Funding

• Does your organisation need funding?
• Do you have a good idea but unsure how to fund it?

Neath Port Talbot CVS offers support and advice to groups to identify potential sources of funding, and assist throughout the application process.

With the aid of specialist resources, we can provide up-to-date information on grants and other types of financial support available for your project.

To help us identify the most appropriate sources of funding for you, some of the details that we will need from you include:

• What you need funding for
• How much funding you need and by when
• The names of funders that you have tried in the past and whether you were successful or not
• Whether you have had funding information from us before
• Whether or not you are a registered charity

For further information or support please contact Neath Port Talbot CVS on 01639 631246 or info@nptcvs.org.uk

Access the ‘Finding and getting money’ information sheets for more information on developing a fundraising strategy, applying to funders and specific funding for projects.

Life-changing Lotto £50K is up for grabs

The People’s Millions TV competition has launched today with four grants of up to £50,000 available in Wales to improve the lives of people in your local community.

Grants of between £20,000 and £50,000 are available for new community based projects that provide opportunities for all people to enjoy their local area, whether indoors or out.

Priority will be given to projects that:

• Improve the lives of people in the community.
• Inspire local people to get involved.

Voluntary and community groups, local authorities, schools, and statutory health bodies in the UK are eligible to apply.

The deadline for applications is 13 May 2013 (noon). More information and entry packs are available on The People’s Millions website.

Catalyst heritage: Building fundraising capacity 

The Catalyst small grants programme is open to organisations and partnerships who look after or engage people with heritage. Small grants of £3,000 to £10,000 are now available.

Through this programme, we want to support organisations that look after or engage people with heritage to access funding from private sources, such as individual and corporate donors, trusts and foundations, and to diversify their income sources (this may also include in-kind donations, or income from trading).

You will need to demonstrate that a significant proportion of your organisations work aims to look after or engage people with heritage, and that you have a clear need to build your fundraising capacity.

If you would like to make an application, you can express your interest online. We will let you know if your application is suitable for this programme and you can then decide whether to go ahead.  The closing date is the 16th of August 2013.

For more information please click here

GwirVol Partnership Grants – 2013-14 Round Open to Applications 

GwirVol is a uniquely Welsh, diverse partnership between the voluntary and public sectors, designed to promote, support and drive forward youth volunteering initiatives.

As well as providing advisory assistance and signposting services, the partnership delivers grants, through local grant panels of young people, to encourage youth volunteering projects in their local area.

The scheme is offering the following grant strands for 2013-14:

• Creating Opportunities: Project funding of up to £10,000 for activities that will deliver a wide range of new and innovative volunteering experiences for young people aged 16-25.
• Millennium Volunteers: For organisations looking to recognise the commitment young people give to volunteering through offering the 200 hour award of excellence. Millennium Volunteers grant applications can be for up to a maximum amount of £10,000.
• International: For organisations looking to develop overseas volunteering opportunities that benefit young people and their communities in Wales as well. International grant applications can be for up to a maximum amount of £30,000.

Local schemes will support a range of small volunteering projects and activities, led and carried out by young people, with applications selected and recommended by a panel of young people aged 16-25.

Eligible costs could include:

• Volunteers’ expenses.
• Promotional materials.
• Consultants, trainers, training courses.
• Training materials, including costs for accreditation.
• Equipment for volunteers.
• Minor adaptations, eg to enable young people to participate.
• Staff salaries, on costs and recruitment (for additional work on the project).
• Office costs for administering the project.

The scheme is open to not-for-profit organisations that are independent of government and private sectors. Public sector organisations, eg local authorities, schools, local health boards may also apply.

The 2013-14 Gwirvol grant round is currently open with applications due by 2pm on Wednesday 5 June 2013.

Note: GwirVol will only be holding one grant round in 2013-2014. There will be no second round September-November 2013.

Global Fund for Women – Women’s Fund Open to Applications (UK) 

Grants of between $5,000 and $30,000 are available to organisations outside the United States that advance the human rights of women and girls.

The following types of grants are available:

• General Support Grants:
  • Innovation Grants – fund new/emerging approaches, issues, and voices to raise visibility and leverage resources for women’s movements and to connect emerging groups to a wider network of women’s organisations. These grants should address women’s rights agendas in rural and excluded areas/communities, sustain new approaches, and nurture young feminists involved in building the women’s movement. They can also support creative approaches to challenging issues and pilot projects that require some calculated risk.
  • Strengthening Grants – fund infrastructure, enhance grantee’s programmatic impact, and strengthen capacity and connections. These medium-sized grants aim to support the professionalism of women’s groups.
  • Sustaining Grants – fund strong national, regional, and global women’s rights organisations to build collective power, take coordinated actions, grow feminist leadership, and sustain lasting systemic change for gender equality.
• Travel Grants – small grants that allow members of an organisation to attend conferences and events.
• Organising Meeting/Event Grants – small grants to support organisations planning a time-sensitive conference or event.

The deadline for applications is 30 June 2013.