places on Dartington International Summer School
....
also
violins/clarinets/violas/cellos/bassons/oboes/trombone/sax/double
bass/trumpets/lutes/pianists/vocalists !
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2. GRANTS round-up from Trevor Mason Youth Music
London.
Subject: Grants
Date: 8 June 2009 12:27:14 BDT
The Links Foundation
Area: England, Scotland and Wales
The Links Foundation, which was formed by ‘Working Links’, an
organisation that delivers services to tackle social exclusion and
poverty by helping disadvantaged individuals and communities,
provides grants to disadvantaged communities. Since its launch in
2003
it has distributed over £3 million in grants to over 40 projects.
The type of activities that the Foundation seeks to support
include projects that:
• advance people’s education;
• reduce significant disadvantage;
• assist those in conditions of poverty, need or distress;
and
• provide for recreational or other leisure time
occupation.
The Foundation can fund new or existing projects and can help
meet costs such as salary, rent and stationery as well as capital
costs. The average grant per project is about £20,000. Previously
funded activities include arts, crafts and drama facilities for
residents on a deprived estate; funding part-time caseworker to
support vulnerable and disadvantaged young people; and supporting
people with disabilities to become self-employed. The Board meets
every four months.
The closing date for applications is four weeks before the Board
meeting. For more information visit www.eco-schools.org.uk.
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Heinz Charitable Trust
Heinz Charitable Trust promotes community health and wellbeing
and offers funding to registered charities in the UK. The Trust
operates five key programme areas:
• Nutrition: supporting improvements in the medical aspects of
nutrition and health.
• Youth and Education: strengthening learning systems and
supporting programmes that supplement the formal education
process.
• Local Community: supporting and enhancing local communities in
which H J Heinz has significant operations.
• Quality of Life: improving quality of life through arts,
cultural and environmental programmes.
• Volunteering: supporting charitable work of Heinz employees
through recognised charitable organisations.
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Future Jobs Fund Opens for Applications (UK)
The Department for Works and Pensions (DWP) has announced that
the Future Jobs Fund is now open for applications. The £1Billion
Future Jobs Fund is one of the measures announced by the
Chancellor in his budget and will aim to create 150,000 new jobs
between
October 2009 and April 2011. The jobs created through the Future
Jobs Fund will be paid at least at National Minimum Wage and will
be targeted primarily at 18-24 year olds, but some funding will
also be available for other disadvantaged groups and unemployment
hotspots. Applications can come from anyone, but the DWP has a
strong preference for partnership bids and encourage all bidders to
demonstrate that key partners within the area have been involved
in developing the proposals.
The total maximum contribution available through the Future Jobs
Fund is £6,500 per job created for 18 -24 year olds approaching 12
months of unemployment, or people in areas of high
unemployment.
The DWP expect the majority of bids to the Fund to be led by
local authorities, sub-regional, city region and local partnerships,
or
by national or local public sector and third sector bodies. Bids
will need to be in line with existing locally agreed work and
skills strategies and show that they do not replicate or replace
existing jobs. Other large organisations such as social enterprises
and voluntary sector bodies will be able to bid as long as their
proposals meet the criteria set out during the bidding process. Any
bids from national organisations should indicate the geographical
areas in which they are seeking to create jobs.
Applications can be submitted at any time. All bids submitted by
30 June 2009 will be considered for the first allocations of
funding to enable the first jobs to begin in October or earlier.
DWP will aim to notify bidders within 5 weeks of submitting a bid
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Match Funding Scheme for Volunteering
(England)
V, the national charity that inspires volunteering amongst young
people has announced that it has re-opened its match funding
programme. Through this programme v provides grants to charities
that match up to 100% of any new private sector investment for
youth volunteering projects in England. The aim of the fund is to
inspire greater levels of investment in youth volunteering from
private companies, charitable trusts and foundations and
individuals. Following consultation with young people, v has developed
a
set of core themes for the Match Fund. v has a total grant amount
of up to £15m available to match against up to £15m of private
sector funding which equates to an investment of £30m in the
voluntary sector for youth volunteering. The programme themes are:
• health and well being;
• the environment;
• supporting children and young people;
• community cohesion;
• poverty; and
• human rights.
In addition to its current match fund programme, v intends to
maximise the impact of our corporate sector partnerships through
the
development of a flagship investment programme. This programme
will involve directly commissioning third sector organisations to
deliver highly innovative volunteering opportunities, which
reflect young people's cares, passions and interests. Selection of
third
sector organisations will be informed by a panel of experts,
young people and corporate sector investors. The next closing date
for
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Funding to Change Young People’s Lives (England, Scotland &
Wales)
Organisations that work with young people, whatever their
background, to help them achieve their potential have the opportunity
to
apply for funding through The Learning Launchpad. The Learning
Launchpad is a grant making fund delivered by the Young Foundation
working in partnership with Edge that provides investment to
organisations in their early stages of development. The Learning
Launchpad offer investment at two stages:
• Stage one investments of up to £30,000 are suitable for people
or fledgling organisations that are starting out with a new
idea.
• Stage two investments of up to £100,000 are typically suitable
for organisations or initiatives that are already up and running
and want to grow.
In particular, the Learning Launchpad is looking to support ideas
that have a profound social impact both on individuals and on
society as a whole; are innovative; are sustainable; can be
replicated and are run by passionate and competent people. The next
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Hilton in The Community Foundation (UK)
Organisations that work with young people have the opportunity to
apply for grants of up to £50,000 per year through the Hilton
Foundation. During 2006, the Foundation made grants totalling
over £1.3m to numerous organisations including registered charities
and schools for activities and projects that meet one of the
Foundation’s three chosen areas of focus:
• Young People – Education
• Young People – Health
• Disaster Relief and International Fund.
The next closing date for applications is the 4th August 2009.
For more information visit
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European Youth Foundation Grants (UK)
The European Youth Foundation is an independent, international,
non-governmental organisation dedicated to the positive development
of children and young people throughout the world. To support its
objectives the Foundation makes grants to international not for
profit youth organisations and networks. The types of activities
supported include international youth meeting, the development of
projects that benefits young people and help towards the
administrative costs of eligible organisations and networks. In
addition
the Foundation also funds a range of pilot projects. The next
application deadline is the 1st October 2009. For more information
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Children in Need Distributes £14.8 Million
(UK)
BBC Children in Need raised a record-breaking total of
£20,991,216 following the Appeal night last November. BBC Children in
Need
has awarded £14.8 million to 422 projects across the UK working
with disadvantaged children and young people and have announced
that
this spring they will be allocating the first of three rounds of
grants this year. All grants are targeted to areas where they will
make a real difference and are allocated geographically to ensure
that all corners of the UK receive a share of the money raised,
and projects supported work with children and young people who
may be affected by homelessness, neglect, abuse or poverty, or
those
who are living with a serious illness, disability or
psychological disorder. The minimum grant awarded was of £600 and the
maximum
£182,683. The next deadline for applications is the 15th June
2009. For more information visit