Funding

This page is to help you identify some of the key funders supporting work around asylum seekers, refugees and migrant workers but to also signpost you towards key funding websites

Winter 2009 Funding Sources

Specific Programme "Fundamental Rights And Citizenship" (2007-2013) - call for proposals. This call for proposals is based on the Fundamental Rights and Citizenship annual work programmes for 2009 and 2010 and combines the priorities as well as the resources available for both years. Projects require a minimum partnership of 2 organisations from different EU member states and must have a duration of between 12 and 24 months. The deadline for submitting proposals via the PRIAMOS on-line application is 29 April 2010. Further information:
http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/funding/rights/funding_rights_en.htm
£1k to £5k for youth led media projects - organisations with turnover less than £150k per annum can apply – rolling submission. Mediabox have announced some changes to the Mini Mediabox scheme which offers grants of £1,000 - £5,000 for youth-led media projects. For more information on the Mini Mediabox scheme click here
Up to 10k for education / training or financial capability - from re-launched Santander Foundation. All of our funding must directly help disadvantaged people through one or both of these charitable priorities - education and training, or financial capability. All funding is for one off donations. We can only make donations to organisations with charitable status for their work within the UK. We cannot fund Community Interest Companies or not-for-profit organisations unless they are also registered charities.
UnLtd RISE Programme - notice of first 2010 round. Deadline: 21 March 2010. The Refugee Initiative for Social Entrepreneurs (RISE) aims to unleash and encourage the potential of refugees as social entrepreneurs in England. RISE offers grants of between £500 and £5,000 as well as dedicated project management support to set up projects in England that will encourage community cohesion and make communities happier, healthier and safer places.
The Volant Charitable Trust. Next deadline is Friday 30 July 2010. The Trust supports registered charities whose purpose is to alleviate poverty and social deprivation with particular emphasis on children and women’s issues. There is no stated minimum or maximum grant size, however most grants are given for more than £100,000 to large national charities but some smaller grants are given to local and regional charities.
Ford Britain Trust. We pay special attention to projects focusing on education, environment, children, the disabled, youth activities and projects that provide clear benefits to the local communities close to our UK locations. Small grants for amounts up to £250, available four times each year; large grants for amounts over £250 and usually up to a maximum of £3,000. Next deadlines: Small grants - 2 March 2010 Large grants - 4 May 2010.
Programme of Community Action in the Field of Health (2008-2013). The European Commission is accepting applications for the second round of the Community Action in the Field of Health 2008-13. Up to €47 million is available to improve health and well being throughout the European Union, particularly improving and promoting citizens’ health and providing and distributing health information. Applications will be rejected if they only include one eligible country or a region in a specific country. The deadline for applications is 19 March 2010. Further information:
http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_programme/pgm2008_2013_en.htm
European Refugee Fund call for proposals 2009. The fund is mainly aimed at organisations involved in setting up projects that assist in the integration of refugees or people who have been granted humanitarian protection or discretionary leave. The value of the fund available for external tender for 2009 is approximately £800,000. The closing date for completed applications is 16:00 on Thursday 25 March 2010. For further details, see the European Refugee Fund pages on the UKBA website or the Home Office Emptoris e-procurement site. To register for Emptoris, contact EUFunding@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
European Return Fund call for proposals 2010. The call for proposals for the European Return Fund 2010 is now open. At least £500,000 is available to co-fund projects that seek to set up or improve counselling and return information measures. The closing date for completed applications is 16:00 on Thursday 25 March 2010. For further details, see the European Return Fund pages on the UKBA website or the Home Office Emptoris e-procurement site. To register for Emptoris, contact EUFunding@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk.
