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Fill in SYFAB’s Future Planning Questionnaire - Win a £25 Amazon Voucher From SYFAB: At SYFAB, we’ve been doing some planning work, looking at how we might develop our funding advice services to provide more value to fundraisers and make our organisation more sustainable. more

Erach and Roshan Sadri Foundation - Notice of Upcoming Deadline The Erach and Roshan Sadri Foundation awards grant funding to organisations in the UK and worldwide in a wide range of fields and is particularly concerned with:- providing financial assistance for education and welfare purposes; relieving poverty by alleviating homelessness; and assisting members of the Zoroastrian religious faith. more

LankellyChase Foundation Summer Activity Grants Each year the foundation sets aside funds for a summer small grants programme. This year it has decided to concentrate these funds on activities that benefit children and young people aged 5-17 years who are living in refuges for families escaping domestic violence or who are young carers. more

BBC Children in Need - Fun and Friendship The purpose of this programme is to help projects create and enhance opportunities for disabled young people to meet friends and have a good time, as independently as possible. more

Cash 4 Clubs Cash 4 Clubs is a sports grants scheme which provides funding to support grassroots UK sports clubs. It gives clubs a chance to win grants ranging from £250 to £1000. more

Doncaster CVS Finance Training Programme (Apr 10 – Sep 10) This interesting programme of finance training courses make up a natural progression in learning from start to finish. They also work as stand alone courses - you can pick only the bits of training you need. more

Cracking the Code Bursary Scheme Cracking the Code is a small bursary scheme from the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) which offers infrastructure organisations up to £500 to improve their governance based on all, or any, of the principles set out in the guide Good Governance: A code for the Voluntary and Community Sector. more

B&Q One Planet Living Awards The B&Q One Planet Living (OPL) Grant offers between £50 and £250 of B&Q materials to schools, community groups and charitable organisations for long-term sustainable projects. more

Big Lottery Fund - Announcement of the New Forces in Mind Programme The Big Lottery Fund (BIG) has announced details of a new £35 million fund to help veterans who struggle with the transition to civilian life. The Forces in Mind Programme will assist veterans whose psychological wellbeing impacts on the quality of their life and others around them. Former armed forces personnel and their families are set to benefit. more

Applications Now Welcomed for The Pitch 2010 The Pitch is an annual competition which aims to find the UK's most exciting and innovative small companies and entrepreneurial talent. Entrants must pitch their business idea to a panel of industry experts who will scrutinise business concepts and presentation skills, searching for the best of the best. more

UK Border Agency Funding The Home Office’s UK Border Agency has announced that the call for proposals for the European Refugee Fund is now open. The fund is aimed mainly at organisations setting up projects to help integrate refugees, or people who have been granted humanitarian protection or discretionary leave. more

Big Mediabox Contract Mediabox is inviting applications to Big Mediabox Contract. This is a large grant of £40,000 that will support organisations to manage and deliver a regional bursary project for disadvantaged young people aged 13-19. more

Doncaster Partnership for Carers Spring Newsletter This news item links to Doncaster Partnership for Carers Spring 2010 newsletter. Click 'more' to find the link to download it. more

News From The Big Lottery See information in this article about 'Pass It On', 'Research Digest' and 'BIG Chat' more

Bright Ideas Grant Bright Ideas Grant is a £50,000 fund from the Department of Health to help people and organisations to put forward their ideas about care, and to help them to put their ideas into practice to prove that they work. more

Parent Participation Funding and Grants Phase 3 of the Aiming High for Disabled Children: Parent Participation Grant is open. The grant is part of the Government’s Aiming High for Disabled Children programme and comes from the Department for Children, Schools and Families. more

Fully Allocated - Doncaster Health & Social Care Involvement Fund Unfortunately the funding for the health and Social Care Fund has been fully allocated for this financial year (April 2010). We will keep people informed in the new financial year about future funding allocation via our website, emails, news and articles. more

EY2010 Combating Poverty Conference If you belong to a community organisation that deals with poverty. You are invited to a conference to work with other organisations to help combat poverty in Yorkshire and The Humber. more

Creating Better Futures Awards The Yorkshire Forward Creating Better Futures Awards recognise successful partnerships between the private sector and voluntary, community and faith organisations (VCF). more

The Beacon Awards The Beacon Awards reward individuals that have made extraordinary contributions to charitable causes or organisations that benefit the community. There are awards in seven categories. more

Ideas Fund Shorts and Ideas Fund Innovators - Open For Applications IdeasTap is open for applications for the Ideas Fund Shorts programme. £40,000 of funding is available, through eight awards of £5,000, for funding for young people aged 16 - 25 to make short films. more

Comic Relief UK Grant Programme - Cycle 3 Now Open to Applications Comic Relief's UK Grant Programme aims to bring about positive and lasting change in the lives of poor and disadvantaged people in the UK by investing in work that addresses people's immediate needs as well as tackling the root causes of poverty and injustice. more

Launch of the Big Ideas Grant The Big Ideas Grant is a £50,000 fund aimed at helping to unlock the potential of hundreds of small ideas and give people the helping hand they need to prove their idea works and share them widely. more

