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PROGRAMMES FUNDING NEWSLETTER

July 2018 November 2014

This month’s newsletter contains 21 external funding opportunities totalling over

£583 million

Business Communities & Culture

Environment

Health & Wellbeing

Housing Education & Young People

Transport Science & Technology

Sports & Leisure

Coalfields Community Investment Programme The Coalfields Community Investment Programme provides a £500,000 fund created to support activities that tackle some of the key challenges that remain in coalfield communities across England.

Grants of up to £10,000 are available for projects that are delivered in the top 30% most deprived coalfield communities and that make a positive difference in addressing the following themes:

Skills: Growing the skills of people in order to increase their opportunities.

Employment: Developing pathways to increase the number of people in work.

Health: Supporting projects that increase participation in activities/services that improve the health and wellbeing of people in former coalfield communities.

Not-for-personal profit groups and organisations can apply. This includes registered charities, Companies Limited by Guarantee, Community Benefit Societies, Community Interest Companies, Charitable Incorporated Organisations and Community Amateur Sports Clubs (CASCs).

Applicants must complete the Eligibility Survey before they can complete a full application form.

The opening window for the survey for round three is 25th June, 2018 to 7th September, 2018.

New £20m Fund to Benefit Towns and Cities in England

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport has announced the launch of a new Cultural Development Fund.

Through partnerships and consortia, areas will be able to bid for between £3 million and £7 million for a number of projects in a certain area to help regeneration, create jobs and maximise the impact of investment. This could be for new spaces for creative businesses, bringing historic buildings back into use or redeveloping museums and art galleries. The investment is intended to help to grow local economies and increase access to arts, heritage and the creative industries.

The Fund also supports the Government’s Industrial Strategy by aiming to boost productivity in towns and cities with an urban focus across England and use creativity as a catalyst to make places more attractive to live, work and visit. It is unlikely that applications seeking to benefit predominantly rural areas will be able to meet the aims of the fund.

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Applications will be considered from a partnership for the area, led by a local authority, Local Enterprise Partnership, or other appropriate body, which would lead a consortium of partners from both the public and private sector.

The Fund will open for Expressions of Interest at midday on 3rd July, 2018.

Social Tech Trust Launches £500,000 ‘Tech to Unite Us’ Grants for Early-Stage Ventures

Innovate Social Tech is the inaugural grant programme from the Social Tech Trust, which supports innovative ventures to transform lives with technology. 'Tech to Unite Us' – the programme’s first grant strand – has been established to support early-stage ventures demonstrating how technology can reach its transformative potential when it is driven to address one of the greatest social challenges of the modern era – inequality.

The programme will fund up to 10 ambitious ventures using ‘tech to unite us’ in inspirational and transformational ways. Support will be offered with technical assistance to give applicants the best chance of growing a venture sustainably and maximising social impact.

The programme has a total allocation of £500,000. The funder is offering the following support:

Up to £45,000 which will be made as a grant with participation rights, over a nine- twelve-month funding period.

Technical assistance to support business growth, sustainability and capacity for transformative innovation, eg legal and business support, social impact measurement and reporting, marketing and communications.

Access to support networks, including mentors and investors. A personal approach from the Social Tech Trust team – one

that recognises the importance of flexibility for early-stage innovation.

Support to build a case for further investment.

The programme will fund the costs of staff directly involved in delivering the venture, eg project managers, designers, developers or marketeers. The funder will give consideration to funding requests to cover hardware, software or connectivity costs – but only if they are fundamental to successful project delivery.

The programme is open for stage one applications until midday on Wednesday 25th July, 2018.

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New £15m Fund to Help Colleges to Improve

Apprenticeships Skills Minister Anne Milton has announced) a new £15m fund available to colleges that need to improve the quality of their provision of education and training.

The launch of the Strategic College Improvement Fund (SCIF) follows a successful pilot phase.

SCIF will support colleges to deliver better outcomes for learners, employers and local communities by enabling them to access resources that they need to improve their provision for students, including the best practice of other colleges.

FE colleges and sixth-form colleges in England are eligible for funding.

Possible eligible activities could include:

The coaching of managers and other staff to improve their performance

Instructional programmes to enhance staff skills to support teaching, learning and assessment

More effective use of data to improve student performance Improved support to students, including better control over

student attendance Enhanced design of the curriculum Strengthened relationships with employers (for example, via

enhanced work-based learning) Monitoring and evaluation of the results of the programme of

work.

