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Grow Wild Community Programme

Aims/priorities: The funding is for groups across the UK to transform urban spaces for the benefit of people and wildlife through planting and championing UK native plants or fungi. 

The funding is for projects that focus on UK native plants, transform an urban space, enhance the biodiversity of the space with planting and growing as a core activity.

Projects should be led by groups who care about the environment and will use sustainable materials and practices and have the potential to reach at least 300 people.

National Archives - Resilience Grants

Aims/priorities: Funding is intended to increase organisational capacity for archives services and provide long-term solutions that will help resilience in the sector.

Who can apply? Public sector bodies, not-for-profit organisations including registered charities, and for-profit organisations including business archives can apply.

Applications from archive networks and consortium applications are particularly welcome in this programme. 

Where appropriate, archives are encouraged to propose partnership project.

James Tudor Foundation - Mental Health Grant

Aims/priorities: The Foundation aims to support UK charities with a focus on mental health. Projects are funded to help children and young people recover from Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), plus support parents affected by ACEs, mental illness or addiction.

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are traumatic events in childhood that negatively affects mental health, and includes:

Jean Sainsbury Animal Welfare Trust

Aims/priorities: The objectives of the Trust are to donate to projects or activities encompassing one or more of the following areas:

  • The benefit and protection of animals.
  • The relief of suffering in animals.
  • The conservation of wildlife.
  • The encouragement of a greater understanding of animals.

Who can apply? Applications are accepted from UK registered charities working in the UK or abroad. (Charities with an annual income under £5,000 do not need to be registered to be eligible.)

Ironmongers’ Company – Charitable Grants for STEM Projects

Aims/priorities: Funding is intended to support charities in the UK with projects to encourage young people, in particular those between 11 and 18 from disadvantaged backgrounds, to study science subjects and go on to further education or training in STEM related subjects, in particular the area of Material Science. The Foundation considers Materials Science to be science applied to understanding the production, properties and engineering applications of materials. This may be considered from the perspective of physics, chemistry, mathematics or vocational studies.

BlueSpark Foundation

Aims/priorities: The funding is for relatively small-scale projects, which might not happen at all or would only happen on a lesser scale without the support of BlueSpark.

The Foundation aims to help children and young people reach their full potential by supporting projects that have the following objectives:

EVJ Aspire CIC | A Thriving Social Economy Business in Tameside

EVJ Aspire CIC focus on nurturing young people’s strengths to pave the way for successful outcomes in employment, education, and adulthood.

They identified a need for supporting young women facing various disadvantages that prevent them from accessing education or receiving social and emotional support. It was a model they had been working on for over 12 months, using their experience working in further education for adult students. They had prepared their project and started working with some young women. However, an issue was confidence in the business planning and financial forecasting which would ensure growth and sustainability. 

Aspire CIC Group

Support Action Together provided: 

  • Emily Milner | Managing Director, worked with our Community Development Worker, Jonathan King to devise a plan of action.
  • Jonathan undertook a Social Enterprise Health Check, which formed the basis of a support plan, formulated to ensure that their vision and the needs of their community were clearly explained and promoted to larger service providers they were meeting with.
  • The development of a business plan and corporate strategy, ensured their work is purposeful, sustainable, and impactful. They can now show funders, partners, and the community that they have a well-defined vision, a roadmap to achieve it, and the ability to manage resources effectively.
  • Through the Our Business Programme, Action Together matched Emily with an expert business mentor, to support her with business planning. 

The results of this support included: 

  • Receiving Tameside Communities Funding
  • Securing a premises, where their business can reach their target students and serve the community
  • Recruitment of a staff team and creating an apprentice opportunity who is now studying Level 3 Youth Mentorship
  • Due to commissioning they have received from TMBC and local schools, they have been able to use their surplus to grow and bring more young people into vocational education classes and bring forward their future plans to expand their work with more members of the community.

Emily reflects on the support she has received from Action Together:

 “Overall, I cannot thank Action Together and Jonathan enough. Without them, none of this would be possible. We've been able to make a huge impact on Tameside’s young people and their families in such a short space of time, truly making a difference that can positively change lives.” 

Emily Milner | Managing Director, EVJ Aspire CIC

 

If you would like to find our more, we have a dedicated page with support and training information and updates: Support for Social Economy Organisations in Tameside

You can also contact the team: development@actiontogether.org.uk

Michael Tippett Musical Foundation

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support group music-making, especially those that involve young people in the process of composing and developing new ideas. 

Who can apply? Projects taking place in or out of school, college or university, or in community settings in the UK will be considered.

Grant amount: This is a highly competitive fund with only one in nine applications being successful last year.

Grants of between £500 and £3,000 are available. The average grant is around £2,000.

Veolia Environmental Trust

Aims/priorities: The Trust currently offers the following grant schemes:

  • Community Grants are for constituted, not-for-profit organisations and local authorities to create or improve community buildings or outside spaces for the benefit of the community.
     
  • Habitat and Biodiversity Grants are for constituted, not-for-profit organisations that are enrolled with ENTRUST to support structural improvements to a single habitat, such as a waterway, woodland, or nature reserve.

The funder is looking for projects that:

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