HOP - Funding Support
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery.
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, 1849
Older Peoples Group provides an important support network and social outlet for many residents of the Borough of Craigavon. The HOP workers are aware that funding remains a key issue for these groups and are determined to support groups access opportunities.
Option 1
Contact either Neil or Kathy on 02838 392777 and arrange form them to visit your club to assist you develop a programme of activities or to review your funding application.
Option 2
Contact either Neil or Kathy on 02838 392777 and arrange to visit CNC to access Grant-Tracker, which is the only website dedicated to helping the voluntary and community sector in Northern Ireland to fundraise.
· -Grant Tracker provides information on all the funding sources available to voluntary and community organisations.
· -Grant Tracker provides a range of online tools for tracking down funds to support an enormous range of good causes.
· -Grant Tracker helps funding specialists in advising others.
Option 3
Contact either Neil or Kathy on 02838 392777 and book a place at the Funding Workshop to be held on Friday 12th of September at the Jethro Centre, Lurgan. Funders including the Turkington Fund and Awards for All will be in attendance.
Option 4
Apply to one of the funding bodies listed below:
Allen Lane Foundation
The foundation make grants to organizations whose work the
Trustees believe to be unpopular e.g. older people, ethnic
minority communities or those experiencing mental health
problems. Grants are available to voluntary not-for
profit organizations (which need not be registered charities,
provided the work carried out is charitable). Grants are
relatively modest and range from £500 to £15,000 and can be
used for costs such as Volunteers or participants expenses,
venue hire/ Part-time or sessional staffing cost and work aimed
at strengthening the organisation.
Awards for all
Grants are awarded to allow people to take part in art, sport,
heritage and community activities, and projects that promote
education, the environment and health in the local community.
Applicants must be not for profit organisations with a
governing document or set of rules which you have adopted
and a bank or building society account in the name of your
organisation.Grants generally will range from £500 - £10,000
and application forms are downloadable from the website.
Community Foundation NI Community Arts www.communityfoundationni.org
The scheme is to support grassroots arts initiatives that foster 'a shared future'. Participants should be involved in planning the project, only small scale projects will be considered, applicant organisations should have a constitution or be linked to a constituted organisation and the project must be carried through within one year of being offered funding. Generally grants will range from £500 - £1000.
Esme Mitchell Trust
This trust funds general charitable purposes in Ireland as a
whole but principally in Northern Ireland. It has a
particular interest in heritage, culture and the arts.
Generally grants will range from low hundreds to low
thousands of pounds.
Tesco Charity Trust
www.tescocorporate.com/chairablegiving.htm
This trust seeks to support local projects whose work supports the welfare of older people and people with disabilities based in areas where Tesco has stores. Grants generally range from £1,500 to £5,000. The first step is to write to the Tesco Charity Trust with brief details of your project. This will ensure that your request is recorded on the current year's database and included in the distribution of application forms.
Health Promotion Agency
Get active in the Community
This scheme aims to enable local community and voluntary groups to develop a locally based physical activity programme targeted at those people who are least physically active. Projects must meet one of the following objectives: Overcoming barriers, Acquiring new skills, Promoting health benefits or Promoting local facilities. Grants available are up to £500 and are available once a year.
Katherine Howard Foundation
The Katharine Howard Foundation is an independent grant
making foundation, whose key function is the provision of
small, easily accessible grants to community based groups
throughout Ireland, North and South. The foundation supports
older peoples projects that are community based and that have
been designed and are to be managed by older people.
Grants are normally once off and range between 500 - 2,500
Euro.
Lord and Lady Lurgan Trust
This trust seeks to support Older people and the arts, in the UK with particular attention paid to N Ireland. Applications from registered charities are welcome all year round and grants are relatively modest ranging from £1,000 to £5,000.
St Stephens Green Trust
This Trust seeks applications which focus on pioneering initiatives which: a) seek to reduce the vulnerability of older people not in contact with groups; b) increases integration into or back into society especially linking up with rights and entitlements; c) uses intergenerational contact and solidarity initiatives as a way of reducing isolation; d) gives attention to older men in isolation; e) seeks to combat rural isolation; f) promotes community-based visitation initiatives; g) uses forms of communication technology to combat isolation. Grants are in the range from 500 to 15,000 euros.
Community Foundation NI: Telecommunity
Telecommunity funds work in the community with the older persons or people with disabilities. Projects do not need to be new or particularly innovative, but its programme must be clearly thought out and show that it will be managed by the user group. The fund is keen to support initiatives that help to develop community education and training opportunities, communication and leadership skills, local initiatives to improve resources and community facilities, creativity and self expression through drama, music or a range of arts activities. Grants are usually under £1,000 at present with rare exceptions up to £3,000.
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