Funding - Mediabox: funding for young people media skills. Applications will open on 26 February 2010. Funding from Mediabox, a Department for Children, Schools and Families fund, will be available to established youth and or media focused organisations with a strong track record of working with young people. Grants of between £5,000 and £20,000 available.
Norfolk Community Foundation joins forces with Norwich Evening News and Sport Relief to distribute grants to groups making a difference to their local communities.Grants of between £500 and £1000 are available to community groups and clubs in the Norwich City Council local authority area. The initiative is part of £1m worth of grants from cash raised through Sport Relief available to community groups across the UK. Deadline for applications: 5 March 2010
Community Voices, the Media Trust. Deadline: 28th February 2010. All community projects will be selected by 31st March 2010, and will run until March 2011. Projects selected will be showcased on this website, with each project receiving a bursary to attend one of our training events, and a wealth of additional communications support. If you're helping to give your community a voice through digital media we'd like to hear from you. Furthermore, to celebrate the varied and inspiring ways you are already using digital media to help empower disadvantaged communities, Community Voices has 20 x £500 awards to give away before the end of March 2010.
2009 Call for Proposals - European Fund for the Integration of third-country nationals (Community Actions). Deadline – 3 March 2010. The call for proposals is open to national, regional and local authorities, NGOs, public or private bodies (including university departments, research centres) registered in any of the 26 Member States participating in the European Fund for the Integration of third-country nationals (i.e. all EU Member States except Denmark), as well as international organisations.. Three funding priorities: Gather public and migrant perceptions and develop a more comprehensive understanding of the integration processes; Promote integration measures targeting young population and addressing specific gender issues; Promote the role of civil society organisations and the local authorities in shaping integration strategies. The target population is third-country (i.e. non EU) nationals legally residing in the EU Member States.
Additional Calls for Proposals expected from UK Border Agency – Return Fund and European Refugee Fund. Owing to additional resources available through exchange rate changes, UKBA is aiming to publish additional calls for the Return Fund and on 25 January, with a deadline of 25 March. It is expected that the scope of the Calls will be For the European Refugee Fund : Integration with host communities; Development of employment skills; Capacity building of Refugee Community Organisations. For the European Return Fund: Projects which propose particularly innovative ways and means of informing and counselling potential returnees; Projects which test new working methods to speed up the process of documenting returnees.
Heritage Lottery Fund — Skills for the Future. Skills for the Future from the Heritage Lottery Fund has grants from £100,000 - £1 million available. The grants are for organisations to provide paid training places for people to learn traditional conservation skills or to develop the skills needed to engage people with heritage (e.g. education, community participation/volunteering programmes, using new media and technology to open up heritage). You should email your full contact details to: skills@hlf.org.uk to register your interest in the programme. Deadline: 19 March 2010 for full applications. Pre-application enquiry forms should be sent in prior to this date. See the Heritage Lottery Fund website for further details.
Media Trust Community Voices awards.The Media Trust has awards of £500 for projects which are using digital media to help empower disadvantaged communities. They are giving one award away each week until the end of March. For more information, see the Media Trust website.
Looking for partners for a European Refugee Fund project. The London Borough of Ealing are searching for partners for a European Refugee Fund project. Ealing’s project will focus on drug and alcohol abuse as barriers to the integration of asylum seekers and refugees into European societies. Ealing will lead the project, but is looking for European partners in order to be able to compare experiences and share knowledge. For more information on the project, or if you are interested in being involved as partners, please contact Syed Mazhar (email: MazharS@ealing.gov.uk , telephone: 0208 825 9679).
Fourth Round of the Youth Sector Development Fund Launched. The fourth round of the Youth Sector Development Fund (YSDF) will focus on supporting the aims of the Government’s Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) Strategy published last month.