The deadline for stage one applications is 27th July, 2018.

£5m Fund to Attract Industry Professionals into Teaching

A new £5 million fund to help attract experienced industry professionals with expert technical knowledge and skills to work in Further Education (FE) has been launched.

The programme has been designed with the Association of Colleges and the Education and Training Foundation, to create further links between the education sector and industry.

The focus will be on priority sectors, including the first T Level routes, and a fund of up to £5 million will be available.

The programme is divided into two strands:

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Strand 1: Financial Support for Initial Teacher Education. Financial support for up to 150 industry experts to become FE teachers, covering the course costs of teacher training as well as support and mentoring

Strand 2: Industry and College/Provider Innovation projects. Support up to 40 innovative and scalable projects that help develop local partnerships and collaborations.

The programme is open to all Further Education providers in England including:

General and specialist colleges National Colleges Independent training providers Employer-led providers Third-sector training providers Local authority providers Adult and community learning providers.

Applications to Round 1 must be submitted by the deadline of 27th July, 2018.

Co-op Community Dividend Fund Accepting Applications

The Co-op Community Dividend Fund is inviting applications from local charities and community and voluntary groups based in Central England to apply for grants of up to £5,000.

The Fund’s aim is to develop and improve local communities, offering much needed support with grants of between £100 and £5,000, with the average grant awarded being around £2,000.

Applicants must have been a Central England Co-operative member for at least six months and their project’s postcode must be within the trading area of a Central England Co-operative store. Priority will be given to organisations which can demonstrate that they, or their project, actively participates with the Society by trading with it or being involved with its activities or democratic processes.

The funding is for projects in various areas with South Yorkshire being one of them.

The next deadline for applications is 27th July, 2018.

£5m Fund to Improve the Home Learning Environment The Education Endowment Fund (EEF) and Department for Education (DfE) are looking to fund and evaluate early years education projects focussed on improving the home learning

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environment, in order to improve the learning and development of children from low-income families aged 0-5.

Proposals are sought that will:

Support improvements in the early home learning environment for children up to the age of 5, in the north of England

Through changes to the home environment, improve children's outcomes in one or more of the following areas: language; literacy; early numeracy; social and emotional development and/or self-regulation

Narrow the development gap/"word gap" between socio-economically disadvantaged pupils and their peers at (or before) age 5.

In addition, proposals should:

Be informed and supported by evidence of impacting on learning outcomes

Be practical, cost-effective and scalable. Be willing and able to be independently evaluated Be clear how they will support children from socio-

economically disadvantaged backgrounds.

The deadline for applications is 27th July, 2018.

Second Round Opens For Local Grants and Digital Development Programme

Registered charities, community interest companies, local authorities, schools, and armed forces units with a UIN (Unit Identification Number) in the UK can apply now for grants of up to £20,000.

The funding is for projects that respond to the local needs of the Armed Forces community and improve recognition of the Armed Forces Covenant, and:

Help integrate armed forces and civilian communities across the UK, and/or

Deliver valuable local services to the armed forces community.

Proposed projects must identify one of the following as their main focus:

Health and wellbeing. Education and employability. Events and commemorations.

To be eligible, applicants must:

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Have experience and a track record of working with the Armed Forces Community, as well as a real understanding of the issues facing the Armed Forces Community.

Be able to provide evidence of real engagement and partnership working - with either an armed forces charity or an armed forces unit.

Applications are assessed four times per year.

The deadline for the second round is 29thJuly, 2018 (12pm).

Bright Ideas Fund Opens for Applications

The Community Business Bright Ideas Fund is funded by Power to Change, the independent trust supporting community businesses in England, and delivered by Locality, the national network for community organisations

The fund aims to give community groups the support and tools to start setting up their community business. It will also give groups the early stage finance that is needed to carry out consultation with local people and feasibility studies to develop a community business idea the community wants and needs.

A total of £700,000 is being made available in Round 4 with grants of up to £15,000.

Successful organisations will receive:

Business development support – up to 12 days of business development support from Locality, Plunkett Foundation, or Co-operatives UK.

Grant funding - the opportunity to apply for a grant of up to £15,000, which can be spent on specific activities to develop the community business idea.

Learning and peer networking – access to online resources, thematic webinars and the opportunity to visit and learn from existing community businesses.

