Institute of Fundraising Cymru FUNDRAISING HEALTH CHECK and EXECUTIVE COACHING Registered charities with two or more members of staff and with voluntary income of up to £50,000 are invited to apply for fundraising support as part of a Big Lottery Funded “Fundraising Health Check and Executive Coaching” project. Successful charities will be matched with an […]

Local groups, community organisations and social enterprises have until the end of March 2018 to apply for funding to develop community facilities and services in Wales. The Community Facilities Programme is a capital grant scheme and can be used to improve community facilities which are useful to, and well used by, people in the community. […]

The Plunkett foundation has updated its website to make their resources easier to find and use. Info from setting up to business planning, governance and health and safety https://www.plunkett.co.uk/Pages/FAQs/Category/resources

This funding programme is specifically targeting older people who don’t usually participate in volunteering or social activities because they are from a disadvantaged community, or face other barriers to participating. Applicants will be asked to provide information to demonstrate they have a good understand of the needs of the older people they’re working with, and […]

The Social Business Trust is a UK registered charity that was formed in December 2010 with the intent of helping selected social enterprises within the UK to grow and to achieve greater social impact. They work with established social businesses with revenues of c.£1 million or more that have strong growth potential. They aim is […]

The Foundation offers grants to charitable organisations undertaking projects in the fields of children and young people, social welfare and health, with a priority to those organisations supporting disabled adults. Past grants have been for between £1,000 and £75,000. In 2016 the  Foundation made donations totalling £343,100.   Contact details:  960 Capability Green Luton LU1 […]

Grants are available for not-for-profit organisations to improve the quality of life and foster vibrancy in communities located within the vicinity of a Biffa operation (http://www.biffa-award.org/postcode-checker) The deadline for Expression of Interest forms is 6 November 2017; and 28 February 2018 (midday). Recreation grants are available to support projects which will benefit people within their […]

Decisions are based on emotion. We then convince ourselves we have made the right decision using information we are given. A few years ago, neuroscientist Antonio Damasio made a ground breaking discovery. He studied people with damage in the part of the brain where emotions are generated.  He found that they seemed normal, except that they were not able […]

Below are the changes made by Big Lottery for their small grant scheme in Wales: The size of grant has widened. You can now apply for a grant between £300 and £10,000 for a project lasting around a year. We are less prescriptive on what we can and can’t fund. For instance you can now […]

The Corporate Volunteer Network (CVN) have put together a survey to allow the third sector to better understand the current corporate volunteering landscape and attitudes towards and the value of it. This is your chance to shape discussion in the sector and be a part of a piece of work that will hopefully provide some […]