Bids should demonstrate how young people would be imaginatively shown the full range of options open to them in education and work, such as through “taster sessions” at universities or real experience of different careers. Around 25 third-sector organisations are expected to benefit from the fund, through a mixture of grants and business support, from April 2010 to March 2011. Monthly bulletins are produced by the Managing Body including information on funding streams and conferences and training events that may be of interest.

If you wish to join the mailing list please email your details to ysdf@ecotec.com

Yapp Charitable Trust. The Yapp Charitable Trust is an independent grant making trust that aims to make grants totalling £300,000 to about 50 small charities each year. Grants of up to £3,000 per year for up to three years are available to sustain the work of charities that work with: elderly people; children and young people aged five to 25; people with disabilities or mental health problems; and people trying to overcome life-limiting problems of a social, rather than medical origin such as addiction, relationship difficulties, abuse, and a history of offending. Applicants must have a total expenditure budget of less than £60,000 a year for the whole charity. Applications are processed continuously.
Paul Getty Jnr Trust - social welfare grants up to £250,000 or small grants up to £5000. The Trust supports a range of work to alleviate poverty and overcome disadvantage. We are interested in schemes providing opportunities to people who are marginalised or have been out of work for a considerable length of time owing to the barriers described below. We are also interested in projects which make effective use of volunteers. All applications must be submitted using our online form. There are no closing dates, and we aim to tell you within 6 weeks if we are able to take your application forward to the next stage. Funding priorities include improving prospects for refugees and asylum-seekers and repairing lives and integration of minority groups. How to apply: http://www.jpgettytrust.org.uk/howtoapply.html
Community Foundation Network - Comic Relief. Community Foundation Network have been invited by Comic Relief to distribute some of the funds raised through Red Nose Day and Sport Relief though our network of local community foundations. Community foundations across the UK are inviting applications for grants up to £10,000 from a fund of over £5 million that they are distributing on behalf of Comic Relief, using money raised from Red Nose Day and Sport Relief - up to 31 March 2011. Comic Relief grants of up to £10,000 support community groups. For more information please contact your local Community Foundation. Cambridgeshire Community Foundation: info@cambscf.org.uk 01223 410535 Essex Community Foundation: general@essexcf.org.uk 01245 355947 Norfolk Community Foundation: info@norfolkfoundation.com 01603 623958; Suffolk Foundation: info@suffolkfoundation.org.uk01473 734120
Groundswell Small Grant Award Scheme. Groundswell's Grant Award Scheme offers grants of up to £700 to homeless people to set up their own projects. They welcome applications from anyone with experience of homelessness: rough sleepers, Travellers, squatters, refugees and asylum seekers, residents of hostels and B&Bs etc.; anyone without a secure tenancy. The project you are trying to set up can be a service user group, an arts group, a business, a charity - any kind of self-help initiative. See website for more information. If you are still in doubt as to whether you are eligible to apply, then please call them Tel: 020 7737 5500. The next deadline for applications is 15 January 2010.
The People’s Postcode Trust - grants up to £10,000 to promote health, prevent poverty and increase participation in sport. The People’s Postcode Trust will distribute funds to small organisations, community groups and registered charities. Funding is available for three month projects, ranging from £500 up to £10,000. Funding will go to projects with one or more of the following aims: To prevent poverty, sickness and distress for the benefit of the public; To promote, maintain, improve and advance health; To advance citizenship or community development; To advance public participation in sport; To promote, improve and advance human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation; To promote and advance environmental protection or improvement. Applications for the next round can be submitted until 18 January 2010. If you have any questions please contact the team by emailing info@postcodetrust.org.uk or call 0131 555 7288.
Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA) grants. Grants can support refugee academics to re-qualify in a range of professions in the UK such as teaching, academia, engineering, law, the charity sector and medicine. We can fund qualifications or structured work placements that are clearly linked to employment. Types of funding include tuition fees, travel, registration fees, exam fees, bench fees, books, IT equipment and childcare. To apply for a grant, please contact CARA by telephone on 020 7021 0880 or email info.cara@lsbu.ac.uk. We are happy to discuss whether you are eligible for a CARA grant and to help you prepare your application. Next Deadline for applications is in August 2010.
Reaching Communities programme relaxes its eligibility criteria. In response to the recession, The Big Lottery Fund have announced they have relaxed the eligibility criteria for the Reaching Communities programme. Reaching Communities can now consider projects in the following areas: Advice; Family Learning; Well–Being; Young People; Children’s Play; Community Buildings; Community Libraries; Parks. Updated signposting guidance: http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/rc_signposting_guide.doc
Lloyds TSB Foundation and Suffolk. The Lloyds TSB Foundation fund small and medium underfunded charities working at the heart of communities to tackle disadvantage across England and Wales. They would particularly welcome more enquiries from Suffolk, where enquiries have been low compared to other areas. The Foundation’s Community Programme supports charities that help disadvantaged people play a fuller role in the community, particularly where that is achieved through improving social & community involvement; improving life choices & chances; or helping people to be heard. The programme supports charities to continue and develop their existing work; and to expand services or develop new initiatives. Grants from the Community Programme are from one to three years and are appropriate to the size and needs of each charity.
Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust grants. The J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust has reopened, with some changes. Small grants of up to £5,000 are available for smaller charities, and main grants of £10,000 - £250,000 are available over 1 - 3 years. The Trust now supports work divided into ‘Social Welfare’ and ‘Arts and Heritage’. Particular themes include “Refugees and Asylum Seekers” and “Integration of Minority Groups”. The Trust will now only accept requests submitted using the online application form. Only registered charities can apply. The trustees have also decided to wind down the trust over a period of between 5 - 10 years. The website says this means that they will be increasing the level of annual spend and will be looking for opportunities to award a number of more substantial grants that will have an enduring impact. You can apply at any time.
The Communitybuilders - £70m investment fund will help build more cohesive, empowered and active communities. The fund will provide a mix of loans, grants and mentoring support to a range of community anchor-type organisations across England. The Communitybuilders Fund will be organised into three investment packages: (i) A development package consisting of bespoke business support based on an initial needs assessment and leadership grants of £2,000 for staff development and training. (ii) A feasibility package consisting of further business support of up to 5 days and grants of up to £20,000 to use towards project development of a growth plan. Grants of up to £75,000 and 30 days of support will be available for larger projects. (iii) Investment packages tailored for investees who are ready to develop, grow and expand their role within the community. Investment will consist primarily of loans between £50,000 and £2,000,000 offered at 5% for an initial three year period of a ten year loan term. Communitybuilders Fund will open for applications on 07 September 2009.
Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation. The Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation awards grants to a variety of categories including education, youth, community, environment/conservation, health and welfare. Generally grants awarded will range from between £200 and £5,000. Grants will only be made to registered charities including schools in the UK. There is no application form – all submissions should be made in the form of a covering letter to the Director. Further details are available from Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation on 020 7408 2198 or by email at office@sunleyfoundation.com
The Media Trust, one of the UK's largest communications charity, is looking to engage and support disadvantaged and isolated communities across England to get their voices heard through digital media. Running until March 2011, Community Voices will provide funding for 26 grassroots groups, alongside one major new initiative and a further 40 small grants of £500 for specific digital projects. There will be ten grants of £1,500; ten grants of £7,000; six grants worth £14,000 and £61,000 to fund one major new initiative.
16.7 million Hardship Fund now open. The Hardship Fund is now open for applications. Grants of between £50,000 and £250,000 are available to organisations with an annual income of at least £200,000 that are in financial hardship as a result of the recession, which is impacting on their ability to deliver services in the following areas: health and social care housing support education and training information, advice and guidance. Because this Fund is to support Third Sector organisations facing financial hardship, applications will be assessed in the date and time order that they are received at the Community Development Foundation (on a rolling programme) until there are sufficient relevant applications up to the value of the Fund. Grants will be paid from October 2009 and need to be spent by September 2010.
Heinz Charitable Trust. Heinz Charitable Trust promotes community health and wellbeing and offers funding to registered charities in the UK. The Trust operates five key programme areas: Nutrition: supporting improvements in the medical aspects of nutrition and health; Youth and Education: strengthening learning systems and supporting programmes that supplement the formal education process; Local Community: supporting and enhancing local communities in which H J Heinz has significant operations; Quality of Life: improving quality of life through arts, cultural and environmental programmes; Volunteering: supporting charitable work of Heinz employees through recognised charitable organisations. Applications can be made at any time.
The Steel Charitable Trust. Who can apply? Registered charities What is available? Up to £25,000.The Steel Charitable Trust is a grant-making trust supporting general charitable purposes. 30% of all grants are made to organisations in the Luton and Bedfordshire areas. Grants are made at regular intervals during the year and the total level of grants is approximately £1,000,000 per annum. Grants are generally made as single payments between £1,000 and £25,000.
Grants for digital media projects reaching isolated people - Helping Communities Get Their Voice Heard. An innovative new scheme has been launched aiming to use digital media as a way of empowering disadvantaged communities across England. Communications charity Media Trust has been charged by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) with spearheading the Community Voices programme. Over the next two years, 27 grassroots projects will be given grants ranging from £1,500 to £61,000 to use digital media – such as the internet, social networking, film, radio and television – as a means of empowering and bringing together some of England’s most isolated and deprived communities.
Funding Central. A new free website which has just been launched which may be useful to voluntary sector organisations. It is called "Funding Central" and has a search facility to help find suitable funding sources.
Cash 4 Clubs grants for grassroots sports clubs. Cash 4 Clubs, funded by Betfair and supported by SportsAid, offers grants of £250 - £1,000 to supports grassroots sports clubs. No preference is given to types of sport or the age range accessing the activity, however clubs should play an active role in the community, encourage social interaction and fitness, and be registered with its sports’ National Governing body. All types of costs will be considered, including equipment, training and capital costs. Applications can be made at any time.