The deadline for Round 4 applications is 31st July, 2018.

Small Grants for Community, Heritage Biodiversity Projects

The aim of the scheme is to enhance the environment of communities living in the vicinity of landfill sites that are accepting waste.

Applications are currently being accepted for the second of three funding round taking place in 2018.

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Grants of up to £20,000 are available for capital projects that fulfil the following objectives:

Community - The protection of the environment, the provision, maintenance or improvement of public amenities and parks, which are open and accessible to the public.

Biodiversity - The protection of the environment, the enhancement, protection and/or promotion of biological diversity of a species or habitat.

Heritage - The protection of the environment, the maintenance, repair or restoration of a building or structure that is of historic or architectural interest, and which is open and accessible to the public.

Applicants must hold the freehold of the project site, or have a minimum of 10 years left to run on a lease.

All projects must demonstrate:

That there is a local need and local support for the project, promotion of community participation (volunteering) and partnership approaches.

Environmental sustainability by using environmentally-friendly materials and solutions wherever possible.

Value for money; projects must maximise the benefit of Landfill Communities Fund funding.

That they are self-sustaining and have long-term management plans.

Applicants must initially check the availability of funding in their area using the postcode checker on the funder’s website.

The next deadline for small grants applications is 31st July, 2018.

IUK Launches Higher Education Open Data, Digital Tools for Prospective Students SBRI Competition

This Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) competition is operated by Innovate UK (IUK), responding to a challenge set out by the Department for Education (DfE).

The aim of this competition is to ensure prospective students have access to data about the outcomes of subjects and Higher Education (HE) providers. This is to help them make informed decisions about where and what to study.

DfE is looking for ideas for creating free, accessible, commercially-sustainable and innovative digital tools to help prospective students make better decisions about their future. These must:

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be based on graduate salary and employment outcomes; and use the Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) earnings

data from 21 June 2018 and other relevant open data.

This is phase 1 of a potential 2-phase competition. A decision to proceed with phase 2 will depend on the outcomes from phase 1.

The competition is open to UK organisations of any type and size, from any sector. To lead a project, applicants can:

be an organisation of any size; work alone or with businesses, research organisations or third

sector organisations.

IUK welcomes bids from organisations that bring together a consortium of sector specialists.

DfE will invest up to £425,000, including VAT, in proposals to develop digital tools that use graduate outcomes data. This data will help prospective higher education students make better decisions.

Projects must start by 10th September, 2018 and last up to one month.

The competition is now open with a deadline for registrations of midday on 8th August, 2018 and a closing date a week later, at midday on 15th August, 2018.

Places of Worship Security Funding Scheme For a third year in a row, the Home Office is providing funding to help places of worship tackle hate crimes against them through the installation of additional security equipment.

The criteria for this year’s bids has been made more flexible – bidders will need to provide evidence that they are either vulnerable to hate crime or have been subject to a hate crime within the last two years.

The funding is available to churches, gurdwaras, mosques, and temples, but not for synagogues, as a similar commitment was made to fund Jewish community sites through a grant administered by the Community Security Trust.

There is a total funding pot of £1 million for this round. Grants of up to £56,000 per place of worship are available for projects costing up to £70,000.

Examples of security equipment that can be applied for include, but are not limited to, the following:

CCTV. Perimeter fencing.

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Access control gates. Bollards. Door locks. Window locks. Intruder alarm. External lighting. Security doors.

Funding is also available to pay the appropriate labour cost to install the security equipment.

The deadline for applications is 10th August, 2018.

Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Hub Launches SME Leaders Programme

Provided by the Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Hub, the SME Leaders Programme supports promising leaders of high-growth engineering SMEs. By improving the skills of these leaders, the Academy wishes to encourage the pursuit and growth of excellence in UK engineering.

The aim of the programme is to support the development of leadership skills, through a number of channels:

A grant of up to £10,000 towards training courses. Masterclasses and workshops delivered by senior business

leaders held at the Academy. Mentoring by an experienced person from the pool of

Academy Fellows and partners of the Enterprise Hub. One-to-one coaching. Public relations support and networking opportunities. Access to co-working space and meeting rooms in London. lifetime Hub Membership.

Travel and accommodation costs within the UK, for programme activities, will be eligible if they follow the Academy’s expenses policy.

Leaders of high growth engineering small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the UK will qualify for assistance.

