2024 Funding Fair Online
Hear the latest news from local and national funders and get details on how to apply.
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Bedfordshire funders on Thursday 21 March
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National funders on Tuesday 19 and Wednesday 20 March
Each different funder will have a session, using Zoom, to explain what funding they have and also how their application process works. There will also be an opportunity to ask questions. You will need to book separately for each session you wish to attend. You can attend as many or as few as you would like to.
CVS Bedfordshire is working with Community Matters, HWRA, W3RT and Support Cambridgshire to bring you this funding fair. This is a FREE event but if you fancy helping us with the costs you can donate the cost of a coffee via paypal.me/communitymattersyork
CVS Beds: Local Funding Fair
Thursday 21 March
You will need to complete the booking form to attend any of the funding sessions taking place online on Thursday 21 March 2024. To book: Click here
Promoting safe, high-quality and inclusive opportunities for people to participate in sport and physical activity for life by offering a range of services to community organisations, sports clubs and individuals. The local specialists for Sport England funding information, together with appropriate and timely advice, guidance and support for sport funding needs and sport grant applications.
For over 450 years The Harpur Trust has been inspiring and supporting the people of Bedford to help them improve their lives. Exclusive to the Borough of Bedford, their grants provide essential funding to groups who run projects to help improve the lives of others. They have approximately £1 million a year in grant funds that they are able to award to projects that focus on education, recreation and relief.
12noon Bedford Borough Council
Several grant schemes are open to charities and community groups including Community Chest Fund, The House of Industry Estate, Rural Grants Scheme and Members' Ward Fund to address specific local priorities, reduce the needs, hardship or distress of residents and/or improve the economic, social and environmental well-being of Bedford Borough.
1pm The National Lottery Community Fund
Aims to support ideas and projects that matter to people and communities. Using funding and relationships to help create stronger, more connected communities, the National Lottery Community Fund distributes over £600m a year to communities across the UK, raised by players of The National Lottery.
2pm The Bedfordshire Charitable Trust
The charity has existed since 1964 supporting local organisations to deliver meaningful impact. The Trust prides itself on responding to the needs of the local community and has developed organically over the years. They have over £100k a year that they are able to award to organisations and projects in Bedfordshire with a particular focus on Bedford Borough.
3pm Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation
An independent local grant-maker, supporting voluntary and community groups managing several funds on behalf of statutory agencies, private donors, companies and local families. Their mission is to build partnerships which effectively connect donors with charities and/or community projects through effective and efficient grant-making and philanthropy in order to strengthen the communities they work in.
The Jobs 22 Community Investment Fund was established to support local projects that create sustainable changes for individuals and their communities. Jobs 22 recognises the importance of community organisations in tackling the issues faced by residents in their local area and providing the necessary support to individuals to help them move closer to the job market.
Find our more details and how to apply by booking your space on their funding fair session.
National Funding Fair
Day 1: Tuesday 19 March
To book on to a session please click the hyperlinked title:
Day 1- Session 1 9:00 – 10:00 : Grantscape
We administer community funds (CF) on behalf of Local Authorities, large scale renewable energy developers including wind farms and solar farms, landfill operators (through the Landfill Communities Fund), and other renewable energy plants.
Grantscape funds are very geographically specific please check that you are in the correct area: Please look at the website to check which areas are eligible
Grantscape website.
Day 1- Session 2 10:00 – 11:00 : Lloyds Bank Foundation
We have committed to funding at least 700 charities at any one time, for longer, more flexibly and with more money. We will provide a wide range of developmental support, including training, consultancy and mentoring alongside our funding to strengthen charities.
Day 1- Session 3 11:00 – 12:00 : Easyfundraising
Easyfundraising is the UK’s biggest charity shopping site where you can raise money for your good cause when your supporters shop on line. easyfundraising turns everyday online shopping into free donations for your cause – your supporters shop as normal (but start on your easyfundraising cause page), and then retailers will make a small donation to say “thank you”.
If you would like to set up your free easyfundraising page before the session, you can do that here.
Day 1- Session 4 12:00 – 13:00 : Good Things Foundation
The Foundation helps people to improve their lives through digital. We tackle the most pressing social issues of our time, working with partners in thousands of communities across the UK.
Day 1- Session 5 13:00 – 14:00: Groundwork
Groundwork have a number of grant programs including Tesco Bags of Help.
Day 1- Session 6 14:00 – 15:00: Heritage Lottery Fund
We believe that understanding, valuing and sharing our heritage brings people together, inspires pride in communities and boosts investment in local economies. We distribute National Lottery grants from £3,000 to £5million and over, funding projects that sustain and transform the UK’s heritage Increasing resilience.
Day 1- Session 7 15:00 – 16:00: The People’s Postcode Lottery
Six community focused trusts award funding from £500 up to £20,000 to support smaller charities and local community groups that are working for the benefit of people and planet.
Day 2: Wendesday 20 March
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Day 2- Session 1 9:00 – 10:00 : Bernard Sunley Foundation
A family grant making foundation which supports charities in England and Wales working to raise the quality of life and provide greater opportunities for the young, the elderly, the disabled and the disadvantaged.
Day 2- Session 2 10:00 – 11:00 : Clothworkers Foundation
The Clothworkers’ Foundation improves the lives of people and communities – particularly those facing disadvantage, deprivation and/or discrimination – through grant-making. The Foundation was set up in 1977 to be the primary vehicle of charitable giving for The Clothworkers’ Company. Since then, The Foundation has awarded more than £152 million in capital grants to charities registered in the UK or not-for-profit organisations working across the nine areas of priority defined in its Main and Small Grants programme.
Day 2- Session 3 11:00 – 12:00: Co-op Local Community Fund
Funding is available to local charities and grass-roots community organisations to maintain and enhance vital community projects through Co-op’s Local Community Fund which comes from the money raised when Co-op members buy own-brand products and services. In addition, Co-op and Crowdfunder have teamed-up to unlock additional funding as now Local Community Fund grants are able to count on Crowdfunder’s website towards match funding.
Day 2- Session 4 12:00 – 13:00 : Key Fund
The Key Fund offers flexible loans and grant/loan packages to help the community and social enterprises to start up, become sustainable, or grow.
Day 2- Session 5 13:00 – 14:00 : National Lottery Community Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund aims to support ideas and projects that matter to people and communities. Using funding and relationships to help create stronger, more connected communities, the National Lottery Community Fund distributes over £600m a year to communities across the UK, raised by players of The National Lottery.
Day 2- Session 6 14:00 – 15:00 : People’s Health Trust
We have two funding programmes: Health Justice Fund and Active Communities. The Health Justice Fund is our fund which provides a route through which communities experiencing the sharp end of health inequalities can work with us, using their experience and practice to improve health.
Day 3- Session 7 15:00 – 16:00 : Benefact Trust
Benefact Trust (formerly Allchurches Trust) was established to empower Christian churches and charities across the UK and Ireland, giving them the means to make a positive difference in the lives of the people and communities they serve. Our support of churches and Christian charities in the UK and Ireland is more than just the preservation of history and heritage, it's the preservation of hope, it's a potential lifeline for many of our most disadvantaged communities. Since 1972 we have awarded over £235 million to churches, Christian charities and the communities they serve - £100 million in the last 5 years alone. Although Christian causes are at the heart of our giving, the wider social impact of what we do reaches much further.
CVS Bedfordshire is working with Community Matters, W3RT and Cambridge CVS to bring you this funding fair. This is a FREE event but if you fancy helping us with the costs you can donate the cost of a coffee via paypal.me/communitymattersyork