Development Innovation Fund The Government's Department for International Development (DFID) is seeking applications to a new £7m fund to encourage community-based organisations across the UK to develop small-scale, one-off projects. more

The Nationwide Foundation The Nationwide Foundation has expanded its Small Grants Programme criteria for charities working with older people. more

Community Voices - Applications Now Invited Community Voices aims to inspire, engage and support disadvantaged and isolated communities across England to get their voices heard through digital media. Digital media of any format can be used, such as video, online or radio. more

Ecominds Fund Announces Closing Dates Like Access to Nature, this Lottery funded programme has also announced that, due to the large number of applications, it is now introducing closing dates for its remaining unallocated funds. more

The Hilden Charitable Fund The aim of the Fund is to address disadvantage, notably by supporting causes which are unlikely to raise funds from public subscriptions. Grant-making priorities in the UK are: homelessness; community based initiatives for young people; asylum seekers and refugees; and penal affairs. more

Big Lottery Fund Announces Details of a 'Lighter Touch' Version of the Reaching Communities Programme for England The Big Lottery Fund has announced that at least £100 million a year is to be invested across England, in an improved version of its Reaching Communities programme, for each of the next five years. more

Computers for People in Rural Areas The Arthur Rank Centre has established the Computers for Rural People scheme to provide computers at very low cost for people in rural areas. more

Grants : The Santander Foundation The Santander Foundation brings together the charitable donations formerly made in the UK by Abbey, Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley. more

KnowHow NonProfit KnowHow NonProfit is a Lottery funded website that is a free resource and an online community made up of over 2,000 members. Funded by the lottery it has been built to help you in your work as a community group or voluntary sector organisation. more

New Health and Social Care Volunteering Fund The new Health and Social Care Volunteering Fund provides a combination of grant funding and support to third-sector organisations working with volunteers in the health and social care field. more

Doncaster Infrastructure Network (DIN) Doncaster Infrastructure Network is a new network set up to bring together any Third Sector organisations in Doncaster who deliver infrastructure support to other Third Sector frontline service delivery organisations. more

Rotary Club of Doncaster - Small Grants Over the last five years the Rotary Club of Doncaster, St.George’s, as part of its efforts to be of support and service to the local community has given grants of approximately £500 each to around thirty local charities and community groups more

Princes Trust Community Cash The Prince's Trust Community Cash Awards are for young people to design and set up projects on a voluntary basis that will benefit their local community. more

Macmillan – Helping You Help Others Grants Macmillan Cancer Support has the overall aim of improving the lives of people affected by cancer, by providing practical, medical, emotional and financial support. Macmillan's grants programme for self help and support groups recognises that running a self help and support group effectively costs money. more

Healthy Hearts Grants Heart Research UK makes grants of up to £10,000 to support innovative projects designed to promote heart health and to prevent or reduce the risks of heart disease in specific groups or communities. more

Tree Council Grants The Tree Council provides grants through two programmes, Trees for Communities and Trees for Schools. Grants support community groups and schools to undertake tree-planting schemes during National Tree Week. more

Funding for Social Enterprise The Key Fund is a social enterprise which aims to provide loans and investments to community owned organisations working in disadvantaged communities in Yorkshire and Humberside. more

VAT Rate Change – Free Toolkit To Calculate Your Costs From 1 January 2010, the Value Added Tax (VAT) rate has reverted back to the standard 17.5% rate. If your organisation delivers contracts you will need to keep this in mind when putting together your costings. more

Volunteering Fund The replacement for the Department of Health’s Opportunities for Volunteering scheme, the Volunteering Fund, has been announced. Four partners are managing the programme, ECOTEC, PrimeTimers, Attend and Community Service Volunteers (CSV). The fund will offer grants to support volunteering in health and social care in England. more

Doncaster D100 – free support available now! Does your organisation need specialist advice or support but you are not sure who can help? Have you considered Doncaster D100, a programme that has access to over 90 professional business people willing to help other businesses. For more information contact Tony or Ashley CVS Enterprise Advisers on 343300 ext 249 or 241 respectively. more

Heritage Lottery Fund — Skills for the Future Skills for the Future from the Heritage Lottery Fund has grants from £100,000 - £1 million available. The grants are for organisations to provide paid training places for people to learn traditional conservation skills or to develop the skills needed to engage people with heritage (e.g. education, community participation/volunteering programmes, using new media and technology to open up heritage). more

Coalfields Regeneration Trust The Coalfields Regeneration Trust is is running a one-off opportunity for groups to apply for up to £30,000 capital or revenue funding. more

Comic Relief Deadlines The next deadline to apply for Comic Relief funding is coming up very soon. more

E.ON Sustainable Energy Fund - This scheme is sponsored by E.ON The scheme aims to support community energy projects which either result in the production of energy from a sustainable source or which reduce the amount of energy used by a community organisation. more

Community Grants - Doncaster Funding Grants of up to £12,000 are now available for voluntary and community organisations in Yorkshire and the Humber who provide learning opportunities that help unemployed people aged 18+ move closer towards a job or training. more

CVS's New Training Courses from September 2009 Through to March 2010 CVS is excited to announce the release of its new training course brochure covering a wide of quality training courses running from September 2009 through to March 2010. more