The submission deadline for this round of applications is 4pm on Monday 13th August, 2018.

£19m Fund for Domestic Abuse Services

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has launched an £18.8 million fund to help local authorities

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in England to support the provision of accommodation-based support services and the local reforms needed to meet the priorities for domestic abuse services.

The fund is available for the provision of core support for refuges and specialist accommodation-based services, helping local areas ensure that no one is turned away from the support they need.

Applications are invited from local authorities in England. MHCLG are looking to receive bids that bring together three or more local authorities working across boundaries to form regional hubs where appropriate.

Bids must be put forward by a local authority, but clearly demonstrating their partnership arrangements with other local commissioners including PCCs and health partners, local specialist domestic violence service providers.

The deadline for applications is 17th August, 2018.

Lloyds Bank Foundation’s New Strategy to Reach Further

Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales has published its new five-year strategy, ‘Reaching Further’ which will provide more unrestricted grants to registered charities with an income of less than £1 million that work to help people overcome complex social issues and rebuild their lives.

The Foundation currently provides funding through two grants programmes (Enable and Invest), both of which are closed until 27 August when they are expected to re-open with new guidelines.

According to the strategy, over the next five years (2018-2022), the Foundation will fund at least 700 charities at any one time.

This will be:

For longer - funding more charities for up to six years, focusing on those making significant impact for people and their local area.

With more money - increasing the size of our main grants up to £200,000 over six years.

More flexibly - with fewer restrictions on when and how charities spend the grant, because the Foundation trusts their judgement on how to best achieve the greatest impact.

With a promise of high quality grant management and monitoring that works for them.

The Foundation’s two grants programmes (Enable and Invest) are expected to re-open with new guidance notes on 27th August, 2018.

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Innovate UK Launches £10 Million Innovation Loans for SME’s

The scheme aims to provide finance to businesses that is affordable, patient and flexible for projects that have a clear route to commercial success. IUK is to offer up to £10 million in loans for highly innovative late stage projects with the best game changing and/or disruptive ideas or concepts.

Projects should aim to develop new products, processes or services (or innovative use of existing ones) believed to be significantly ahead of anything similar in the field. Proposals can come from any technology (including arts, design, media or creative industries) and any part of the economy.

This competition aims to help businesses overcome barriers to the best cutting edge, game changing innovations becoming a successful commercial reality. This includes making a considerable economic impact and/or resulting in significant, sustainable business growth. Projects must focus on commercialisation, growth or scale-up. Priority is given to proposals likely to lead to growth, gains in productivity and/or access to new overseas markets through export.

There is a total of £10 million available in this competition. Individual loans of between £100,000 and £1 million are available. Projects should last up to five years and are expected to start by December 2018.

The loans are aimed at innovative micro, small and medium-sized businesses in the UK that will be able to manage a loan, but may struggle to access finance from commercial lenders or schemes backed by the British Business Bank.

To take on an innovation loan for a project the business must:

be a UK based SME; carry out the project in the UK.

The competition is now open with a deadline for registrations of 29th August, 2018 and a closing date the following week on 5th September, 2018.

Veolia Environmental Trust Accepting Applications for Projects Starting in 2019

Veolia Environmental Trust offers grants of between £10,000 and £75,000 for capital improvement projects at a single site with discrete start and end dates. Match funding of at least 20% is required, and applicants requesting grants of £40,000 or more require a Third Party Contribution.

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Projects should fall under one of the following categories:

Community buildings and rooms, including community centres, village halls, community spaces within religious buildings, and Scout or Girl Guiding buildings.

Outdoor Spaces, including public parks, nature reserves, community gardens, footpaths, bridleways and cycle-paths.

Play and recreation, including play areas, skateparks, Multi Use Games Areas, sports grounds, pavilions and changing rooms.

Constituted not-for-profit organisations can apply as long as their project is located within five miles of a Veolia Environmental Services facility. This could be a landfill site, Energy Recovery Facility or Materials Recycling Facility.

There is no deadline for starting the process of applying for a grant; however, each funding application phase for both Stage 1 and Stage 2 is made available quarterly following the end of the previous phase.

The next phases for Stage 1 applications are:

Between 1st June, 2018 and 30th August, 2018 for projects taking place between 7th January, 2019 and 25th March, 2019.

Between 31st August, 2018 and 10th January, 2019 for projects taking place between 26th March, 2019 and 18th June, 2010.

