Funding

  • The Government is investing £250,000 from the Victims Fund to develop support for victims of hate crime for the financial year 2010/11.  Core funding will be provided to organisations in England and Wales that deliver services and support to hate crime victims. The Home Office is particularly keen to support services or projects that are rooted in increasing expertise of service providers and improving good practice in the provision of high quality support to victims and their families.  This section of the Victims Fund is specifically available to organisations that work within the Governments five hate crime strands (disability, race, religion/belief, sexuality, transgender). 

    Each organisation can apply for funding up to £50,000. 

    The application form can be found here.  The closing date is noon on Monday 15th March.
    Need some free professional help? … ProHelp may be the answer
    ProHelp is group of professional firms who have formed to provide free professional services to voluntary and community organisations in their local area.

    If you are a community based, not-for-profit group working for the social regeneration of your local area and need some professional help then please call Ann Hilton at Business in the Community on 0115 924 7408 for an application form or see the website at www.prohelp.org.uk

    Real Help for Communities: Modernisation Fund Grants Programme - Helping the third sector respond to the impact of the recession.

    The funding is targeted at third sector organisations with an annual income of between £150k and £750k, which are wholly or primarily engaged in recession-related services under the themes of:

    • well being and health
    • advice, information and guidance
    • loss of income, training and skills.

    For more information click HERE.

    Ecominds Funding Scheme is an open grant programme run by Mind as an award partner of the Big Lottery Fund. Ecominds aims to help people with direct experience of mental distress become involved in environmental projects that improve mental and physical health and local communities.

    More information about the purpose of Ecominds and a full list of projects can be found HERE. There is also a list of essential criteria that projects have to meet in order to qualify for a grant, listed HERE.

    The programme is currently undersubscribed in the small grants category – i.e. projects totalling less than £20,000. They state that they “would currently like to encourage small applications as we are becoming oversubscribed in the other categories for this year.”

    If you would like to consider applying for funding, please check out their website at www.mind.org.uk/ecominds/About+Ecominds.htm

  • DERBY’S SUCCESSFUL BID TO BECOME A NATIONAL DEMENTIA DEMONSTRATOR PILOT SITE - Derby will benefit from new services for people with dementia and their carers thanks to a new funding award from the Department of Health. The funding awarded to Derby will be used to develop a network of community cafes for people with dementia and their carers across the city, and also to develop more local carer support groups. As part of the project, the Council will also fund one-to-one support and befriending services to aid social wellbeing for older people with dementia.

    For more information click here
  • Both Derby City Council/Derby City PCT and Derbyshire County Council/Derbyshire County PCT have announced their arrangements for awarding development grants to voluntary sector organisations working in the area of health and social care. The funds available are:

    Health and Social Care Development Fund (Derby City)
    This fund is available to organisations working in Derby City up to a maximum of £3,000 for work which achieves outcomes outlined in the “Our Health, Our Care, Our Say” for adult services, or “every Child Matters” for children’s services. Applications can be for equipment, refurbishments, training, pilot projects or project development.
    There is no deadline and applications should be submitted through Derby CVS.
    Please download the full fact sheet for more information – HERE

    Voluntary Sector Development Fund (Derbyshire County)
    This fund is available to organisations working in Derbyshire County up to a maximum of £5,000 for work which fits into a number of health and social care themes, of which one is mental health.
    Application form requests and completed applications for mental health related grants should be sent to Georgina Horobin at Derbyshire County PCT. The next deadline for applications is 30 September 2008.
    Further details of the fund and an application form available HERE

    Voluntary Sector Contingency Fund (Derbyshire County only)
    This general fund is currently only available in the county. It is for voluntary sector organisations that are faced with unforeseen expenses that threaten services, such as maternity/paternity leave, long term sickness absence, legal requirements (including new legislation), moving expenses caused by a forced change of base. Further details of the Contingency Fund can be downloaded HERE







    February 2010
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