Coalfields Regeneration Trust have spent the past 2 years meeting and consulting with their member organisations across the English Coalfield regions to better understand the needs in coalfield communities. They have also reviewed several thousand funding enquiries to look for common issues and to ensure our revised Coalfields Community Investment Programme (CCIP) accurately reflects the real needs in coalfield communities whilst remaining focused on improving skills, employment opportunities and health & wellbeing.
 
Whilst they appreciate a funding pot of £500,000 can only go so far, the changes they have made to the Coalfields Community Investment Programme are responsive to the needs of organisations delivering services/activities that improve the lives of people living in coalfield communities.
 
The fundamental changes to the programme are as follows:
 
•    The Health theme has been expanded to include Wellbeing and will encompass projects that address food poverty, debt advice, mental health issues, substance misuse, social isolation or projects increasing participation in physical activity.
•   Eligibility: Previously funded organisations who mismanaged funds or did not submit monitoring by the agreed deadline will not be able to apply for funding for a further two years
•    Costs: New budget headings:
–     Project Support Costs: ingredients for healthy eating/social isolation projects, food for food poverty projects, transport to address barriers to participation     
–      Core Costs: Up to 50% of the total costs requested from the Trust
-       Operational Costs: Insurance, rent, broadband, telephone, mobile phone contract, utilities, payroll fees, software licenses, vehicle and equipment hire costs, stationery and Disclosure & Barring Service checks 
-        Administration & Management: Staff costs that provide a core support role within an organisation
•   Outcomes: one outcome in addition to Number of Beneficiaries
•   Definitions: include children and more scope for claiming Skills Development
 
Their offer has now reopened and all the information on registering an enquiry relating to a project is on the following page: https://www.coalfields-regen.org.uk/funding
 
Please read all the information and the guidance notes carefully before deciding whether to complete the Eligibility Survey.

County Durham Housing group - Group Grants is a scheme that offers awards of up to £500 to support projects that make a real difference to people’s lives and wellbeing.

They are looking to support organisations that are working to improve access to services, reduce isolation, enhance employment prospects and encourage engagement within the community.

For more information visit: County Durham Housing Group

Explore your community’s heritage with a grant of £3,000–£10,000. Applying through this programme is straightforward, with a short application form and a quick decision.

We’re passionate about the difference our projects make for heritage, people and communities. That’s why we assess applications against a set of outcomes. We take account of the outcomes your project will achieve in our assessment – you can read about these in the application guidance. As a minimum, we expect a Sharing Heritage project to achieve at least one of the outcomes. You can apply quickly and easily, and we will assess your application within eight weeks.

If you've got a question about applying, or delivering your project, join in our Online Community to get advice from grantees who've already been there and done it themselves.

​https://www.hlf.org.uk/looking-funding/our-grant-programmes/sharing-heritage

An Our Heritage grant can help you protect and share the heritage you care about.

Your project could focus on anything from personal memories and cultural traditions to archaeological sites, places of worship, museum collections and rare wildlife.
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Under Our Heritage we can accept applications from not-for-profit organisations, private owners of heritage and partnerships. If individuals or for-profit organisations are involved, the public benefit from the project must be greater than any private gain.
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https://www.hlf.org.uk/looking-funding/our-grant-programmes/our-heritage

Family Action’s Welfare Grants programme aims to help prevent an immediate crisis from spiralling and threatening the stability of families and individuals.

A broken washing machine for example would for many of us be a financial burden to replace; for a family with three children and a very low income however it may mean taking out a high-street loan and plunging further debt.

Welfare grants are an integral part of our whole family approach to finding solutions for those who need it the most. Coupled with emotional and practical support, grants help us to create a safety net for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged members of our society.

​In addition to living on a low income and having right of residency in the UK welfare grant applicants must fall into one or more of the following “priority areas” listed below to be eligible to apply for a grant.
Priority Areas
Grant available nationally (including London).

• Older People:  Support to promote independence; improve the quality of life and isolation for those aged 60 and over.
• Disability/Sickness:  Support to pay for disability aids that will benefit the applicant in their home.  Please note, we do not fund ordinary personal and household needs under this category such as cookers or clothing unless a clear case is made that they have to be specially adapted to meet the applicants needs and we may require additional information before a grants is made to support the application.
• Mental Health:  Support for adults (over the age of 18) with a clinical diagnosis of a mental health problem.
• Domestic Abuse:  Support for families or individuals who have recently experienced domestic abuse.

https://www.family-action.org.uk/what-we-do/grants/welfare-grants/

The aim of the Community Arts & Culture Grants Scheme is to support community organisations in County Durham seeking to develop and deliver high quality cultural experiences, which increase participation in the arts.
The project is an initiative by Durham County Council (DCC) Culture & Sport service which is match funded by the County Durham Community Foundation (CDCF). All applications are required to fit with CDCF funding criteria and demonstrate that they meet the DCC objective of more people of all ages and abilities engaging and participating in cultural experiences. In addition all projects will need to demonstrate impact against one or more of the following outcomes:

• Enhanced opportunities for children & young people
• Improved levels of wellbeing through engagement in community arts
• Prioritise work with disadvantaged communities, and underrepresented groups e.g. disability, BAME, LGBT
• Improved and enhanced skills for grant recipients to improve capacity, quality and sustainability of activity

Size of Grant Available

• Grants of between £500 and £2,000 are available
• You can hold more than one grant from this fund, up to a maximum of £2000
• Organisations should not expect to receive repeat funding from the Grants Scheme

When to Apply – Application Deadlines

• Applications can be submitted at any time. There are no closing dates for applications.
• The panel will meet four times a year in March, June, October, January
• You will receive a decision within 2 weeks after the panel meetings

http://www.cdcf.org.uk/apply-for-a-grant/grants-for-groups/community-arts-and-culture-small-grants-scheme-

The Arts Council website highlights a variety of funding opportunities for artistic activity. The search bar at the side allows you to narrow down the kind of funding that you are interested in.

https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/funding/funding-finder

The Hospital of God is currently accepting applications for the latest round of grants funding in May. Grants are available from 1 to 3 years for amounts of £1000-£3000 per annum for charities based in the ancient diocese of Durham which consists of Hartlepool, Stockton, Darlington, County Durham, Sunderland, Gateshead, South Tyneside, North Tyneside, Newcastle upon Tyne and Northumberland. 