INTERREG North-West Europe Programme – 8th Call Now Open

The Interreg North-West Europe (NWE) Programme is one of the fifteen transnational cooperation programmes financed by the European Union. It is financed through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

The eighth Call for proposals is now open.

The programme encourages public, scientific, private and civil society organisations to cooperate with a view to improving the economic, environmental, territorial and social development of the North-West Europe region. The current Call for Proposals is open to all three thematic priorities of the programme; however, transnational partnerships are invited to submit their project application under one priority. The three priorities are:

Priority 1: Innovation Priority 2: Low Carbon Priority 3: Resource and materials efficiency

Within these priorities, projects dealing with migration issues focusing on the integration of recognised refugees on the mid and

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long term will be considered, in particular in the domain of entrepreneurship, employment and access to the labour market.

Projects should bring together partners from at least three different countries (usually more) of which two need to be from within the NWE area. The NWE area includes all or parts of the following eight participating countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom and the non-Member State Switzerland.

No ceiling is set for this Call; however, all projects need to be match-funded. The maximum ERDF grant rate for partners is 60% of the total project budget.

Outline project proposals are invited by the deadline of 22nd November, 2018.

Barclays Launches £500m Northern Powerhouse Growth Fund Investing in SME Growth and Jobs The Barclays Northern Powerhouse Growth Fund is part of the bank’s commitment to support the Government’s Northern Powerhouse initiative. It aims to inject investment into small and medium-sized businesses across the region, with favourable terms for manufacturing, transport and logistics companies, helping them to grow and create new jobs.

Under the £500 million Fund, Barclays can offer a range of business lending services to support day-to-day cash flow, expansion and investment for growth, including:

up to £250,000 overdraft without the need for property security for transport and logistics, business services, wholesales and manufacturing companies;

term lending fee-free up to £25,000; up to £100,000 lending without the need for tangible security; cash flow funding to invest in acquisitions and organic

business growth; and lending and debt support, which can be combined with the

Government’s Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund.

The Fund is intended for SMEs in the Northern Powerhouse region, including: established businesses with ambitious growth plans; start-ups with high growth potential; companies with early-stage equity funding and businesses focusing on innovation, R&D and technology.

The Fund is available until December, 2018.

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Trusthouse Charitable Foundation Launches New Grants Programme

The Foundation’s updated grants programme focuses on supporting smaller charitable and not-for-profit organisations that work to improve the lives of communities in the most deprived urban areas or the most remote and socio-economically deprived rural areas of the UK.

Grants are available to established groups, with a total annual income of under £500,000, to fund community-support, arts, education and heritage projects addressing local issues within the Foundation’s priority areas.

Funding can be used towards general running costs including core costs, salaries and projects costs or capital expenditure on buildings or essential equipment.

The following levels of support are available:

Small grants of £2,000 to £7,500 (open to charitable, not-for-profit and voluntary organisations with a total annual income under £250,000).

Major revenue grants of £7,500 to £20,000 for one to three years (open to any charitable, not-for-profit and voluntary organisation in the UK with a total annual income under £500,000).

Major capital grants of £7,500 to £60,000 for projects with a total cost of up to £2 million (open to any charitable, not-for-profit and voluntary organisation in the UK with a total annual income under £500,000).

The Foundation now operates a rolling programme, and applications can be made at any time.

Government Announces £8m Business Basics Fund to Boost England’s Small Firms The Government has announced details of a new £8 million fund, designed to improve the productivity and performance of small businesses in England.

Boosting national productivity and increasing workers’ earning power forms a key part of the Government’s modern Industrial Strategy. To address the country's productivity challenge, the Industrial Strategy focuses on the five foundations of productivity:

Ideas People Infrastructure

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Business environment

The Business Basics Fund, operated by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) in partnership with Innovate UK (IUK), will help businesses, charities, trade bodies and public sector organisations to support small businesses in adopting tried and tested technologies and management techniques. The aim is to unlock £100 billion of untapped benefit to the economy.

Once the projects are launched, the Government will then work with leading experts to evaluate the effectiveness of each project in boosting productivity, helping to inform future policies.

The programme will have a total budget of £8 million over its lifetime. There will be a total of £2 million available in the first call.

Details about the funding available, the application process and further guidance can be accessed via IUK's online Innovation Funding Service.