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Amber to Gold Funding Road Show A Success
Tuesday 22 July saw the first Amber To Gold Funding Roadshow at Heanor Town Hall where 35 community groups heard from major funders including: The Coalfields Regeneration Trust, BIG Lottery Fund, WREN, Bridging The Gap, Awards For All and The Derbyshire Environmental Trust.
Each funder gave a short presentation about their fund and gave advice about some of the common mistakes that are found on their applications.
Matthew Rowe, Funding & Monitoring Assistant, who helped organise the event commented “it’s great to see so many groups benefit from up-to-date information and be able to discuss their projects with potential funders”. We’d hoped to offer the opportunity to get advice and get tips from the funders themselves to try and give our local groups a better chance of success, and from the positive feedback so far I think we’ve been able to do it!”
The Funding Roadshow programme will continue in October when Amber Valley Borough Council’s Funding Team will deliver another event in partnership with Amber Valley CVS. Funding Officer Wendy Burridge said, “By working with Amber Valley CVS we try to provide the best level of funding advice to our local communities”. For further information about this event please contact Wendy or Matthew on 01773 841493.
Funding Success
The Funding Team has been in contact with over 50 groups since April with the aim of trying to identify potential funders and helping them through the application process. As a result of working with these groups an amazing total of £365,495 has been awarded through successful applications across the Borough.
Funding Focus:
The following grant funds have been brought to our attention. Some have all recently been opened for applications and offer a substantial financial benefit to the successful applicants, others regularly appear on our funding searches. More information can be obtained from the Funding Team.
The Heritage Lottery Fund
The Heritage Lottery Fund is the UK’s leading funder of our diverse heritage and funds the entire spread of heritage – including buildings, museums, natural heritage and the heritage of cultural traditions and language.
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) helps groups and organisations of all sizes with projects that:
- Conserve the UK's diverse heritage for present and future generations to experience and enjoy.
- Help more people, and a wider range of people, to take an active part in and make decisions about their heritage.
- Help people to learn about their own and other people's heritage.
Heritage includes many different things from the past that we value and want to pass on to future generations. Through the three grant schemes the HLF will potentially fund projects that focus on cultural traditions, historic buildings and townscapes, habitats and species and sites and collections links to our industrial, maritime and transport history among many other categories.
The grant schemes are as follows:
- Heritage Grants (grants of more than £50,000).
- Your Heritage (grants of between £3,000 and £50,000).
- Young Roots (grants of between £3,000 and £25,000 for young people celebrating heritage).
The Coalfields Regeneration Trust (CRT)
The Coalfields Regeneration Trust is an independent grant-making organisation that was established in 1999 to improve the quality of life in Britain’s coalfield communities. The Trust has recently been allocated a further £53m funding package to continue its activities for another three years.
The Trust is particularly keen to receive applications from groups planning projects which:
- Help people get back into work, such as information, advice and guidance services or work experience programmes.
- Improve confidence and skills levels for people of all ages.
- Encourage healthier lifestyles and participation in leisure activities.
- Make access to community facilities and services easier for residents, for example by improving existing facilities, extending transport services or establishing childcare provision.
The Trust currently operates two funding schemes – Bridging the Gap is available for projects requiring between £500 and £10,000, and Main Grant Scheme is for between £10,000 and £300,000. The schemes operate in a very specific area, in Amber Valley these are:
Eligible area’s are: Langley Mill/Aldercar, Somercotes, and Alfreton.
Areas that are considered to be boarder line are: Ironville/Riddings, Heanor West and Codnor & Waingroves
The Football Foundation
The Football Foundation is the UK's largest sports charity funded by the Premier League, The FA, Sport England and the Government.
As the country’s largest funder of grass roots football, the Foundation has funded thousands of facility and community projects, as well as free kit and safe goalposts, since its launch in July 2000.
The Football Foundation is a partnership with the Premier League, The FA, Sport England and the Government, each of whom invest £15m every year.Funding is offered to community groups and football clubs to help them touse football and sport to contribute to educational attainment and closing the skills gap, tackling health inequalities and social exclusion, ensuring that supported projects increase participation and consider equality of access.
All costs must relate to new activity.WREN (Waste Recycling Environmental Limited)
WREN is one of a number of organisations that distribute funding from the Landfill Communities Fund with the aim of enhancing the social environment, natural conservation and heritage aspects of the world in which we live and create a beneficial and lasting legacy for future generations. Funding is limited and not all requests for grant support can be satisfied. Project applications which demonstrate self help, viability, sustainability and offer benefits to large numbers of people receive priority for funding.
Grants of between £2,000 and £15,000 are available from the Small Grant Scheme (total project costs of less than £50,000), and between £2,000 and £50,000 available from the WREN Grant Scheme. Major capital projects can apply for between £75,000 and £250,000 as part of the WRG (Waste Recycling Group) Communities Challenge. Projects must fulfil a number of criteria including distance from a landfill/recycling pland (within 10 miles of a WRG site); access to the public and in most cases grant money must be spent within one year. There are other conditions that apply.
