Volunteer Centre Lincoln offers Grantfinder to help you locate funding for your projects.  Grantfinder looks at up to date information of local and government funding bodies.

For more information on using this service, please contact us.

Other useful funding information sites...

www.grantsnet.co.uk

www.biglotteryfund.org.uk

www.cafonline.org

Funding Central

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BBC Children in Need (UK)
BBC Children in Need provides grants for up to three years to properly constituted not for profit organisations working with disadvantaged young people aged 18 or under. Within the BBC Children in Need grants programme, organisations can apply for Small Grants of £10,000 or less per year for up to three years and for Main Grants of over £10,000 per year for up to three years. Funding is available to organisations (including schools) that work with young people who are suffering from: Illness; Distress ; Abuse or neglect ; Are disabled; Have behavioural or psychological difficulties ; Are living in poverty or situations of deprivation. Last year the programme made grants of £33 million to over 1,500 organisations. Examples of projects that recently received funding are: 27A Access Artspace Ltd (£21, 690) - the project will provide drama sessions for children and young people with a disability and their siblings. Relate Northamptonshire (£58, 589) - the project will provide counselling for disadvantaged children and young people in six schools in Northamptonshire, who have experienced domes-tic abuse, drug and alcohol abuse and family break up. Bushbury Nursery School in Wolver-hampton (£67,645) - the project will develop and provide a series of Stay and Play sessions, a Toy library, and outreach work for children and their parents in the Bushbury area. The next closing date is the 15th July  2010. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey/grants/general_grants.shtml

Grants for the Arts - Individuals and Organisations     

Grants are available to individuals and organisations for up to five years for arts-related activi-ties that take place mainly in England. For grants to organisations there is a ceiling of £100,000.; for grants to individuals there is a ceiling of £30,000.; for all grants, the minimum application is £1,000; For national activities the maximum grant is £200,000 Organisational grants are available to arts organisations; local authorities and other public organisat ions; partnerships; regional and national organisations; organisations whose normal activity is not arts-related, including voluntary and community groups and groups of organisa-tions (one will need to take the lead and have the main responsibility for managing the appli-cation and any grant). Grants to individuals are available to; artists;’ performers; writers; pro-moters; presenters; curators; producers; groups of individual; and other individuals working in the arts.

Applications can be submitted at any time and there is no application deadline http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/funding/gfta2006.php

The Google Grants

The Google Grants UK beta programme supports organisations sharing Google’s philosophy of community service to help the world in areas such as science and technology, education, global public health, the environment, youth advocacy, and the arts. Designed for registered charities, Google Grants provides free advertising on Google AdWords, to charities seeking to inform and engage their constituents online. Google Grants has given free AdWords advertising to hundreds of charitable groups whose missions range from animal welfare to literacy, from supporting homeless children to promoting HIV education. As a result of this free advertising many charities have experienced an increase in the recruitment of volunteers and sponsorship.

Applications can be made at any time. 

http://www.google.com/grants/

Funding for Community Shops

The Village Retail Services Association in partnership with Esmee Fairbairn Foundation and Co-operative and Community Finance have funding available to support start up funding to new Community owned shops in rural areas of England or saving an existing shop by transfer to community ownership. The funding which will be available over the next three years will provide up to £40,000 per shop. This will be made up of a mix of grant and loan funding, as well as advice from the Village Retail Services Association. Eligible applicants will include community based organisations located in rural communities of not less than 300 residents. The community is required to raise match funding through community contributions, which could take the form of share capital, donations raised through community fundraising events and grants obtained from other sources to the same or greater value than the grant requested from the Village CORE Programme. At least some of the funds raised should have been provided by the community itself and not solely through external grants.

Applications can be submitted at any time.

http://www.plunkett.co.uk/whatwedo/core/Core.cfm

The Pilgrim Trust (UK)

The Pilgrim Trust has announced that the priorities for their Social Welfare programme have changed. Through this programme the trust aims to break cycles of dependency and to help develop a sense of social inclusion in disadvantaged or marginalised groups within the UK. The fund aims to support projects that support people who misuse drugs and alcohol; in pris-ons and projects that provide alternatives to custody. Grants of up to £5,000 will be rewarded through their small grants scheme, and grants over £5,000 through their main grant fund. The Pilgrims Fund also provides funding for projects that seek to conserve historical buildings, monuments and collection, and also projects that promote awareness either by making collec-tions more available or supporting academic research, through their Preservation & Scholar-ship programme. There are no deadlines.Applications can be submitted any time.  

http://www.thepilgrimtrust.org.uk/index.php