We aim to support charities working in lower profile areas of work that reach people who are on the edges of society. 

For more information please visit our website: http://www.hospitalofgod.org.uk/page/grants

Applications are considered three times a year with the next deadline  Friday 31st August 2018

Whether it’s the park you run through, the hall you do classes in or the pitch you play on, welcoming and accessible spaces have a big impact on a person’s experience – and likelihood of coming back.

As part of this, Sport England have produced a guide and accompanying document to explain more about the new Community Asset Fund, how and why they're doing things differently, when they will make decisions plus tips and advice for developing your project or idea.
Sports clubs and community organisations can now apply for investment from the Community Asset Fund – Sport England’s new capital fund dedicated to enhancing the spaces in local communities that give people the opportunity to be active.

This fund will have a value of £15 million per annum with the anticipated size of bids between £1000 and £150,000. There is no deadline to apply and awards will be made from February 2017.

https://www.sportengland.org/funding/community-asset-fund/

Grants are available to charities in the North East of England to help improve the conditions of people living and working in the North East of England. Grants are awarded in the areas of the arts and culture; service charities; public services; housing; heritage; health and sport; education and training; environment; and community issues and events.

​Next Deadline: 20th November 2018 (for over £1,000)
​Rolling Deadline for £1,000 and under

http://knott-trust.co.uk/applications/

Usually up to £3,000 for up to 3 years. Registered charities (annual expenditure of less than £40,000, established for 3 years or more). No deadline specified (Trustees meet 3 times per year - decision time can be up to 5 months from submission).

The Yapp Charitable Trust make grants (running costs and salaries) to small registered charities to sustain their existing work within the following areas:

• Elderly people.
• Children and young people aged 5 – 25.
• People with disabilities or mental health problems.
• Moral welfare – people trying to overcome life-limiting problems of a social, rather than medical, origin (such as addiction, relationship difficulties, abuse, offending).
• Education and learning (with a particular interest in people who are educationally disadvantaged, whether adults or children).

Priorities (applications that don't address at least two of these are unlikely to receive a grant):

• Work that is unattractive to the general public or unpopular with other funders.
• Services that help to improve the lives of marginalised, disadvantaged or isolated people.
• Applicants that can demonstrate an effective use of volunteers.
• Charities that seek to be preventive and aim to change opinion and behaviour through raising awareness of issues, education and campaigning.
• Applicants that can demonstrate (where feasible) an element of self-sustainability by charging subscriptions/fees to service users.

http://www.yappcharitabletrust.org.uk/​

Average £5,000. VCSE (preference for small community organisations, income less than £500k). 

The Hilden Charitable Fund makes grants to projects that address disadvantage and by supporting causes which are less popular. In particular, the Fund wants to support projects that

• address homelessness.
• supports asylum seekers and refugees.
• support community-based initiatives for disadvantaged young people 16 – 25.
• deal with penal affairs.

The Fund will consider supporting project costs as well as core running costs of organisations.

Rolling but deadline for next meeting is 11th September 2018.

http://www.hildencharitablefund.org.uk/​

The £3m Sporting Capital Fund provides loan funding of between £50,000 and £150,000 to eligible organisations. 
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Our simple, repayable, unsecured loans will be tailored to meet the needs of each organisation and will be repayable over 3 to 5 years.  If needed, a repayment holiday of up to 24 months may be available, giving projects time to generate sustainable revenue before starting to repay the loan.  

We can invest in organisations that are looking to develop new projects, operations and revenue streams. Whilst every organisations’ needs will differ, we expect the funding to be used for projects and activities such as:

• Equipment to support revenue streams 
• Recruitment, training and deployment of staff and volunteers 
• Equipment to support business functions, including finance, project management and governance 
• Other operating costs 

https://www.sportingcapital.org.uk/investment/what-we-fund​

One-off grants are available for local community organisations and charities that have already secured matched funding for local community initiatives across England, Scotland and Wales.

​Up to £1,000.

https://www.persimmonhomes.com/charity 

Help The Homeless makes grants to charitable organisations with the aim of helping homeless people return to the community and enabling them to resume a normal life. Grants are available to small and medium-sized charitable organisations to fund the capital costs of projects with grants of up to £5,000. The quarterly deadlines for grant applications each year are: 15 March, 15 June, 15 September and 15 December.
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http://www.help-the-homeless.org.uk/

The aim of The Discovery Project is to help disadvantaged people have the confidence to make the most of their future.

The Santander Foundation provides grants to support knowledge, skills and innovation to give disadvantaged people the confidence to discover and create a new world of opportunities.

Discovery Grants of up to £5,000 are available to UK Registered Charities, Community Interest Companies and Credit Unions to fund small, local projects helping disadvantaged people.
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http://www.santanderfoundation.org.uk/