It’s your Community - up to £1,000 - monthly decisions. Awards of up to £1,000 are available to local groups and individuals for anything that can be shown to benefit your community. The awards support projects that bring people together and benefit your community.
RISE: UnLtd's Refugee Initiative for Social Entrepreneurs - RISE Accelerator Programme: Investing in Refugees. Funded by the European Refugee Fund Phase III and with the support of the UK Border Agency, UnLtd – the Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs has re-launched RISE: Refugee Initiative for Social Entrepreneurs, under the name RISE Accelerator - which aims to unleash and encourage the potential of refugees as social entrepreneurs. The RISE programme has already funded 75 refugees, benefiting over 2000 people around England. The success of the project has allowed UnLtd to extend the RISE programme for another two years. We will start accepting applications after 20 May. For more information contact: Maryam Pasha RISE Accelerator Coordinator rise@unltd.org.uk, 0207 566 1136
Esme Fairbairn Foundation. We support work within four primary areas of interest: the cultural life of the UK; education and learning; the natural environment; and enabling disadvantaged people to participate more fully in society. We prioritise work that: addresses a significant gap in provision; develops or strengthens good practice; challenges convention or takes a risk in order to address a difficult issue; tests out new ideas or practices; takes an enterprising approach to achieving its aims; ets out to influence policy or change behaviour more widely. Most successful applications meet more than one of these priorities.
Sport in the Community . Sport England has published its new funding strategy, which outlines the programmes available to grassroots sports projects from April 2009 - March 2011. To view the strategy and for more information on the individual funding streams visit the Sport England website or contact them by telephone on 08458 508 508.
The Hilden Charitable Fund: award grants to projects both in the UK and in developing countries. Both the UK and overseas funds are directed largely at supporting work at community level. Grant making priorities in the UK are: Homelessness, Minorities, and Penal Affairs. Applications can be made at any time.
The Links Foundation (England, Scotland and Wales): The Links Foundation, which was formed by ‘Working Links’, an organisation that delivers services to tackle social exclusion and poverty by helping disadvantaged individuals and communities, provides grants to disadvantaged communities. Funding aims include: advance people’s education; reduce significant disadvantage; assist those in conditions of poverty, need or distress; provide for recreational or other leisure time occupation. The average grant per project is about £20,000. Applications can be sent in at any time, but you will be notified by post of when your application will be considered by the board.

