, called Time Well Spent, which you can read more about in this blog.
The overall aim of this research is to inform practice and policy, and help organisations to address this important issue. You can find out more and share your organisation’s experience via this online form.
Lloyds Bank Foundation (LBFEW) has opened applications to its grants for up to £45k and £100k.
LBFEW supports charities with an annual income of £25,000 to £1 million with a proven track record of helping people on a journey of positive change through in-depth, holistic and person-centred support with long term funding and tailored support to develop.
Charities can apply for grants worth up to £45k and £100k over three years that can be used entirely for core costs.
DEADLINE: ongoing
The Fowler Smith & Jones Trust (FSJ) is an independent Trust supporting a wide-range of charities and other organisations throughout Essex. The Trust aims to make a significant difference to Essex through supported projects.
Particular focus is on helping develop young people into better members of society through preventative intervention. There is also strong emphasis on other marginalised or disadvantaged members of the community eg the elderly, isolated or disabled.
The Trustees hold 3 grant-giving meetings p.a. There is no formal application form, as each request to the Trust is unique. There are no fixed criteria, and the application process is accessible and flexible.
Any potential applicant is encouraged to contact the Grants administration team to discuss the best way forward. This saves much unnecessary work on both sides.
The majority of grants fall between £1-5,000. There are also a few Capital Grants granted during the year (usually up to £25,000) for larger projects.
DEADLINE: ongoing
Website: www.fsjtrust.org.uk
The Essex Learning Partnership Fund is the vehicle by which ACL Essex sub-contracts with other providers to complement and enhance its learning offer in Essex.
The Service is committed to supporting the VCSE sector to build its capacity to deliver learning opportunities to disadvantaged and hard to reach local communities and individuals across Essex especially in the more rural parts of the county, as well as the urban, suburban and coastal areas of greatest need.
Although ACL Essex highlights particular subject sectors and/or Essex districts they wish to target, organisations are required to evidence a local or county-wide need for the provision they aim to deliver when they apply for funds. This should take the form of demographic data and/or confirmation of local consultation to identify individual learning needs, and where applicable, the needs of local businesses.
DEADLINE: ongoing
WEBSITE: www.aclessex.com