The Customer Involvement Team are here to help and advise any community group get the funding they need for their work.
We have some funding available from our 3 Area Panels. They have budgets for both environmental and small community projects in the AVHL area. Please see the links to our Area Panel page and application form.
There are lots of other sources of funding we would like to share with you. All will have different applications and different criteria. We are here to help with any application you would like to make to get the funding you and your group need. The sources of funding are changing all the time and may only be available in certain parts of the city. If in any doubt about how to go about getting money please contact the Customer Involvement Team on 0113 214 1936 or E-mail avhleeds.cit@avhleeds.org.uk
Community Action Against Crime – Innovation Fund
Small Grants (£1000-£15000 per year for 2 years) or Large grants (£15,001-£50,000 per year for 2 years) to groups for local projects adopting new approaches to existing community safety problems or who adapt existing approaches that have note been carried out previously. Local communities should identify crime problems and solutions to them. Focus must be on Anti-social behaviour, crime in local neighbourhoods, drug and alcohol related crime, reducing reoffending, violence against women and girls and youth crime.
Partnerships with other groups are desirable (eg police or private companies). You can apply between 5th September and 1st December 2011 but applications will be assessed in order of the date of submission until all the funds have been allocated. Therefore potential applicants are advised to apply ASAP.
http://www.cdf.org.uk/web/guest/crime-innovation-fund
BBC Children in Need
There is a deadline coming up for the BBC Children in Need General Grants programme, which includes the Small and Main grant schemes.
The Small grants scheme offers grants of up to £10,000 a year, for up to three years, for projects working with children and young people where a relatively small grant can make a big difference.
For the Main grants scheme there is no upper limit but very few grants are made over £100,000, and most grants are for much less. Requests for larger grants are very competitive. Grants can given for up to three years.
BBC Children in Need will consider funding support costs associated directly with a project, but they cannot fund organisational overheads and running costs where these are not integral to the project you are applying for.
Only one application can be assessed in any 12 month period. BBC Children in Need will only support projects that focus on the differences made to the lives of disadvantaged children and young people. For this reason, when applying for a grant you must provide clear evidence that disadvantaged children and young people will:
· Be the primary beneficiaries of the project
· Experience positive changes in their lives from the activities and/or services provided.
The disadvantages experienced by children and young people may include:
· Abuse, neglect, illness and distress
· Any kind of disability
· Behavioural or psychological difficulties
· Living in poverty or situations of deprivation.
Not-for-profit organisations that work with disadvantaged children and young people of 18 years and under who live in the UK, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands are eligible to apply.
Visit the BBC Children in Need website for more information. At www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey/grants/general_grants.shtm
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