For Recurring Funding sources: see below

The Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund

(Update 9/3/07) The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund has released its Strategic Plan 2007-2012.

Under the Refugee and Asylum Seekers Initiative, the Fund is committed to spending up to £10 million to raise awareness and highlight the needs and issues of young refugees and asylum seekers. The desired outcome is that the rights of young refugees and asylum seekers in the UK are upheld.

To view follow the link below:

http://www.theworkcontinues.org/

LLOYDS TSB FOUNDATION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES

Awarding department: Lloyds TSB

Maximum grant value: £20,000

Description: Grants to support underfunded charitable organisations in England and Wales that improve the lives of people in local communities, especially those who are disadvantaged or disabled. Priorities for funding are: Refugees and asylum seekers; supporting diversity for inclusion of people from black and minority ethnic communities; and capacity building for charities.

Timing: At any Time

For more information visit: www.lloydstsbfoundations.org.uk or contact the East of England team on 01284 750168

LANKELLYCHASE FOUNDATION

Awarding department: LankellyChase Foundation

Maximum grant value: £40,000

Description: The Foundation funds community projects in the following broad priority areas: arts, breaking the cycle of abuse and deprivation, developing communities, heritage, mental health and offenders in society. In addition, there is a limited programme of support for organisations working with refugees and asylum seekers.

Timing: At any Time

For more information visit: www.lankellychase.org.uk

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PAUL HAMLYN FOUNDATION

Awarding department: Paul Hamlyn Foundation

Maximum grant value: £100,000

Description: Funding priorities are towards increasing access to the Arts of young people, and Arts in education including “Musical Futures”; a range of Publishing Training schemes, Education of the disaffected and disadvantaged, the Reading and Libraries Challenge Fund, and aid to young refugees and asylum seekers.

Timing: At any Time

For more information visit: www.phf.org.uk
information@phf.org.uk

Awards for All

Awards for All is a Lottery grants scheme aimed at local communities. We award grants of between £500 and £10,000 in a simple and straightforward way. How can we help your organisation and community?

We can fund projects that enable people to take part in art, sport, heritage and community activities, as well as projects that promote education, the environment and health in the local community.

You can apply at any time
The application form is short and simple
There are links to guidance notes and sources of help
You will be told if you are successful or not within 8 weeks

If you are planning a project and you need between £500 and £10,000 then Awards for All may be able to help you. Sometimes quite small sums of money can have a big impact. We hope these awards will make a real difference to communities.

For more information, view: http://www.awardsforall.org.uk/england/index.html

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Government Funding

Online portal to grants for the voluntary and community sector. Registration to governmentfunding.org.uk is entirely free and will create a personalised profile which will allow you to:

   * Receive email alerts on new and update grant schemes
   * Apply online for grant schemes relevant to you
   * Include your organisations details and search the Directory of Users
   * Save specific grant searches and information.

http://www.governmentfunding.org.uk

Access to funding

'Access to Funding' is a funding bulletin for refugee and asylum related projects. Some of the funding streams mentioned are specific to refugee and asylum projects, but most are general. The bulletin is produced by the Events and Liaison Officer for the Yorkshire and Humberside Consortium for Asylum Seekers and Refugees. You can view or download the most recent Bulletin by clicking on the 'Access to Funding' link at the bottom of the linked page

http://www.refugeeaccess.info/default.asp?step=4&pid=71

Association of Charitable Organisations

A page on the website of the Association of Charitable Organisations, listing many of the trusts in the UK.

http://www.acf.org.uk/linkstrusts.htm

COVER

Information on funding from COVER, the Community & Voluntary Forum in the East of England

http://www.cover-east.org/